Rush Limbaugh Went Hard on African Aide

CALLER: No, no, no, you don't hear me Rush, you don't hear me say anything when it comes to Africa. You don't hear me say anything against George Bush. He do well. He come to Senegal where I'm originally from two years ago. I respect what he do for Africa, but I'm saying, I'm saying all these years, I'm not talking about the George Bush years, I'm talking about since I was a kid, you heard commercials, everything saying lets help Africa, nothing get done, because what happened is you don't put the help in the right hands. You always put it in the government who are in charge over there and (unintelligible)

RUSH: Amen, bro. Amen. I agree with you a hundred percent. In fact, I think the best thing could happen for Africa is to have the aid cut off for like five years because two things have happened, and you're right. The money that has been given in previous years by this country and UNICEF and all the other worldwide organizations, all the money, all the time, all the caring, all the compassion to save Africa, and it's still this place that's miserable, we are told, it's going to hell in a handbasket, "Why don't we do something for Africa?" Rock stars are resurrecting their careers on saving Africa. And yet, it's sort of like the poor in this country, we've thrown everything, we've given them the kitchen sink after throwing it at them, and still have the poor and we still have the disadvantaged. At some point, you gotta get the money into the hands of the people who are going to use it for investment and growth, not welfare, and you have to take it out of the hands of these despot warlord thug dictators in these countries that are getting their hands on it, people like Mugabe in the former Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. Africa has become a worldwide welfare state with the welfare recipients primarily made up of the thug dictators running some of these countries and oppressing their people. There is no reason in the world today why the vast majority of the Third World is in one continent. There's no reason for it whatsoever. But I'll tell you who you can blame, Al Haji, guess who's preventing development there? Our good old American environmentalists, our leftists who prefer squalor to advancement, to running water, to electricity, "because that requires fossil fuels, Mr. Limbaugh, and that's destroying the planet." So people in Africa have to live in pigsties because they're not allowed to develop the country by Americans and liberals all over the world who are standing in their way. George Bush has gone over there, and he has said, "We got new rules. We're going to continue to give you the aid. You gotta show us something for it," and he's being celebrated upon his arrival. The Drive-By Media here cannot understand it. But the people of Africa do. They understand what's happened with his presidency in that regard. But the idea here that Barack Obama is the magic elixir that you can assign to any problem and it automatically gets fixed -- you know, the thing that worries me in a situation like that when you have people of a cult, nothing ever does have to get fixed. It's sort of like liberals and their good intentions. That's all that matters. All you have to do is, "I want that problem solved, Mr. Limbaugh! I can't bear to see people --" Okay. Well, good, we'll spend some money on that. Good. And they think the problem is solved. Their good intentions got it done. So you can throw under the canvas, the black canvas that is Barack Obama any problem, and you make him the solution to it, and whether it gets solved or not, you think he's great because you've made him into what he is, not him. That's the appeal here. Look, Al Haji, nice to have you on the program. I'm glad you called

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