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RUSH: You know, ladies and gentlemen, it gets very frustrating here sometimes. As many of you know, I really am uncomfortable talking about myself. But I am forced into it by a constant drumbeat of erroneous reporting that never ends by the State-Controlled Media of what I say. So I\u2019m forced today to deal with it, but I\u2019m not going to start with that. I\u2019m not going to be derailed. I\u2019m not going to be taken off track. Greetings, great to have you here. We\u2019re back for a full week of broadcast excellence here at the EIB Network. I am Rush Limbaugh, America\u2019s truth detector and the Doctor of Democracy. The telephone number if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882, the e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com. <\/p>\n

Is Wyclef Jean a rap star or is he just reggae kind of music? Do you know? Well, Wyclef Jean is running a relief mission in Haiti. I think he\u2019s Haitian, but I\u2019m not sure. Okay, he\u2019s Haitian. Well, he\u2019s being ripped apart by people for suggesting that people donate to his charity. Some in the media are suggesting that the administrative costs of charity going through Wyclef Jean\u2019s company or outfit may be a little bit high and the net sum that will end up getting to the recipients is not what it should be, and I\u2019m stunned at this. What about the administrative costs of donating through WhiteHouse.gov, for crying out loud? Do you know that one of the reasons the welfare budget is as high as it is — and these numbers are I guess ten years old, but in 1999, maybe earlier than that, for every dollar that was budgeted for welfare or food stamps, AFDC, whatever it is, 28 cents of it was spent on administering it, so 72 cents out of every dollar got there. I mean the high administrative costs are actually when you donate through the government. I don\u2019t know of a president ever who has asked people to donate to a relief effort through a White House website. It\u2019s never happened before. <\/p>\n

By definition, everything the president of the United States does is political. They even put out from the White House over the weekend, Lynn Sweet at the Chicago Sun-Times, I printed it out, it\u2019s three-and-a-half pages: ‘Obama on the Haiti Earthquake Crisis: Behind-the-Scenes — The Obama White House is taking the unusual step of pro-actively providing a heavy amount of on-the-record details of how President Obama is handling the aftermath of the horrific earthquake in Haiti. On Friday, the White House released a minute-by-minute account of events.\u2019 From Tuesday, January 12th, all the way through Friday, January 15th, it takes two-and-a-half pages and the tiniest font size I\u2019ve ever seen to go through it. <\/p>\n

‘Tuesday, January 12th, 5:52 p.m.: The President is informed of the earthquake at 5:52 p.m. The President asks his staff to make sure that embassy personnel are safe, and to begin preparations in the event that humanitarian assistance is needed. The Department of State, USAID and the United States Southern Command begin working to coordinate an assessment and any such assistance. 8:30 p.m.: The President receives another update on the situation…\u2019 It goes on and on like this for four days. The whole point of this is to show exactly how on the money here and paying attention Obama is, as contrasted to President Bush in Katrina. Now, this disaster in Haiti is worse than anything that ever happened in New Orleans. It\u2019s just an absolute disaster. The aid finally starting to trickle in now after about six days, but it\u2019s still very, very slow. The situation on the ground is unimaginable. I don\u2019t even want to describe to you the things that I have read with the vermin, the rats, I don\u2019t even want to go there. This is just unbelievable. It\u2019s unimaginable and for anybody to report that I said don\u2019t donate is absurd, and these people know it. The people who are making a big deal out of this, are themselves politicizing this for the express purpose of discrediting me, somebody they feel is a top-line conservative spokesman. <\/p>\n

They are constantly trying to discredit people like me, rather than debate us on issues. Nobody here ever said don\u2019t donate. We just pointed out you already contribute to the government with your income taxes. If you want to donate above and beyond that, go through a charity that\u2019s constantly on the ground in Haiti, or the Red Cross, if you want to go that route or whatever. Nobody said do not donate, which is what is being reported. I\u2019ve had so many e-mails over the weekend: ‘Rush, the press is castigating you unfairly. You know what you ought to do Rush? You ought to donate a million-dollars, make it public or you ought to ask all the liberal media to ask what they individually have donated and then promise to double it. It would probably cost you 20 bucks.\u2019 That was the funniest one I\u2019ve seen. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Well, here we go, folks. Week Two: Obama\u2019s Haiti Crisis. (interruption) What? (interruption) Yeah, I mean to say that. Of course I mean to say that. What do you mean why would I call it Obama\u2019s Haiti Crisis? Well, the media is! Look at all the nine pages here: Minute-by-minute meetings! Obama on Haiti. Obama here, Obama there, Obama doing this. It\u2019s Obama\u2019s Haiti. He\u2019s better than Bush. We\u2019re on the case. Week Two: Obama\u2019s Haiti Crisis. (interruption) I understand. Look, this just crossed the French News Agency: ‘About 30 Americans were hurt Monday during a massive relief operation in the Haitian capital in what was described as a ‘mass casualty event,\u2019 US officials said,\u2019 and that\u2019s all there is on this. This is starting Week Two here: ‘About 30 Americans were hurt Monday during a massive relief operation in the Haitian capital in what was described as a ‘mass casualty event\u2019 …\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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