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Berry Cool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 09:59 AM
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Dittoheads are helping spread Rush's message and discourage Haiti charitable donations.
It's disgusting. I just saw one on my home newspaper's Web site in the comments, essentially saying that the US and UN have already poured tons of money into Haiti and it hasn't helped a bit, so how do you know that if you give to that corrupt country now, most of your money isn't going to end up being skimmed off into a "Swiss bank account"?

This idea that there's no point donating to Haitian relief because the Haitian government (which they imagine to be 100% intact, up and running) is ready and waiting to take most of your money and squirrel it away is a meme they want to spread and spread far and wide. The cover they use to do it is to post it as a comment to any legitimate news article warning people to be careful where they donate and not fall victim to scams.

Of course, everyone needs to be careful not to fall victim to donation scams. But the dittoheads are trying to say "Don't give at all, because the whole relief effort is a scam."

There should be a special place in hell for these people.
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hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 10:04 AM
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1. I'm hoping this will finally be the step too far and will shame..
some high profile REPIGs into calling him out (along with his moron pack).
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AnotherMother4Peace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 10:14 AM
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5. It might be - On my son's boards there is a lot of blowback to the ditto head talking points posters
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Xenotime Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 10:05 AM
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2. The money is going to help people who are suffering...how can they not see that?!?
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 10:07 AM
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4. They see that, and that's exactly why they don't like it.
The suffering of the weak is to them what oxygen is to you and me.
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Berry Cool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 10:31 AM
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7. That and the fact that they're afraid that if the relief effort is "too successful"
it will...*whisper* make Obama look effective in a time of crisis. Especially to black people.

They're so afraid of that happening that they would rather, literally, see more people die slow, agonizing deaths.
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 10:06 AM
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3. The same people who trusted Bush
Their opinions are worth shit.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 10:29 AM
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6. I've seen that sentiment here. Teh stupid burns. nt
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denverbill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 10:35 AM
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8. It's time for Democratic leadership to call Republicans to account for this.
I want every one of those motherfuckers on the record as to whether they agree with Limbaugh or not. If they refuse to condemn Limbaugh's hateful crusade AGAINST humanitarian aid for Haiti, the voters deserve to know.
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Bitwit1234 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 11:15 AM
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10. IF and only IF a constitutant from each of those high profile
republicans could ask a question and it be covered by the MSM we would get it out to the public. But we shouldn't hold our breath to have media report on this. They never ever post anything that is at all negative to republicans.

Look at CNN. They put an article up on Ticker. If they comments are all against the republicans and what they are doing....they CLOSE THE COMMENTS only after about 10 or 11.

If the comments are more slanted toward being good for the republicans they let them run sometimes 300 or more.
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CanonRay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 10:52 AM
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9. Giving them a reason to justify being an asshole
This is the same way "Christians" justify the most un-Christian acts. They find a reason to self-justify being jerks.
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