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Is your confidence shaken?
I don't think you're alone.
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I don't think anybody knows what they're doing.
I don't think anybody involved with Ebola knows what they're doing.
I don't care if it's the WHO, if it's at the Centers for Disease Control, I don't think anybody knows what they're doing.
I don't think we have any experts.
I think what we've got is a rise to power of a bunch of people who came through the politically correct school of thought.
I'm really beginning to wonder.
And I've got a story here, even the military, the military's preparing battle strategies for climate change with ISIS on the verge of overwhelming success.
The UK telegraph had a story yesterday that this ISIS strategy of ours is non-existent.
It has failed not just miserably, but it has failed greatly, and it's in the process of continuing to fail.
And the thing is, with with this administration, we don't really know what the objective is.
We don't know what success means to them.
And by the same token, we don't know what failure means to them.
We're not sure.
I mean, there are all kinds of different theories about what is success and what is failure vis-a-vis the United States and policy and this administration.
It's clear that the United Nations is clueless.
It's clear the World Health Organization, which is part of the United Nations, is clueless.
They're run by a bunch of leftists.
I mean, even today.
Let me ask you a question.
Let me do it, do a uh it's a hypothetical.
Go back to the actual day of September 11th, 2001.
And then the next day, and the day after that, and then a couple of weeks.
And I want you to be as honest as you can be, recalling on your memory as best you can.
How many of you had the impression that the reporting on that day and that event, the mayor of New York and what he was doing and saying on the day of the event and the days after, the president of the United States on that day and the day after?
How many of you?
Best of your knowledge, best of your memory, how many of you thought that everything being said and analyzed was political?
When Cheney came out, when Bush came out, when um uh uh Rudy in New York uh came out, when anybody, when you public figure, position of authority to government made a statement.
I'm watching CNN today.
It's one of the uh two networks on Fox's the other on my in studio monitors, and they're doing another update on Ebola, followed by another update on ISIS.
You know what the whole angle is in both stories is how this is going to affect Obama.
How is it going to affect the Democrats' reelection chances in uh in November?
Uh is Obama's misguided poly policy uh in ISIS visa against ISIS gonna hurt him politically.
Not not one syllable about the actual plan.
Whatever the definition of success is, whatever the definition of victory, there wasn't any of that was being discussed.
It was it was the fact that it's not working, is it gonna hurt Obama a whole lot?
What's it gonna mean to the Democrats in the election in November?
I know this is nothing new, but it's just it's more and more.
And the same thing with Ebola.
And we've gotten to point now we're going to start blaming victims of Ebola, if it's the nurse, the second nurse who has it.
And a prediction that I made, this is a giant C, I told you so.
You might remember this last week or the day before.
I told you wouldn't be long before the Democrats would find a way to blame the Republicans for it.
And that has happened.
Agent Project Action Fund.
No strangers to the anti-GOT attack ad released a new ad this morning targeting Republicans over cuts to public health research in light of the first cases of Ebola.
Announcing Republican cuts kill.
The ad features a montage of Republican lawmakers calling for spending cuts, interspersed with National Institutes for Health and CDC officials arguing that the slowdown in funding hampered response to infectious disease outbreaks.
And then the ad features pictures of dead bodies, presumably from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
And they have made an ad by in Kentucky to run it against Senator Mitch McConnell.
In the first, and if you want to get specific, they're blaming this on this question.
Now, obviously, anybody with a brain, but that seems to be a dwindling number, knows there haven't been any budget cuts.
There never are any budget cuts.
We're 17 trillion dollars in debt or approaching it.
This is just an out and out lie that the Ebola outbreak, which started in Africa way back in uh in March or April, is somehow the fault of the Republicans.
It was an easy call, folks.
It was an easy prediction to make because this is what the Democrats do.
And of course, it's just a little expansion on the same thinking that they used to blame Republicans for starving kids back in 1995 with the school lunch budget cuts.
And there were no school lunch budget cuts either.
But it was all over the place that the Republicans were starving kids.
And the obvious reactions to it were never made.
I mean, there were no budget cuts, for example.
But let's say there were.
Are parents going to send their kids to school hungry?
Parents not going to feed their own kids?
Is it totally up to the government to do this?
If the government doesn't feed the kids, do kids starve?
Is that what we're led to believe?
Yes, it's what we're led to believe.
And then the Democrats made sure a bunch of little kids wrote letters to members of Congress and the Republicans saying, please, we can't learn when we're starving.
Please don't cut our lunches.
And the media ran it real big.
So we have a killer disease here, the the scope of which nobody knows.
We're not confident.
We don't know what to believe.
We don't think the people telling us what they're telling us know what they're talking about.
We have no faith in their ability.
We have no confidence that they're that they're apolitical.
The odds are that they're all on the same political side, and everything being done here is being engineered for a Democrat election victory in the in the in the killer virus.
And now this ISIS strategy that we have, the foreign media claim not working, it's backfiring, it's horrible.
And yet the coverage is only will it hurt Obama?
Will it hurt the Democrats?
Or what effect will any of this have?
And if they conclude that it might have a negative impact on Obama, then that flavors and colors the way they report the real news, which is to soft sell it.
Now I thought this Ebola, I thought it was hard to get.
I thought it was so hard, I mean I mean the president told us it's hard to get.
A lot of people told us it's gonna be real, real, real hard to get this disease.
Remember that?
Now this nurse has come down with it.
And a female nurse in Dallas somehow infected with the Ebola virus while caring for Thomas Duncan, the Liberian man who came to the U.S. infected with the disease later died.
The big question that public health officials and the public is asking is how did this happen?
How did she get it?
A nurse.
Yesterday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director, Dr. Thomas Friedan said that clearly there was a breach in protocol at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.
Some nurses and infectious disease experts say that Friedman's explanation amounts to blaming the victim when the real lesson is that U.S. hospitals are clearly unprepared to handle Ebola.
You don't scapegoat and blame when you have a disease outbreak, said National Nurses United's Bonnie Castillo, a registered nurse and disaster relief expert at the U.S. professional nurse.
Yes, you do if you're the Democrat Party, it's exactly what you do.
You scapegoat and you blame when you have a disease outbreak.
That's exactly what you do if you're the Democrat Party today.
We have a system failure.
That's what we have to correct, she says.
We don't have a system failure.
We we have a Republican Party to cut funding, and that's why the disease is spreading.
Republicans don't care about people.
Republicans don't care about the sick.
And so the Republicans cut the budget.
They cut you.
What budget cuts, particularly when it comes to health care?
We're spending more on health care than we ever have, ladies and gentlemen.
Not even counting Obamacare.
You know, and if there are any cuts, speaking of Obama, if there are any cuts or reductions in the rate of growth, they probably are due to Obamacare.
Nothing the Republicans have done.
The Republicans have studiously avoided cutting anything because they're afraid of just this kind of thing happening, which of course is the irony.
This kind of thing happens no matter what they do.
They can be responsible.
The Republicans can end up being the impetus behind Amnesty happening, and still when the fallout comes, they'll get the blame, even though right now it's supposedly something for which you're going to get credit.
But the Republicans aren't doing anything.
I should put a period right there.
They're not doing anything.
They're not cutting the budget, they're not doing anything.
I mean, the Republicans are going out of their way to say you want your continuing resolution, Mr. Reed, you can have it because we want the American people to know that we are not going to shut down the government.
And there will not be another sequester, and there will not be any budget cuts.
The Republicans are in full panic defense mode.
They didn't cut anything.
Doesn't matter.
Truth is irrelevant.
And I, your beloved host, El Rochebow predicted it.
Here we have the Democrat Party running an ad, Republican cuts kill.
Complete with pictures of dying or dead Ebola victims.
No different than the ad against Paul Ryan and his budget pushing Grandma in the wheelchair over the cliff.
Meanwhile, when it comes to Democrats and wheelchair ads in poor taste, it's a Democrat doing it, Wendy Davis, running for governor in Texas.
This ad, by the way, comes just as the head of the National Institutes for Health, Francis Collins, told the Huffing and Puffington Post that the last decade's worth of frozen funding was directly responsible for a lack of Ebola vaccines.
You see how this works?
Whenever the Democrats mess something up because they're incompetent, when the Democrats mess something up because everything to them is political, and the substance of anything is sidetracked and ignored.
Competent qualified people are not put in places where you want them.
Politically correct People, loyal public servants.
Career appointments are put in these positions, whether they're qualified or not, just like the president is not qualified to be president.
But he's there, as are many in the bureaucracy, and they haven't the slightest idea what they're doing.
And so when, and by the way, it's not supposed to be this way.
See, they're the good people, and they care the most, and they have the most compassion, and that alone is supposed to prevent an Ebola outbreak.
Just the very fact these people are here.
They were the ones we've been waiting for.
Just the fact that they're here and on the scene means that the sea level stopped rising, that the temperatures cool off, that the earth starts to heal, that the terrorists stop being enemies, that the world loves us once again, and killer viruses go away.
When none of that happens, these people end up being non-plussed and have no clue what to do because just their words, just their compassion.
Their presence alone is supposed to arrest all the evil in the world.
And yet the evil seems to march more rapidly and with more power and more success whenever these people are in charge, because to them there really is no evil except Republicans.
And conservatives.
And you have the low information voter crowd.
Who knows how effective this ad is going to be?
Republican cuts kill.
The Huffing and Puffington Post picks it up.
That first story just rose mediaite, the Huffing and Puffington Post.
Ebola vaccine would likely have been found by now, if not for budget cuts, according to the NIH director.
So now the drive-by's and the rest of the Democrat Party are blaming Ebola on the cuts that took place in the sequester.
The Democrats even running a campaign ad that I mentioned called Republican cuts kill.
Now, what good does it do to remind anybody?
The sequester was Obama's idea.
But what could does it do to remind anybody?
Obama demanded the sequester.
Obama thought that he was pigeonholing the Republicans.
He thought that by demanding the sequester, which meant, in the Republican view, Defense Department cuts that they'd never go for it.
It was all it was Obama's idea to do the sequester, and he thought he had a winning hand by agreeing there'd be social security or Medicare, whatever, some social welfare cuts in exchange for Medicare cuts.
Republicans will never go for cutting the defense.
But they bought.
They did it, and so the sequester was Obama's idea.
And Obama refused to allow any changes to sequester cuts.
But the truth is the NIH director here is not even talking about sequester cuts, talking about a decrease spending over the last 10 years, but there hasn't been.
Truth of the matter, you want the numbers of CDC.
Actually had their budget triple from 2001 to 2010.
And what did they do with the money?
What do you think?
Here's the ad.
We have the audio of the ad in which the uh it's the the agenda project, and we got it here off of YouTube, but they're running the ad wherever they can.
It's entitled Republican Cuts Kill, and it blames Republicans for the Ebola outbreak.
Washington actually can't cut spending.
The CDC says its discretionary funding has been cut by 585 million since 2010.
Cut less government.
Cut.
Cut our budget has been flat since 2003, responding to an emerging infectious disease threat.
This is particularly damaging.
That was the left hook.
Cut, cut the right cross was the sequestration cut.
The NIH saw its budget flash by 446 million.
Cut cut.
There are outbreaks happening today that we're not able to recognize, stop, or prevent as effectively as we should be able to.
Cut cut.
Cut.
Cut.
Cut it.
Cut.
Make a cut.
Every voice that you heard using the word cut was a Republican.
Now remember this a video commercial, so the pictures of all of those Republicans were on This ad.
And everybody objecting was, for example, Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes for Health, or any number of other official looking Democrats, but it was all republic.
Cut!
Cut!
Cut.
Bobby Gendal has written a piece that's out just yesterday, the facts about Ebola funding.
In recent years, the CD.
What a difference does it make, though?
The ads out there.
We can give you the truth of the matter, like we've given you the truth of everything over 25 years, and low information crowds still going to believe what they see.
The fact is it's all lies.
There have not been any cuts.
In recent years, the CDC has received significant amounts of funding.
As everybody knows there isn't anything getting cut in this government.
Unfortunately, however, many of those funds to the CDC have been diverted away from programs that can fight infectious diseases and toward programs far afield from the CDC's original purpose.
Consider the Prevention and Public Health Fund.
That's a new series of annual mandatory appropriations created by Obamacare.
Over the last five years, the CDC has received just under $3 billion in transfers from that fund, yet only 6%.
180 million of that 3 billion went toward building epidemiology and laboratory capacity, especially given the agency's post-war roots as the communicable disease center.
One would think that detecting and responding to infectious diseases and other public health threats warrants a larger funding commitment.
Instead, the Obama regime has focused the CDC on other priorities.
You know what they're basically they're doing community outreach.
They're doing voter registration, and they're doing community organizing things with these budget increases that they are getting.
That's essentially what they've been politicized.
And we are here kicking off a brand new week of broadcast excellence hosted by me, Rush Limbaugh, and the EIB Network.
Thank you.
Still documented to be almost always right, 99.7% of the time.
This nurse in Dallas, the second known Ebola patient or case in the United States, and uh I think the first case actually transmitted in the U.S. They're all panicking.
Well, what happened?
Because, you know, we're in charge now.
This shouldn't happen.
And uh ladies and gentlemen, please don't automatically reject that as exaggeration.
I really have no desire for anybody to be confused here, and I, you know, I sometimes I do parody and satire, but I'm I'm really serious when I tell you that the mindset of many liberals is just their presence alone means the difference.
Their presence alone.
You don't have to do anything but show up means change.
Obama's presence was gonna cause terrorists to not be as mean.
Obama's presence was gonna make the world love us.
Obama's presence was going to stop global warming.
And the way it happens is the inherent decency, the inherent goodness.
And the arrival on the scene of this person has so much influence over mere mortals that everybody begins to behave.
The evil stop doing evil things.
Bad people stop doing bad things, and we all start to get along, and soon we'll be in utopia.
And that is not an exaggeration.
They never roll up and get down to the substance of things because the substance of things, something they don't even squarely face.
The substance, the bad things out there are all explained by the absence of liberals.
Crime, well, that's because of Republicans.
Crime, it's because of capitalism.
Crime, it's because the gap between the rich and the poor.
And if you eliminate that, if you raise taxes and you make the you take all the money away from the rich, then the poor are going to be happy, and the bad guys won't be upset about anything.
They'll stop committing crime.
There won't be any reason to, because everybody will have more money because the Democrats are going to redistribute, and they think this way.
They really do believe in the power of their own existence.
Obama believes that the world is governed by the aggressive use of speeches and words.
And of course, the world doesn't function that way at all.
And so you've got people in positions of power and authority who really don't know what they're doing.
This guy at the Centers for Disease Control, Dr. Thomas Friedman.
For those of you who haven't heard, he was Mayor Doomberg's health police forces.
He's the guy that ran the anti-trans fats program.
He's the guy that ran the no soft drink can be bigger than 16 ounces.
He's the guy that banned smoking everywhere in New York, nowhere, no how?
A genuine fanatic, not at all rooted in reality.
Now this guy's running the CDC.
And as Bobby Gendal's op-ed yesterday points out, the CDC got plenty of money.
The CDC got budget increases.
significant budget increases.
$3 billion increases.
Let's see, what's the actual number The CDC has received significant amounts of funding.
However, funding increases, the vast majority of the new money the CDC got, and it predates Freedom getting there, but nevertheless, the vast majority of the money the CDC got didn't go to building up the preventous prevention of disease program or the communicable disease center.
No, the money went just like when it came time to set up the health exchanges in the states.
The vast majority of the money went to unions and other groups to do voter registration with, rather than actually set up health care exchanges.
These are just a bunch of people snatching money from the Federal Treasury, money that really isn't there, by the way, because of our debt, but they're snatching money just like the stimulus was under the guise of shovel ready jobs and rebuilding roads and bridges.
But where did it all end up going?
Vast majority, over 75%, went to unions, teachers in the states to make sure they didn't lose their jobs in the recession.
There weren't any shovel ready jobs that were funded.
There weren't any school or road repairs that went on.
It's all a big joke.
And all the increased funding the CDC got, something like 6% of it went to dealing with things like Ebola.
The rest went to community outreach and so forth.
Every federal agency has been turned into community organizing, registering of Democrat voters, passing out money to disadvantaged people to buy votes.
That's what it's all been turned into.
So now, when a genuine crisis erupts, there's no infrastructure in place to deal with it at the CDC.
They've diverted the money to other things, so it's time to trot out old reliable.
Republicans are to blame.
Yes, sir, rebob Republican budget cuts, because Republicans don't care about other people.
So we'll blame them.
Why not?
Everybody will believe us.
The media will report it.
We'll do a couple of ads, and everybody will think the Republicans are responsible for this.
Where do these vaccines come from, by the way?
Where does the research and development on vaccines, cures, you name it, treatment?
Where does it all happen?
It doesn't happen at the CDC, does it?
Doesn't happen at the Institutes for Health.
No, it happens in the private sector.
I'm sorry.
It happens where private enterprise takes place.
It happens where there are scientific research and development companies who earn a profit.
Now I wonder what kind of regulations have been imposed on them by agencies like the Food and Drug Administration.
I have no idea, but I would venture to say here that a lot of innovation, ingenuity, and creativity is being stifled in the name of big government fairless by overregulation.
Why do we have a shortage of this serum?
Why in the world I know it only comes from one tobacco plant, Kentucky.
Why is there a shortage of the United States of America?
This doesn't happen.
Shortages of this kind of thing happen in lesser developed countries.
Why is this happening here?
Why all of a sudden are we inept?
Why all of a sudden are we not competent to deal with this?
Why all of a sudden are we not the place to turn to when outbreaks like this happen?
And since when did we start blaming the dise the victims when they come down with the disease?
And that's exactly what we're doing in the case of the nurse.
The nurse was wearing the fully recommended protective gear, according to the hospital.
But get this.
Healthcare workers can get infected with just tiny slip-ups, like if they brush against an infected surface.
Or accidentally touch the wrong part of their hazmat suit and then take off their suit in the wrong way.
Wait a minute.
I thought this was hard to get.
Didn't Obama tell us this was hard to get?
Didn't Dr. Anthony Fauci tell us it's hard to get, and all these experts are saying it's not communicable in the way other diseases are.
You're not going to get this in the air.
And then they tell us be very careful if somebody sneezes around your blows their nose.
Here's a nurse in full hazmat gear.
Well, no, not hazmat.
She was in full protective recommended protecting and recommended by the CDC, and she still came down with this disease.
Following every instruction available.
And now we're going to blame her.
Yeah, because they say that protocol breach.
There was a protocol breach.
That's the explanation for the new Texas Ebola case.
A protocol breach?
Whose protocol?
What protocol?
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
We'll start here at number number 14.
This morning, uh sorry, yesterday morning on Slay the Nation, Bob Schiefer was talking to Dr. Frieden of the CDC.
Schiefer said, We never did try to hire John Stewart, by the way, Dr. Friedon.
Bob Schiefer made the point that CBS never tried to replace Schiefer with John Stewart.
That was over at NBC, and Schaefer was praising Frieden for making a decision to come to his show.
He said the authorities in the hospital saying the person who's now been diagnosed as having Ebola was a health care worker.
They don't give the gender, was exposed to Duncan, the man who died down there in his second visit to the hospital.
Now, obviously, he was showing symptoms by then, but that worker had been considered at that point a low-risk situation.
And they said the worker was following CDC protocols.
In other words, wearing the gown and wearing the gloves and all that.
And doesn't this make this even more serious than we thought it was, Doctor?
I think the fact that we don't know of a breach in protocol is concerning because clearly there was a breach in protocol.
We'll conduct a full investigation of what happens before health workers go in, what happens when they're there, and what happens in taking out, taking off their protective equipment?
Because infections only occur when there's a breach in protocol.
How in the world, this is exactly what I mean.
How can he say that?
How can anybody infections only occur when there's a breach in protocol?
What you're telling me is, Dr. Frieden, that you have guaranteed procedures under which people will never contract the disease.
Is that what you're telling me here?
That only will somebody get the disease when there's a breach in it?
In protocol?
Who establishes protocol?
Human beings.
So what human beings have talked to this virus?
And what's the virus told them about how it spreads so that the protocols could be established these fail-safe, infallible protocol?
Why are they fail-safe and infallible?
Because we established them.
We are good people.
Really?
Well, the nurse followed every protocol.
Well, no, she didn't, the doctor is saying it was the nurse's fault, because if you follow protocol, You won't get the disease.
I thought it was hard to get anyway.
Now people are getting it and they can't tell us how or why.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair, Rush Limbaugh.
The guy you never get tired of listening to on the radio.
No, the only guy you're never getting tired of listening to on.
That's what a caller said.
What are you pointing at me about?
Mm-hmm.
Yes.
Well, it wasn't, it wasn't.
She wasn't in a hazmat suit.
Let's be I'm going to be very clear.
The nurse, when when they say that the nurse was wearing protective gear according to protocol, it was a gown, gloves, uh, mask, and one of those uh shields like like V Stiviana was wearing after she got caught with Donald Sterling.
But it's not a full it's not a full hazmat suit where you've got your own external air supply and all that.
But it's a shield, and it protects you from inhaling anything.
The gloves protect you.
Now there have been medical workers in hazmat gear in Africa who have contracted it.
So what they are saying is that she violated protocol somehow by brushing up against somebody or a surface that had the virus on it and then took the gear that she was wearing off improperly and exposed herself to it.
All of that versus it's really hard to get, they told us.
It sounds like it's pretty easy to get.
If you can follow full protocol in terms of protective gear that the CDC recommends that you do.
And if you can still get it, that's why the people are saying, what are you blaming the victim for?
Well, these are liberals, folks.
You know, I have I know what some of you did everything, Mr. Limbaugh come down to it.
I'm sorry to say, if you want the honest answer, liberals are never to blame for anything.
Somebody always has to be the scapegoat.
Somebody's always going to take the hit, not them, not their plans, not their ideology, not their agenda, not their policy.
It's going to be somebody else is going to take the fall for everything they screw up, yes.
How about how much do you feel that this is true, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health said yesterday that the system put into place to slow the spread of Ebola transmission in America was working.
He said on This Week Needs David Rinkley yesterday, yep, yep, system worked.
That's what Janet Napolitano said about the underwear bomber was only prevented from blowing up a plane over Detroit on Christmas Day by some passengers.
Yeah, this is another thing.
When when when a terror plot is foiled, the first people to come in and claim their policy works are the Democrats.
And this was a bunch of passengers on the plane who discovered the underwear bomber.
Here's more of Dr. Do you feel like systems working?
I mean, if you did, if you do, that means you're you're confident.
So here's Dr. Frieden, blaming a nurse.
I mean, if you want to hear it, second soundbite from Face of the Nation yesterday, uh Schiefer said, are you are you saying that somehow or another by accident or otherwise that one of the protocols was violated by the nurse or not followed, and that's how this happened?
Not because there are other ways you can get this disease.
Is it basically what you're saying, Doctor?
That's correct.
We know from many years of experience that it's possible to care for uh patients with Ebola safely without risk to health care workers, but we also know that it's hard, that even a single breach can result in contamination.
And one of the areas that we look at closely are things like how you take off the gear that might be infected or contaminated.
Another that we'll be looking at closely in in the investigation, is the interventions that were done to try desperately to keep the index patient alive.
This included dialysis and intubation.
These are two procedures which can result in the spread of infectious material.
No, no, not if you follow protocol.
I've a previous soundbite said here, uh when they're there and what happens in taking out, taking off their protective equipment, because infections only occur when there's a breach in protocol.
And then the next soundbite says, well, these procedures to try to save uh patient index, that's Thomas Duncan, uh, included dialysis and intubation.
Those are two procedures which can result in the spread of infectious material.
Well, no, no, uh, but but protocol.
You said only violations of breaches in protocol.
But now we find okay, dialysis and intubation.
But what if you're wearing all the right gear and so forth?
Ponder it yourself.
I've got to take a brief time out.
We will be back.
Don't call.
Fear not, ladies and gentlemen, there's much more transpiring out there besides the spread of the Ebola virus.
And that is the spread of ISIS.
ISIS is pretty much spreading at will wherever it wants to go.
Our policy, according to the UK telegraph yesterday, is an outright failure.
But there's other stuff in addition to that.
We're going to touch on all of it over our entire program.