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RUSH: I predicted it yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, that it wouldn\u2019t be long before the Drive-By Media, the State-Controlled Media started praising Obama for doing a much better job responding to Haiti and the earthquake than Bush did in Katrina and right here it is, by Ben Feller at the AP, very deep analysis here, ‘Obama Heeding Lessons of Katrina — This is what President Barack Obama wants people to think about the US reaction to the catastrophe in Haiti: ‘swift, coordinated and aggressive.\u2019 He promised that stellar response in his first comments about the earthquake on Wednesday, then repeated it twice on Thursday. In other words, this will not be Hurricane Katrina.\u2019 Sorry, folks, it already is. It\u2019s worse. The aid hasn\u2019t yet been distributed. Seventy-two hours they said, by the way, they\u2019re lying. <\/p>\n

Seventy-two hours Bush dithered, didn\u2019t do anything, it\u2019s been 72 hours. If you were watching Sky News, I was watching Sky News streaming video, it is an utter catastrophe. Sky News is discussing Haiti as utter pandemonium. Sky News is showing people screaming at the top of the hour: ‘We need help! We\u2019re getting nothing! We\u2019re going to die.\u2019 People were not even buried under concrete in New Orleans. Seventy-two hours is the benchmark. If they\u2019re going to say Bush dithered for 72 hours, Obama certainly has made a lot of speeches, he\u2019s made a lot of comments and we\u2019ve seen pictures of airplanes landing and so forth. We\u2019ve seen a lot of pictures of the media standing around down there but in terms of the aid being distributed, you can\u2019t tell that it\u2019s happened yet, not that it won\u2019t, but I\u2019m just saying keep this in context here. They\u2019re building a case that Bush screwed around and dithered, and Obama is on the case. ‘In other words,\u2019 this is AP, ‘this will not be Hurricane Katrina. Obama is determined to show that the United States, even consumed with its own troubles, can get this right. And that he can, too. <\/line> <\/line>‘The world is watching because of the expectations that come with being a rich, powerful democracy that is supposed to look out for its neighbors. And because the stain of Katrina is not gone. ‘This is one of those moments that calls out for American leadership,\u2019 said Obama, who can add a humanitarian crisis to his first-year tests in office. There are huge contrasts between Katrina, the most destructive natural disaster in US history, and the sorrowful scene unfolding in Haiti. One was a hurricane on US soil that killed 1,800 people across the Gulf Coast; the other was an earthquake hundreds of miles away that may have killed 50,000 people. Yet as the wrenching images come in of people clinging to wreckage, of bodies piling up on the street, the comparisons are inevitable. The botched federal response to Katrina in 2005 became the standard by which emergency responses are measured, and presidents are held accountable.\u2019<\/line><\/p>\n

I predicted this. Well, the lie that the federal response to Katrina was botched has certainly become the standard, and it is a lie. The federal response to Katrina was not botched. In fact, the federal response, especially from the military, was spectacular, and this is the key, once the local Democrats let them in. Once Kathleen Blanco and once ‘School Bus\u2019 Nagin let them in, the federal response was great. ”The United States is seen in the world as the first responder to this kind of humanitarian crisis, and it has echoes — inappropriate echoes, to be sure — of Hurricane Katrina,\u2019 said Paul Light, a professor of public service at New York University. ‘Can we get there fast enough? There\u2019s a risk there for the president.” Oh. World\u2019s policeman is bad but the world\u2019s EMT, that\u2019s good. Yeah, we can be the world\u2019s first responders. Oh, yeah, it\u2019s great to be the world\u2019s EMT. It\u2019s bad to be the world\u2019s cop. <\/p>\n

‘Obama has responded with urgency, and the White House has tried to make sure that people know it.\u2019 That sounds like politicizing this to me. ‘The president has dispatched ships, soldiers, Marines and loads of other assets to the reeling Caribbean nation. He has pledged $100 million for relief efforts now and promised that that number will grow.\u2019 One hundred million of tax money. We don\u2019t have the money so we\u2019re borrowing it or printing it. You\u2019re going to pay for it, your kids or grandkids someday down the line are going to pay for it. So you\u2019re donating to the government. Here, folks, let me expand on this. You may have forgotten that President Obama eventually — he said this — wants to eliminate all tax deductions for charitable contributions. Do you remember this? Do you know why? He wants the government to be the sole provider of charity. He wants the government to be seen by people as their lifeline, their primary means of existence. If you eliminate the tax deductibility of donations to charity you\u2019re not gonna give to charity as much. You\u2019ll have your pet causes, the ones you really care about, and you\u2019ll give, but charitable giving will decline precipitously. The government will take over. <\/p>\n

And in this context is why I suggested many days ago that if you\u2019re going to give, you already have in the form of income tax. You want to make additional donations, do it with other charities already on the ground. Even David Brooks today has a piece in the New York Times essentially saying the same thing I said, and also pointing out that we\u2019ve given more aid to Haiti over the years than any other country in our hemisphere and it hasn\u2019t mattered. Just as I said about Africa, the local African leaders say stop the aid, it\u2019s retarding our progress. So President Obama was quick to claim that it cost US taxpayers a billion dollars for every thousand soldiers sent to Afghanistan. Remember that? And he has yet to mention how much it cost to send a soldier to Haiti. In fact, it didn\u2019t even matter to him. But it was a factor in sending soldiers to Afghanistan. That\u2019s about US national security. This is about domestic US politics. Haiti is about domestic US politics in addition to the humanitarian effort that is behind this. <\/p>\n

Of course we are not suggesting that we shouldn\u2019t send soldiers to Haiti. Do not misunderstand. But why is there no concern about the cost from the White House when there was so much concern about Afghanistan? After all, isn\u2019t the job of the US military first and foremost to protect the national security interests of the United States? No, it\u2019s not. The US military is now Meals on Wheels. It always is with Democrat presidents. Back to the AP story: ‘He has positioned the United States as a coalition-building leader — the United Nations itself has been rocked by the collapse of its headquarters in Haiti. He has pleaded for donations from his old campaign list of supporters, more than 13 million strong.\u2019 They really got mad at me in the Drive-Bys for suggesting that if you donate to WhiteHouse.gov you\u2019re going to end up on a mailing list. Well, they\u2019re already sending out requests to an existing mailing list that you\u2019ll be added to. <\/p>\n

Like most Americans, we have somehow ended up on several of Obama\u2019s e-mail lists. I\u2019m on a bunch of them as show prep and I haven\u2019t received anything from him or any of his myriad organizations about Haiti, yet. At any rate, I want to go through a list of headlines about Haiti and ask, ‘Is this really different than Hurricane Katrina?\u2019<\/p>\n

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RUSH: So the AP has its big story out saying presidents can\u2019t avoid making things like this political. But of course if I say something about it that Obama\u2019s making it political, I get ripped to shreds. Every excuse in the world is being offered, every comparison: ‘Bush horrible. Bush dithering. Obama right in the mix, right on time! Obama knows how to do it. He\u2019s not going to be stay…\u2019 Well, let\u2019s just go through some of these headlines: <\/p>\n

‘Despair, Panic Set in as Food, Water, and Medical Supplies are Delayed.\u2019 ‘Death toll estimate at 50,000 to 100,000.\u2019 ‘UN to Launch Haiti Emergency Appeal for $550 Million.\u2019 ‘Anarchy! Who\u2019s Running the Country?\u2019 ‘Aristide Offers to Return.\u2019 I predicted that, too. ‘US Military Mobilizes Thousands.\u2019 ‘War Zone: Gangs Do Battle in Streets with Machetes Over Food.\u2019 ‘Rescuers Race Against Time.\u2019 ‘Wire: Angry Haitians Block Roads with Corpses\u2019 ‘Horror: Corpses Impede Traffic, Pyres of Burning Tires Incinerate Cadavers.\u2019 ‘Growing Desperation.\u2019 ‘Survivors Face Diarrhea, Malaria Outbreaks Amid Lack of Clean Water.\u2019 ‘Looting.\u2019 ‘Earthquake in Pictures.\u2019 Satellite Photos Before and After.\u2019 ‘Actor Danny Glover Says Quake ‘Response\u2019 for Screwing Up Climate Summit in Copenhagen.\u2019 <\/p>\n

And at the top of the hour Sky News showed people screaming, ‘We need help! We\u2019re getting nothing. We\u2019re going to die, we\u2019re going to die!\u2019 Aren\u2019t these the same sort of hysterical headlines we saw after Katrina? Are they not? And the Katrina numbers were not nearly 50,000 to 100,000 dead. The US military did a marvelous job. We have a giant lie that has stuck about Bush and Hurricane Katrina, and Mr. Obama need not ever worry that such thing will happen to him because, as this AP story so clearly illustrates, the State-Controlled Media will be there every step of the way to make sure their readers and viewers understand that Obama\u2019s doing far better — far, far, far better — than Bush, who didn\u2019t care. Remember, they said Bush didn\u2019t care because there are a lot of black people in New Orleans. Obama himself even implied that at the time. Oh, yeah, folks. My memory is long on these matters. Now, here we are in the middle of a horrible disaster, and CNN is reporting that Colin Powell — he finally speaks! — is very impressed with the Obama initial response to Haiti earthquake. <\/p>\n

Why do we care if Colin Powell is impressed or not? What\u2019s newsworthy about that? But he\u2019s there. We\u2019ve been waiting for him to speak up, and he\u2019s impressed. Colin Powell is really impressed by Obama\u2019s initial response. The fact that the same military and charities and alike are working like hell to help these poor people down there, just as they did in Katrina, is ignored. It\u2019s all about Obama. There are charities on the ground year \u2019round in Haiti trying to help. But now it\u2019s all about Obama. Yet we have report after report about how the aid can\u2019t get to where it\u2019s needed and how it will be days before it does, and it\u2019s right here in these headlines that I just shared with you: ‘Despair, Panic Set in as Food, Water, and Medical Supplies are Delayed.\u2019 ‘Death toll estimate at 50,000 to 100,000.\u2019 The aid can\u2019t get where it\u2019s needed because of issues like the gangs, piling up corpses, blocking travel on roads. It\u2019s not because of a lack of effort on the part of the first responders — and there were lots of obstacles to getting the aid to New Orleans, too. I\u2019m not trying to be controversial at all. I am simply making this point to highlight how the reporting is so, so different. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: As a man who\u2019s often accused of making everything racial, this is a CBS\/AP dispatch. ‘The human suffering from Hurricane Katrina and the images of mostly black hurricane victims and looters have provoked new debates about tough public policy decisions, the nation\u2019s troubled racial history and the racial and economic barriers that still separate Americans. CBS Radio News reports that New Orleans City Councilman Oliver Thomas said people are too afraid of black people to go in and save them. He added that rumors of shootings and riots are making people afraid to take in people who are being portrayed as thugs and thieves.\u2019<\/p>\n

This is the story, one of the many, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina saying that Bush didn\u2019t want to go in there because didn\u2019t want to help black people and people are afraid to go help black people.<\/p>\n

The US military was on the scene, and they were rescuing people, and we\u2019ve got the video to prove it. Yet we have two clear contrasts of how the media reports both. You want me to go through those headlines again about Haiti? You want me to go through \u2019em again? Okay. Because we\u2019ve got the story out there that Obama\u2019s doing wonderfully well. He\u2019s doing great, much better than Bush. ‘Despair, Panic Set in as Food, Water, and Medical Supplies are Delayed.\u2019 ‘Death Toll Estimate at 50,000 to 100,000.\u2019 ‘UN to Launch Haiti Emergency Appeal for $550 Million.\u2019 ‘Anarchy! Who\u2019s Running the Country?\u2019 ‘Aristide Offers to Return.\u2019 ‘US Military Mobilizes Thousands.\u2019 ‘War Zone: Gangs Do Battle in Streets with Machetes Over Food.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Rescuers Race Against Time.\u2019 ‘Wire: Angry Haitians Block Roads with Corpses\u2019 ‘Horror: Corpses Impede Traffic, Pyres of Burning Tires Incinerate Cadavers.\u2019 ‘Growing Desperation.\u2019 ‘Survivors Face Diarrhea, Malaria Outbreaks Amid Lack of Clean Water.\u2019 ‘Looting.\u2019 ‘Earthquake in Pictures.\u2019 Satellite Photos Before and After.\u2019 ‘Actor Danny Glover Says Quake ‘Response\u2019 For Screwing Up Climate Summit In Copenhagen.\u2019 ‘Sky News Video: Pandemonium Just About Everywhere.\u2019 Sky News at the Top of the Hour: People Screaming at the Top of Their Lungs, ‘We need help! We are getting nothing. We are going to die.” The Associated Press, if that\u2019s your sole source for news, would make you believe that the aid has arrived and it\u2019s being distributed. Lives are being saved. It\u2019s much, much different than it was during Hurricane Katrina with George W. Bush. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

Listen to this. You\u2019ve heard me twice go through the headlines two days after the earthquake in Haiti. There are one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, and a 19th headline added. Here is the list of the headlines at the Drudge Report two days after Hurricane Katrina. <\/p>\n

‘Navy ships and maritime rescue teams sent to region.\u2019 ‘May Have Killed Thousands;\u2019 ‘Bush Views Damage from Air Force One;\u2019 ‘White House to Release Oil from Reserves,\u2019 ‘Officials Helpless Against Looters;\u2019 ‘Twenty-Five Thousand Superdome Evacuees to be Moved to Houston Astrodome;\u2019 ‘Carnival Cruise Lines Asks about Using Ships.\u2019 That\u2019s it. Two days after hurricane Katrina versus all this. I mention this, ladies and gentlemen, not to be critical of anybody who\u2019s trying to do anything in Haiti. I\u2019m simply telling you you\u2019re being lied to once again by the State-Controlled Media. Katrina was botched. Haiti is not being botched. The aid has not yet gotten anywhere appreciably. There\u2019s no way to get it there. There are gangs; there is looting; there are similar things. Which place do you think is more corrupt, New Orleans or Haiti? Have they already got me up on MSNBC talking about it? I figured that. (laughing) I can play these people like a Stradivarius. What are they saying? Oh, it\u2019s from two days ago. Oh, the light-skinned, dark skinned? They still don\u2019t get that I\u2019m making fun of Harry Reid. I told you by the end of this week those comments are going to be mine. As far as the media is concerned I will be the author, I will be the one who spoke light-skinned, dark-skinned.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: All right. Back to Haiti from www.sphere.com: ‘Aid Delays Fuel Desperation in Quake-Battered Haiti.\u2019 It appears that Obama is not getting aid to dying Haitians. Listen to this report: ‘Haiti seemed to hold its breath today, praying that enough aid would arrive before the fears of hundreds of thousands of hungry, injured earthquake refugees turned to violence. ‘Every hour counts,\u2019 said John Holmes, the UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, who was dispatching search and rescue teams from New York. His colleague in Haiti, peacekeeping chief David Wimhurst, told The Associated Press that Haiti\u2019s survivors are ‘slowly getting more angry and impatient.\u2019<\/p>\n

‘About $400 million worth of aid has been pledged so far from Asia, Europe and the Americas, with a quarter of that from the US alone, and some 10,000 US military personnel are slated for deployment there by Monday. But immediate efforts have been stymied by roads blocked by debris, a damaged seaport and an airport that turned away civilian aid planes for eight hours Thursday because of a lack of space and fuel. Two Red Cross planes managed to land today carrying experts — engineers, doctors and specialists in reuniting families separated by disaster — as well as 40 tons of mainly medical supplies. The load includes a kit that can cover the basic health needs of 10,000 people for three months, plus 3,000 body bags and a ton of chlorine for water treatment. <\/p>\n

‘But help could not come quick enough for throngs of increasingly desperate survivors, who woke after a third straight night outdoors to find no one there to help them. Camps sprung up in city parks, with survivors building tents from tree branches. … But tension is rising hourly as the wait lengthens for the wide-scale delivery of aid. … American soldiers immediately took on a coordinating role at the airport upon arrival Thursday. Another 5,500 US soldiers and Marines are expected by Monday, to provide security. … ‘Many people have not eaten since Tuesday. There are corpses everywhere, including pigtailed schoolgirls in their uniforms,\u2019 Pooja Bhatia wrote on Twitter. ‘I was told at least five times that homeless peeps want to pray for me — all of which gives me some hope that riots and violence might not happen. But it will depend greatly on when aid arrives.”<\/p>\n

Again, to be clear, I\u2019m responding to media reports. I\u2019m not criticizing Obama. They did criticize Bush. They politicized Katrina, and they criticized Bush, and they ended up having lies cemented in the public mind. I am responding to media reports predicted by me yesterday that we would have stories — and the AP was first out of the jumping chute — stories praising Obama, getting aid in there much faster and much more thoroughly, much better than Bush did. It\u2019s not there yet. It\u2019s pretty tough. The place is a disaster. The airport, they don\u2019t have enough fuel for planes to land to get outta there. The seaport\u2019s a mess. <\/p>\n

To the phones we go on Open Line Friday. We\u2019re going to start in Fresno, California, and Jerry, great to have you here, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Mega dittos.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019d like to know why the press isn\u2019t comparing this to the tsunami in Indonesia in 2004 where Bush — I think he had a hospital ship there within about 48 hours, he had P-3s flying search-and-rescue missions immediately. We got $35 million pledged, committed almost immediately, another $350 million within five days. And we eventually I think committed almost $950 million to the damage in —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it\u2019s an excellent point. The answer is the same answer, why didn\u2019t we get any good news coming out of Afghanistan in the early years, because it was working?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. Yeah. And the other thing, I think the Red Cross had been kind of depleted by the time Hurricane Katrina hit, and plus he didn\u2019t have Democrats blocking his way trying to get into Indonesia.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly. Exactly right. That is my point, Ray Nagin and Kathleen Blanco blocked entry into New Orleans. It wasn\u2019t the hurricane, by the way, that did the damage, it was the levees bursting after the hurricane was gone that caused the floods and the levees, it was a combination of problems of local corruption and the US Army Corps of Engineers. The money was allocated; it was just not used for the levees.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Obama. He had a little something to say this afternoon right at one o\u2019clock Eastern Time on the earthquake in Haiti.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: The port continues to be closed and the roads are damaged, food is scarce, and so is water. It will take time to establish distribution points so that we can ensure that resources are delivered safely and effectively and in an orderly fashion. But I want the people of Haiti to know that we will do what it takes to save lives and to help them get back on their feet.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It sounds like two different messages to me. Sounds like, ‘Sorry, nothing\u2019s there yet, but we\u2019re going to do whatever it takes to save lives and help them get back on their feet.\u2019 So President Obama asking Haitians for patience after the Associated Press has run a story saying Obama\u2019s doing a wonderful job, beating Bush by a long shot in terms of how Bush dealt with Katrina. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Scott in Nokesville, Virginia. It\u2019s great to have you on the EIB Network, sir, hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir. This is a real honor for me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I have a feeling \u2019cause I don\u2019t think anyone should listen to General ‘Benedict\u2019 Powell anymore. The president could have dropped in the airborne units on Wednesday. They don\u2019t even need airports.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Good point. The 82nd Airborne could parachute in there.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And all their equipment and supplies.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I just saw that they\u2019re going in there now.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh. Well, I guess better late than never.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Benedict Powell, did you say? Did I hear that correctly?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH: As in Benedict Arnold?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir, the same.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s because of voting and endorsing Obama, you mean?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH: As the quintessential Republican we should all model ourselves after?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, just like Benedict Arnold was a hero until he didn\u2019t get enough attention and then he switched sides.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oooh. That\u2019s exactly right, and an apt comparison.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And if I may: I wanted to thank you. I was in the honor guard in the nineties, and you got us through some really hard times with the Days Held Hostage thing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. I was tempted to reinstitute that with the Obama election, but I thought, ‘Why plagiarize myself? Been there, done that.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) Right before we tighten up and march on to the White House we would say the day that you\u2019ve mentioned.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) All right. Thanks for the call, sir. I appreciate it.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Sad news out of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. This is Fox News: ‘Desperation in Haiti as Aid Is Snarled, Looters Roam — Hundreds of US troops touched down in earthquake-shattered Port-au-Prince overnight and were soon handing out food and water to stricken survivors, as relief groups struggled to deliver aid Friday and fears spread of unrest in Haiti\u2019s fourth day of desperation.\u2019 But wait! But wait! But wait! The AP has a story today saying that Obama has brilliantly got aid in there much faster than Bush did after Katrina. The facts on the ground don\u2019t back it up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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