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Aug. 4, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 4, 2014, Monday, Hour #2
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And greetings.
Good afternoon to those of you in the Eastern and Central time zones.
And good morning to those of you in the Mountain and Pacific time zones.
It's great to have you as our number two begins.
And as we also begin our second 26-year segment, you realize by the time I've done this 26 more years, I will be 90.
Can you all see yourselves sitting there for 26 more years while I'm here doing this?
Anyway, as they've always said, if you love what you do, you will never, ever work a day in your life.
And that's, for the most part, true.
Yes, America will still be here.
Well, now that's the question.
There's always going to be an America.
Now, what kind?
You know, there have been pressures on the Constitution of this country ever since it was ratified.
And the pressure on the Constitution today is, I think, as intense as it's ever, ever been.
And it's going to take a concerted effort of a lot of people to hold off this latest assault.
Anyway, folks, greetings and welcome back.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone.
Our telephone number is 800-282-2882, the email address lrushbo at EIBnet.com.
All right, so I've done my duty.
I covered the Romney stuff, although I'm sure you want more, and I have more.
And I've done the daily dose of impeachment reaction, and I'm sure you want more, and there will be more.
But I'm not through in this Ebola stuff.
I started talking about Ebola.
What a Freudian slip that would be.
I started talking about Ebola, and I got some email first break.
What are you doing?
Crying out loud.
Rush, do you realize what's going on?
You know, it never ceases to amaze me.
26 years, and there are people who still think I miss things.
Anyway, as I said, if you really want to understand this program, if you really do, you're going to have to accept something that pretty much everything I talk about, I'm talking about because it is political.
Now, you might say, what do you mean, politicizing a disease?
You ever heard of AIDS?
You think that wasn't political?
One of the very, well, not first, but one of the most intense efforts to undermine support for Ronald Reagan was hatched through AIDS.
So don't think for a moment, I mean, the left politicizes everything.
They look at everything within the realm of whether or not it can move their agenda forward, maybe even be added to their agenda.
Now, let me give an example.
All weekend long, well, let me first remind you what Ebola is.
It is a virus for which there is no known cure.
It is a virus for which there is no known treatment other than this mysterious serum that was hatched in the private sector and administered to a couple of Americans over the weekend.
But prior to that, it had only been used on monkeys.
There's not very much of it.
And the long-term effects, it's not been through the rigors of normal testing.
It was just given haphazardly, and it apparently had some miraculous effects in reversing the onset.
But it's a virus.
There's no known cure.
The fatality rate is anywhere from 50 to 90 percent.
The first couple of weeks, the symptoms duplicate the flu.
You don't know until the worst symptoms kick in.
And that is internal bleeding leading to organ failure and death.
The biggest outbreak of this disease in its history, it was first discovered in 1976, is occurring in three countries in Africa.
The disease has already made it out of these three countries.
It's landed in a patient at Gatwick in London.
Patient collapsed and died from it in London.
A couple of other patients escaped one of the three big countries and made it to a heavily populated capital, Lagos, Nigeria.
And so there's been an appropriate amount of concern raised over this.
I think our political, shall we say, minders might have forgotten that Ebola was one of the primary weapons of mass destruction featured in a Tom Clancy novel.
I remember it, but people who've read that book and remember it are going to have some legitimate concerns about it.
Basically, Islamic terrorists found a way to make a very concentrated primordial type soup out of the virus and spread it to the United States.
And it did happen as part of the plot line of the stories.
Bottom line is it's a deadly disease.
It kills.
And there isn't any cure for it.
And so people are concerned.
And the people who've been expressing concern have been mocked and made fun of all weekend by the media and by others, literally laughing at them and making fun of them for having this.
There's no way, no way Ebola can ever spread in the United States.
There's no way Ebola can even get here on its own.
It is here.
It's quarantined at Emory Hospital in Atlanta, but it is here, two patients.
So here's one story.
Washington Post, why you're not going to get Ebola in the U.S.
That really worried me.
Drive-by media is telling me something isn't going to happen worries me.
Now stop and think.
What does the government go batty over every fall and winter?
The flu, right?
They go bats.
They go nuts over trying to get you to get a flu shot.
And you start hearing about swine flu and bird flu and a Democrat flu and all these other deadly flush and how the flu can kill.
And especially the elderly and the young and the infirm.
You hear about all this, right?
They have a meltdown every year, making sure everybody gets their flu shut.
The early days of the AIDS epidemic, all these public service ads told everybody, don't worry, it isn't going to spread.
It isn't going to be a pro.
Yada, yada, yada.
Okay, so now here comes something that is deadly in up to 90% of people who get it.
It's worse than the flu.
It starts out symptom-like, like the flu, makes you think you've got the flu, and they're mocking it.
They're saying, oh, no, no, it's not possible.
It's not a big deal.
And the same bunch of people that go crazy over the flu every year, and this is worse.
So why in the world would they mock concerns about this?
Why in the world would they belittle them and make fun of them?
Why in the world do this?
When they go nuts over the flu and related diseases every year.
Now let's go to the audio sound device.
This is the view on ABC today.
And they're talking about the doctor in, I guess he was in Liberia that was brought back on the jet over the weekend, who was given the secret serum produced in the private sector and reversed his symptoms dramatically before he even got on the airplane.
They put him on a quarantined jet.
They got him off the jet, put him in a quarantined limo or ambulance.
They took that to a quarantined room at Emory Hospital.
And so Whoopi Goldberg and Nicole Wallace are talking about this.
And Whoopi brings up a tweet that Donald Trump tweeted out.
Tweet was in concern about bringing Brantley here.
Trump was not all that hot on the idea of bringing an Ebola-infected patient into the country.
And that begets the conversation.
A lot of people were very worried about this idea that somebody with Ebola was going to come back to the United States.
But I figure the CDC and all of these doctors and this airplane, which is pretty much a vacuum, has done everything they can do to make sure he and she are going to be protected.
That to say that they went to a faraway place and they kind of have to deal with the consequences kind of dope.
Okay, and next up it was Nicole Wallace.
Now, Nicole Wallace is a former campaign aide for George W. Bush.
She worked in the Bush White House.
She was also one of the people assigned to Sarah Palin when she was vice president, who was really worried about Palin didn't think she had what it took intellectually.
And so since she left the Bush administration, Nicole Wallace has been working at places like CBS News and ABC News and so forth.
So here she is on the view with Whoopi Goldberg and responding to what Whoopi said about Trump's tweet that the patient not be brought here.
Think about who else goes to faraway places, Whoopi.
We send our soldiers to faraway places.
I think we should put them in one of Donald Trump's hotels in New Jersey.
I don't think they're doing very well.
And I think one of his hotels would be a great place.
So she's making a joke about bringing an Ebola patient back and putting it in one of Trump's hotels because they're not doing all that great.
So it's being mocked and made fun of.
And the people who have concern about it are being mocked and made fun.
This was featured.
This mockery was part of the weekend drive-by news coverage.
Now, the woman that died at Gatwick Airport in London is said to have died of natural causes, not Ebola.
The test supposedly came back negative.
She was 72.
She was coming back from Sierra Leone.
And the original report was that she had died from Ebola.
And now, no, no.
She was coming from Sierra Leone, but she died of natural cause.
She didn't have Ebola.
So they're trying to calm concerns about all this.
But I just, people in the media, the drive-by's, whatever, making fun of this, making fun of the concerned about it.
And it's all, you know, it's Obama, it's the regime that made the decision to bring these two patients back.
We've never had an Ebola patient within our borders.
This is not even to talk about what may be crossing into the country from the wide open southern border.
That's a whole different discussion, but it isn't good.
And we will be back.
Rushland Boy at 800-282-2882.
This is Eric in Margate, New Jersey.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hey, Rosh.
Great to talk with you guys.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
Rush, I have a question of you.
Since this might be the most dangerous virus since maybe the plague, which they're not teaching in school about, might have wiped out all of Europe years ago.
And since they put the moon men for 30 days in quarantine when they got back, how come that ambulance didn't have a police escort for 15 miles so we didn't have a barrel all over a highway of Atlanta?
Why didn't it have a police escort?
Yeah, it was just driving by itself.
There might be cars behind it, but to make sure it got there safe so it didn't get in an accident.
Well, I don't think they wanted to call attention to it.
You think you're making a joke?
No, I'm not making a joke.
I saw it on Fox News, and I told my wife, I said, how come there's not police cars behind us to make sure there was going through tractor trailers and stuff?
If it got into an accident, you would have had to hatch that situation on the Atlanta highway.
Because they didn't want anybody to know they were doing it.
I mean, they didn't want to call attention to it at the moment.
You never know when somebody might try to ram the ambulance to cause a problem.
I think they still should take precautions.
I don't know.
Well, they hand, supposedly, the patient was isolated in a tent in the jet, in a vacuum-sized tent.
And it is, I've seen the inside of this jet.
The crew was not exposed to the patient.
The patient's put inside of a tent, even though the disease has found its way through hazmat gear in the past.
And then the same thing in the ambulance, the same thing in the hospital.
Now, it's the white or was it a police escort?
I just, I think it's about, you know, trying to do things on the down low and on low-key, as they say.
Well, they're announcing that the other girl's coming in a couple days.
Yeah, Nancy Whitebow.
Yeah.
So, I mean, they're going to be looking for it.
They had a helicopter over on Fox.
I was watching it on Saturday.
So, I mean, it was obvious it was on the road.
They announced it was driving for 15 miles from where it landed.
15 miles from Hartfield to the hospital.
Yes.
And you want to know why there wasn't a police escort?
Yes.
I feel they're not taking it serious.
Oh, that's where you think they're not taking it seriously.
Well, that's problematic.
I don't think that's the case.
I just, I think they wanted to not make a big deal of it so as not to attract any problems or any potential problems.
The word gets out that they're doing this.
There'll be a number of people that are not going to take time to try to understand it and figure out.
They're not going to buy any explanation.
So I think this was just low-keying.
But I have to tell you, the Atlantic website already has.
They already got a story up.
I can predict these people.
I know what they're going to do before they do it.
Recovering Americans and the top secret Ebola treatment.
The Atlantic has a story up that basically asks, why did U.S. missionaries get the top secret Ebola serum and hundreds of others did not?
I knew that was going to happen.
I knew that there were going to be a bunch of people asked that question.
Okay, we've got this life-saving serum.
We have this mystical, magical serum that reverses the effects.
And we didn't leave it for any of these suffering people in these three African countries.
We snuck it over there and we administered it to an American and then got the American out.
What is Africa no good for us?
I guarantee you, I knew this is going to happen.
The Atlantic already has a story up.
Eric, thanks to the call.
Appreciate it.
This is Les in Prince George's County, Maryland.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, I've been trying to talk to you for the last 20 years.
Well, I'm glad you made it, sir.
I'm a big follower of yours.
Anyways, my question was, the major networks, so-called, when we went to Iraq, they started counting the dead right away, Americans and the Iraqis.
As soon as Obama became president, it stopped.
Well, now they're reporting the dead Palestinians.
And the Israelis, why aren't they announcing how many dead Hezbollah have been killed?
No, I know what you're asking.
Why aren't we getting the Israeli death count, which is the equivalent of the American death count?
Why are we not getting the Israeli death count?
We got the American death count in the Iraq war.
And now we're getting the Palestinian death count.
Now, the reason is, who's the bad guy?
As far as the media is concerned, the United States was the bad guy in the Iraq war.
And the way to illustrate that was the number of American deaths.
Now, you say, wait a minute, Rush, because we had no business being there.
We couldn't win.
It was a hopeless war effort.
Bush had no business taking us there, and these deaths are in vain.
These American deaths are worthless.
These American deaths don't mean anything because the mission is illegitimate.
That's why the reason why there is no Israeli body count is because they don't care.
The Israelis deserve every dead soldier because the Israelis are the horrible aggressors because the Israelis are killing innocent Palestinian children.
That's why everything's political.
Everything is part of the agenda and shaping and bending public opinion.
It is not about reporting the news.
And body counts became a way of shaping public opinion in a very intense way during the Iraq war here.
Greetings, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, kicking off a brand new week of Broadcast Excellence telephone number.
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A tragic story here in the CBS website.
The area of New York is on track for our coolest summer since 2009.
And it's leaving some people with seasonal depression.
It's very depressing.
Said somebody, it's somebody named Vincy.
Even though summer is only halfway over, Donna Barnes said she's feeling the frantic rush.
I have to admit, I got a little bit of panic.
Like there's so many things I wanted to do, but I haven't done yet.
The bottom line is it isn't hot.
It has not been hot.
There is no summertime that's happened in New York, and now it's halfway gone, and everybody is concerned about it.
Below average temperatures leave some with summertime sadness in New York.
And you've got to wonder who these people are.
They probably, every damn one of them believes in global warming.
Every one of them has bought hook, line, and sinker.
The fact because it's Northeast, it's liberals, they think that everything in the media is true and we're going to have global warming, and they're probably out making plans for it.
And they've found a psychotherapist named Jonathan Alpert, and he said that this year's summer sadness has a lot to do with the weather.
Following the long, cold winter, they just expected a really long, hot summer, and they're not seeing it.
Now, why?
You realize there has not been any official warming in it's over 17 years now.
So now, because we have a cooler than average summer, people are depressed and need psychotherapy instead of being happy.
Who in the right mind wouldn't want a cooler than usual summer?
Who wants it to be 99 degrees out there in July and August in Sweat City?
Why wouldn't you be glad for 74 degrees or 70 degrees at night?
Well, they're getting summer.
Instead of being 95 and 98, it's 80 and 85.
What in the world is to complain about?
Well, they're not getting heat because there isn't any warming.
There may be some cooling going on.
Oh, no.
What if that's happening?
Let's drag out the psychotherapists.
Good group.
What is happening to us?
And of course, leave it to the media to make a big story out and go out and find people who are suffering psychological damage because it's 10 to 15 degrees below normal.
Try this, folks.
This is from Breitbart, Lubbock, Texas.
A leaked intelligence analysis from the Customs and Border Protection reveals the exact numbers of illegal immigrants entering and attempting to enter the U.S. from nearly every nation on earth.
The report was obtained by a trusted source within the CBP agency, leaked the document, spoke with Breitbart, Texas on the condition of anonymity.
It's important to note these numbers do not include data from immigration and customs enforcement, i.e. ICE.
The available ICE data are in addition to these numbers.
So in other words, what we have here is a customs and border protection report doesn't even include ICE numbers, which means the numbers we do have are low if we don't have the ice numbers.
And the bottom line is the entire world, it's not just people from Central America trying to get into the United States through the southern border.
We have sat around, we've made jokes.
Like Catherine and I have people that live in Great Britain, they're friends of her family from way, way back, who are trying to get in on student visas now and then they're going through the process and it's hard.
And we've made jokes.
Why don't you just catch a plane to Mexico City and come up to the southern border?
We joke about it.
Except that's what's happening for real.
People all over the world are pouring into the United States from the southern border.
And that's not a wild-eyed, panicked prediction.
It is from a leaked report from customs and border protection.
And again, it does not include ICE numbers.
And top it all off, there's this at the bottom of the article.
Individuals from nations currently suffering from the world's largest Ebola outbreak have been caught attempting to sneak across the U.S. border.
At least, this is the last thing in the story.
At least 71 people from the three nations affected by the current Ebola outbreak have either turned themselves in or have been caught attempting to illegally enter the U.S. via the southern border between January of 2014 and July of this year.
Now, bear in mind, we are regularly told U.S. authorities only capture about one out of 10 border crossers at best.
So, 71 people have been nabbed at one out of 10.
That's quite a huge number.
And that's the number we're given from the government about the number of people who have been apprehended.
And, of course, this is it's it's not a surprise to anybody.
It's just documentation.
And it is further, I don't know, evidence or what it's just, it just more gasly on the fire about people in this country concerned and not understanding.
I'll tell you, there are still people that do not understand.
Look at what Obama is doing and threatening just to grant amnesty to five or six million of the so-called 11 million are here.
There are some people that say, why would he do it?
They want to give him the benefit of the doubt.
He's the president.
Why would he do it?
Can't understand it.
You tell them, well, he said he wanted to transform America.
Well, yeah, but they just can't conceive of a president who doesn't like the country.
They just can't conceive of it.
Some people can't.
Others do and don't want to deal with it.
It's too scary.
It's too freaky to think that they did that or participated in electing some kind of so they look the other way or make up some other excuse for it.
Meanwhile, it just continues to happen.
And it may well be, in fact, folks, I should tell you.
Let me see if I can find the story.
Here it is.
After about a week, maybe 10 days, last week and the week before, of intense reporting from White House spokesman, news media types that Obama was going to grant a blanket amnesty to five or six million illegals in the country.
I know you heard it.
It was being bandied about.
One of the reasons people gave for, well, he's trying to goad the Republicans into impeaching him.
And I think that was true.
But they're pulling back on this now.
White House officials are now downplaying this story from yesterday.
And it was actually mid-afternoon yesterday.
So this story was intended.
It's USA Today.
It was intended for today's newspaper.
White House officials are downplaying stories that President Obama is preparing to take executive action on immigration that would allow millions of undocumented people to stay in the U.S.
The reports you're seeing are uninformed speculation, said Dan Pfeiffer on this week with George Stephanopoulos.
Pfeiffer said that Obama asked the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security to present him with recommendations by the end of the summer.
And Pfeiffer said, hey, the agencies haven't even reported back to the president yet on ways he could do it.
So there's really nothing to see here.
Now, it could be a head fake.
Pfeiffer said, let's wait and see what those recommendations are before we make judgments about it.
But this is the first time that the White House is walking it back.
I'm not going to sit here and pretend to know conclusively what this means.
I think, let's look at practicality here.
Let's say you're Obama, and let's say he does want to go full cloward pivot.
He just wants to overwhelm the welfare system of this country so that it cannot handle millions of new people overnight and the influx across the border.
Let's say that that's what he wants to do.
Let's say that he wants this country to become a white minority country.
And to do it, he's just going to legalize any kind of foreign person he can get in here, any country, any group, whatever.
Just shake up the numbers, the balance, bring in the poor, bring in the thirsty, the hungry, the uneducated, the low-educated, the low-skilled.
Just bring in a bunch of people that in no way, Jose, can be productive.
And he wants to do it overnight with a stroke of the pen because he's got only two years left.
He knows he can't do this legislatively, but he wants to get it done because this is what America deserves.
You have to think that somewhere, I mean, what would that be?
That kind of action, in addition to being lawless, I mean, that kind of thing, if it happened in a third world country, you'd call it a coup.
So let's say that that's what Obama wants to do.
Why would he do it before the November elections?
It can't possibly help the Democrat Party.
Nobody in their right mind could think it would.
But then, on the other hand, we know Obama doesn't care about that anymore because he's not running.
He doesn't need the Democrat Party to be successful in order to do what he wants to do because he's going to do it without them.
In fact, there is some view that it would be ultimately better for him if Republicans were elected because when the excrement hits the fan, they would be in power in Congress, and therefore the people in power get the blame, except for Obama has been in power and he doesn't get the blame.
So it's dicey.
But then even further, let's say, okay, the number 5, 6 million he wants to grant amnesty to, but we're told there are 11 to 12 million here that are seeking it.
So which five or six million are going to get it?
How do you apportion that?
First come, first serve, huh?
So you just say, okay, we're going to shine a light in the shadows.
We're going to illuminate the shadows so that you can get out of the shadows to our recruitment center.
And the first 6 million that show up are going to be granted amnesty.
Well, do you realize the riots that would cause?
We've got 12 million in the shadows.
We say the first 6 million that show up get amnesty.
They're all 12 going to show up.
And If they only give amnesty to five or six million and it leaves the six million without amnesty, you've got a really large bunch of unhappy, angry people to which the solution, oh, hell with it.
Let's just grant them all amnesty since they came out of shadows.
That's what we wanted anyway.
And, well, that's a whole other thing.
I mean, I think the number of people in the country illegally is way more than 11 or 12 million.
And they're trying to tell us that this all emanates here from Simpson Mazzoli in 1986.
They're trying to tell us that since 1986, only 11 or 12 million, I mean, look at 500,000, 300,000 since April.
Children, it's an absolute mess.
And Obama has been threatening to do this in order to gin up Republicans impeaching him for whatever convoluted reason we know.
But now the White House begins to talk it back Sunday.
Well, not so fast.
We're really not sure the president's going to do this.
And there are some people, I read over the weekend, there are some people on our side, Mr. Sturdley, who said Obama would never do.
Come on, he knows that's the biggest losing proposition for the Democrat Party.
He is not going to grant blanket amnesty outside of Congress for $5 million, $6 million, $12 million, $2 million.
He just isn't going to do it.
He's not that extreme.
He wouldn't go that far, which is right where I think Obama wants them to be thinking that way.
But the fact that we're even talking about this, the fact that it is a possibility is damn scary.
Back after this.
And we're back, El Rushmore and the Cutting Edge Societal Evolution.
Back to the phones.
This is Patty in Ackworth, Georgia.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Great pleasure to talk with you today.
Thank you.
Pleasure to have you.
Great to have you here.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I've just been following.
I'm not an alarmist by any means with regard to the Ebola issue, but there's something that's not adding up to me.
They keep saying that this is not easily transmitted, that it's only by bodily fluids.
Yet the doctor and the missionary that have contracted the virus, I would assume that they wore the garb that we keep seeing them on TV wearing, almost like a hazmat.
One of the doctors, one of the doctors, one of the, not an American, one of the, I think it was a Sierra Leone or Liberian treatment center doctor contracted the disease.
And the report that I read, who knows what you can believe anymore, but the report I read said was in full hazmat gear.
Right.
And I would assume our doctor and the missionary did the very same.
And if that's the case, then what's the explanation for how they contracted it?
Well, that's what, you know, I would love to know that because here is what I'm told you have to do.
It's not spread like the common cold or the flu, sneezing, airborne, that kind of thing.
You have to come in contact with bodily fluids, which could be blood, which could be mucus from the nose, which could be other bodily fluids that you and I as adults know what we're talking about, Patty.
Could be any number.
But aside from that, it is not airborne.
And yet, look at how this spreads.
It seems to spread pretty easily.
Now, you'd have to come in contact with somebody's blood.
You'd have to come in contact with somebody's mucus.
And it could be blood from a bed sore or a cut on the hand, treating it, some such thing.
Everything I've read about this disease, I mean, if you the reporting personifying the disease reports that this disease does everything it can to spread.
This disease does everything it can to infect everybody.
And to have it downplayed and mocked is not right.
Well, I would just love for somebody in the media to ask the question, if these folks were prepared to go in and treat the patients with their medical hazmet suits on, how did they explain that they contracted this virus?
That is the question.
If they're wearing full protective gear, hazmat or otherwise, how in the world did they get it?
These are doctors that we're treating here, folks.
Doctors and treatment nurses, they're the ones that we're treating here.
How did they contract it?
I don't know where the time's going here, folks.
I mean, it's zipping by here.
Maybe because I'm trying to do 25 things at the same time.
But it's still zipping by.
And so we've only got one hour left, and we make the most of it right after we get back.
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