Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity were quite silent about building in disaster-prone areas in California after the wildfires while they were extremely negatively vocal about it after Hurricane Katrina.

It’s all in the spin

Louisianians, Mississippians and Alabamans were frequently told by said assholes on their radio shows that we should have known better than to build in flood-prone areas and that New Orleans needed cleaning up anyway. I heard them say such things with my own two ears several times over the past 2 years, and I have stopped listening to their shows entirely. If this is what compassionate conservatism is I must be a flaming, bleeding-heart, enabling liberal. They’re long on conservative and extremely short on compassion, unless the definition of compassion has changed recently.

These two talking heads can’t seem to wrap their pea-brains around the fact that some Americans are very poor and that not everybody can just pull themselves up by their own bootstraps. What’s worse is they have tens of thousand of other Americans buying it. It’s easy to pull yourself up when you have millions of dollars and tens of thousands of people praising your every word and worshiping the ground upon which you walk. Most of their listeners are either in a similar boat or jumping boats quickly to get in their boat.

Some are more equal than others

Hannity and Limbaugh often quote “I worked my way to where I am today”. Well, they had a head start over southern blacks. They went to good schools and graduated from college.

Their ancestors weren’t slaves and their white complexions protected them from racial hatred and discrimination. Their ancestors came to this country by choice. Many southern black people’s ancestors came to this country in chains against their will.

Not only were they not discriminated against, they actually had/have quite an advantage because they are white males in a time when being a white male is still a great advantage. Even with the decades of laws and programs to assist minorities and women to become equal to white men, we’re still not equal. Just look at our paychecks if you don’t believe me.

Rush and Sean, you’ve lost one listener. I hope more people with real compassion will also stop supporting you two cold-hearted jerks.

See more pictures in the Hurricane Katrina Picture Book by Jeffery Morgan.

Read Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City by Jed Horne.

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Posted on December 25th, 2007 by joubess
Filed under: Stories