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Oct. 1, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 1, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Making it look easy.
Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone.
Don't try this at home.
It's a characteristic of greatness.
They make what they do look easy.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
El Rushbo here, indeed, crouching down to reach the golden EIB microphone because this boom is like Bill Clinton after a trip to the bedroom.
It's just falling and dropping, and I can't keep it up.
I mean, literally.
Are you watching on the ditto camp?
See this?
So I'm trying to keep it up here like this.
If they get hold of this, yeah.
Okay, there it is.
Okay, I got it.
Now we're back.
Okay, cool.
There's no emergency.
You don't need to send a squad of people in here to tighten the screw.
Everything is cool.
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Before we keep updating you here on Ebola, but I've got to share this with you because we just had the news.
We just had the news that the Japanese researcher found out that global warming can result in fewer male fetuses.
And he's dead serious.
And of course, it's a conflict because you've got leftists and global warming is a big deal and so is abortion.
On the abortion side, a fetus is a non-viable tissue mass.
It doesn't exist.
Over here, global warming and killing everything, including unviable tissue masses.
Now, the mitigating factor is the tissue mass being killed in men, which that's okay.
And even for us guys, not bad.
Two girls for every boy, Jan and Dean.
Remember that?
Right on.
Rock on.
In addition, UK Daily Mail Online, Viagra could cause blindness.
Is this not funny?
Viagra could cause blindness in men with eye problems and even those with seemingly normal vision.
A new study is found.
So those with problems and without Viagra could cause blindness, cause loss of vision in men with retinitis pigmentosa.
Retinitis pigmentosis, a rare inherited eye condition causing sight loss.
Some people have normal vision, carry one gene for the condition.
Ingredient in Viagra linked to degeneration and death of cells in the retina.
People with retinitis pigmentosa and those who carry the gene are at risk.
This is not a good news day for men.
If they manage to get born despite global warming, they might go blind having sex.
Or they might go deaf or they might get skin cancer.
It's not a good day.
Or they might end up in the NFL and end up being targets as predators.
A tough day.
Rick Perry this afternoon in Dallas, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, held a press conference to talk about the Dallas Ebola patient.
Here's just a portion of his remarks.
Today we learned that some school-aged children have been identified as having had contact with the patient and are now being monitored at home for any signs of the disease.
I know that parents are being extremely concerned about that development, but let me assure these children have been identified and they are being monitored, and the disease cannot be transmitted before having any symptoms.
I have full confidence in the medical professionals, in Superintendent Miles, in our local, our state, and our federal partners in keeping this contained.
Now, that is a key element of this, that it cannot be transmitted before anybody has any symptoms.
And it is a bodily fluid exchange process, but that could be somebody blowing their nose, mucus, anything.
But it's not caused by breathing in and out.
That's not enough.
But before you see somebody with Ebola, they can't transmit it until you've obviously seen the symptoms.
So you know, or you can know, to avoid people.
The problem is the early symptoms, the flu.
It takes a week or a medical professional with a blood test to identify the virus itself because the initial symptoms do not show anything unique or different from the flu.
So let's now go to the CDC director.
And I want to play these two sound bites and see if we have here what apparently happened because we got these bites earlier in the day.
And this happened on CNN.
It looks like, no, we may not.
Well, we may.
Hang on, let's just go.
This is last night in Atlanta.
Dr. Thomas Frieden, press conference, talk about the first case of Ebola virus found.
And during the Q ⁇ A, New York Times health and medicine reporter Denise Grady said, can you tell us if this person is an American citizen?
Will you be releasing the flight information?
And is it correct to assume he was staying at a home with family members rather than in a hotel?
The patient was visiting family members and staying with family members who live in this country.
We will contact anyone who we think has any likelihood of having had an exposure to the individual while they were infectious.
At this point, that does not include anyone who might have traveled with him because he was not infectious at that time.
I asked if he's an American citizen.
He's visiting family who live in this country.
Now, we have since learned that this guy went to the ER and told them he was from Liberia, which did not raise any red flags at the ER, and it certainly should have.
Liberia is one of the nations in Africa where the disease is running rampant.
So the reporter, another reporter, unidentified, said, I'd like to follow up on that.
Will you identify the flight information this patient arrived in the country on?
At this point, there is zero risk of transmission on the flight.
He was checked for fever before getting on the flight, and there's no reason to think that anyone on the flight that he was on would be at risk.
Ebola is a scary disease because of the severity of illness it causes.
At the same time, we're stopping it in its tracks in this country.
We can do that because of two things.
Strong health care infection control that stops the spread of Ebola and strong core public health functions that trace contacts, track contacts, isolate them if they have any symptoms and stop the chain of transmission.
We're stopping this in its tracks.
Well, I hope, we all hope that's true.
But this is another example of just getting up there and saying it and hoping that it's true, hoping that saying it.
You know, this is not a world governed by the aggressive use of words, the aggressive use of speeches.
There are powerful forces out there, and viruses and diseases are one of them.
And you don't stop them with words, and you don't stop them with good intentions, and you don't stop them with compassion.
You don't stop them caring.
You actually have to take steps.
Now, they say that, by the way, the business on the flight, if the guy was not showing symptoms on the flight and nobody knew, then nobody on the flight is at risk because that, according to the things I've seen, happens to be true, that there is no ability for the disease to spread, i.e. contagious, in a patient who is not yet showing symptoms.
But again, we have to define what showing symptoms are.
This guy was able to get on the plane because he didn't have a fever.
That's what they're telling us.
And that's one of the early signals.
He did not say this is an American citizen.
He wouldn't confirm that.
It's obviously not.
Guy got a plane in Liberia.
And what are the odds that this guy's family are not legal citizens?
And that's why they're avoiding answering the question.
I mean, I'm just, this is normal speculation that anybody with an inquisitive mind would have their ask, is it American citizen?
You don't answer it.
And so you have to infer, if you're not going to answer that, must not be.
And then you further ask, well, is this guy's family American citizens?
Could have said that, could have quelled a lot of curiosity.
So the director of the CDC here is bragging about being able to track things, and yet this guy goes to the ER and says, I'm from Liberia, and he's sent home with antibiotics.
And now 18, 12 to 18 people have been infected.
But we're really tracking this, and we're stopping it in its tracks.
I'm sure the order comes from why you go out there and you just tell them we got it handled.
You go out there and you tell them it ain't spreading.
You go out there and you tell them hard to get and you just do that.
And then when the disease spreads, we'll blame it on the Republicans somehow.
That's the way these things.
Russ, you're being so cynical.
No, I'm not being cynical.
This is intelligence guided by experience.
What isn't blamed on Republicans?
This stupid ass war on women.
What isn't blamed on Republicans these days?
So if this thing spreads, you watch, it's going to be because something Congress didn't do way back when or because they wouldn't work with Obama or what have you.
I know how this stuff plays out.
You know, it only works because of some of these idiot low-information voters we have running around out there that just soak this stuff up like dry sponges.
I wonder if anybody asked this Ebola patient if he had Obamacare.
Well, I'm sorry.
I mean, it's a natural question to have, isn't it?
The guy shows up.
Have you logged into healthcare.gov, Mr. Liberia?
You have proof of insurance here with Obamacare.
I wonder if he was asked that.
Russ, you're really, really being cynical.
No, I'm not.
This is not cynicism.
These are legitimate, intelligent questions guided by experience.
We're told that this kind of thing can't happen.
Obamacare is going to clean it all up, stopping it dead in its tracks.
Now, this morning on Fox and Friends Steve Ducey interviewed Thomas Friedman from the Centers for Disease Control.
Doocy said, you say we've got CDC people on the ground in West Africa screening people as they get on the airplane.
Now, how do they do that?
Did they just say, do you have a fever?
They have some sort of a wand to wave to see if they got a fever.
You shove a thermometer in an oral cavity or a bodily cavity.
How do you find out whether they got a fever?
Two different processes.
One is a questionnaire where a series of questions is asked.
And second, there are handheld thermometers that actually work from a distance.
The impulse might be to isolate these countries.
If we do that, we'll actually be increasing our own risk because really the simple truth is by stopping it there and by helping them stop it there, we're helping ourselves.
What?
What did he say?
That makes absolutely no sense.
Wait a second.
The impulse might be to isolate these countries.
But he said that in a disapproving way.
If we do that, if we isolate these, see, this is this political correctness crap.
This is exactly if we isolate the, if it's not fair that they are the ones that have Ebola, it'd be unfair and it would be profiling and it would be stigmatizing if we told them that they have more Ebola than anybody else.
So we can't isolate these countries.
If we do that, we'll be increasing our own risk.
How does that happen?
How does isolating where it is and keeping it there make it worse for us?
How does it increase our risk?
It doesn't.
Folks, this is exactly the kind of drivel and nonsense that is being taught and has been for a long time.
This is absolutely, this is, play this again.
I have to hear this again.
I don't even want to read the transcript to you.
I just want to hear that soundbite number five again.
Two different processes.
One is a questionnaire where a series of questions is asked.
And second, there are handheld thermometers.
the tape.
That one went by me because I got focused on the, do you have a fever?
No, man.
No fever.
Okay, fine.
There's the plane.
Watch your step.
Are you kidding me?
And I need to ask, because I don't know, does anybody know of a thermometer that you can wave around that tells you whether people nearby have a fever?
Have you heard of that?
You've heard of that.
It's a, what, a stun gun type thing?
It's a laser gun.
You point the laser at it.
Okay, fine.
Oh, you don't know how accurate it is.
They got a stun gun, a laser.
We laser them and it tells them, okay.
All right, play the whole thing from the top again.
I'm sorry, folks.
Two different processes.
One is a questionnaire where a series of questions is asked.
And second, there are handheld thermometers that actually work from a distance.
The impulse might be to isolate these countries.
If we do that, we'll actually be increasing our own risk because really the simple truth is by stopping it there and by helping them stop it there, we're helping ourselves.
Didn't he just, I mean, blatantly contradict himself here?
You know, when I start questioning my own common sense, that's when I know it's bad because I have plenty of it.
But he just says the impulse might be to isolate these companies.
That would be bad.
If we do that, we'll be increasing our own risk.
Okay?
How is that?
How is isolating countries where it is and keeping it there put us at greater risk?
But then after saying that, he goes on to sound like he's advocating isolating them.
No, no, no.
The impulse might be to isolate these countries.
If we do that, we're going to be making it worse for ourselves.
The simple truth is by stopping it there and by helping them stop it there, we're helping out.
Well, isn't that isolating it there?
Uh.
My friends, I am really worried.
Okay, so you are in Liberia and you are about to get on an airplane to get out of the country because Ebola is running rampant.
And all of a sudden, here comes some Americans.
And they start asking you questions.
Do you have Ebola?
Oh, no, no, me, no.
Do you have a fever?
Yep, I got a fever.
Yep, I don't think I should get on that plane.
You know what?
I actually think I might have Ebola.
Thank you for being honest.
You're off the plane.
Do you think they're going to admit it?
And questionnaire?
I've got this from Twitchy.
Watch the CDC director deny, then admit that Ebola can be spread by casual contact.
How bad was the CDC director's appearance on CNN this morning?
It was this bad.
Here's a partial transcript.
Dr. Thomas Frieden, CDC director standing next to CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
Well, actually, Sanjay and I, if one of us had Ebola, the other would not be a contact right now because we're not in contact.
Just talking to someone is not a way to get infected.
It's not like the flu.
It isn't like the common cold.
It requires direct physical contact.
And I'm not contacting Sanjay right now.
The host, Michaela Pereira, says, but if he sneezes on you, if Dr. Sanjay Gupta were to sneeze on you, it's a different story.
Sanjay Gupta then said, well, I think there's a utility here because we're having this conversation, but I am within three feet of you.
Wouldn't I be considered a higher risk?
My understanding reading your guidelines, sir, is that within three feet, direct contact, if I were to shake your hand, for example, would be, would qualify as being contact.
Three feet, direct contact, shake your hand, CDC director.
Well, we look at each situation individually and we assess it based on how sick the individual is and what the nature of the contact is.
Now, certainly, if you are within three feet, that's the situation that we would be concerned about.
Oh, yes.
But in this case, where we haven't hugged, Sanjay and I haven't hugged, we haven't shaken hands.
We have not had any contact that would allow either of our precious body fluids to be in contact with the other person.
Sanjay Gupta.
So to Mikava's point, the reason we talk about coughing and sneezing not being a concern, if you were to have coughed on me, you're saying that would not be of concern?
Dr. Frieden, well, we would look at that situation very, very closely.
This guy, folks, I'm telling you, This administration is populated with a bunch of people that have been poisoned with political correctness, the guilt that is associated with it, the belief that everybody in the world's a victim of the United States and our oppression and what have you.
This is no, folks, I didn't miss it.
I just ran out of time.
I thought I had an additional minute in the last programming segment because my clock is not aimed at it, right?
But what we heard from the CDC director in that transcript I just read to you from CNN this morning, he said that you have to be in direct contact with somebody to get Ebola.
And guess what?
Being within three feet of somebody is direct contact.
So he denies and then admits that Ebola can be spread by casual contact.
If you're three feet away from somebody and you can get what they've got, that's casual.
That isn't direct.
So Ebola is far less contagious than the flu or the cold.
And there's no reason to worry, chuckle, chuckle, unless you're in direct physical contact with somebody who has it.
Then on the other hand, he said, if you're within three feet of someone who has it, that's a situation we would want to be concerned about.
And as Dr. Sanjay Gupta noted, the CDC itself states that being within approximately three feet, three feet of an Ebola patient or shaking his or her hand entails some risk.
So in the first part of the interview, no, no, no, no, I'm standing with three feet of Sanjay.
We haven't hugged.
We haven't shaken hands.
Everything's cool.
And Sanjay said, well, wait a minute, but I'm three feet from you.
What if I sneeze?
What if it's well, we would be very concerned about that.
Look, the last thing that I'm trying to do here at all is create unwarranted concern.
But my gosh, it doesn't seem to matter where we turn in this administration.
The people they have speak from Marie Harf to John Kerry to Jen Pasaki to Josh Ernest to, what's his face, Jay Carney to the president himself to Biden, my God, walking gab machine.
Now, this guy at the CDC Liberian guy that they sent home from ER.
Do we have to now find everybody he's been within three feet of?
But this, look, I want to try to say this precisely as I mean it.
Because one of the missions here, please never forget this if you can try to stay conscious about what this program is about.
One of the many missions of this program is to have as many people as possible understand the pitfalls of liberalism and what it causes.
It causes a mess.
Liberalism makes a mess out of economics.
It makes a mess out of personal responsibility.
It just, it screws everything up.
And here we have died in the wool liberals who have been properly trained in compassion and good intentions and equality and fairness and political correctness, and they're idiots.
That's not the right way to say it.
That isn't going to persuade.
This is nonsense, what we're hearing here today from the CDC guy, from the Secret Service woman.
And it's all because of what liberalism teaches these people to be.
What liberalism instructs them, how it shapes them.
And, of course, we can't say or do anything that would hurt anybody's feelings.
And so the Ebola patient, we must not victimize the patient.
And we must not castigate the patient.
And we must not, it's just asinine.
And what it leads to is the defining down of everything.
What's decent and right gets canceled out because it's unfair that it's decent and right.
What is successful isn't fair to the unsuccessful.
The healthy are not fair to the unhealthy.
The employed are not fair to the unemployed.
And so in order to make the sick feel better, we have to get sick.
In order to make the unemployed feel better, we have to not advance as much.
In order to make the poor feel less poor, we've got to pay higher tax.
It's just, it's stupid.
Political correctness, liberalism is a direct assault on success.
It's an assault on achievement.
It's an assault on self-reliance.
And in this case, it's becoming an assault on national security.
And it's getting in the way.
What liberalism really excels at is getting in the way of common sense.
It totally obliterates.
Common sense is not permitted.
And we've been tracking it.
Outcome-based education.
What happens in a classroom where you have some fast learners?
Well, that's humiliating to the slow learners, and we really can't have that.
And it's what leads to this silly nonsense about getting all worked up over the name of a football team when this other kind of stuff of real serious magnitude's going on.
It's also what leads to people who are liberal never being happy, no matter what they get, because it's destructive.
It literally destroys systems, traditions, tried and true practices.
It destroys them all so that everybody ends up miserable, unhappy, and confused while they think they're being compassionate and thoughtful and considerate and fair and equal.
And it's just absurd.
And it's in that context I'm listening to this CDC guy.
We have a disease for which there's no cure.
And this guy cannot bring himself to tell us the truth about it because of who it might stigmatize, who it might offend, or the truth is the biggest casualty of liberalism, the truth in anything.
And so for those of you who are new and listening to this program, and those of you who have been here a long time, this is a reminder.
I'm not ripping these people to rip them, and I'm not ripping them to be funny.
And I'm not ripping them because I'm ripping them because it's instructional.
We don't want people like this in serious positions of leadership.
We don't want judges like this.
And we've got them.
We don't want doctors like this.
We don't want airline pilots like this.
We don't want presidents like this.
We don't want military commanders like this where the enemy isn't the enemy, where we're the enemy, where the enemy is justified in hating us because we're so big and they're so small and that isn't fair.
This is destructive stuff, folks.
It is just it's liberalism does not permit the recognition of excellence, greatness, superiority, achievement, you name it.
Everything has to be torn down and ripped apart so that everybody is either the same or they feel the same.
And it is in that sense that I'm being critical of this guy.
It's not personal.
To me, this is a teachable moment.
Why do you think during Hurricane Katrina, General Russell Honoré was so celebrated and so respected?
And to this day, I just saw Russell Honoré on TV talking about Ebola and how to stop.
Why do you think that is?
Because there's a no-nonsense guy who had the audacity to tell everybody the truth about what was going on in New Orleans after Katrina, what needed to go on, how we're going to clean it up, how we're going to fix it.
We're going to crack some heads if there are people out there raping and murdering and breaking laws.
We're going to crack heads.
We're not going to put up with it.
And people applaud it and celebrate it.
It used to be we had a nation of people like that in leadership positions.
Now there's so few that General Russell Honoray is one of the only few guys news media can find that is willing to speak as an authority with confidence and assuredness about what the right thing to do is in any given crisis.
We don't have people with that kind of authority.
We don't have people with those kind of guts.
We don't have people with that kind of confidence anymore.
They're afraid of offending whoever's going to offend if they speak with any authority about matters in which they do have expertise.
I'm sure the CDC guy knows a hell of a lot more than we do about this disease.
But look at how he has to couch everything he says because who it might offend and it might bother him and it might get him in trouble if he's always he's got to say contradicting things and conflicting things that make him look like an idiot because he feels the need to be politically correct, even in the face of a disease like this.
And it, by the way, gets in the way of us dealing honestly with terrorists and our enemies.
We can't even speak honestly about that because who it might offend or who it might bother, which might lead to a lawsuit or what the hell ever else.
I'm telling you, this is going to be so damn destructive if we don't stop this stuff and get a handle on it pretty soon.
You keep electing liberals and they keep nominating people like this in positions of authority and prestige or what have you.
And this is where we're going to get no matter what department you go to.
These people are running EPA, crying out loud.
I just shudder to think.
And it was so unnecessary.
This is what bugs the Republican Party won't even go out and characterize these people as what they are.
Okay, quickly, I want to grab Stephen in Cleveland.
Stephen, hi, great to have you on the program, sir.
Welcome.
Mr. Limbaugh, thank you very much.
It's an absolute pleasure to speak with you.
Thank you very much, sir.
The reason I called, I wanted to ask you, in an effort to keep one eye on the future, I'm wondering if this sudden Ebola occurrence in Dallas isn't setting the stage for controlling the voting population come early November, or at least at a minimum, encouraging more absentee ballots, which will lead to other game playing as the voting continues.
Now, the level of cynicism that this, I think this is a direct result of the Democrat Party and the things they have done and the kind of things they say, the kind of things they accuse other people of doing.
We know they project what they do onto others.
This kind of question normally is so out of the bounds you wouldn't even consider it.
Here's somebody actually thinking that this could be used to stifle vote turnout in November.
Remember, who was it?
It was Rob Emmanuel who said, never let a crisis go to waste.
There is a reason people are thinking this way, and it's not mean-spiritedness or extremism or any of that.
Now, having said that, I think this is real.
I think this is a real case.
I think it's been percolating in Africa now for all year.
It was ludicrous to think it was going to be contained.
I haven't believed that from the get-go.
The second thing is, I don't even want to go there.
If this thing really starts spreading like wildfire, they're going to do more than keep you from going to the polling place in November.
Imagine if this were smallpox.
Folks, this is why you really hope that you have the best, most qualified people in positions like this.
But the best is not allowed to be identified with political correctness.
We stigmatize the best.
Anyway, I appreciate the call, Stephen.
Thanks much.
Okay, folks, sadly, we are out of busy broadcast time, but we will be back in 21 short hours, as revved and ready then as we were today, as we are every day.
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