Dennis Prager Show - Trump Hatred Prevents A Cure⎜The Dennis Prager Radio Show
Aired: 2020-05-06
Duration: 07:51


=== Concern Over Hydroxychloroquine (05:48) ===

[00:00:00]  The NPR piece on the doctor at the nursing home who saved every one but one patient.
[00:00:06]  Is there another nursing home in the country that has such a successful record?
[00:00:11]  I don't know.
[00:00:12]  I'm asking the question you would think that people who cared about saving lives would be thrilled about a medication that has been approved for use not specifically for this but medications are approved because of their safety
[00:00:37]  People with lupus and rheumatoid arthritis take it for years with no side effects.
[00:00:45]  But because President Trump touted it...
[00:00:50]  People on the left, including doctors, corrupted by leftism because leftism destroys everything it touches, including medicine, science, religion, journalism, education, the arts, everything.
[00:01:04]  That is the lethal virus of the world, leftism.
[00:01:10]  Doctors who talk against this have been corrupted.
[00:01:13]  They can say it's not proven under the usual forms of study.
[00:01:19]  Yeah, it's correct.
[00:01:20]  I agree.
[00:01:21]  A fact is a fact.
[00:01:23]  The first thing on this show is truth.
[00:01:28]  But here you have this doctor at a nursing home.
[00:01:31]  And listen to the headline, the way NPR covered it.
[00:01:35]  COVID-19 patients give an unproven drug in Texas nursing home in disconcerting move.
[00:01:43]  Is that astonishing?
[00:01:46]  To NPR, it's disconcerting that all the patients in the nursing home but one lived.
[00:01:52]  Now you say, no, Dennis, you're perverting what they're saying.
[00:01:56]  No, I'm not!
[00:01:58]  How is it disconcerting if they're alive, NPR? It's disconcerting because a drug touted by the president may work.
[00:02:08]  That is how sick the left is.
[00:02:12]  Trump hatred perverts the conscience.
[00:02:16]  It's the fact, this is a smoking gun example.
[00:02:20]  Do you think if Obama had touted a drug that was unproven, and I had all these examples, I wouldn't say, woo, that is awesome!
[00:02:31]  It wouldn't occur to me that my dislike of Obama...
[00:02:36]  And my contempt for the Democratic Party would in any way shape my reaction to a drug that was saving lives over and over.
[00:02:46]  I had a doctor on Zelenko in New York.
[00:02:49]  1,450 patients saved the lives of all but two, if I'm not mistaken.
[00:02:58]  Did he make it up?
[00:02:59]  He can't have an investment in it.
[00:03:01]  The thing is so cheap.
[00:03:05]  So they're now pushing remdesivir, which is $1,000 a pop.
[00:03:12]  Now, that I would like to know.
[00:03:14]  Who up atop there on the top has stock in Gilead?
[00:03:18]  That I would like to know.
[00:03:22]  The makers of remdesivir.
[00:03:26]  Listen to the NPR way of reporting this.
[00:03:28]  This is just...
[00:03:31]  This is your smoking gun of the corruption of the left, the moral corruption.
[00:03:36]  Concern is mounting.
[00:03:39]  Concern is mounting.
[00:03:40]  You know what the concern is?
[00:03:42]  That the president's touting of a drug may work.
[00:03:47]  Concern is mounting after a doctor at a Texas nursing home started giving the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine to dozens of elderly patients diagnosed with COVID-19 and tracking the outcomes in what he's calling an observational study.
[00:04:01]  Use of the drug to treat coronavirus infections has set up a heated debate between the Trump administration and leading health experts.
[00:04:10]  If that is true, then it shows you the moral corruption of leading health experts.
[00:04:15]  This is among the most important articles I've ever read to you.
[00:04:18]  It shows you how deep the rot, including in the sciences.
[00:04:26]  President Trump has been an enthusiastic champion of hydroxychloroquine, calling it a game-changer.
[00:04:31]  But some of the nation's most respected health officials have said there is insufficient evidence showing that the 80-year-old drug...
[00:04:38]  80-year-old drug!
[00:04:40]  Which is typically used to stave off malaria, treat lupus or rheumatoid arthritis, is a viable treatment in battling the new virus.
[00:04:48]  So why do you have to lose?
[00:04:49]  Which is what the president asked.
[00:04:52]  I am so curious.
[00:04:54]  I would love to do an honest poll.
[00:04:58]  I don't think it would get honest answers.
[00:05:00]  Ask a thousand Democrats if your mother or father were tested positive.
[00:05:07]  Would you give them hydroxychloroquine?
[00:05:10]  And if their answer is no, it shows you how effective the left-wing media are.
[00:05:19]  In my opinion, not giving an older person who has tested positive this drug is tantamount to enabling them to die.
[00:05:31]  Okay, just want to be on record saying that.

=== Armstrong's Unconventional View (02:18) ===

[00:05:35]  I'm not a scientist.
[00:05:36]  Perhaps that's one of the reasons that I can think clearly.
[00:05:40]  My only vested interest is saving lives.
[00:05:44]  I'm not interested in the president being vindicated or non-vindicated.
[00:05:49]  How do you explain that nursing homes have been the primary place of death from this disease, from this virus?
[00:05:59]  Except in the case of the guy who gave it to his patients in the Texas nursing home.
[00:06:04]  Is that a coincidence, ladies and gentlemen?
[00:06:07]  The article, this is the controversial decision to administer hydroxychloroquine at the resort at Texas City over the last few days was made by Robert Armstrong, a physician and medical director of the nursing home.
[00:06:23]  God, are those people lucky that he is the medical director.
[00:06:26]  It's actually going well.
[00:06:28]  People are getting better, Armstrong told NPR. Adding that after just a handful of days, some of the 39 patients on the medication are showing signs of improvement.
[00:06:38]  But scientists argue that relying on observational, uncontrolled evidence can be misleading.
[00:06:45]  Okay.
[00:06:46]  But they're alive!
[00:06:48]  Alright?
[00:06:49]  Maybe it's voodoo.
[00:06:53]  But they're alive.
[00:06:57]  And then they write, contrary to Armstrong's assertion that hydroxychloroquine has virtually no side effects, it is known to have serious negative health impacts.
[00:07:08]  This is the corruption of the sciences by the left and by the media.
[00:07:14]  The side effects are minimal.
[00:07:17]  I spoke to a doctor yesterday on the phone we're going to have on the show.
[00:07:24]  She sees patients who have taken this for years.
[00:07:28]  There are no side effects.
[00:07:30]  There are side effects to aspirin.
[00:07:32]  There are side effects to cough syrup.
[00:07:37]  It's the corruption, my friends.
[00:07:39]  It's the corruption of the sciences.
[00:07:44]  They are not pro-science.
[00:07:46]  I am.
[00:07:48]  I am not pro-scientist.
[00:07:51]  There is corrupt.