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Oct. 2, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 2, 2014, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plane, back at it.
Here we are, Rush Limbaugh from the left coast.
We're in Los Angeles all week.
And here we are already at Thursday, the fastest three hours in media.
It's great to have you here, as is always the case.
Telephone number if you want to join us, uh 800-282-2882, and the email address, L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
Hang on, folks, we got to test one thing.
Did it work?
Is it okay cool?
So Friday, no excuses on your part, buddy.
If things go wrong, it's all on you.
I got a uh we have a substitute broadcast engineer here today, the the beloved Friday.
I mean, we love the guy.
He's here on Thursday, but um, we don't cut substitutes any slack.
When they come in here, they've got to act like they do it every day.
We have high expectations and high demands.
And uh Friday is good.
It's great to have you here, Friday.
You're always a uh uh a nice uh substitution to have here.
We don't notice much drop-off at all, and I just wanted you to know that I personally feel that way.
Uh once again, folks, 800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program.
Man, I folks, I must tell you that I'm a little not conflicted, but I'm I'm guarded here.
The the news on Ebola, if done the wrong way, and of course I don't do things the wrong way, but if done the wrong way, could create uh I don't want us even say the word panic, but some people are beginning to.
And I think it it's ultimately it it's it's it's predictable that it's gonna happen.
We've had a Missouri doctor from Springfield who flew into Atlanta in full hazmat gear to raise consciousness to his belief that the CDC has no idea what they're doing.
And if they do know what they're doing, then they're lying to us.
But he's chalking it up to incompetence.
I'm telling you, it's incompetence.
Now, it it it may be some informed uh just incorrectness, but there's also political correctness, which is guiding all of this, as I spent many, many minutes yesterday detailing, and I'm gonna give you more evidence of that today.
It's a combination of incompetence and political correctness, but it's a chicken and egg thing, which breeds which.
Is it political correctness which leads to incompetence, or does the incompetence come first?
Uh and at this point, we may be running out of time to draw any distinction there.
We just have to deal with with the reality that that people in these time-honored traditions, these institutions like the CDC, we just we've always put implicit trust that people there are the best this country has to do what needs to be done there.
We've thought that about the Secret Service.
And now we're questioning all of this.
Legitimately so.
We are questioning whether or not we've got the best.
We know we have a president who's totally unqualified.
We have a president who has never done anything, and yet believes he is the smartest and the best and the wisest and whatever.
And it's a dangerous combination.
Steve Wynne once again is out there uh talking about he he just can't believe that this country is elected somebody so unqualified for this job.
And it all starts there.
If you have somebody unqualified in that job, the people they're gonna put in these very important jobs, these institutions, like the FDA, like the Centers for Disease Control.
They are also gonna be incompetent, because these people, especially those governed by political correctness, competence is not even a factor when it comes to political correctness.
Competence is the last thing you look at in filling positions or coming up with policy ideas.
By definition, political correctness, competence cannot possibly be used because competence means better at it than somebody else or very good at it, and that is not permitted.
We're not to have these kinds of great differences.
We're not supposed to have people super qualified, really, really good at things, because that humiliates those who aren't as good.
And we don't want to hurt their feelings.
So we put people who aren't as good, aren't as qualified in positions of authority to make them feel better, to show that we can be fair, to show that we understand equality and all of this gunk, and it's how you end up in situations such as those that we are finding ourselves in now.
It is so bad.
It is so bad.
Obama's latest numbers, just to just to illustrate this.
Only four in ten people, 40% of the country, approve of Obama's handling of the economy.
And you know what the next two most important issues are in this public opinion poll?
Terrorism and national security and immigration, and after them is health care.
And on every one of those, Obama is well below 50% in terms of people who have confidence in the way he's handling it.
Forty percent approve of the way he's handling the economy, and it's numbers under 50% for terrorism, national security, and uh and immigration, and then health care.
So what's Obama gonna do?
He finds himself in negative territory.
You know what he's gonna do today?
He's gonna go make a speech on the economy.
He's gonna go to Chicago.
He's gonna deliver a speech in Chicago explaining why you are wrong in your assessment of the economy.
Obama is gonna go out there and do a speech and tell you that you are better off than you were six years ago.
You just don't know it.
But do you think with everything that's happening at the moment in the economy has been an issue, the economy in the tank has been an issue for years.
And it's it's bad enough and people have lost confidence, as the polling data indicates in this regime to do anything about it.
But things are so bad elsewhere that Obama's gonna turn to the economy, and then, while we're in the midst of a non-recovery recovery, he's gonna tell you what an idiot you are.
He's not gonna use the word, of course, but he's gonna tell you that you're wrong about the condition of the economy.
You're better off than you were six years ago.
You just don't know it.
That's a classic.
Now, let's let me turn to Ebola and the umbrella issue again of political correctness, which leads to incompetence.
And there's another issue that is extremely or highly relevant here, and it's immigration and illegal immigration, and just who it is that is patient zero, how he got here, why he got here.
It turns out that there is a huge Liberian community of illegal immigrants in Dallas.
It's in the tens of thousands, I think.
Maybe I saw the number 10,000.
Oh, yeah, the doctor in the hazmat, so the doctor from Eastern Springfield, his name is Gil Mobley.
For some reason, name rings a bell.
You know, I'm from Missouri.
I am Missouri.
The name is from Springfield, and I don't know anybody in Springfield that I know of, but the name Gil Mobley, for some reason, sounds familiar, but that's who the doctor is.
He's a microbiologist and emergency trauma physician, and he flew into Atlanta in a full hazmat suit to make the point that either CDC doesn't know what they're doing with Ebola or they're lying to us about how uh safe everything is, and nobody is at risk.
But let me let me pose a scenario and then give you uh some predictions based on the political correctness that's governing the way we're handling not just this, but well, what do you think it is that is the intellectual justification for the regime and the left's view on illegal immigration?
Again, political correctness.
So many things there.
It's not fair that we're such a powerful nation.
It's not fair that we're so rich while the rest of the world is so poor.
We have made the rest of the world poor because we are so rich.
We couldn't get this rich on our own.
It's not possible.
We had to steal it.
And so these people from whom, generation after generation of it's stolen from by us, they want to come here and uh and improve their life.
Well, who are we to tell them they can't?
That's how political correctness works.
And throughout it is guilt.
Guilt is one of the primary overriding psychological factors in this.
Now, if people can come here illegally for benefits, shouldn't that include coming here for treatment for Ebola?
If you're in Africa and you are in an area surrounded by Ebola and there's a place in the world where you can get well, maybe, and maybe not even get the disease, wouldn't you want to go there?
Be the United States of America.
And if people all over the world are getting into the U.S. simply because they want benefits, why shouldn't treatment for Ebola being one of those benefits?
We have things they want.
We have things they want, and we've got leaders telling them that they're entitled to come here because we have been so mean in the past.
And our immigration laws are so restrictive impunity many way.
We shouldn't have all these closed borders.
It's mean of us to treat the peoples of the world this way.
So therefore we open the borders, and that's exactly what we've done.
We have opened the borders.
Chamber of Commerce may think this is for jobs and low, low-skilled labor, but there's a whole heck of a lot more than that going on here.
I mean, whether whether people in foreign countries are abused by political conditions or viral conditions like Ebola, they're welcome to come to America's refugees, right?
Who are we to tell them they can't come?
And not only is this one of the attitudes of the regime, I've I've uh I've had well-known liberals, TV hosts, gotten in arguments with them about immigration, and they'll tell me, Russia, if some poor slob from Central America wants to come to my country and improve his life and seek the American dream, I am in no way gonna What if the guy goes pitches a tent in your backyard, sir?
Well, it would never happen.
What do you mean it would never happen?
You know, when you when you personalize it, they'll finally oppose it.
But when the illegal is going to show up somewhere else, it's all fine and dandy.
And when they want to come here for Ebola treatment, why check anybody for past crimes or past infections?
That's discriminatory.
We can't discriminate against people that want to come here.
We can't discriminate against the sick, my God.
What kind of people do that?
Do you realize how mean and insensitive that is to discriminate against the sick, especially people who are coming here for love?
They need work.
We have jobs Americans won't do.
They need treatment for disease.
We have it.
Not fair that they don't.
So who are we to tell them they can't come?
They need medical treatment.
We have treatments for diseases that Americans don't have yet, so why are we being so selfish with our health care?
It isn't fair if somebody anywhere in the world is sick and America can treat what ails them.
Fairness dictates they come here and get treatment for free.
That's how it works.
And anything less than that makes you mean-spirited, discriminatory, racist, bigot, sexist, and maybe even a homophobe, depending.
Need a job, we got one, need benefits, we got them, need treatment, we can treat it.
Ebola patients, by the way.
If we also tell sick people around the world that they've got to stay where they are, that's not that's not good because we're now a global culture.
You'll hear this in a moment.
We're a global culture.
This is not about just the United States anymore.
That we are a global culture, and we can't just act like we're a single country.
We are a part of the globe.
And so these people are really not foreign.
They're just human beings who want what's available here.
We got no right to tell them they can't come.
This is how political correct people think.
Because what I just described to you is how they define justice.
And so this is what we are up against.
And we have people that now run places like the Centers for Disease Control.
And we have people in very serious positions, medical research by a lot that feel the same way.
We got a president who looks at the world this way.
We have everybody he's appointed in the regime that looks at the world and the United States this way.
This is what we are up against.
Now some predictions as to where this is going to go because of political correctness.
I hope I'm wrong about these.
But even when I start making jokes about the left, I end up being right, foresight.
If Ebola starts spreading quickly in the United States, and if the death toll rises rapidly, I want you to be prepared for the fact that this will be a disease created by the CIA or
other powerful majorities for the purposes of wiping out minorities.
That is how it will be and not in Cookville.
This will be mainstream stuff.
College professors will tell their students this.
Others will discuss it on cable television.
Much like they discuss the art in a movie on how to assassinate George W. Bush, they will discuss whether or not we need to consider such theories, could they in fact be possible?
And in fact, this prediction is already beginning to come true because Calypso Lewis, uh Minister Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam is already saying so.
CIA created CIA created AIDS, too.
But it's out there now.
And Calypso Lewis, think of him as a cook, if you will, but he's got followers that believe everything he says.
And they tell other people who believe what they say, and it mushrooms.
If we, the United States of America, come up with at some point a pretty widespread available treatment for Ebola.
If we, with our advanced medical research systems in this country, are able to come up with a massive amount of that serum, which comes from the tobacco plant very politically incorrect.
Remember, the serum that works against Ebola in some people comes from a specific tobacco plant in Kentucky.
And tobacco is tisk tisk.
It's a dilemma for the left.
But if we come up with a massively available treatment, maybe even a vaccine, be prepared for us to be called racists or other things for not sharing it with other people, uh, either in our country or in the world.
Got to take a break, but I've got meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
Rushlin Body EIB net.
Let me give you the Calypso Louie quote.
He said another method is disease infection through bioweapons such as Ebola and AIDS, which are race targeting weapons.
There's a weapon that can be put in a room where there are black and white people, and it'll kill only the black and spare the white because it's a genotype weapon that is designed for your genes, for your race, for your kind, he was talking to a black audience.
So it's out there.
It's already being planted in heads and minds of a lot of people who believe everything Calypso Lewis says.
To you and me is one of the fun crackpots we have jocularity with here, but to others, he's the gospel.
So we know this is gonna happen.
These are just things that you can bank on now, and that'll pick it up in the drive-by media.
And the big one, if we come up with A vaccine, if we come up with a widely available treatment.
If we don't first send it to Africa, if the first thing we do with it is treat Americans, we're going to be called racists, and only said to be interested in our own people surviving.
You mark my words on this.
We also know this, and by the way, I can find the stories for this already being stated.
The spread of Ebola will be linked to global warming.
It already is being.
Now, in years past, when these kinds of things happened, we laughed.
And we said, who's going to believe this?
Global warming's responsible for a vir.
You wait.
We made the mistake of laughing about it.
No, that wasn't the mistake was thinking millions would believe it.
That's the mistake we made.
I know, I know, I know, I know a lot of you people.
Come on, Russian, I got to blame it on global warming.
I got it right here, folks.
I hear my formerly nicotine stained fingers, it's in Breitbart in a report on a mysterious virus causing paralysis in children that aired on CBS this morning earlier this week, Dr. David Agus,
a medical contributor for CBS News and a University of Southern California, medical professor, discussed a so-called enterovirus that is believed to be behind paralysis and muscle weakness in nine Colorado children.
And that's at the bottom of my bulldistack.
That's a completely different thing that's happening.
And a lot of you see that that's going to end up being tied to the open borders and the children mass arrival from Central America.
We can't say that because of political correctness.
Can't say that.
But it's going to prove out.
This medical expert at CBS.
This virus's enterovirus D68 is spread throughout the country.
And it might be because of global warming.
Sorry out there, folks.
It's just a matter of time before it's attached to Ebola.
And of course, I guess you know the real the first prediction I should have made, first thing to warn you of when all is said and done, all of this is going to end up being blamed on the Republicans.
And I know you're going to laugh at that, but everything else is, and so will this be.
And it'll be blamed on Republicans for not helping Obama for gridlock, for not taking their job seriously, for not working with Obama to grow the government to make sure we have the resources.
They'll blame it on the sequester.
Do you know how much is still blamed on the sequester?
You wouldn't believe how much is still minuscule budget cuts in the sequester a couple years ago still being used as an excuse.
So the Republicans are going to take a hit on this.
I don't know how much it'll stick.
But they will be blamed.
Now, I didn't intend to spend this much time on this because there's a lot of stuff I want to roll through here.
A lot of people are beginning to question as as news becomes known about patient zero, the guy from Liberia who shows up in Dallas, goes to the ER, and is sent home with antibiotics, was not tested, even though he told them he was from Liberia, was not tested for Ebola, is now many more than 12 to 18 people he's come in contact with.
It's many more.
Turns out there's an entire community in Liberia in Dallas of Liberians.
And the thing that is probably true, and you you can assume this because of the way it's being reported, many of them are probably here on an expired visas.
They've set up communities.
Nobody's deporting them.
So many of them are here illegally.
And it goes back to the thing I said at the very beginning of the show.
If we've got treatment, they don't have it.
Why shouldn't they come here?
And who are we to tell them they can't?
We don't close the borders anyway.
We're wide open for benefits and other reasons for immigration.
Why not this?
It's only fair.
I'm gonna take you back to 2010.
The archives of USA Today.
Obama administration scraps quarantine regulations.
And this story will explain to you why Obama isn't doing anything to stop flights to and from countries where Ebola has broken out.
Or why he's doing anything to stop people with diseases from pouring into the country.
It's largely because the ACLU and Obama think such measures are unfair.
Here's the story.
This is four years ago.
The Obama administration quietly scrapped plans to enact sweeping new federal quarantine regulations that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention touted four years ago as critical to protecting Americans from dangerous diseases spread by travelers.
The regulations proposed in 2005 during the Bush administration amid fears of the bird flu back then would have given the federal government additional powers to detain sick airline passengers and those exposed to certain diseases.
They also would have expanded requirements for airlines to report sick passengers to the CDC and mandated that airlines collect and maintain contact information for flyers in case they later needed to be traced as part of an investigation into an outbreak.
Now this was related to the bird flu, but Obama scrapped all this.
Airline and civil liberties groups, which had opposed these rules, the airlines, because they didn't want the additional work.
It would cost money they couldn't bill back in fares.
The airlines and civil liberties groups praised the withdrawal of all of these safety measures.
Because after all, folks, we can't discriminate against the disease.
Who do we think we are?
What kind of mean society does that?
Discriminates against the disease.
The Air Transport Association had decried these regulations as imposing unprecedented regulations on airlines at costs they couldn't afford.
Well, okay, fine.
Take a look at the price of airline stocks today.
They're not going up.
Airline stock prices are, I don't want to say through the floor, but they're on the downside.
And it's because of Ebola fears.
The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU, had objected to potential passenger privacy rights violations, and the proposal's provisional quarantine rule.
That rule would have allowed the Centers for Disease Control to detain people involuntarily for three business days if they believe they had certain diseases.
Pandemic flu, infectious TB, plague, cholera, SARS, smallpox, yellow fever, diphtheria, or viral hemorrhagic fevers, such as Ebola.
This is four years ago.
If you want to know why, there is no ability to quarantine or to segregate or to identify.
It is because Obama and the ACLU considered these steps discriminatory.
Therefore, the number one job of the President of the United States to protect the homeland.
However, you want to defend and protect the Constitution, to protect the American people, however you want to describe it, number one job was cast aside because that's unfair.
That's discriminatory.
We can't we can't treat the sick that way.
We can't segregate them, even if it means protecting the American people.
This is, folks, with liberalism matters.
People who are leftists, it matters what they believe.
And what they believe is that there's nothing special, that we're no better, and that we ought not have any access to anything anybody else doesn't have access to.
And if we do, we should share it with everybody and not help ourselves first.
No, no, no, no.
That's discriminatory.
We are we are we have to do this because it's unfair, we're so powerful to begin with.
And none of what I'm telling you is an exaggeration.
None of what I'm telling you is being exaggerated to make a point.
It's exactly the way they think.
The people of the United States do not deserve any more protection than the people in Africa.
And if we are able to provide that protection to our people, then we are guilty of discrimination and guilty of caring about ourselves more than others and on and to a lot of people.
That's a very seductive message.
I mean, that sounds like the essence of compassion, doesn't it?
It's right out of women and children first.
If the ship's going down, women and children get saved first.
What is that all up?
That's that's about chivalry and um taking care of those who can't take care of themselves.
Well, this has been expanded now to the point that it ends up being genuinely harmful and detrimental to the people of the United States of America.
So this is why what's happening all over the country now in regard to the anterovirus or or this why Obama four years ago scrapped any ability to protect the American people on this basis.
Now, part and parcel of this, you know, why would Obama and the ACL ACLU do this?
You gotta understand what their attitude going in is.
They don't like this country in the first place because it's so powerful.
They don't they don't think any of this is fair.
Most of this country is unjust and immoral, and it's time we pay the price.
We've got to find out what it's like in the rest of the world.
It's a global world now.
It's not we're we're not a superpower, and we don't dominate things anymore.
We've got to find out what it's like.
Maybe hard to uh comprehend or accept or believe, but it's exactly the kind of thinking that is shaping policy on everything that is happening in the country.
Let's take a brief time out.
We'll be back with much more right after this.
So tight.
And welcome back, El Rushbo and the excellence in broadcasting network of the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
You know, we're in Los Angeles.
Did you hear what happened here yesterday?
Oh, wait till you hear this.
Mrs. Donald Sterling called the cops and sent them to the home of her husband, Donald Sterling, because she said there's a woman in there and she's robbing the place.
And it turns out when the cops get there, it is Vestiviano.
She's inside Sterling's house, and she's there by invitation.
She isn't stealing, or at least not outwardly.
Beverly Hills cops called to the home of Donald Sterling after his wife reported a burglary, but they found no crime.
Instead, they found Sterling hosting V Stiviano.
The woman responsible for him losing the Clippers.
You know, he said, remember he said that V Steviano was a wildcat in the sack, and it must be the case.
I mean, it's cost him his stupid basketball team.
It's cost him his reputation, and yet the woman is back.
And now the wife, Shelley Sterling, she is beside herself.
She's she's suing v.
Steviano, seeking the return of more than two and a half million dollars in gifts that Steviano has allegedly received.
You can't make this stuff up.
Okay, to the phones.
We uh we start here in Charlotte, North Carolina.
This is Clarence.
It's great to have you, sir.
Welcome to the EIB Network High.
Uh thanks for taking my call, Rush.
Um, I'm a physician here in Charlotte, and uh I don't get much chance to listen to you, but uh I decided to give you a call on a lunch break.
I've got a major concern with with the uh information that's being disseminated by Governor Perry and uh even some people from the CDC specifically uh stating that you're not you're safe unless they're uh exhibiting symptoms.
Now, I can go out in my waiting room in the six to twelve people that are out in my waiting room I couldn't tell you what's about what's wrong with them.
They're not exhibiting, quote, symptoms until I speak to them specifically.
And my big concern is that uh this this this gentleman's children went to to uh school, and uh I know how kids get in school and uh the communication is paramount here.
Uh unless you actually speak to someone, you don't know their symptoms.
I'm sure you've got a staff on uh there with you.
Some of them may have come in with a low grade fever, had stomach cramps, diarrhea.
You don't know until you know.
No, no, you know if they got diarrhea.
You know that.
Well, that's the biggest thing.
But I but I I get I get your point.
You so but let me ask you, are you telling are they wrong?
Because the CDC guy, the doctor we had audio sound right yesterday said that the disease is not contagious if the patient is exhibiting no symptoms of the disease, that there is no contagion possible or contagious uh spread possible.
Is that true or not, your experience?
Well, it's true in a sense.
Uh if you if he if he means exhibiting symptoms as you see someone laying on the floor bleeding from all their orifices and writhing and sweating, they're exhibiting symptoms.
But for the most part, the early onset symptoms of Ebola are very similar to that of a cold, a flu.
That's right.
But my point is that's my question.
You I know when what I I can tell when somebody has has a flu.
I mean, you uh you can I uh I can spot a fever, I'm pretty sure.
Um by by behavior.
You I I anyway know when people are sick, but forget what I know.
The question is this the early onset symptoms mimic flu.
Are those flu-like symptoms, if you spot them in an Ebola patient, is that enough to spread the disease?
Or does it have to be the full onset?
You can see it with your eyes, Ebola, like you describe with the uh the bleeding from sores on the skin and this kind of thing.
I mean, what stage of development of this disease is it contagious?
Well, that's the that's the big question.
There is you cannot reach a specific tentacle of a stage of symptoms and say, okay, uh at this minute an hour, you are now contagious.
Uh in the same way with the flu.
You can catch the flu with someone who's who's who's exhibiting very mild symptoms that you don't know.
We don't know exactly when a patient with Ebola starts to become contagious.
It could be it's it's gonna depend on the case.
Okay, so is that why is that why you're saying it's irresponsible for these people like Governor Perry and the CDC director to be saying that nothing to worry about?
Is that why you I I think that's responsible because that that that basically is a false sense of security.
Um if his kids went to elementary school, different elementary schools, and they interacted with other kids at lunchtime, eating off of their plates, touching whatever, and let's say his kids went to school and had a mild stomach ache or a mild low-grade fever.
Who's to say uh if they were contagious or not?
We can't the scientific approach to this disease, as far as the symptoms are concerned, and as far as the contagiousness is concerned, it is not set in stone.
Isn't that the point, though?
Since we don't know why are we not erring on the side of safety.
That that's my big point right there.
We don't know.
And the truth of the matter should be.
If someone's gonna say if they're not exhibiting symptoms, they're probably not contagious.
The caveat should be.
However, the only way we can find out, especially in elementary schools, and in my practice, in fact, I'm putting together a whole new uh uh policy when people come in.
I'm gonna ask specific questions.
Have you been out of the country lately?
Have you visited anybody from out of the country?
They would those type of things.
But you're you're you're next gonna have to determine whether or not they're being honest with you about it.
Because if they fear I think what everybody's engaging in here, uh, in in their some cases hapless manner, they're trying to stop a panic, an outbreak of panic, and that's why they're telling everybody don't sweat it.
Just like Obama said.
There's no way the disease is gonna get in here.
After it gets here.
Anyway, I know they're trying to keep a lid on on panic.
Doctor, I appreciate the call.
Thanks much.
It's great to have you with us.
Okay, folks, look, there's a lot of stuff on this.
I gotta I gotta pick up the pace going through all this because I'm already getting behind to where I wanted to be.
So uh be prepared to listen fast as we resume.
And there's other news items out there too.
You won't believe the way the ex-Secret Service Director wanted to reform the agency.
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