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Oct. 3, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 3, 2014, Friday, Hour #2
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Welcome back, my friends.
Great to have you here.
It's Rush Limbaugh and the most listened to radio talk show in America hosted by the guy you never get tired of listening to.
Live from the left coast at our satellite studios in Los Angeles.
It's Open Line Friday.
Yes, sir, Rebob, Open Line Friday.
Two big, exciting, jam-packed, busy broadcast hours remain.
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If you are just joining the program or if you were with us for the entire first hour, I want to replay this one more time to set the stage for everything that'll follow because it is sort of like the foundation of today's program, and that is Ebola and what, if anything, is being done to stop it from spreading in the United States.
And we have come to find out that some people think, well, that shouldn't be the focus.
Let me review a summary here for you of things that might help you to understand.
You're not going to agree with any of it, but to help you to understand.
And I think to set this up, let me remind you what the director, the recently resigned director of the Secret Service said when requiring agents to tear down arrangements they had put in place for the African Leaders Summit in Washington a few weeks ago.
She demanded that they open a street they had closed down and remove some barriers they had put up.
And she said, the director of the Secret Service, Julia Pierce, is now retired.
She said, we need to be more like Disneyland.
We need to be more welcoming.
You heard me right.
The Secret Service, which, as far as anybody's concerned, has nothing to do with welcoming or not welcoming anybody to America.
The Secret Service is there to provide life-saving security for the president and others in his orbit who are coming for official meetings or what have it.
They're not there to be part of any welcoming committee.
They are not there to set up the reception lines or to provide the refreshments in the punch bowl or any of that.
That's not their job.
And yet the director of the Secret Service said that we need to be more welcoming given our past.
We need to be more like Disneyland.
Okay, so let's now go to audio soundbite number one.
Again, this is the author David Kwaman who has written a book, Ebola, The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus.
He's on with Anderson Cooper last night.
Anderson Cooper saying, look, all these people saying we need to ban flights in Africa, we can't do that.
There aren't any direct flights.
There are securitist routes.
There's no way.
We can't really do it, right, David?
You can't isolate neighborhoods.
You can't isolate nations.
It doesn't work.
And people talk about, well, we shouldn't allow any flights in from Liberia.
I mean, we in America, how dare we turn our backs on Liberia, given the fact that this is a country that was founded in the 1820s, 1830s because of American slavery.
We have a responsibility to stay connected with them and help them see this through.
So you see, it's our fault.
We share culpability.
The responsibility falls on us.
We are responsible for there even being a Liberia.
We are responsible for people who live there because they once were slaves here and they had to flee because it was so bad.
And they sent them to Liberia where they founded a country.
And look what's happened now.
Because of slavery, they have Ebola.
We can't turn our backs on them.
We owe it to them to get it ourselves.
We've got to let them in here.
We kicked them out.
See, we had slaves here.
Never mind the fact that we went to a war where 500,000 people died to end slavery.
I know there were other things going on in the Civil War, but we can't deny that 500,000 people died in that war.
And one of the things that ended was slavery.
But that doesn't count.
That doesn't erase the fact that we ended it, the fact that we led the world in endings doesn't count a whit.
It doesn't mean anything.
It does not mitigate the fact that we did it.
And even though we ended it, that doesn't mean we've paid a fair price for what we did.
So we can't shut down flights from Liberia.
In fact, we should put up a welcome center like they do at Disneyland for flights from Liberia because we owe it to them.
We need to stay connected.
We can't turn our backs on them.
We need welcome centers and kiosks at major airports welcoming people from Liberia on immigration.
We need to welcome these people because we're rich and they're not.
They could have been, but we kicked them out way back long time ago.
They're poor because of us.
They don't have anything because of us because we've stolen all the world's resources and they once lived here where they could have owned and had things here, but we kicked them out.
We beat them in wars.
They ran, but they want it back and we should let them have some because we were mean and it wasn't fair.
We had no right.
Besides, the economic system we set up, capitalism, that's unfair.
Only 5% do well.
95% suffer.
We've got to fix that.
And so we've got to, we're just bad.
We're guilty.
And this country has committed so many atrocities and we've done so many bad things, so many people, we don't have a prayer of even paying it back unless a lot of years go by where we take corrective measures.
We owe so many people so much.
We have to give back so much of what we've stolen.
We need to welcome all of these people who are living lives of doom because of us, because it is our fault.
Just like with Disney, you know, you can apply for refugee status online now, just like you can get a ticket for Disney online.
You get park passes before you get there.
You get your boarding pass before you get on the airplane.
You get your refugee status and you show up at the illegal immigrant welcome center and we'll send you an American family that doesn't know you're coming and we'll set up a special classroom and school for you all because we owe you, all because we are so big rotten SOBs.
We are bastards.
We are creeps.
We're the meanest SOBs that have ever walked the earth and it's time we paid it all back.
And if that means some of us get Ebola, well, deal with it, creep.
Now on Ebola, now we will have to wait and see, because things changed at the Secret Service when the jumper actually got into the White House.
Things might change if Ebola gets to Washington, see, and there is a reported case now being treated at Howard University.
But until that's confirmed, we should welcome people from Liberia who might be affected.
We're not going to be as callous as the president of Liberia.
Oh, you didn't hear that?
Oh.
Well, while David Kwaman thinks that we need to allow, we owe it to these people.
Listen here to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who's the president of Liberia, and she was asked about the Dallas Ebola patient, Thomas Duncan, from her country, who got on a plane knowing he was sick.
My first concern was, why did he do this?
The fact that he knew that he left the country is some part of me.
Really?
So the man's own president thinks that what he did is unpardonable.
It's unforgivable.
How dare he take action that would knowingly put people at risk?
In her mind, he was being very selfish.
But in David Kwamen's mind, and in the politically correct mind, and that means most of the leaders of this country, why we shouldn't stop at this guy.
If there's anybody at Liberia wants to get, bring them on in with a welcome center here.
It's our fault.
We are at the root of this because of our slavery.
And I know you're probably, come on, Russia, exaggerating here to make a point.
Maybe a little bit, not much, folks.
I'm telling you, don't doubt me on this.
Now, I asked at the beginning of the program, is it fair to ask, if we're going to beat George W. Bush up for Katrina, where does Obama come in for similar treatment when it comes to Ebola?
I mean, there's no comparison.
Katrina was one of the smoothest, most efficient operations you can imagine compared to the way this Ebola circumstance is being dealt with.
So this morning on CNN's New Day, they had a Philly Coast co-host there, John Berman, and he spoke with Van Jones, the former communist, well, current communist, but former member of the regime.
And the host said to Van Jones, look, Senator Ted Cruz from Texas, admittedly no fan of the president, wrote a letter to the FAA.
And he released a statement that said, due to the Obama regime's unclear approach to addressing the threat of the Ebola virus, Americans, particularly the Texans, who possibly have been exposed, deserve specific answers to how the administration is addressing travel to and from the countries impacted by the disease.
People in Texas, all over this country pretty soon, are going to want to know what is being done to isolate this disease.
What is being done to isolate those who have it?
What's being done to prevent it from spreading?
And Cruz simply released a letter and a statement, the FAA asking what they are doing.
And then the info guy, the reporter at CNN, said to Van Jones, now leave aside the travel for a second here.
He said the unclear approach to addressing the threat of Ebola.
Is that fair, Van Jones?
Is that fair to characterize the administration's behavior here that it is unclear and is disorganized?
Is that fair?
Certainly not fair coming from Ted Cruz.
Ted Cruz helped shut America's government down this time last year, including the CDC.
Luckily, he wasn't engaged in those shenanigans this year because it turns out you need the CDC.
You need America's government.
I'm very concerned that there is nothing bad that can happen to America that a certain section of Republicans won't try to use to attack the president.
The good thing about this country right now, three things.
We have a military that can go over there and respond.
We have a CDC that's strong, funded, and is aggressively dealing with this.
And by the way, we have Obamacare.
Now, a lot more people, if they get sick, they can go to a doctor, they can get checked out.
There, yeah.
Did you believe this?
The reason why we should have no fear whatsoever, the reason why none of us need to worry about, we got Obamacare.
We've got Obamacare.
And so now a lot more people can get sick and can go to the doctor and get checked out because we've got Obamacare.
Obamacare is a disaster.
Obamacare has not resulted in one thing it was promised.
But as far as this guy's concerned, the reality doesn't matter.
All you have to do is say, Obamacare is going to cut premiums.
Obamacare, you like your doctor, you like your plan, you can keep it.
Obamacare is going to lower costs.
Obamacare is going to treat you.
And it magically does all that.
Just because you say it.
I told you yesterday I'd blame the sequester for Ebola, and that's what he's doing here.
When he starts attacking Ted Cruz for shutting down the CDC, that was the government shutdown of the sequester.
They just, every prediction I make, they see to it that it comes true.
Now, this CDC, he says we got great people running the CDC.
We don't, sadly.
We've got people who are profoundly confused and are governed by political correctness running the CDC.
NBC Today show, Matt Lauer.
Now, I mentioned at the top of the program that I'd been watching drive-by media types interview regime officials who they have to prop up because they're fellow Democrats, they're fellow travelers.
But it's really hard.
And you can see some of these drive-by people are getting really frustrated at what they're hearing from people that they have to prop up.
They don't like having to prop up.
They get very, very frustrated.
Matt Wauer is one of those examples while talking to the CDC director.
His name is Thomas Frieden.
You'll hear it when we come back from this time out.
Since I, we're back to the phones here in just a second, but on the Today Show today, Matt Wauer interviewed Senators for Disease Control Director Dr. Thomas Frieden.
And Matt Wauer said, why wasn't the apartment where Thomas Duncan was staying immediately cordoned off and cleaned?
The details of that, you'd have to refer to the folks in Dallas.
But this is, after all, the first time we've ever had a case of Ebola in the U.S.
And there are issues to make sure that when things are removed, that's done safely, that it's not going to be disposed of in any way that would potentially be a risk.
Okay, so here we have another glaringly competent Obama government official who's asked, why wasn't the apartment where the guy was staying cordoned off and cleaned up?
And the guy passes the buck.
Well, you're going to talk to folks in Dallas because this is the first time we've ever had a case of Ebola.
We don't know what we're doing.
what the hell we expect of us.
But nevertheless, Matt, there are issues to make sure that when things are removed, there are issues.
How about procedures?
What is this issue?
There are issues to make sure that when things are removed, that's done safely.
Well, then why weren't those issues employed?
Oh, because, well, you've got to talk to folks in Dallas.
But wait, if the issues are in place, why didn't the folks in Dallas do them?
Oh, because this is the first case of Ebola and nobody was prepared.
But we have the issues to make sure that when things are removed, that's done safely.
And it's not going to be disposed of in any way that would potentially be a risk.
Exactly it was.
Now, Matt Wauer had the same reaction I did, but Matt Wauer can't react the way I did because Frieden's one of his fellow travelers, liberal, Democrat, regime official.
And well, now, well, partially true.
There's a story that was the disposal of the material.
They couldn't get a permit to drive the stuff.
The truckers couldn't get a transportation permit to move the stuff after they'd cleaned it up, had it loaded in trucks.
But that's okay because there are issues to make sure that this is done safely.
CDC guy just said so, even though this is the first time we've ever had an Ebola outbreak.
This guy just admitted nobody knows what they're doing, folks.
Now, look, as I said, Matt Wauer is having the same reaction I have, but he can't voice it that way because this guy is one of Lauer's buddies, I mean, fellow traveler.
So after Frieden, somebody said, here's Matt Wauer's response.
You said we have to check with the people in Dallas, but this was a week.
And obviously, as the head of the Centers for Disease Control, so concerned about the spread of this virus, is it acceptable that an apartment would be in that condition, a hot zone basically, for a week after that patient left that building?
We have had our staff working with the local authorities.
We understand that bleach has been used, and this is something that we expect to get resolved today.
Seemed like it took an awful lot of time to have that taken care of.
See, I can't believe what he's hearing.
Well, you know, we've had our staff working with local authorities, but in the previous answer, well, you'd have to refer to the folks in Dallas.
Why did you say you'd have to refer to the folks in Dallas if your staff's been working with them all this time?
And then we understand that bleach had been used.
This is something we expect to get resolved today.
And I guarantee you, just saying it in their world makes it happen, folks.
Just saying the economy growing means it's growing.
Just saying jobs are being created means they're being created.
Just saying that the stimulus is going to create shovel-ready jobs means it's going to happen.
Now, the hazmat team that showed up to clean the apartment last night were stopped from doing it because they didn't have a permit to transport the hazardous materials on a Texas highway.
Pure and simple.
Snurdley asked me that.
And by the way, and it's insane, regulations kill.
And this business about the bleach.
You know why they use bleach?
The CDC guy, I think they use bleach.
I'm pretty sure they did.
Because the woman's daughter brought it over.
The woman's daughter brought it over, not the CDC, not the Dallas authorities, not the government, not the experts.
The woman's daughter brought it over.
Okay, time to go back to the phones at Open Line Friday.
This is Sharon in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Great to have you with us.
Hello.
Well, thank you for taking my call.
You bet.
So I was thinking, what are the chances that the patient being treated at Howard University in Washington could have been on the same flight as the patient from Dallas since the flight connected through Dallas?
Well, I guess it's possible.
But you see, The director of the Centers for Disease Control told us that it's not a problem because the guy got on the plane in Liberia and he wasn't showing any symptoms.
And if you're not showing any symptoms, you're not contagious.
And therefore, it's impossible to get the disease from somebody not showing symptoms.
And therefore, it's not possible to stop the flights.
And we have no business stopping the flights because we created Liberia because of slavery.
So it's if somebody, if somebody got the disease from the guy on the airplane, it's just tough toenails.
That's the way it is.
Well, that to me would be a game changer.
Explain why.
What do you mean a game changer?
Because it's in Washington now, you mean?
No, no, no, but they said that you can't catch the disease casually as on an airplane.
So if these two patients happen to be on the same flight or same airplane, that kind of goes, washes that theory away.
Well, see, that's the thing.
That is one of the things about this that really puzzles me is why not, if you're going to make errors here, if you're going to, you know, why not err on the side of caution?
After all, there isn't a cure for this.
The death rate, depending, is anywhere from 60 to 90 percent of people who get there.
Why wouldn't you err on the side of caution?
Well, what I don't understand, if it's not a big deal to be on the same aircraft, how come when they brought the two workers a couple months ago from Africa, they had them in like these suits and contamination free zones and special airplanes and have a lot of people.
Again, because they were showing symptoms.
Well, I guess.
Oh, they were.
They were.
Yeah, yeah.
No, good point.
They were showing symptoms.
And nobody is, you know, what they've told us is that you can't get the disease if somebody is not showing symptoms.
Therefore, if nobody has a fever, if there's no obvious illness, somebody's sitting on an airplane, theoretically, they're not contagious.
But the point is, the guy got on the airplane sick.
Thomas Duncan got on the airplane sick.
He's admitted it.
He knew it.
So did the president of Liberia.
The president of Liberia, by the way, has just declared him a refugee.
She will not allow him back into Liberia now, by the way, folks.
Well, now you say great, but stop and think of the difference.
She's not going to let him back.
He's got the disease.
She does not want her own citizen back.
He's got the disease.
He left under circumstances she doesn't approve of.
She thinks that he was irresponsible getting on an airplane sick and coming to a country where there were no known cases.
She thinks he engaged in an unpardonable act.
So now she's declared him a refugee, which means he can't come back to Liberia.
He's not a legal United States citizen, so he's a refugee here.
But the point, I'm just talking about the difference in the way people are dealing with this.
She doesn't want an infected citizen back.
Can you imagine if we had anybody in this country saying that?
I mean, that's my whole point about this being governed by political correctness.
It's, this is breathtaking to watch all this take place and to listen to these people explain their actions and their behaviors.
And knowing full well that they're not motivated by stopping the disease.
They're not motivated by protecting people or in protecting people.
They are governed by being seen as fair to the victims, i.e. the people who have it.
They have put shackles on themselves.
They will not allow themselves to take steps that would in any way stigmatize, isolate, whatever, the sick.
Normally, you know what Ellis Island was for, by the way?
Exactly right.
Do you know if you had, if you showed up at Ellis Island and you had a fever, you might not have been let in the country because there was tuberculosis, there was plague, there was any number.
Ellis Island was not a clearinghouse to let in certain quotas from certain countries.
It was to determine whether or not we were allowing sick people in the country.
And we did not let sick people in.
That was the purpose.
All different today.
Now the sick are victims and we can't humiliate them and we can't stigmatize them and we can't isolate them.
And in fact, in addition to that, there are people running around thinking they're sick because of us, because of America and our past.
And therefore, we owe something to these people, even if that means other citizens get sick.
That shows that we aren't judgmental.
That shows that we are not discriminating against them.
That shows that we're not being mean.
That shows that we're compassionate.
All this sick stuff.
The primary focus has been abandoned here, folks.
So if you're out there asking you, why aren't we doing this?
I just told you.
It's up to you to believe it.
It's up to you to digest it and believe it.
If you don't want to believe it, that's your full unadulterated right.
But if you want to know why, if all of this doesn't seem sensible to you, if it seems inexplicable, and if it's giving rise to conspiracy theories, it's because it doesn't make sense, because common sense is not a factor in any of this.
Political factors are, large part politically correct factors.
I guarantee you that one of the reasons why we will never shut down flights from countries which are considered host countries to the disease, we'll never shut them down because that constitutes closing the border.
And we've got a president who's hell-bent on granting amnesty to anywhere between 6 and 12 million people before the end of the year.
And we're hell-bent on not closing the southern border here to shut down that kind of immigration.
We're not going to shut any border.
We're not going to take step one to keep anybody out of this country for something like Ebola because that would have deleterious effects on the president's political agenda.
Now, you may not want to believe that.
You might think, certainly, Rush, we don't have people that shallow.
We do, folks.
It's not shallow.
It is a way of thinking.
They have been raised with this.
They've been educated.
They have taken all the right courses that led them to be politically correct.
They've been self-esteem courses, conflict resolution 101.
They've been told about America's guilt and blame and our imperial behavior since our founding and how we've mistreated this group and that group, that country, this country, the resources that we've stolen.
And now look, we are leading the world in destroying the world.
We are the problems of global warming.
Our way of life, our way of living, capitalism, progress, that's blamed for destroying the planet.
It's all right there.
You just have to, this is why I had this big dissertation on Monday about what the purpose of this program is.
It's always been, among many other things, to educate people, to have them be as clearly understanding of what liberalism is as I can make it, because it is the root of every problem that we are experiencing right now.
And it just happens to be on vivid display at practically every high-profile leadership position in the government.
Department of Justice, EPA, FDA, White House, Centers for Disease Control, the Fish and Wildlife Service, the Forest, you name it.
The people that have been put in leadership positions in all of these agencies think the same way.
And they have a chip on their shoulders about America for, in some cases, personal reasons, in others, historical reasons, but they've all got a chip.
In their worldview, America has been the problem in the world.
And we have yet to pay an appropriate price for that.
Their rise to power gives them the opportunity.
Why do you think Obama apologizes for this country every chance he gets?
You know, he goes, makes some speech and has to drag Ferguson, Missouri into it.
It's the U.N., he's telling people what he won't tolerate around the world, the discriminationist, discrimination.
And he's, I realize, I realize I may not have a lot of room to talk here because in my own country, we've had our own episodes of discrimination and racism, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Why do you think this happens?
Because he does.
He thinks that we don't have any moral authority anymore, folks.
We're not the good guys.
There is no American exceptionalism.
We're not more advanced.
We don't have a right to keep anybody out of our country.
Who do we think we are?
We go wherever we want to go.
Who the hell are the, what do you mean they can't come here?
We go to Europe.
No, we go there.
We've gone over there.
We've sent the CIA down there, killed that leader.
We've taken over that country.
Who the hell do we think we, somebody wants to come here, find a nature?
Who do we think we are?
This is the kind of thinking that we have in leadership positions right now.
And it's how you arrive at the fact.
I mean, it's right there in this soundbite that we first played.
It's all right there in 25 seconds of what this guy says.
I got to take the time out.
I just saw the clock.
Sit tight, my friends.
We'll be back after this.
Don't go away.
Okay, before we take the next call, grab soundbite number six.
Here's more from the CDC director.
And again, he's on Fox and Friends this morning, and he's talking with Elizabeth Hasselbeck.
And she said, his name is Thomas Friedman.
She said, sir, how many more people will have to come to the United States and not fully disclose who they've been in contact with before these travel restrictions are put in place?
How much longer will America have to wait to be fully protected at the border when it comes to this disease?
I wish we could get to zero risk by sealing off the border, but we can't.
The only way we're going to get to zero risk in this country is by controlling it in Africa.
Until that happens, Americans may come back with Ebola.
Other people who have a right to return or a visa to enter may come back.
People will go to third countries and come from there.
So sealing them off, first off, won't work.
Second off, it will backfire.
Because if we can't get help in there, if we can't get help in there, then we're not going to be able to stop the outbreak.
And ultimately, we will end up at higher risk, not lower risk.
Now, you see, this is a problem here for the Democrats on amnesty.
If the American people think the borders are exposing them to risk from disease, the Democrats could be in trouble on this.
Now, who knows what people think about this?
But this guy, you notice he is adamant that sealing the border, there's no way it ain't going to happen.
Sealing the border is not an answer here.
We can't do it.
And furthermore, it would backfire.
And they cut him off and didn't let him explain what he meant by that.
But he says the only way to stop, to get to zero risk in this country is by controlling it in Africa.
I know it's two different things.
Controlling it in Africa has nothing to do with whether or not people with the disease get in or out of the United States.
The point is, this guy, I guarantee you, when it comes to controlling the border and eliminating or trying to prevent as many sick people from getting in, it's a non-starter, folks.
It isn't going to happen.
And you hear this guy goes great pains to tell you how it would be ineffective.
It would be irrelevant.
We couldn't do it.
It wouldn't matter.
It's kind of like abstinence and pregnancy.
Abstinence works every time it's tried.
It just does.
But boy, does that tick them off when you say that?
Then they start telling you you're against sex and they tell you you're prude and then you want everybody to live like nuns.
No, no, no.
You're talking about unwanted pregnancy.
Here's the number one thing to do.
It works.
Well, by the same token, keeping the sick out of the country is the best thing you can do, but we're not going to go there.
No way, Jose, because our president is going to use these open borders to do amnesty down the road here in a couple of months.
So we're not even going to talk about this.
We're not even going to talk about the border being a factor here.
And that's why.
And here's Matt in Idaho in Post Falls.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
It's an honor to talk to you.
Thank you very much, sir.
Appreciate that.
I wanted to talk about the Russian air books, but I wanted to let you know I really appreciate listening to you in the early 90s when I was in my teens working on a field and just kind of last few years of growing up with you.
And I just really could feel like I get to know you a little better when I listened to you or saw you on the William Shatner interview.
I heard a colleague go on about that and I pulled it up on YouTube and it was very inspiring to hear you talk about some of the things you've overcome.
And so I just want to thank you for that interview.
Thank you.
You looked up the Shatner interview, huh?
Yes, sir.
Well, I'm flattered.
I enjoyed that.
That was one of my favorite interviews I've done.
And I'm glad you take the time to look that up.
Yes, I heard another collar go on about it.
I've always been a fan of Mr. Shatner, and I thought, huh, too, okay.
And I pulled it up, and sure enough, I was glad I watched it.
It was really good.
And basically, I just want to say thank you for those Russian airbooks you've written.
I have five kids, ages between one and 13.
And I knew you had talent, but I didn't know how they would relate to it as far as you relating to kids.
And I was pleasantly surprised.
I knew it would be good, but I mean, I wasn't expecting to be that good for the kids.
Mean, laugh through it and actually enjoy being, they are actually learning something and getting to just to hear something they really enjoyed and learn something.
Well, you are really making my day here.
This has been a this is uh this has been a good week for me in terms of the nice things that people are saying to me.
That's very flattering, uh, and and I and I appreciate it very much because when I hear that kids of your age like the book, that's exactly what was aimed.
That that's the objective, and they will they're not through liking books.
Look, I'm so hamstrung here, but I just chomping at the bit, and it won't be long, folks.
It won't be long, but uh, it's just it's it's heartwarming, and I really appreciate your sentiments.
Thank you so much.
Be right big news from Saudi Arabia, King Abdul, or King Abdullah bin Aziz Abdullah, Skyhook, whatever, not letting anybody from the three African countries with Ebola come to the giant pilgrimage, the Hajj, in Mecca.
Not letting anybody in.
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