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Oct. 9, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 9, 2014, Thursday, Hour #3
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Hi folks, it's great to have you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalist sports fans all across the fruited plane.
There's some junk here I forgot to throw away.
No, it's the Joe Klein piece.
No need to keep it.
There we go.
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Even as I speak, there is a discussion on CNN right now that the U.S. Ebola patient didn't have to die.
Apparently they're discussing a column written by somebody, I don't know who haven't named him and I've seen, who claims that we let Thomas Duncan die because he black, i.e.
we're racist, and because he was poor, and because he was from Africa, and because we didn't care.
Never mind the fact.
You know something that's not getting mentioned in all this.
I oh there's also a story about the uh the NBC cameraman is being treated for Ebola in Kansas.
For all this talk about, and it's out there.
I'm I'm sure that if you if you watch CNN, you've heard this is not the first time they have brought up the subject here.
Uh I don't think people are stopping to take the time to reflect on the doctors and nurses that are coming in close contact with these patients to treat them.
You know, given all the news that's out there about this disease, the death rate anywhere from 50 to 90 percent, something like 7500 cases worldwide, 3500 deaths.
So the death rate appears to be in the ballpark of 50 percent.
And yet, an Ebola patient shows up, or even a suspected Ebola patient shows up, and the people in the hospital do not run away.
They hang in there and they do their best to protect themselves and they treat these people.
For all this talk about all the racism and bigotry and how this guy didn't get treated soon enough, and the hospital sent him away, and when he when he ended up coming back, I mean they they he got he was he was attended to by people that come in close proximity.
Now they're trained medical professionals, I understand that, but those people in Africa have died.
Doctors in Africa have died treating people, people that thought they were taking precar precautions, people that had been fully decked out in full hazmat gear, have died.
I think there's a lot being taken for granted here, particularly in the in the news media reported throwing around here that there's racism to explain why this uh Ebola patient died is not as though he walked into the hospital and everybody left and said you're on your own, buddy.
He was treated.
Eventually.
And the and the NBC cameraman's being treated in Nebraska.
And there are people within close proximity.
There are people taking risks, knowing what we know to treat the sick.
And I think it's outrageous to see her sort of bandying about this typical left-wing drivel and bilge.
That this country is filled with racists and bigots who don't care if certain people get sick and uh and and die.
So I it it's some columnists in the Dallas Morning News.
Thomas Duncan did not have to die.
Claims if he wasn't turned away, he would have been treated soon enough and uh would have lived, which is pure speculation.
Nobody knows.
I mean, we didn't have any serum to give the guy.
We'd given it all away to Africa, where there was there was he got an experimental drug.
Uh he was treated twice by that Dallas hospital.
The first time he got the wrong treatment, but he was treated.
I mean, Thomas Duncan died because he didn't tell the doctors the truth.
From front to back.
But just, folks, the next time that you hear this being bandied about, nor did his family.
But the next time you hear this bandied about by your typical left wing media type, just can't wait to rip into this country.
Just remember the next picture you see of medical personnel treating Ebola patients.
Up close and personal.
And that's how you just put the rest of this baseless charge.
Now the French news agency is reporting the deadly spread of Ebola in West Africa is something unseen since the outbreak of AIDS.
This, according to Thomas Frieden, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
He said that today.
He was addressing a top-level Ebola forum in Washington.
He said, I would say that in the 30 years that I have been working in public health, the only thing like this has been AIDS.
It's going to be a long fight.
Now the people he was speaking to, this forum had the usual suspects from the United Nations, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund.
He said, we have to work now so that it is not the world's next AIDS.
I don't know, this could be bigger than that.
If and that's the thing, you don't know what to believe.
Because there's there's seemingly so many contradictory things being said about how you contract it, how you're not going to contract it, how it's hard to get, how no, it's not, it's easy to get.
But what in the world, why of all people do it?
Why the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank and a bunch of doofuses at the United Nations?
What in the world do they have to do with stopping the spread of this?
What's the World Bank do that I don't know?
What's the IMF do that I don't know?
I mean, these are money people.
I know, I know.
Follow the money, you get to the answer of everything.
Secretary of Health and Human Services Director or the head honcho Sylvia Burwell said that despite the best efforts of health officials, Americans have to prepare for the reality that there may be more cases of Ebola in the United States.
Wait.
No.
No.
We we were told that we had a hit.
No.
Didn't the president say that?
Didn't he say that Ebola was not going to get here?
And that there was no reason to worry about this.
Remember when we flew those first, those cherub those missionary workers back, and thereby brought people with the disease back into the country.
That's when he said, don't worry about it.
And now his own health and human services secretary says, well, you have to prepare for the reality.
There may be more cases.
She was at a media breakfast hosted by the journal Health Affairs, held at the Washington, D.C. offices of the Kaiser Family Foundation.
I don't know if anybody from the IMF, the World Bank, or the UN was there.
She said, we had one case, and I think there may be other cases, and I think we have to recognize it as a nation.
We could have more.
Her comments came as screening of travelers from Ebola affected countries in West Africa has been stepped up at U.S. airports.
On Wednesday, the first patient diagnosed with the virus on U.S. soil died.
That's Thomas Duncan.
She expressed confidence in the screening process that has already been in place in travelers' departure cities, but acknowledged that no such system is 100%.
And from the UK-based international market polling firm called UGO.
You've heard of them, yougov.com polls and so forth.
They've got us as Ebola comes to the U.S., concern rises.
And this is a poll taken from Ugov and the Economist magazine.
And this poll proves just how racist the U.S. is.
You see, in a nutshell, this poll claims that Americans only began to care about Ebola once it hit the U.S., not when it was ravaging Western Africa.
We couldn't have cared less when it was only in Africa.
The most appalling result uh is reported at the bottom of the article.
The poll found that 62% of Americans think quote, more would have been done to combat Ebola if it had not originated in West Africa.
And worse still, 59% of black Americans believe there would already be a cure for Ebola if it had originated in America or Europe.
This is the economist you gov. This is a poll, as we were discussing in the first hour.
The CBS suppressed their poll of bad news on Obama the Democrats is a classic of what polling has become.
It's a news story.
A poll is a news story.
And since it's a news story, see, it proves the truth.
We're a bunch of racists.
And if the race baiters have won, yeah, we didn't care about this.
We don't care about any world.
We don't care about ourselves.
And it says all we care about is ourselves.
When it was in West Africa, nobody here cared.
And if it had been first discovered in Europe or America, there would already be a cure.
The white people would have taken care of themselves.
That's what this poll claims to say.
A majority of Americans believe.
See what racists we are.
Forty percent of African Americans say they are very concerned about the possibility of an epidemic here.
It's it's confusing when you get down to it.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
We got Dr. Friedman here, and this is at the World Bank Forum.
We just quoted him, but I want you to hear him.
The World Bank Forum on the Ebola outbreak attended by members of the Star Wars Cantina from the United Nations, the World Bank and the IMF.
Dr. Thomas Friedon.
I will say that in the 30 years I've been working in public health, the only thing like this has been AIDS.
And we have to work now so that this is not the world's next AIDS.
Now, he's on the verge here of declaring that this is the world's next aids.
We've got to do everything we can.
It could be as bad.
This could be it is horrible.
Remember that as context for the next bite, which is from yesterday afternoon in Atlanta at the CDC, Dr. Frieden held a press conference on the Ebola outbreak.
And a question he got from reporter during the Q ⁇ A. There's some critics out there, Doctor, who are saying it even with these enhanced efforts, that people are going to fall through the seams, they're going to fall through the cracks, and that your efforts won't be enough.
People are still going to get in the country.
Will these efforts be enough to protect the country, to protect other people from Ebola?
As long as Ebola continues to spread in Africa, we can't make the risk zero here.
We wish we could.
We wish there were some way that we could make it zero here.
And I understand there have been calls to ban all travel to West Africa.
The problem with that approach is that it makes it extremely difficult to respond to the outbreak.
It makes it hard to get health workers in because they can't get out.
If we make it harder to respond to the outbreak in West Africa, it will spread not only in those three countries, but to other parts of Africa, and we'll ultimately increase the risk here.
That's why the concept of above all doing no harm is so important here.
I don't know, folks.
I I I think I what what I I think he is.
Look, I have no doubt, by the way, that this guy is trying.
I re I I am not going to impugn this guy's motives, but I think what we have here is a typical intellectual theoretician.
He lives in a in a philosophical theoretical world, not really attached to reality.
The reality is the theoretical, the what if, the maybe, rather than the what is.
I mean, why couldn't we have special flights for aid workers?
Why can't we charter one of those jets that we brought the uh people home and have those go in and out and still shut down general public air travel?
What what is this you we can't get the aid workers in because then we couldn't get them out if we banned travel?
There this is that's that's I don't know, that's just absurd.
I mean, we have a look, as I say, I don't want to impugn the guy's motives.
I think the guy's trying.
I just don't think he's and he may be a fine scientist, but I don't know that he's equipped here either well.
Well, he here here's here's the problem he's got.
Here's this is the problem he's got.
Nobody in this administration can even come close to addressing the concept of tightening the border, much less close it.
You can't, because over here, your president wants amnesty this year by executive board.
You can't, therefore, if you're in this regime, you can't say or do anything that would raise the support level for shutting the border.
Even for that, you can't, you can't go.
So you that in order to stay away from that, you have to delve into inanities.
You have to say, well, what we have to do is to contain this in Africa, but containing it in Africa is mean.
That's what he's saying, Mr. Snur.
Surely Sir Trent.
What is what does this guy just say?
What he's saying is we only our only hope is to contain it in Africa, but by doing that, we're being racist or judgmental or mean spirited or whatever.
We we can't just contain it in Africa, although that's what we have to do.
But just keeping it in Africa is unfair to them.
Guys, he's got shackles on him that are labeled political correctness.
He's trying his best with the restraints or constraints that have been imposed on him by by virtue of what he's been taught.
I mean, he thinks it's mean to contain a disease where it is.
It's mean to the people to whom you're containing it.
And it isn't fair.
It's not fair that they have it and other people don't.
And so shutting down the country, that's not that's not fair, although that's what we should do.
But we can't see.
It might be helpful, ladies and gentlemen, if you happen to know where Thomas Frieden came from.
The director of the Centers for Disease Control.
Did he come from the Jocelyn Elder School, for example, where she wanted to teach masturbation in all the public schools?
Or does he come from the, some other, like the CDC?
Everett Coop School.
He was the sturgeon general.
Well, here's who Dr. Thomas Frieden is.
He was the health commissioner for Mayor Doomburg in New York City.
And Dr. Thomas Frieden, as the health commissioner in New York City of Mayor Doomberg, worked with Doomberg to increase tobacco taxes.
And he was right there.
Right there banning smoking from workplaces, including restaurants and bars.
Now it's just too bad that Dr. Frieden won't allow us to crack down on Ebola as hard as he's cracked down on cigarettes.
But I was talking yesterday.
AIDS was the first virus to ever have privacy rights.
It was the first virus to have civil rights.
And Ebola may not be far behind because the same guy who was who was willing to ban smoking from workplace and enforce it to the max.
Send people in to find people smoking and fine them, first offense, and worse, after that.
He was the smoking nanny.
He was the smoking nanny for Mayor Doomberg.
He worked with Doomberg to raise tobacco taxes and ban smoking from the workplace.
He succeeded.
This is the point.
Dr. Thomas Frieden succeeded along with Mayor Doomberg in banning cigarette smoking in an entire city, the largest city in the country.
But the same guy says you can't stop people from flying into the country from an Ebola country.
Now, the last I checked, you don't need a visa to smoke.
You do need a visa to get into the country.
Frieden did not think it was mean to contain cigarette smoking in New York City.
He thought that was responsible.
Cigarette smoking is not proven to kill everybody who does it.
We can't even calculate a smoking death rate, actually.
There's no way of actually doing, and even at that, smoking takes decades to make people sick.
Not Ebola.
So here's a guy who had no problem stigmatizing smokers.
Here's a guy who had no problem banning them to the outer reaches of society because they smoked the evil tobacco weed.
But with Ebola, well, you know, there's nothing really.
It's bad, but you know, we it's just not fair.
Just can't do it.
By the way, in addition to the smoking ban and stigmatizing smokers as the filthiest, deadliest people in the city of New York, Dr. Thomas Friedan, who now runs the Centers for Disease Control, was the man behind the banning of trans fats in restaurants in New York City.
His health department also required chain restaurants to post calorie information to raise consumer awareness of the caloric impact of fast food.
That's who this guy is.
You were asking me what is he saying.
This is who the guy is.
Smokers are public enemy number one.
And we will banish them and their activity to the far reaches of our society.
And we'll do it with smiles, and we'll do it with punishment in mind.
Takes decades to kill from smoking.
And there is no secondhand smoke death risk.
We've proved that you know why that's another suppressed survey.
You know what?
That the United Nations, the World Health Organization, they did a research, they found it, and they suppressed it.
They did not report it, but we got the cashed file from the website.
Way back in the 90s.
They studied it in country after country after secondhand smoke.
Might make people uncomfortable, but there's no illness attached to it.
It's a big myth.
Anyway, that's what the guy is.
Here's um here's his Alex in Alexandria, Virginia.
Hi, sir.
Thank you for calling.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Thanks for allowing me to speak.
Uh I have uh well, it's like to be quick.
I I have uh uh disagreement with you when you called uh the vote uninformed voter.
I don't think they're uninformed at all.
I I haven't met one informed voter yet, and I can't really I try.
They are deceptive.
They just uh want uh the people they're voting in.
They know what those people are.
Uh they know what uh it's coming, and uh they're all about it.
They already in favor of it.
It's not uh they're uninformed.
Actually, they're very well informed indeed.
Well, let me see.
Your your contention is the uninformed voter really isn't uninformed and is voting exactly for what he wants to happen and likes what's going on and wants more of it.
Absolutely.
Uh we we have we didn't have a problem like that uh until 50% of the population became uh, you know, that way, but after that happened, the tipping point uh was achieved, and uh here we are.
So you think actually the okay, the low information voter is actually a very sophisticated uh sponge.
He th his theory is the low information voter is one of the part of 50% that gets some kind of government check.
They know full well why they're getting it and who's giving it to them, and they know full well how to keep the train going, and that's vote Democrat.
That's his theory.
Therefore there are no low information voters.
Now I mean we can take issue with this, and I might on another occasion.
I just want to tell you, Alex, that the reason why you'll never run into a low information voter is that the low information voters don't know that they are low information.
By definition, they don't know enough to know that they don't know anything.
It's it's one of those it's it's kind of hard to understand at first, but then when the light goes off, it makes total sense.
By definition of being low information, they don't know that they're low information.
They don't know what they don't know.
And that's why you don't ever find any.
I've never I've never found anybody admitted they're low information.
Everybody talks about them, but nobody thinks they are one, but we know they're everywhere.
Oh, you agree with the guy.
You there's no look, there's no question.
I mean, you remember those man on the street things that Jay Leno used to do?
If those are real and not scripted, then just stage bitch.
If those are real, then there can be no doubt there's low information people.
And and we're we are dwarfed by them.
I the the Obama phone, lady, Obama phone.
Well, uh Yeah, I think they're all over the place.
But they don't know it.
That's why.
You know, I've been talking about the low information voter.
I've been insulting them for 20 years, and I've never had one of them, bitch.
Because nobody thinks I'm talking about them.
It's been the safest group to criticize that I've ever come up with.
And I did come up with the term, low information voter.
Not that that's a big deal, of course.
Uh Beth in Memphis.
Great to have you here.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
Uh, thank you for taking my call, and uh I'm very happy to talk with you finally, and uh also wanted to tell you uh do you love the books?
And I bought them for several people.
Well, thank you.
Thank you very, very much.
I appreciate that.
Um I did want to say that um I think it's just my suspicious that Ebola's been around for a couple of years or more, and all of a sudden, one month before the election we have the outbreak.
And um not only that, but that the patients that have been brought here are in hospitals in red states.
And it's just kind of interesting that, you know, if you want to scare people away from the polls or uh away from those states, that's a very quick way to do it.
Okay.
Let me let me follow you follow through with you on this.
There the Ebola people have been suffering from Ebola for at least a couple of years, but it wasn't until a couple or three months ago that we all began to hear about the major outbreak in the three African countries.
Correct.
Okay, and that and the reporting of it in that way makes you suspicious.
Now we have a bowl of patients being flown to America to be treated, and it's not accidental.
They're ending up in places like Texas and Nebraska, which are red states, Republican voter states, and that means I I lost you on this.
What does that mean?
means people aren't going to...
How will an Ebola patient being in Texas affect Republican votes or Democrat votes there?
Did we lose her?
The line dropped?
Oh darn.
Well, people would be afraid to come out what?
Of the house?
Oh, all, oh, I see.
People be afraid to listen, so they'd be hermits, including not going to the polls, because if Ebola is all over the place, like in a red state, Texas, you stay at home, you come in contact with few people as possible in order to not contract it.
So it could be a voter supp Oh, so she thinks a voter suppression is a possible part of the operation.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, I don't know what your reaction to that theory is.
But let me share with you mine, and I'm not going to address the substance of it.
But that woman from Memphis was obviously intelligent.
She was well spoken.
She was not ranting or fanatical.
Very reasonable woman.
And yet look what she thinks is possible.
Mr. Snurdley, why are you laughing?
Is this...
I it may be bordering on a little bit of cookiness, but I'm more interested in how it is that a an intelligent, apparently reasonable sounding woman can even start thinking of it.
My point my point is that look at what this administration is spawning.
All the conspiracy theories and all of the uh this is I mean it's I think it's I think it's amazing.
I'm I'm fascinated, as you know, because I've said it on several occasions, I'm fascinated by how people think.
When they're really thinking, and they're just reacting, when they're really and I'm fascinated by it.
And the fact that she could conceive of this as something that would be politically possible is quite telling to me.
She does have to be right.
She thinks it.
She thinks it's a legitimate possibility.
That the whole what she's thinking is, I don't think she thinks that the disease was planted and timed to outbreak now, but that is being used as a political weapon.
She thinks, given everything else she's seen this regime do, that it's entirely reasonable to think that they would do this.
And that fascinates me that people would have that kind of and it certainly isn't healthy.
You're a distrust of government.
We know that a lot of that is and is uh is prevalent.
Anyway, I see the clock.
Yep, gotta take a brief time out.
Sit tight, my friends.
There's much more, there always is much more after this.
Here's Kyle in Sun City, Arizona.
Hi, Kyle, I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you here.
Hello.
Hey, ditto's rush.
Thanks much.
Hey, do you hey do you remember back, I believe it was 2009 when we had that uh H1N1 flu pandemic sweeping across uh Central America.
Was that what is H1?
Is that a bird flu?
Yeah, that was the flu virus.
Yeah, flu vi flu virus, H1.
I you know, uh yeah, vaguely I do.
2009, yeah.
Yeah, we had Kathleen Sibelius, she was out there doing those uh Oh, yeah, all sneezing into her sleeve.
Now I remember yes, she was everywhere.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, now I Yes, yes, yes, now Yeah, we had all that fear-mongering from the administration then, and then we had Joe Biden.
He did an interview where he said he would not allow his family to travel in enclosed spaces, i.e., like an airplane.
So what's different now?
Well uh what does Joe Biden said about Ebola?
Well, my question is he wouldn't allow his family then to fly in an airplane.
Yeah, I know.
I know.
But it's Biden.
I mean, he was undercutting his I I'm I'm I got I got Sibelius in my mind, and there was there was.
I mean, they were really trying to raise I'll call it consciousness raising rather than fear mongering.
They were trying to raise it like they're pushing the vaccine, right?
And and I don't remember Biden, but he always gets in on the act.
He tries to put the exclamation point on everything and ends up putting his foot in his mouth.
Uh And so I get your point is if the H1 back then, which didn't amount to anything, was enough to keep Biden and his family out of enclosed places like an airplane cabin.
Of course, now they're telling us there's nothing to worry about.
Yeah, if you don't see any symptoms.
Nothing at all to worry about if you don't see any symptoms.
If you don't see any symptoms, it's impossible for the disease to spread.
I think.
No, I get your point.
These contradictions in the way things are being dealt with, they really are stark.
But I still, you know what my favorite one is that we've learned today?
And I I'm serious about it here.
This guy at the CDC, this Frieden guy who who will not go out of his way to ban anybody with Ebola getting in this country was the guy in New York who sends cigarette smokers as far away from the mainstream as he could get them, Banned smoking everywhere, in public, in ballparks, in parks, because smoking kills.
It may take 30 years to kill you, but it supposedly kills smoking.
Smoking.
That's the guy running the CDC.
There's no way cigarette smoking is anywhere near as life-threatening as this is.
And he's treating it in an entirely different manner.
I left some things on the table here, folks, that I've got to get to tomorrow.
One of them is this story.
Headline the NFL's Pink October does not raise money for cancer research.
It doesn't raise any money.
Pink October.
And the Keystone Pipeline star forgot to finish that up.
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