Ignoring Rush Limbaugh, Americans donate to aid Haiti, new poll shows: 64% gave or plan to give

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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/01/ignoring-rush-limbaugh-americans-donate-to-aid-haiti.html

A new survey released by Zogby Interactive found that 64% of adults in the United States have given or plan to give to relief efforts to aid quake-ravaged Haiti.

The survey, released on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, found that 33% of respondents have already made a donation and 31% plan on doing so. Giving was more pronounced among African Americans, with 47% already donating and 34% planning to do so. Apparently these donors didn’t pick up on what Rush Limbaugh had to say last week about donating to a government-created website to help Haiti.

As our colleague Mark Silva reported: “We’ve already donated to Haiti,” Limbaugh told the caller on his radio show. “It’s called the U.S. income tax.” (White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, with some understatement, called the comment “really stupid.")

Undeterred, former presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton are spearheading fundraising efforts for clintonbushhaitifund.org. Bush had this to say about relief efforts:

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1. Conservative values dictates what a person can donate

relative to what they payed in income tax? Keep sucking conservative values.