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Oct. 8, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 8, 2009, Thursday, Hour #2
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All right, folks, I have fired up the one o'clock cigar because I need it.
After that first hour, I've been accused of hijacking medicine.
And Nancy Snyder says, oh my God, when did medicine become politicized?
Have you ever heard of health care reform being debated in the House and Senate as Obama?
What is it if it isn't political, Dr. Snyderman?
And now we've got kids singing songs to Obama, not in schools, but on CNN.
I made a mistake earlier.
I said that this happened on Wednesday.
It actually happened on Monday.
It just took two days for the world to learn of it because it happened on CNN.
Greetings, folks.
Great to have you back.
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The email address lrushball at eibnet.com.
Okay, so school children on CNN singing about Obama.
And everybody's a little bit upset about this.
But folks, it's better than what the kids in Chicago are doing.
They're killing themselves there.
At least it's safer on CNN.
All they sing songs.
How did all of this get started?
Let's go back to this, what is it, a middle school where this happened?
Elementary school in New Jersey.
Remember this.
All of the equal politicians like Obama.
Yes.
Hang on, folks.
Hang in there.
Wait for it.
Wait for it.
Are we ready on the next element of this?
We must not be since nobody's talking to me.
But I, as a highly trained broadcast professional, am not panicking.
Let me know when the next element is.
And by the way, it's not the engineer's fault.
I only told him five seconds ago what I wanted.
I wasn't thinking about this.
Is it ready to go yet?
You're not ready to go.
It is real.
I knew it was coming up.
I have total confidence in the staff.
This just illustrates they get rave reviews, but they are highly overrated.
Now, this song that you just heard is merely one song from an album.
The Rock Hussein Obama.
This takes us to the next element, which is, of course, the kids from the Ron Clark School in Atlanta.
Now, on CNN on Monday with Wolf Blitzer, these kids obviously mind.
By the way, not every kid agrees with Obamacare, the force to sing this song.
We have an interesting soundbite about that.
But most of these kids are just mind-numbed.
This is from the famous private Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta, so famous that the teacher who founded it got a movie made about him, the Ron Clark story starring Matthew Perry.
It's a screw that prides itself on outside-the-box thinking on innovation.
But the student video on CNN is just as much mind-numbed robotics as all the public school videos that we've seen.
Listen to this.
Obama says everyone needs health coverage in America now.
We need to assure those $47 million, but the government doesn't know how.
The deductible's getting higher every day.
I got a bill and I'm thinking, no way.
And what about my brother?
He's hurting and he can't get covered.
My tummy's starting and I'm feeling kind of worried.
We should tell the richest killing me.
And then the doctors say, you have to go.
Bipartisan support was strong.
So we wouldn't be tonight, but Joe was a yellow, you lie.
So we throw our hands up for health care form.
Make your choice today.
Private and public care will the marketplace treat us fair.
So we throw our hands up for health care form.
Make your choice today.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's a problem in the USA.
This is one of the more troubling videos that I have seen.
This is a school renowned for its out-of-the-box thinking and for its innovation.
And we've got a bunch of kids who've just been mind-numbed and propagandized.
And to make it worse, they're brought in to perform on a news network, CNN, where Wolf Blitzer is just going, oh, this is so wonderful.
What great work Ron Clark's doing down there at his school?
These, I'm sure they did perform during the presidential campaign.
These kids, if you see the video, they look damn healthy with the current system.
They don't look like they're getting shorted on any health care.
And they don't look like they're very hungry either.
It looks like their lives are pretty damn good.
And if they're singing here about long lines and so forth, they haven't seen long lines until Obama gets his health care bill.
Now, not all of these children are on board.
Willie Thornton, this is last Monday.
The anchor Kira Phillips spoke with students about the health care reform.
Two students talk about the need for health care reform.
Phillips says, what do you think, Willie Thornton?
How'd they do?
I feel personally that we should stay with our current health care system, which is a private plan.
Because if we did go to the Obama administration's private and public plan, then not only will the people who are wealthy, they will not only have to pay for their insurance plan, but they'll also have to pay for someone else's insurance.
And then that's just making them have to spend more money and lay off more people and therefore reducing our economy right now.
We're in a deep recession right now.
Somebody's teaching somebody the right stuff.
I don't know if this person learned what he knew in school or learned it at home, but this kid was forced to sing in this song.
This is one of the singers that you heard.
Now, you might remember on Sunday, on the Chris Matthews show, the syndicated over-the-air show, he had on Kathy Kay.
If I run around, if somebody named me Kathy Kay, and I ended up as a journalist, I changed the first name.
But that's just me.
Kathy Kay had not heard the journals or the video from the New Jersey school with the Barack Hussein Obama.
And of course, I mimicked it all day Friday when Obama bombed out in Copenhagen at the Olympics.
And the NBC people didn't like this.
Well, the Chris Matthews people didn't like it.
And they played video of me doing the Barack Hussein Obama.
And they were just disgusted as they could be.
How could Limbo be so gleeful at Obama Field?
What is this?
And Kathy Kaye said, I don't want to hit it again, Chris.
And I'm stunned here.
Insidious, that's right.
This is insidious.
This is insidious.
And I'm sitting here.
They're two different media worlds.
I know everything they do.
I watch them.
I read them.
I listen to them.
They don't.
They read Media Matters or whatever far left-wing nutjob website to find out what happened here, but they don't listen.
And they don't read.
They are living in their own cone of silence in a cocoon.
I, as a highly trained broadcast specialist, I watch them to find out what they're doing.
They haven't the slightest idea and they are so uninformed.
So it gave me this idea dedicated to Katty Kay of BBC America.
I wonder, folks, I really wonder if CNN fact-checked the kids' song from the Ron Clark Academy that aired on CNN Monday.
Because you know, they fact-checked a CNN, a Saturday Night Life skit?
They fact-checked a joke.
Did they fact-check the kids?
No way.
By the way, if you missed the first hour, you heard of the...
Here, grab soundbite number one.
The best way to tell you what you missed.
Cobal Hall, Detroit, $15 million of stimulus money being given out to help people deal with near homelessness or pay their utilities or mortgage.
35,000 applications are going to be filled out.
65,000 people showed up.
3,500 people will get applications.
There are scam artists outside Kobo Hall selling for 20 bucks fake applications, proving that there still is entrepreneurism in Detroit, which is a positive.
Here's the soundbite because I have an oh, I just found a news story just now.
I want to help.
I have a suggestion for people who don't get Obama money in Detroit to pick up a little extra cash.
But here's the soundbite.
This is Obama's America.
This is two citizens, model citizens in Obama's America.
Why are you here?
To get some money.
What kind of money?
Obama money.
Where's it coming from?
Obama.
And where did Obama get it?
I don't know.
His stash.
I don't know.
I don't know where he got it from.
But he's giving it to us to help us.
We love him.
That's what we voted for.
There you have it, model citizens in Obama's America.
I don't know.
It's coming from Obama's stash.
He loves us.
That's exactly what Obama wants these people to think.
And this is what socialism gets you.
And if these people think it's bad now trying to get money, wait until Obama fully enacts everything in his plan.
So, you got to help out here.
We are a program of great compassion and love, and we want the best for every American, including those in Detroit who are about to be sadly shocked to realize Obama does not have enough money to give them all that they want.
My idea comes from Taipei, which for those of you in Riolinda is in Taiwan, telling them that might not help.
Taiwan Formosa.
Little island off the coast of China that the Chikoms will someday invade.
A central time zone of Bangkok.
Bangkok, again, the city with the highest number of prostitutes per capita in the world, which fits when the name Bangkok is broken down.
Anyway, don't interrupt me, Sternley.
A city in central Taiwan is offering shopping vouchers to volunteer dog poop collectors in a bid to clean up a perennial problem caused by the large number of stray animals islandwide.
Officials in Taichung, which has a population of 1 million, said yesterday that the Environmental Protection Bureau would give vouchers worth $3 for every kilo of dog poo collected.
In areas of the city especially affected, a reward will be for every half kilo of dog poo collected.
Now, there are dogs everywhere, including in Detroit.
And the Obama stash is not going to be enough to cover all 65,000 people who showed up.
So, this is something that the who's the mayor up there now.
Noah, Kwame Kilpatrick, who's the mayor up there?
Oh, that's right.
Dave Bing won.
Okay.
So, Dave Bing, this is a golden opportunity here.
Except, no.
Detroit doesn't have any money either.
That's what I just.
Never mind.
Yeah, Murray Head singing one night in Bangkok.
One of my favorite tunes, by the way, in the bumper rotation.
I'm thinking more about this business of dog poop collection in Detroit.
Obama ought to be all over this.
Obama ought to eat.
I love this.
Shovel-ready jobs, dog poop collection, Detroit.
I also need to make a minor correction.
This correction, by the way, will not impact my opinion audit accuracy because this is a factual error I made.
I mistakenly put Kathy Kay on Chris Matthews' weekend show.
It was actually Monday morning on Scarborough Show on PMS NBC.
And Scarborough doing his best impression of a neutered, chick-afied moderate.
This can't be helpful for our political process, for Limbaugh to be laughing with glee that Obama failed in Copenhagen.
I guess Joe wants to sell another couple of books to go with the 1,000 he already sold by pitching it to Democrats and moderates.
Kathy Kay said this.
I don't think it is.
And actually, you know, listening to that Rush Limbaugh clip again, and I don't think I want to hear it really for a fourth or fifth time, is that it's not Barack Obama, it's Barack Hussein Obama, Barack Hussein Obama.
There's something insidious going on there, too, in the repetition of his middle name.
She's just totally clueless.
It was the school kids in New Jersey with a song written for them by an Obama supporter.
BBC America.
They are clueless.
What doesn't happen in their world, they don't know about it.
All right, to the phones, Philadelphia.
Brett, glad you called.
You're up.
Hello.
Hey, Rush Ditto here from one of the few Jewish conservatives out in Chester County, right outside Philadelphia, and I appreciate you taking my call.
You bet.
Last hour you touched on the media-created, media-driven swine flu.
And I wanted to take it a step further here and really relate that to the economy, the recession as a whole, which might not entirely be media-created, but I strongly believe is media-driven.
I see a couple things where I observe personally each day, which contradicts greatly what is reported in the news.
You as a- Now, wait, wait, wait, well, hold it.
Hold it just a second here now.
Okay.
I want to understand your premise.
Your premise is the economy is better than it really is, and the media is hyping how bad it is.
Correct.
But I'm calling because I'm actually, I'm usually pretty sure of these things, but I'm actually calling for your advice here, your guidance on.
Good, because you need it, because it's the exact opposite.
It's exact opposite.
The media is going out of its way, their way, to not report the truth.
Look at the unemployment numbers today.
We lost another huge number of jobs.
It just wasn't as many as they expected.
They spent it as good news.
The truth is, unemployment is going to continue to go up.
Real unemployment, 16%.
There's no way to say this is good.
They try as hard as they can.
There's a story in the Financial Times today: problems all over the world for Obama.
None of them his fault, by the way.
None of this is his fault.
It's all his fault.
I'm sorry.
Well, look, I've got to take a break here, and I rudely interrupted you.
Want to get your point anyway because I did not get the whole thing.
So, well, if you can hang on through the break, then I'll listen to your explanation and your anecdotal evidence, okay?
I appreciate that.
Thanks, Ross.
That's why my audience loves me.
I never shaft them.
Hey, Brett, hold on out there, buddy.
Some news items just broke here, and I got to get them out of the way before returning to your call.
Guess what?
We have now learned from NBC Miami that the presidential dog Bo dropped a load on Air Force One.
Speaking of dog poop, the White House is denying it.
Rumor has it that a certain Portuguese water dog made a stealthy deposit on Air Force One.
Flight attendant nearly stepped in it.
Two contacts.
And the 89th Airlift Wing, which includes Air Force One, separately confirmed a dirty drop, but they wouldn't go on the record.
Washington Wire of the Wall Street Journal has the story.
And in the meantime, the White House is denying why, you know, my dog.
Well, they didn't get the weight here.
It's a Portuguese water dog, probably half a kilo at least.
But look at, I have a dog.
I'm an airplane.
My dog doesn't poop.
The dog poops before it gets on the airplane to reduce the carbon footprint of the plane.
So we reduce the weight of the airplane.
We are environmentally conscious with our airplane.
Obama doesn't even care about it.
Puts a dog on there without letting the dog eliminate.
Added weight, more carbon footprint, more fuel wasted.
The guy never does what he says, never does what he wants everybody else to do.
I got a note.
I got a request here from one of the New York staffers.
Hang in there, Brett.
We're coming back at you here, buddy, pretty soon.
I'm detecting a trend in the New York staff.
I haven't been there this year in a protest against the New York tax authorities.
And the New York staff is becoming more and more obsessed with days off vacations and sick days.
I just got a note from one of them.
Are you taking Monday off?
Columbus Day.
I don't, you realize Columbus Day is not going to be a holiday for very much longer, no matter what the Italians say.
Columbus was just some nasty white European guy, came over here, killed natives, gave everybody diseases, including syphilis.
This is what's being taught.
We're not taking Columbus Day off.
And the New Zealand, since, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but that's President's Day.
Yeah, but, but, I, I, I'm, no, I'm not going to take it off snurly.
Don't, don't.
See, I have to set an example here for the staff becoming obsessed with this.
It's never happened before.
Not New Zealand.
Hang in there, Brett.
We're coming back at you here real soon, buddy.
It's the last little item.
New Zealand.
You know, I've been toying with the idea of moving there.
The New Zealand Olympic Committee has threatened to sue a local taekwondo athlete who plans to finance his 2012 London Games trip with the proceeds from a brothel.
Now, for those of you in Riolinda, whorehouse, Logan Campbell, whose participation in a Beijing Olympics cost him $150,000 New Zealand dollars, it's $110,000 of our dollars, most of which came from his parents, opened a brothel with a friend in Auckland earlier this year.
He went public with the scheme in July.
The 23-year-old said he hopes to raise $300,000 with the brothel to alleviate any financial burden on his parents and to have more time to concentrate on training.
To hell with going to the Olympics, Acorn needs to hire this guy to run their Maryland office since they lost a couple of employees there.
All right.
Now, Brett, back to you in Philadelphia.
Thanks for holding on.
Brett believes that the economy is not as bad as it really is, that the media is hyping a bad economy.
Okay, go ahead and tell me why you think that.
Okay, well, I didn't disagree with anything you said before.
And if I'm wrong, I certainly appreciate you setting me straight.
I was going to say this, when George Bush was president and you had the media day in and day out reporting the economy much bleaker than it really was for obvious reasons.
Bleaker.
They tried to have everybody thinking we were in a recession in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008.
Right.
And it was obvious to everyone why they were doing it then when Bush was president.
And it wouldn't be so much obvious now that Barack Obama is.
But what I was thinking is that if they create or paint this picture of a bleaker economy than it really is, I thought that would open the door for the current Democrats, the current Congress to push through more and advocate more liberal policies, kind of worth doing what they've already been doing.
And I think that if the media can continue to create a panic, create panelists.
I understand your thinking.
Then I think people will feel the need and we'll be much more lenient with letting the current administration push through policies.
I understand your thinking.
But understand this about Obama, the Democrats.
They don't care what anybody thinks or wants or doesn't want.
They are forcing all of this.
I mean, the vast majority of every Obama issue, public polling shows a majority of people, including precious independents and moderates, are overwhelmingly opposed.
Doesn't matter.
They're going to do it regardless whether the media was on their side or not.
They're going to do it regardless.
Now, what they're doing, the media is starting to get a little antsy about the unemployment because it isn't working.
The stimulus, the vaunted stimulus plan isn't working, except that it is.
The exact goal is being achieved.
Chaos, dependence, people showing up, having expectations of Obama handouts.
This is exactly what he wants.
This is how you grow government.
This is how you dumb down people.
The media said, well, I've got to get working here on the economy.
We had these three columnists on Monday.
Does Obama have the backbone?
Does Obama have the guts?
Is he willing to lead?
And so forth.
So they'll go out and start talking about a second stimulus.
Yeah, make it look like they're really on the case here.
But anybody with half a brain economically knows full well that to grow an economy, to create jobs, you don't do one aspect of any Obama plan so far.
So they are underselling how bad the economy is.
They have to.
They cannot make their guy look bad.
They have to prop him up.
They have to blame it on Bush.
Just like I predicted the Olympics go south, the bid, it's Bush's fault.
Residual hatred for America.
It's Bush's fault.
So you can find pockets of the country where people are not in dire straits, but you've got a real unemployment rate of 16% and rising.
This is a disaster.
These are dark days for our country because there are not the votes in Washington on the opposition party side to stop any of this.
By the way, Brett, are you still with me out there, or did he go?
No, no, I'm here, Rush.
Are you a football fan?
I am a football fan.
You like the Iggles?
I do like the Eagles.
I do not like the current quarterback the last few years.
Now, now, now, now, now, now.
Too many people have dumped on McNabb too much.
You know, I think it's been really unfair, all these people dumping on McNabb over the years.
You ought to.
Well, I did this.
I think your initial analysis and your take on it a few years back was pretty accurate.
My comment was on the media and their treatment of McNabb.
McNab's a fine man.
Look, he had his press conference, his Wednesday press conference yesterday, and a reporter asked him this.
Rush Limbaugh says he's interested in buying a football team.
How do you feel about that?
Do you think NFL players will embrace him?
If he's rewarded to buy that, congratulations to him.
I won't be in St. Louis no time soon.
You wouldn't play for the rank?
I'll be here.
So McNabb has rejected a potential job offer before one was even made.
I guess I know where I stand with McNabb.
But let's not forget this.
December 1st, 2003, Monday night countdown, ESPN had Stuart Scott was the host, and he had McNab on there.
He said, you said before that the comments Rush Limbaugh made in this network did not affect you at all.
How could it not impact even a little bit in some way?
I think, you know, with everything that's went on, I will probably hire Rush Limbaugh as my marketing agent because he's done wondrous for me.
So we'll take a brief time.
I think Donovan's a little conflicted, even now.
He's going to play this Sunday, though, coming back.
Who do the Eagles have?
Some chump opponent.
I can't remember who.
That's right.
I know it's a Chump opponent.
Tampa Bay.
We'll be back in just a second.
Stay with us.
I should have mentioned this when I was talking to Brett in Philadelphia, folks.
The Reuters has just released a story, and this is a classic illustration of what I'm talking about with the media underselling or trying to put the best spin positive on really bad, dangerous news.
They held another auction today for 30-year Treasury bonds.
This is how we finance Obama debt.
And they didn't go well.
The results here are, the headline says, 30-year auction disappoints, sapping gains in treasuries.
Wall Street broke a nice winning streak with bond auctions as a sale Thursday of 30-year debt fell flat.
The auction of $12 billion in 30-year bonds fetched a high yield of 4.009%.
That's higher than would have been expected and indicative of weaker demand.
The bid, see, they don't put weaker demand first.
It's higher than expected.
When that's not even good news either.
The bid to cover ratio came in at 2.71, which reflects a $2.71 bid for every $1 auctioned.
The price of treasuries fell after the auction.
Now, the news here is that the ChiComs are clearly sending us a message.
The ChiCom, look at, we're about to tell, there's all kinds of talk from Arab nations at the dollar, and the dollar is plunging.
And nobody in this administration is doing one thing about it.
Take the dollar out of the reserve currency around the world for oil sales and so forth, maybe the Euro.
This is every institution and tradition that has defined this country's greatness for goodness as a superpower is being dismantled right before our very eyes.
And now all of this debt, the ChiComs are telling us, you know, they own the debt.
They own a large percentage of our debt, and they're saying, we're not buying anymore.
They're sending messages.
You've got to get your spending under control.
Obama has no interest in doing that.
Who's going to buy the debt?
I don't know who's going to buy the debt.
So the natural thing, if you try to put this in terms, an average household, let's say that you need to borrow some money to go buy a car, and nobody will give you the money to buy a car.
So you go out and steal one.
I mean, that's in effect what we're doing here.
Or worse than that, you go into the savings account that you have for your kid, and you take all of that out and buy a car for you.
That's really a better analogy of what's happening here.
And then maybe if you've even got a trust set up or a savings account for a grandkid, when nobody's going to buy the debt, they'll actually buy the debt at a price that makes us even worse off.
It's just unbelievable to watch all of this happening right before our eyes with no way legislatively to stop it.
Susan in Fairfield, Connecticut.
Thanks for waiting.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
Very nice to talk to you.
Thank you very much.
I had an experience with a flu shot.
This was in the year 2000.
I was, I hate to give my age, I was 58, and I'd never had a flu shot.
Why'd you get one?
The doctor said, how about a flu shot?
And I said.
Were you visiting Dr. Snyderman?
No, I wasn't.
And I said to her, I had never had the flu and never had a flu shot and, you know, didn't think I wanted one.
But one of my kids was having a baby, and I was like, oh, you know, you might want to help her.
You might get it, blah, blah, blah.
So I had the flu shot.
And a couple of weeks later, I'm walking along, and I got kind of a funny pain in my shoulder, a strange place.
And I, you know, what is this?
And what is that?
Anyway, it developed into very severe, a couple of days later, chest pains, which I started in the middle of the day one day.
And by 3 o'clock the next morning, I was in the emergency room.
And the people there thought I was having a heart attack.
Did you have health insurance?
I did have health insurance from my husband's employer.
Very nice health insurance.
But anyway, at any rate, they kept giving me nitroglycerin and whatever.
And I really thought if it was a heart attack, I would be dead because this had been going on for a long time.
And a cardiologist came in and eventually, you know, asked me some questions, did this stethoscope thing, and took chest x-rays.
All right, so you told him you took a flu shot, and then what happened?
No, no, I didn't tell him that because I didn't think of it at the time.
But it turned out that it was diagnosed as pleurisy.
And I don't know if you've ever known anyone who had pleurisy or any experience with it.
It is awful.
It knocks you out.
I was sick for about, oh, I don't know, and I'm a relatively healthy person.
But it got better.
We went away.
And I looked it up, and it was strange because it said pleurisy is really something that you get after you have something else like people with tuberculosis get it.
It's not something that you just catch.
Right.
But so how did the flu shot enter the doctor?
The flu shot entered the equation when I was so curious as to how I could have gotten this, so I read about it.
Most women would blame their husbands.
I did not do that.
But anyway, I read about it.
It's like it's an inflammation of the sack around your lungs and around your heart.
Right, right, right.
But time is dwindling.
What it was, I eventually talked to a person, a pediatrician who was a friend of mine and told her the whole story.
Did she want to take your tonsils out?
No, she wanted to cut off my foot, though.
Obama told me they'd do that.
Oh, it's so awful.
I'm so glad I listened to you.
It does.
And I only started after this election.
But anyway, she said, you're finally going to get to this flu shot, Anglephones.
Hang in there.
Just wait for it.
It's coming.
I said, could it have been anything to do with the flu shot?
And she said, yes, pleurisy is a side effect of the flu shot, or can be a side effect.
Yeah, but this wasn't even H1N1 back in 2000.
No, no, just the regular whatever, yeah.
Well, I've never taken a flu shot, and I've never had, I've never had a doctor suggest it.
I've had busybody citizens and friends who want to run my life tell me I should do it, but I've never had a doctor.
They've left it up to me.
I know I've never had one, but I don't, I know a lot of people who do who routinely, and I think a lot of people suffer mild symptoms because that's how you are inoculated from it, isn't it?
So, but you're the first person I've heard contracting pleurisy from a flu shot.
Keep this call on file, Mike, for the next time Dr. Snyderman launches on me.
And get those soundbites.
I mean, people, I've been talking about this all hour, and people may not have heard what Dr. Snyderman says.
We'll have that at the top of the next hour.
I got to take a quick timeout right now.
Thanks, Susan.
And by the way, I'm in Fairfield, Connecticut every summer.
I play golf up there at the Country Club of Fairfield, and this is where AIG people, bonus, live, where Acorn went up and protested on their front lawns.
And so it's a nice community that they've run out of money and can't fix their potholes anymore.
So you don't go up there with a nice car, but that's about the only wrong one.
We are working on the audio as we speak.
An infectious disease doctor was just on the Fox News channel.
He said that the H1N1 flu vaccine is deadlier than the swine flu itself.
So dangerous, he said, he will not give it to his kids.
But we are not to worry because Kathleen Sebelius, who has taught us all how to sneeze into our sleeves, tells us it is safe.
And Dr. Snyderman assures us that it is safe.
But the doctor, infectious disease doctor, says the vaccine is deadlier than the flu.
The audio is coming up.
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