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Limbaugh has said some disgusting stuff in his time, but his mean-spirited, sick rants against the Japanese people as they face a nuclear meltdown and radiation poisoning on top of the massive earthquake and tsunami are beyond the pale. In a just world we would see him get fired. A boycott should at least come out of this.
CALLER: I need some of your wisdom. I'm confused. At the top of the first hour, you played a clip. Diane Sawyer, I believe, about the recycling that is still going on in Japan.
LIMBAUGH: I did. You're right.
CALLER: If these are the people that invented the Prius, have mastered public transportation, recycling, why did mother earth, Gaia if you will, hit them with this disaster?
LIMBAUGH: Well, that's an interesting question. Let's go back and grab Diane Sawyer. Audio sound bite number nine. This is her report on a shelter for refugees in Japan and how they are handling their waste management.
[PLAYS CLIP]
DIANE SAWYER: This is a shelter. Some of these people here for days, and look, it's recycling. Organized for recycling.
GUEST: Plastic, combustible, burnable, canes.
[END CLIP]
LIMBAUGH: Did I really hear this? Did I really hear -- Diane Sawyer is in a refugee camp in Japan. Play this again. This is almost like a kindergarten teacher talking to the four year olds. That is how old you are in kindergarten, right? Five? Five? Four? Alright. This is -- some of these people here for days and look, look it's recycling, organized for recycling.
[PLAYS CLIP]
SAWYER: This is a shelter. Some of these people here for days and look it's recycling, organized for recycling.
GUEST: Plastic, combustible, burnable, canes.
[END CLIP]
RUSH: My god, she sounds like she saw her husband for the first time in six months there. Oh, it's recycling, look, organized for -- these people are in the midst of earthquake devastation and the credit they're getting is for recycling and our caller Chris with a great question. The Japanese have done so much to save the planet. He's right. They've given us the Prius. Even now, refugees are still recycling their garbage, and yet Gaia levels them [laughs], just wipes them out. Wipes out their nuclear plants, all kinds of radiation. What kind of payback is this? That is an excellent question. They invented the Prius. In fact, where Gaia blew up is right where they make all these electric cars. That's where the tsunami hit. All those brand new electric cars sitting there on the lot. I like the way this guy was thinking. It's like -- it's like Gaia hit the Prius in [inaudible]. It's like they were in the crosshairs, if we can use that word, it does. What is Gaia trying to tell us here? What is the mother of environmentalism trying to say with this hit? Great observation out there, Chris.
Here's Tom in Naples, Florida. You're next on the EIB network. Hello.
CALLER: Hey, Rush Limbaugh, how you doing?
LIMBAUGH: Fine sir, thanks much.
CALLER: Hey, I know, I'm calling about and I was trying to just add a little levity to the day. My issue is that I don't want Obama to pick Ohio State in his brackets, because that's who I'm picking.
Great observation out there, Rush. Yea, what a kick in the pants it is that Gaia would hit the home of the Prius with this kind of devastation. I bet Japan is laughing right with you. What a sick, sick, diseased man.
After being called out on it, Limbaughtried to downplay his laughing at Japan
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And the news at the point that I wrote this post from the NY Times: U.S. Calls Radiation ‘Extremely High,’ Sees Japan Nuclear Crisis Worsening
The chairman of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission gave a far bleaker appraisal on Wednesday of the threat posed by Japan’s nuclear crisis than the Japanese government had offered. He said American officials believed that the damage to at least one crippled reactor was much more serious than Tokyo had acknowledged...read on
