Limbaugh Confuses Americans in Poverty with Africans in Poverty

[BurtWorm]

Apparently arguing that UNICEF is bad because it might make impoverished Africans...fat? :wtf:


http://thismodernworld.com/3092

Tom Tomorrow:
The drug-addled host

As I work today, I’m listening to Rush Limbaugh rant about charity for the poor. An actual quote from a few minutes ago….

We didn’t teach ‘em to fish–we gave ‘em the fish! We didn’t teach ‘em how to butcher — how to slaughter a cow for the butter!

(Updated) The transcription of the entire rant is up on Limbaugh’s own site now. With typically drug-addled logic, he uses a report showing an epidemic of obesity among the poor — which any rational individual would understand to be the result of high-fat, low-nutrition diets — to conclude that we are, as a society, giving too much to the poor. And from this premise, the drug-addled host then dismisses the problem of — wait for it — starvation in Africa.

And so now we find out that there’s obesity and all this amongst the poor, more than amongst those who are not poor. It’s sort of a textbook case of what happens when we let liberals have their way. I mean, for decades all over the world we’ve been beat about the head that there are hungry people out there , that there are starving kids.

UNICEF? How many of you have trick-or-treated for UNICEF? Did you trick-or-treat for UNICEF, Brian? Did you? We all trick-or-treated. It’s one of the biggest scams on the face of the earth. The scam was to get everybody loving the United Nations. The scam was to get everybody thinking the United Nations is feeding poor people. Remember all these stories “A dime a day will feed 20 kids” in some outward place around the world, or 25 cents a day? Audrey Hepburn, Sally Strothers, all these people did it. I love Sam Kinison’s bit on all this. Sam Kinison did a riff on Sally Strothers, and she’s over there standing next to these poor kids in Africa with flies buzzing all around them, and they’re starving. You can see it by their appearance, and Sally Strothers is looking into the camera.

“Won’t you help? Don’t you care? Can’t you just make one phone call, a dollar a day will feed X numbers of hundreds of thousands of these people,” and Sam Kinison says, “You’re not sitting there hungry. I can see it looking at you. I know you’re not starving over there. You’ve probably got a picnic basket! Give that kid your sandwich; feed that kid! That kid is starving.” I laughed myself silly because it was classic. Here are these liberals right next to all these starving people doing television shows telling people thousands of miles away that they don’t care. “Can’t you help? Won’t you help?” You know, the underlying thought was: You slothful, lazy, cold-hearted bum!

Won’t you get off the couch and at least make a phone call? Well, it’s what happens when you let the left run things. We’ve been beat on the head. There are hungry people everywhere; UNICEF got it all started. We’ve seen the babies with the extended tummies, the walking skeletons, told that kids can’t learn unless they’re fed. We’ve been guilted into pouring resources on the problem, and now the latest crisis is that there is obesity among those who are impoverished because we are sympathetic; we are compassionate people; we’ve responded by letting our government literally feed these people to the point of obesity, at least here in America. We didn’t teach them how to fish. We gave them the fish. We didn’t teach them how to slaughter the cow to get the butter. We gave them the butter. The real bloat here as we know is in government.

You should really go read the whole thing. It’s an extraordinary example of what passes for thought on the right.

[merwin]

1. His real problem is that he thinks you have to kill a cow to get butter.

That is definitely the REAL problem here.

[ComerPerro]

2. I was wondering about that myself. And, I thought Rush

was a good, old-fashioned country bumpkin from the midwest, you know, salt-of-the-earth, simple folk.

Am I missing something?

[Cassandra]

5. That was my first thought.

I didn't realize anyone could be that stupid. I guess it's the neo-con way; don't negotiate your way around the udder, just kill the cow. Maybe he thinks that sitting inside the cows' bodies are foil-wrapped sticks.

[nam78_two]

6. LOL

:rofl:

funniest post ever.....:)
Thanks for that.....

[HarveyBrooks]

8. No - thats not his REAL problem...

He has A HELL of alot more problems than just being a stupid idiot.

Actually, thats about as close to an actual fact as I've heard old rush come in quite awhile.

[trof]

12. Do you have to kill a Swiss to get cheese?

Rush prolly knows.

[yellerpup]

3. Whatever you do, keep Rush away from the cows.

Kill the cows to make butter? What is he on this week?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. OK, Rush, so why are *you* a big, fat bucket of lard?

Poor Americans are sometimes fat because fattening food is cheap, while vegetables and lean meats are expensive. But since Rush can afford good-quality food (not to mention illegally-imported Cuban cigars), what's his excuse? And poor Africans can't even get cheap mac & cheese and fast-food hamburgers, so no, Rush, they aren't fat; some of them are starving, scrawny bags of bones who'd be delighted to have a day-old Big Mac once in awhile, let alone the chicken Kiev and Baked Alaska that guys like you stuff their piggy faces with.

Sometimes I run out of words to describe a hemorrhoid like Limbaugh. I just hope the horrendous karmic debt he's been piling up gets repaid someday.

[Cassandra]

7. He'll make the perfect basting brush...

in Hell someday.

[shain from kane]

9. You have to kill a pig for lard, but if you had to kill a cow for every

stick of butter, the cow would have joined the dodo a long time ago.

[shain from kane]

10. Sam Kinison on world hunger...

"You want to help these people? Stop sending them food. Don't send these people another bite, folks. You want to send them something, you want to help these people? Send them U-Hauls, send them luggage, send them someone like me, I'll walk out there..send a guy who'll go,

'Hey, we just drove 700 miles with your food and it occurred to us that there wouldn't be world hunger, if you people would LIVE WHERE THE FOOD IS! YOU LIVE IN A F*CKING DESERT! YOU LIVE IN A F*CKING DESERT! NOTHING GROWS OUT HERE! NOTHING'S GONNA GROW HERE! YOU SEE THIS? HUH? THIS IS SAND. YEAH. DID YOU KNOW NOTHING CAN GROW IN THIS SH*T? HERE, EAT SOME OF IT, TASTE IT. KNOW WHAT IT'S GONNA BE A HUNDRED YEARS FROM NOW? IT'S GONNA BE SAND! YOU LIVE IN A F*CKING DESERT! GET YOUR KIDS, GET YOUR SH*T, WE'LL MAKE ONE TRIP, WE'LL TAKE YOU TO WHERE THE FOOD IS! WE HAVE DESERTS IN AMERICA -- WE JUST DON'T LIVE IN THEM, @SSHOLES!""



Limbaugh wants us to teach the natives how to fish in a dry desert, rather than sending fish to them.

People couldn't abandon New Orleans if they didn't have the means of transportation, or afford to leave. They were used to living in a city, surrounded by it.

Same way with these impoverished Africans. When the crop fails, and you have to eat the grain for planting for food, and the streams and rivers dry up due to drought, or tribal warfare occurs, there is no means of transportation to abandon the area. They try to migrate to surrounding cities or nations, but are rejected, and buried in refugee camps.

[formerrepuke]

11. Once again... Limbaugh is COMPLETELY WRONG:

Sally Struthers was a spokesperson for the CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS FUND (presumably an organization he would approve of).. NOT UNICEF. But he insists on ranting about Sally Struthers and Unicef.

And furthermore, UNICEF does not 'hand out food'.. they advocate free, universal education for children; promote immunization against diseases; promote the protection of children in strife-torn areas; promote the teaching of life skills.. and much, much, more:
http://www.unicef.org/whatwedo/index.html


He really doesn't research anything before opening his mouth, does he?