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Oct. 14, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 14, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, sir, Rebob.
Greetings, my good friends and welcome.
Great to have you here.
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You know what?
I'm afraid.
I'm afraid that I'm going to end up being called an Ebola phobe.
And I am Ebola phobic.
I fully expect the regime to drag that term out.
You wait.
It's going to happen.
It's going to happen because the regime, they're going to get tired.
The CDC director, all these people are going to get tired of everybody commenting on the fact that they don't know what they're doing.
Or commenting on their lack of preparedness.
Or commenting on their precious protocols that supersede everything until they change the protocols, which they just did.
And the regime as we all know, leftists just can't stand criticism.
It's not appreciated.
And when they have the power, it isn't tolerated.
And don't be surprised if you start hearing the term Ebola phobe.
I mean, look at what the I I had this in the in the stack actually two days ago, meaning last Friday.
I had it in the stack yesterday.
Just touched on it.
But let me give you a little thing here just to make a point, keep things in perspective.
I mentioned yesterday the Pentagon is now developing strategies as to how to handle climate change.
A Pentagon.
And you know, on the basis of what?
You might say, Pentagon, Defense Department, climate change.
What the heck is the connection?
Well, you've got to understand who's at the Pentagon now.
It's not your average George C. Scott who wants to bomb the commies anymore.
You've got extensions of Barack Obama in the defense department.
And so when the Pentagon talks about the fear that global warming is something they've got to strategize and have to be ready to go.
What it means is global warming is going to cause more pestilence, it's going to cause more starvation, it's going to cause drought, it's going to cause floods, it's going to cause cold weather, it's going to cause hot weather, and all of this is going to create refugees like we've never seen.
And these refugees are going to be marching all over the globe trying to escape the harsh conditions, global warming will bring on, and that is what will present the challenge to the U.S. military.
Don't misunderstand.
It's not that the military is devising weapons to stop climate change.
The military, under orders from Obama, is coming up with strategies to deal with the pestilence, the locusts, for example.
Uh and all of the destruction that will be caused by global warming, which will lead to increased numbers of poverty stricken refugees.
And it'll basically be a crowd control operation.
That's what the Pentagon's global climate change military strategy planning is all about.
Crowd control.
When you get right down to it.
And it's it's ridiculous.
The Chuck Hagel, the Secretary of Defense, is out there writing articles and giving speeches about the dangers the U.S. military is facing from the dangers of climate change.
It is it is just absurd.
But here's the point about it.
Climate change.
I'm not kidding you.
Climate change is the primary threat that the military is facing today.
That's what they want us to believe.
That's what the military is ramping up for.
Not the Obama cuts to the Pentagon's budget, which amounts to trillions of dollars over the decade.
Next decade.
No, no, no.
The real threat is climate change.
It's not ISIS.
It's not ISIL.
It's not jihad.
It's not militant Islamists.
No, the primary concern Coming out of the regime that they must have the Pentagon face is climate change.
I had the story yesterday.
So the White House worldview is, let's review it.
Ebola, not a threat.
They told us it isn't a threat.
It's not going to come to the country.
If it does, it isn't going to spread.
ISIS, not a threat.
ISIS is a JV team.
Just we're going to contain them over there with airstrikes?
Not a problem.
Russia?
Not a problem, not a threat.
You want to know how the world's changing.
You know, Putin runs around with his shirt off.
And he flexes.
And he shows his pecs and his mice.
He flexes out.
The Prime Minister of Australia has challenged him to a to a no shirt flexing contest.
Can you believe this?
Can you imagine Reagan and Gorbachev?
Can you imagine just to, I mean, to show you how to illustrate how pop culture is taking over everything.
The Prime Minister.
Now he may be trying to humiliate Putin.
He may be trying to illustrate what a boob Putin is by doing this, but I'm not sure.
We live in a very rapidly changing world, folks.
And this rapidly changing world is being dictated by social media far more than anybody is willing to admit.
It's dramatic.
It is really dramatic out there.
Have you ever noticed, by the way, that Obama has a lot of solutions for problems we don't have?
War on women, women's equal pay, not a really a problem anymore.
It's been dealt with income inequality, global warming.
And he, but the point is he has no solutions for the problems we do have.
It's stunning to me.
He's got all these plans, all these grandiose ideas, grand strategies for problems we don't have.
And problems staring us in the face.
He's got zip zero nada.
Did you see where Mark Zuckerberg and his uh his wife are donating $25 million to the Centers for Disease Control Foundation to help fight Ebola?
Have a uh a press release.
My formerly nicotine stained fingers that they sent out.
The epidomic, pardon me, slow down here.
The Ebola epidemic is at a critical turning point.
It's infected 8,400 people so far, but it is spreading very quickly, and projections suggest it could infect one million people or more over the next several months if not addressed.
We need to get Ebola under control in the near term so that it doesn't spread further and hurt what I really care about, and that is open border amnesty for immigrants.
Ah, it's sorry, he didn't say that.
I made that up.
He didn't put that in there.
I'm sorry, folks.
My mind, I it's it I lost the guardrails there for a second.
Good thing I caught myself in the nick of time.
We believe our grant is the quickest way to empower the CDC and the experts in this field to prevent this outcome.
This is I don't know.
See, there's no win.
There's I there's no way I can win, speaking truth to this.
Because mission accomplished, this is, oh man.
Look at Zuckerberg.
Yeah, he's got money, but he's willing to give it away.
Wow, he wants to save us all from getting Ebola.
Oh my god, he's such a great guy.
How do you compete with that?
Why do you want to compete with it, Mr. Limbaugh?
Why in the world would you want I don't want to compete with it?
Good point, Mr. New Castradi.
But $5 million.
There aren't any experts in the CDC.
That's my problem.
The evidence is abundant.
There aren't the experts there, at least the people speaking for it or not.
Has the CDC come up with any treatment protocol?
Has the CDC coming come up with any uh, shall we say uh serum?
Has the CDC come up with anything?
No, but a private sector company has.
I'm sorry, private enterprise company, the serum made from the tobacco plant.
Twenty-five, what is it?
Twenty-five million, is that what it is?
Yeah, twenty five million to the CDC.
Their budget.
Their budget is is how many billions.
If you're gonna give twenty-five million dollars away, how about giving it to a private company that may be on the verge of finding a cure for this?
That's just me.
And I know I'm not looking a gift horse in the mouth.
As I say, there's no way winning this.
I'm not, and I'm not trying to win anything, but I know what this is.
Anyway, the rest of the Zuckerberg statement.
We believe our grant is the quickest way to empower the CDC and the experts in this field to prevent this outcome, meaning spread.
So you see, money equals the solution.
There you go.
Grants like this directly help the frontline responders in their heroic work.
These people are on the ground setting up care centers, training local staff, identifying Ebola cases, and much more.
We are hopeful this will help save lives and get this outbreak under control.
To learn more about blah blah is the email address or the website address for the foundation if you want to give a couple of bucks.
So the Zuckerbergs have given 25 million dollars to the Centers for Disease Control Foundation, a uh government bureaucracy to continue doing what they're doing.
Well, a great guy.
Absolutely fabulous guy.
And kudos.
Absolutely kudos.
On uh on on what we have Fox News channel yesterday afternoon, the real story, Gretchen Carlson.
She spoke with Purdue University biological sciences professor David Sanders about the Ebola crisis.
Purdue University biological scientist sciences professor.
And she asked him, why do you believe an Ebola could be transmitted via the air?
There are two basic points.
The first is that a very closely related virus called Ebola Restin is known to spread between animals by an airborne route.
That's what all the evidence suggests.
The second point is the result of our own research that shows that Ebola Zayir enters human lung cells from the airway side.
So it has the inherent capacity to enter the lung from the airway.
Now I'm not saying that there's any evidence that the current spread is due to anything but bodily fluid contact, but we have to consider the possibility that it can't enter through an airway route.
Well, it's I think we should because people in full hazmat gear have come down with the virus.
Ebola Zyir enters human lung cells from the airway side.
So it has the inherent capacity to enter the lung from the airway.
No, I'm not saying that there's any evidence that the current spread is due to anything but bodily fluid contact, but we have to consider the possibility that it can't.
Well, they're telling us no, that it can't.
No, wait a minute.
No, no, no.
Oh, hard to keep track.
It was just yesterday that they they walked back this business that it's not airborne.
And somebody somewhere within close proximity of the leadership of the CDC said it might be possible.
They don't know.
They just don't know.
I know they've been tell I know they have been telling us his nighttime is not airborne, but then I know that I can't keep track of my memory anyway of who it was, but there was something yesterday.
This is Tuesday, right?
It might have been Friday, but I think it was yesterday.
I had I had a story here that somebody, and it was it was not some outlier, it was somebody with with with close ties to either the NIH or the CDC openly stated that we don't know enough.
It could be spread via the air.
We just don't know yet.
And that's all this guy is saying.
But I'm comforted by the fact that the Pentagon's gearing up for climate change.
So I'm resting easy about all of this.
Last night on CNN's the lead, Jake Tacker, sorry, Jake Tapper Spoke with Penn State University Professor of Public Health Sciences, Dr. Gavin McGregor Skinner about the Ebola crisis, and Jake Tapper said, Hey, that NBC crew that came in contact with the cameraman, the New Jersey health officials said over the weekend they had violated a three-week isolation agreement.
So the New Jersey health officials issued a mandatory quarantine order.
This is confusing to me, Professor.
Why was the isolation voluntary?
It just seems like if the health authorities really want them to stay away from the public, why didn't they issue a mandatory quarantine for this NBC crew to begin with?
This is what's adding so much confusion to how we actually uh tackle a highly infectious disease like Ebola.
The Public Health Service Act is the federal government's authority for a mandatory quarantine when required for particular reasons.
Again, each of the from the federal level down to the cycle, each state now has their own legislation and authority instrument.
That doesn't make a lot of sense.
Because we keep hearing from the CDC director, we know how to contain Ebola, we have all the necessary staff and equipment in place, and we know that you can't spread Ebola until you have uh symptoms.
Right.
And so why when people like myself, when I came back from Nigeria, had I been in contact with Ebola peasants?
Yes.
Was I put into quarantine?
No.
And again, there was no process there.
Because nobody knows what they're doing.
Now, Tapper had a good question.
Hey, look, these are NBC.
They are our competitors.
And this babe, Snyderman, went out, she violated a voluntary quarantine.
They're going to bowl a soup at some leftist soup place, and and she's out there possibly infecting.
How come they didn't make that quarantine?
I think it's great that a CNN guy wants a mandatory quarantine of NBC news people.
Don't you like that?
I mean, that to be right on, Jake.
Cheer about Susan Rice.
I had this yesterday.
I had, you know, H.R. made it a point of of drawing my attention to this, which he didn't have to do because I was well aware of it.
But I just, and I did talk about it peripherally yesterday, but I didn't get straight to it and spend a lot of time on it.
Susan Rice, remember now, she is the regime official who went on all five Sunday shows on one day and lied through her teeth, carrying the water for the regime, that what happened in Benghazi was an outgrowth of the public protests in Cairo, which then led to public protests in Benghazi, all of which triggered by that video.
She went out, she was a good soldier.
She lied through her teeth on five Sunday television shows on the same day.
And she and in subsequent days, she stuck to the story.
It's since blown up, um, but mission was accomplished.
All of that clouded the issue enough prior to the election that the incompetence exhibited by the regime didn't have any negative fallout in the 2012 presidential race.
So it really, as far as the regime's concerned, missions accomplished.
She did her job, she obfuscated, and she succeeded in getting the media to carry that template that it was the video.
Well, she's back.
And she was back on Sunday television.
She was on Slay the Nation, and she openly said that Turkey has happily, willingly, knowingly granted us the use of air bases in Turkey and airspace from which to launch attacks on ISIS in Syria and in Iraq.
Well, the Turks immediately denied it and said that it wasn't true, which has led to the official inside the beltway, Washington scratching its collective head and asking what in the name of Sam Hill is going on.
She goes on Sunday talk shows again and tells bald face lies.
And it's about this effort we're supposedly making against ISIS or ISIL, but we're being lied to again by top government officials.
And just like all of the people supposedly in charge, well, not supposed, just like all the people in charge of this Ebola outbreak, We are being fed a daily load of fiction about Obama, about his policies, and everyone connected to him.
Even such prestigious publications as foreign policy, which normally would look the other way any time a Democrat administration makes a public foray into foreign policy.
If a new diplomatic blowup with Turkey is any example, though the alliance may be far less robust than Washington says the latest row concerns the key question of whether Turkey, which hosts a sprawling American air base, will let U.S. warcraft fly from it into Iraq and Syria to batter the militant group.
Susan Rice said Sunday that Turkey had given the green light less than a day later, Turkish officials categorically denied.
They'd agreed to allow their basis to be used against the terror group.
Who do we believe here?
What does this say I mean?
Incompetence on the march.
You want to know something else about our good buddy Turkey?
NATO ally Turkey.
Turkey bombed a Kurds yesterday.
Two times.
Twice.
Not ISIS.
No, no, not ISIS, the ostensible enemy.
Turkey bombed the Kurds twice.
Kurds who are fighting ISIS.
Turkey supposedly an ally of ours.
And they're bombing another ally, the Kurds.
They're not bombing ISIS.
Now, as I say official Washington scratching its head, trying to understand this, because there's a there's a uh a conclusion, an assumption that they all make, and that is that nobody could be this stupid.
Nobody could be as stupid as this.
So there has to be some other explanation for why Susan Rice is out saying that Turkey has signed up as an ally and is allowing us to use bases to launch attacks on ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
Since she's not stupid and not uninformed, then why did she say it?
And the conventional wisdom inside the beltway among the establishment of both parties and the foreign policy establishment is quite simple.
It is that we have indeed secured Turkey as an ally, but they don't want anybody to know it.
Turkey has agreed, you can see it right here in this foreign policy.com story.
Turkey has agreed to be our ally, but but they weren't ready for that to be announced.
And Rice, in her eagerness to show the competence of the regime and the ability to put together a coalition, went out there on TV Sunday and blabbed something about a partner in a relationship that is true, but that the partner wanted kept under wraps.
That's the official explanation for how this could have happened.
Because you see, it simply isn't possible that somebody in the Obama administration is dumb.
It isn't possible that anybody in the Obama administration is incompetent.
It's simply inconsiderable.
It's not it can't possibly be that somebody in the regime would lie.
Therefore, there has to be an intelligent explanation.
Okay, well, let's let's take them at their desired explanation.
Let's say that Turkey is indeed an ally, despite their vehement denials, and their denials are categorical, and their denials are vehement.
There's there's no ambiguity about Turkey claiming this is all BS.
Well, let's say that they're right.
Let's say that Turkey has agreed, doesn't want anybody to know, but that Susan Rice, in her eagerness to announce such a great achievement, could not contain herself and let the cat out of the bag on Sunday TV.
How does that translate to uh Competence.
How does that translate?
I mean, this woman would be sued 50 million dollars by Apple for giving away trade secrets if she worked in that world.
So no matter how you slice it, there's something very unsettling going on with the regime here.
And it does boil down to okay, who do we want to believe?
A woman who has lied to the country over and over again, repeatedly, sent out to lie by her boss, and did it on five Sunday TV shows on the same day about the video being responsible for the massacre at Benghazi.
And now she's back in cancer.
Oh, yeah, Turkey.
The Turks have signed on.
Oh, yeah, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Bud, they're all with us.
They have granted us permission to launch air strikes against ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
Turkey's it.
And Turkey said, uh-uh.
Uh, they categorically, that means in every possible way you could deny they are denying.
They're leaving no gray area here.
They're leaving no doubt.
A categorical denial is as blatant a denial as you can offer, that they have agreed to allow their basis to be used against ISIS.
What is that?
You think they're desperate for good news?
The regime is desperate for good news.
Building the coal well.
Okay, then all if if this is how they go about getting good news, they lie about things.
This is, I mean, clear, this is this is it the way they're looking at this, I guarantee you, it worked once in Benghazi or with Benghazi.
Why won't it work now?
They know they've got the media on their side, and they know that they have what's the word they've got the benefit of the doubt on their side.
They know the media really doesn't think that anybody in this regime is this dumb, stupid, or incompetent, so it won't be that.
They won't call them that.
They know that everybody in the media is very sympathetic and wants the regime to do well for a whole host of reasons, ideological and race and what have you.
So they're rolling the dice.
Okay, just like we sent her out there to lie about Benghazi, and it worked for enough weeks so that it didn't hurt us in the election.
Well, lo and behold, there's another election coming up, isn't there?
And the and the process appears to be repeating.
Send her out, blatantly lie, create chaos and confusion, get the media wondering who, what, when, where, why?
Meanwhile, low information crowd and the voters may not even be aware of it, and if they do become aware of it, may not care enough to even worry about it.
Because they're focused on Ebola, not ISIS.
And Obama's told everybody ISIS nothing to worry about anyway.
So I'm sure that's what they're doing.
They're just trying to manufacture some good news in the media.
And if all you see, before there's any analysis of it, if all you see is the soundbite of Susan Rice on television.
I saw it this morning, she's on TV.
Oh, yeah, the Turks.
And this is so important, Chuck.
No, it was Bob Schiefer.
So important, Bob.
The Turks are right in there with it.
This is a major, major achievement.
She's going on and on and on, and Schiefer just nodding his head.
But if that's the only sound bite you see, then you're going to think Turks indeed have signed up.
Obama put together his coalition.
The old saying, Winston Churchill said, a lie is halfway around the world before the truth.
Even puts its pants on.
From Berlin, Associated Press United Nations Medical Worker who was infected with Ebola in Liberia has died despite intensive medical procedures.
This is from a German hospital today.
Said the 56-year-old man whose name has not been released, died overnight of the infection.
It released no further details and did not answer any telephone calls.
It is October 14th, eight days.
This prompted Liberia's UN peacekeeping mission to place 41 staff members who had Possibly been in contact with him under close medical observation.
He arrived in a Leipzig for treatment on October 9th.
Hospital's chief executive, Dr. Iris Minde said at the time there was no risk of infection for other patients, no risk of infection for relatives, no risk of infection for visitors, and most importantly, no risk of infection for the public.
The man was kept in a secure isolation ward, specially equipped with negative pressure rooms that are hermetically sealed and can only be accessed through a number of airlocks.
All air and fluids are filtered and all equipment is decontaminated after use, said Dr. Iris Mind.
Ebola patient was the third to be flown to Germany for treatment from Liberia.
We are going to get to the phones here in just a second, but I want to give you some numbers, some Ebola numbers.
And I want to ask you if you've heard these numbers, if you've read these numbers, if you've heard about these numbers anywhere.
As of today, as of now, more than 233 doctors and nurses have died from Ebola just this year.
Did you know that?
Have you seen that anywhere?
233 doctors and nurses have died from Ebola just this year.
That number, 233 includes highly trained doctors, such as the medical director of the two largest hospitals in Liberia.
The number includes United Nations doctors.
The number includes two health care workers from doctors without borders teams.
In other words, the number of people who've died is in in the in the healthcare industry, 233 out of the nearly 4,000 deaths, 233 from medical treatment professionals.
Now, I'm not trying to cause any trouble here, but I'd have a question.
Did all of them violate protocols?
Did every one of these health professionals violate some protocol from Dr. Friedan and the Centers for Disease Control?
Or did they all violate protocols from the World Health Organization or the United Nations?
Did they?
Because if they did, they either don't believe in the protocols or the protocols are comprised of incompetence.
And if they didn't violate the protocols and yet still succumbed to the disease, then what?
233 this year.
They're over approaching 8,000 cases.
We're approaching 4,000 deaths.
I saw on the tube this morning.
Some again expert said that the newly calculated death rate in the current outbreak of Ebola in Africa is approaching 80%.
The normal death rate is expressed as between 50 and 90%.
And it's been right around 70.
It's been up now to 80% as of today.
As I say, your phone calls coming up, but I want you to hear the Susan Rice bite.
It was, I was on Meet the Press with F. Chuck Todd.
I don't know if she'd have gotten away with this with John Stewart.
See, this is the thing that we will never know.
If NBC had succeeded in hiring John Stewart, I don't know she'd have gotten away with a lie.
might have.
It could well be that Stuart would have let it go by too.
We'll never know.
But I have a question.
After Susan Rice went on every Sunday morning television show and as everybody now acknowledges lied to each one of them, why have her back?
Why have a guest who you know can lie to you just as easily as tell you the truth?
Why have her back?
What's the point?
What's the credibility?
I think the question answers itself.
I'm asking it rhetorically.
F. Chuck Todd asked her this question.
President Erdogan has basically said that he's not going to commit Turkish forces until he sees a strategery that combats both ISIS and Assad in Syria.
Is that something the U.S. would consider reassessing the Syrian strategery in order to get the Turks more involved?
This is the bite that has her being raked over the coals.
First of all, the Turks have this just in the last several days made a commitment that they will, in the first instance, allow the United States and our partners to use Turkish bases and territory to train.
Airspace too, by the way, let me explain this carefully.
To train these moderate Syrian opposition forces.
So that is a new commitment.
They have now joined Saudi Arabia in giving uh the go-ahead for that important contribution.
In addition, they have said that their facilities inside of Turkey can be used by the coalition forces, American and otherwise, to uh engage in activities inside of Iraq and Syria.
That's a new commitment and one that we very much welcome.
Well, that's being denied left and right.
The Turks came out of the box.
I mean, like a jack in the box, they flew out there to say that it's not true.
We have granted no such permission.
So Susan Rice apparently has gone on television to lie it again.
Why do they have her back?
And would John Stewart have put up with that lie?
Would John Stewart have let that go by?
We'll never know, because he turned down NBC's offer to host the show.
Here's uh here's Thomas in Washington, D.C. Thomas, your first call today.
Great to have you with us on the program.
Long time listener, a first-time caller.
I really appreciate what you're doing.
Thank you, sir.
Um I wanted to make a uh a statement that I I think the American people need to hear.
Ah, sorry, I was just out jogging.
The uh I'm I'm a physician here in Washington, DC.
I used to be in the military.
Okay.
And I I do understand a little bit about viremia and infectious diseases.
When before a virus become can become contagious and secreted and bodily fluids, etc.
or whichever way you're going to catch it.
It has to start replicating and develop a viremia on your body.
Before according to the to the guidelines on the CDC, they state that twenty-one days is the the incubation period, so to speak, and before the virus the viral entity in your body gets large enough before it becomes contagious.
And a lot of studies have been shown that it can be secreted greater than a hundred days even after an antibody response has been made out of secretions.
But no studies.
Studies that show that a viremia can be spread prior to 21 days have not been vigorously pursued.
Meaning there's not enough data out there to disprove the fact that it can be spread prior to you getting symptoms.
Hey, Thomas, Thomas, Thomas, do you have some time to hang on?
Because I've got to take a break, and I'd like for you to catch your breath.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
And and go through this uh when you weren't so time constrained.
Do you have time to hang on here?
Sure.
Okay, good.
Is a doctor in Washington, not for the morning jug.
They didn't expect to get through, I'm sure.
So let him catch his breath and we'll get back to him uh as soon as we can on this.
Don't go away, folks.
Veremia, ladies and gentlemen, is a medical condition where viruses enter the bloodstream and thus have access to the rest of the body.
Varemia is is what Thomas, the doctor jogging in Washington, was talking about.
We're gonna hold him over and we'll get to him when we come back soon as the next hour of the busy broadcast kicks off.
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