Midweek Politics with David Pakman - Haitian earthquake, obama's response, rush's anger...

with did say welcome to the shown david pacman it's been one year since president barack obama has been inaugurated as president of the united states and coming up later we'll talk about how he's done and a lot of people are not happy with how he's done so far is that fair to say louis well were the pollster the for the polls say well depends whether you're looking at rasmussen are not that we now we won't look at what we will look at any polls will just look woman will look at a few just for fun a little bit later also will be talking to raid renault ski who is going to tell us all about what happened to the democratic candidate in this incredible massachusetts special election where a now in massachusetts here where we do our show we have one democrat john kerry and the republican as senators just coming off of this incredible election and where the mistakes were made really is a question apollo to north dayton community access in dayton didn't area of ohio thanks to and that ridley who has a work through a lot of technical trouble to get us on t_v_ there's over thirteen or fourteen cities and towns in the montgomery county area that were on rift with thrilled to be on the reaction of some friends they're and of course they watched the show you know but uh... it's interesting to be a nonetheless our website mid-week politics dot com please get on their if you're not getting our newsletter you really should be it's easy to sign up with a bunch of sign up last week and people seem to really be a relishing in and what we're sending out cardinal goes out there and i'm told that people relishing who knows using email last week we talked in jordan secular law and he talked about airport security and a bunch of other stuff and i got an email from butch in norwood missouri and he was angry he said he didn't you mention some liberals might cringe when you interview jordan secular law well i certainly cringed when u orderly failed to challenge mister secular the surgeon that u_s_ foreign policy is not fundamentally involved and causing the terrorist threat he says this isn't discussed in mainstream media he says you had a great opportunity to challenge mister secular o and you blew it i'd like to hear discussion about this and about how we can achieve real security in foreign policy based on justice and respect and this is a great point but you know what i actually never said that people might cringe because i'm interviewing toward *** as a people make range when i told him that his work in other countries isn't as an ideologue which might make me sound like bill o'reilly regardless it's a good point hag rhi we need a foreign policy that is not going to create more of a terrorist threat it only came up briefly with jordan secular and we had limited time thanks to bush from norwood missouri for writing in or as some football announcers like to call it which will which will explain to you brock obama responded to what happened in haiti within twenty four hours and he had understandably a lot to say this is and incredible disaster and what is was already the poorest nation in the western hemisphere when i heard there was a seven point oh earthquake in haiti instantly i knew that this was not going to be dismissed as one of the worst possible places to suffer such by north quick both because of economic situations but also because of the the physical location the fact that they are on the island of hispaniola let's listen to a brock obama said about what took place there losses women suffered heavier nothing less than devastated responding citizen as true of this magnitude four four every element of our national casket our diplomacy and development assistance the power of our military and most importantly the compassion of our country and he also went on to say but in case anybody didn't know which i think it was clear unless you're talking to hugo chavez in venezuela that america is is with haiti on this for the people of haiti we say clearly and with conviction you will not be forsaken you will not be forgot in this you're our greatest need america stands with you the world stands with you we know that you are a strong and resilient people you haven't ordered history of slavery and struggle of natural disaster and recovery and threw it all your spirit has been on broken in your faith has been on wavering so today you must know that helped is arriving much more help is on the way so this lewis i think we would agree was a pretty fast response right within twenty four hours of of the haitian perfectly the response to uh... agus passes you can write a speech in every president uh... be somewhere to renounce ok if you remember the underwear bomber there are many include mostly conservatives including rush limbaugh who criticize brock obama because it took him three days the comment publicly about the underwear bomber the attempted bombing this nigerian man who wanted to take down this flight from amsterdam to detroit the criticism was hale obama doesn't even leave his vacation to comment about an attempted bombings as this is unbelievable you would think then with twenty four hours only at only twenty four hours less than twenty-four hours passing this time for the after that better if we can haiti that rush limbaugh would say this is a fast response not so not so it all take a listen to the explanation this time from rush limbaugh alright alright haiti here's president obama speaking about haiti on this morning in washington at the white house he held a press conference now i want you to remember it took him for we diz three days to responded to the christmas day fruit of coble mama three days and when he came out after those three days it was clearly irritated that he had to do it he didn't want to do it he comes out here again alas event twenty four hours to speak about haiti i have directed okay this is that this is unbelievable the explanation that we're getting from rush limbaugh now is that number one barack obama was irritated at having to speak about this but more so that this time the reason he came out is because there's two sides as two arguments we've been hearing number one involves black people in danger and that barack obama remember we've heard for many many people before the election brock obama only cares about white people right problem and his wife i'm concerned that they could be anti weights that he might hike that don't like the fact that keeping first white people were trash well because brock obama as that woman in higher so eloquently put it barack obama thinks white people are trash so of course if black people are in danger that's why he's speaking out quickly when the white people were in danger on that flight from amsterdam that was in the priority that's the logic uh... and of course the prop obama wants to be associated with apologizing and rush limbaugh going on to say that he even apologized for the u_s_ for the for not getting a fast enough for former for whatever it was you know what rush limbaugh does this to make a living to get ratings anne extraordinarily good at it because we're talking about it now does rush limbaugh actually think that barack obama reacted quicker to the haitian earthquake into the underwear bomber because it involved black people now i don't really think rush limbaugh thinks that and what what do you think no you're right he he knows how to how to say things to get attention to boost ratings and certainly he's doing it here now we that's rush limbaugh v countless other conservatives that agree with his point of view which is that for whatever reason brock obama has hand-picked this incident as one to come out and split the speak about because it involves black people as opposed to the underwear bomber that's ridiculous and we've seen it spread across the the uh... conservative blogs