I was just telling the staff here, ladies and gentlemen.
I have never felt happier.
I've never I've never felt better about being a hermit.
About being a recluse.
Man, oh man, I thought rampant incompetence was taking place, but even I had no idea how bad it is.
And no, it hasn't.
I don't think it's peaked yet.
I I sadly I do not.
Greetings, my friends.
Welcome.
It's Rush Lynn Ball.
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It's a thrill and a delight to be with you.
It always is.
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Now there's a lot to do every day, and I can open the program the same way every day by telling you I can't get it all in, even if I try for three hours.
This may be one of those days.
I mean, we're literally loaded.
I've got four or five things here that all would qualify as being the top story that I would lead with.
Ebola has to be it.
But there's some devastating polling news for Obama and the Democrat Party.
The Democrat senatorial campaign committees pulled out of the Kentucky race.
They have stranded that Grimes woman, and she is uh she's on her own.
It's pretty much means that they think McConnell is gonna win re-election.
They pretty much think that's over.
I had a I got a note from a friend of mine last night.
I'm gonna spend some time on this, not right now, but I don't want you to miss this.
I got a I got a note from a friend last night who was really happy, really ecstatic, uh because he believes, or he did until he talked to me, he believes that we are on the threshold here of a major American reawakening.
He thinks that we are on the cusp.
He can't put his finger on it.
He's a well-known writer.
Uh and he he he thinks that all of these things happening here are gonna open the American people's eyes to just how devastatingly damaging, destructive, and corrupt liberalism is.
I've been thinking, how is it that we go through eight years of prosperity, eight years of great individual liberty and freedom and entrepreneurism and economic growth and lower taxes and and higher productivity and wages going up and raises being handed out all over?
How do we go through eight years of that and people end up believing it never happened?
How do we go through eight years of that and liberals ever win again?
I've been thinking about this my whole life.
And I have stumbled on to the answer.
Thanks to the note that I got from my friend last night.
But I'm not gonna lead with that here.
I'm gonna be very careful about that too, because if you hear it the wrong way, you're gonna you're gonna think it's uh shrouded in pessimism, and it's not.
It's actually a um uh a teachable moment.
I mean, the same thing happened in 1994, when the Republicans for the first time win the House of Representatives.
And remember what it felt like back then.
Everybody made the mistake of thinking, hey, the country's gone conservative, hey, 40 years of Democrats thrown out, hey, contract with America, people bought into it, hey, and then two years later, country loves Clinton again.
So what happened?
Well, I, Il Rushbow, have the answer, and it's all coming up.
Um there's a there's a great soundbite here.
John Harwood was on CNBC today talking about how, and this this dovetails right into the point I'm gonna make.
And I'm not teasing you here.
It's just that this Ebola stuff is top, and I'm I'm gonna get to that here in a second, as soon as I set the rest of the table.
John Harwood has a soundbite of CNBC Squawkbox today, claiming that Obamacare has fizzled as an issue for the Republican Party, even though people's premiums are skyrocketing skyrocketing, even though they're being canceled, even though that's the bottom's dropping out, it's fizzled as an issue for the Republicans, he thinks in hopes.
Now it may have fizzled to it.
You don't think it has?
Not a I'm not your misunderstanding.
Obamacare is real.
The dismal failure of Obamacare is real.
Plunging uh benefits, higher premiums, cancellation, all of that is real.
But you hear the Republican Party out talking about it.
Now the people are, but that's gonna be, see, you fought it.
You just fell right into my trap.
You wait when we get to this, snurtly, and you will see exactly.
Snertley, oh, yeah, yeah, man, this is gonna be it.
This is the one.
It's still an issue.
It hasn't fizzled.
Republicans are gonna score big on this.
No, they're not.
Democrats are gonna lose big on it.
Republicans are not gonna score big, and that's the point.
Democrats will lose big on it, but it's not going to mean anything in the long term.
Because the Republicans don't capitalize on Democrats losing.
But that's for down the road.
You probably have heard by now.
The second medical worker at the Dallas Hospital has tested positive for Ebola.
And ladies and gentlemen, the newest Ebola patient flew Frontier Airlines the day before her diagnosis.
Not Air Africa.
Not Air Liberia, not Air Nigeria, not Air Sierra Alone, Sierra Leone, but Frontier Airlines, a second health care worker who tested positive for Ebola last night, flew by air October 13th, the day before she reported symptoms.
According to the Wizards at the Centers for Disease Control.
It was Frontier Airlines Flight 1143, Cleveland to Dallas.
The CDC is asking all 132 passengers who were on the flight to call the CDC phone number.
Those 132 passengers will be monitored for symptoms and interviewed about the flight.
According to the crew, the health care worker showed no symptoms.
Wait a minute.
Wait just a minute.
The director of the CDC says that if somebody doesn't show symptoms, you can't get it.
Obama said it's not coming here.
And even if it does, we are perfectly equipped to handle it.
We're not.
And it has.
We brought it here.
I this is this what are we dealing with here?
What what what is what is the what is the point of all this?
The whole story of this outbreak hinges on a few things that the government and the drive-bys have tried very, very hard to hammer into truth.
One of those things is in the unlikely event anyone gets it, we've got protocols in place to isolate and handle this.
No, apparently we don't.
And it's only contagious if you show symptoms.
The second health care worker who tested positive for Ebola last night flew by air October 13, a day before she reported symptoms, said the CDC.
Frontier Airlines flight 1143, Cleveland to Dallas, CDC asking all 132 passengers who were on the flight to call them.
Passengers will be monitored for symptoms and interviewed about the flight according to the flight crew.
I guess if you like your flight crew, you can keep your flight crew.
According to the crew, the health care worker showed no Ebola symptoms during flight 1143.
Well, now look.
If the CDC told us you can't get this disease if somebody's not showing symptoms.
So why do they want to talk to these other passengers?
If you can't get the disease from somebody who's got the virus but isn't showing symptoms, if they have to be showing symptoms and she wasn't while on the frontier flight, then why do they want to talk to other passengers?
And how about the people in the security line with her?
Or at the restaurant in the airport with her, or wherever she was, or outside with the sky caps.
Are there still sky caps out there?
All right, okay, the sky cabs.
Or uh in the ladies' room.
I'm sorry, folks, I didn't know.
I assumed.
Friend of mine today sending me a note telling me about this.
Said, yeah, the second victim got on a commercial flight, and I wrote, I said, What's commercial?
Just teasing.
Cab driver, who knows, her driver, what whatever.
I mean, everybody should came in.
How did she get there?
But but it's not it it can't happen.
We were told it can't happen.
Now, I don't know how many people believe these people.
That's it.
That's another thing.
I mean, you see this CDC guy on TV.
This is a dangerous thing.
Uh people have an implicit trust in government.
No matter who's running it.
And these people are just the the I mean this is glaring incompetence.
We get people who have no business being in the positions they're in.
From Obama on down.
No business whatsoever.
Friedman has no business being there.
He has no business being the Center for Disease Control Director, has no clue what he's doing.
It's patently obvious.
But they all told us there were there were basically three things that the government and the media tried to hammer into us to believe as the truth.
And the unlikely if anybody gets it, we've got protocols in place to isolate and handle it.
Well, the nurses have blown that out of the water.
The nurses involved in all these hospitals have blown everything the CDC director has said out of the water.
They said it's only contagious if you show symptoms.
Hello, passenger frontier airlines.
And it can only be passed through bodily fluids, not through the air.
Well, then why do they want to talk to these other passengers?
Did they all touch her?
The entire credibility of the U.S. government requires all of these things to be true.
They assured us that these things were all true.
They assured, and and this CDC director continues to say some of the most nonsensical things about about containing this disease in Africa, while at the same time saying that we can't.
In the same sentence, he will say we've got to contain it in Africa, but any effort to contain it in Africa isn't that's it's in it's unfair and it's it's biased or whatever the hell is Kakamami brain tells him it is.
It's just confusing as it can be.
The entire credibility of the U.S. government requires all three of these things to be true, and none of them are.
You don't need to flight from Africa.
Now you've got to ban flights to Dallas, apparently.
If you read between the lines, on this second medical worker to Dallas Hospital has tested positive for Ebola.
If you read between the lines, it looks like they're suggesting that this person must have failed to follow a different protocol from what the first nurse is supposed to have failed to follow.
Which is pretty amazing since we still don't know what protocol Nurse Pham failed to follow.
But they dumped on her, if you don't remember.
They blamed her for not following protocols, and we don't know what protocol the second nurse violated here.
And I've just received word this is big.
Obama has canceled a fundraiser.
Those never get not even Benghazi canceled a fundraiser.
Nothing cancels fundraisers.
Well, Obama has canceled a fundraising trip to hold a meeting on Ebola.
The optics must really be bad here, folks.
Because it's all about the optics.
It's all about the image, it's all about the buzz and the PR.
It's all about the election.
And now the media will Obama canceling his fundraising trip hurt him in the election.
That will be the media take on this.
On top of all that, folks, we're now being told by the nurses Union in Dallas, there were no CDC protocols for the nurses to follow when Thomas Duncan showed up in the ER.
Now stop and think of that for just a second.
The Ebola outbreak in Africa began in the early spring, March or April.
It's not a secret.
It isn't a mystery.
And as we got into the summer, it really started claiming lives in great numbers.
It was well known how bad this outbreak was.
It was well known that there wasn't a cure.
It was well known that the death rate was being expressed by experts, if there are any anymore, as between 50 and 90%.
We were told we got protocols in place, we uh situation handled, uh, everything okay, and now the nurses union in Dallas says that there weren't any protocols from the CDC for the nurses to follow in the ER when Thomas Duncan showed up.
They had to wing it.
And winging it involved wrapping medical tape around their necks four or five times to keep their skin from being exposed to Duncan's bodily fluids because of the gaps in their protective clothing.
See, they're not wearing hazmat gear.
You you you'll see in the media that the nurses are wearing full gear, whatever.
It's not.
It's gowns, it's gloves, and it's it's uh masks and shields, but they're not airtight.
Besides that, people in full hazmat gear did contract the disease in Africa.
Now, on top of all of that, can you imagine the nurses wrapping medical tape around their necks four or five times?
On their own.
They just decided there weren't any protocols.
There's on top of that, the nurses union is also claiming that Mr. Duncan sat in the ER for hours, like everybody else who goes to the ER sits there for hours.
The nurses union claims that Thomas Duncan sat in the ER for hours.
That was a long time before he was put in isolation.
And they say that he probably had contact with at least seven other patients while he was sitting in the ER waiting room waiting to be dealt with.
And on top of that, we keep piling things on here.
The nurses who treated Mr. Duncan went on to treat other patients.
There was no isolation.
There was there was no quarantine, there was no we all assumed that everybody.
I remember praising these health workers.
And everybody was complaining and whining and moaning, so these people are, folks, we've got to trust they know what they're doing.
They're treating these patients, they know full well.
They were not given protocols.
And nurses who treated Duncan went on to treat other patients.
And we were assured to the CDC for weeks that every hospital of the nation was prepared to handle Ebola cases, and they weren't, obviously.
Now I want to go through three things here again.
And first, I want to draw a contrast with you.
The whole story of this outbreak, the entire story of this Ebola outbreak, hinges on three things we've been told by the government and their sycophant slavish supporters in the media as true.
One, in the unlikely event anybody gets it, we have protocols in place to isolate and handle it.
Number two, it's only contagious if you show symptoms.
And number three, it can only be passed through bodily fluids, not through the air.
All of that's wrong.
All of that has been demonstrated to be not just wrong, dangerously wrong, incompetently dangerously wrong.
Now I want to take you back.
Remember Hurricane Katrina and remember the cacophony of whining and moaning and accusations the left was making against Bush for botching.
The recovery effort in Katrina and leaving people alone to die and where is anything like that?
There isn't it.
They're all circling the wagons around Obama.
They're circling the wagons around themselves, and pretty soon we're going to get a fall guy, probably going to be freedon to take the hit for all of this.
That'll probably be the outgrowth of the meeting that Obama is having.
But I want to ask you a question.
Ask yourself which is harder.
Organizing a relief effort to transport across an entire continent.
Everything from soup to nuts to tens of thousands of people to bottled water to food to temporary housing, coordinating that effort down to New Orleans to handle the homeless, the jobless, the destitute, or stopping Liberians from flying to the country.
Which of those two is harder?
All we had to do was keep flights from Africa from landing in the United States.
All they had to do, and they wouldn't do it.
The flight crew, ladies and gentlemen on Frontier Airlines, 1143 Cleveland Alice said that the healthcare worker showed no Ebola symptoms.
How do they know?
I mean, look at what.
No, they didn't see any symptoms.
Oh, okay, flight crew didn't see any symptoms.
And if people just throw things out, you gotta you gotta catch yourself, folks, because it's easy.
You want to believe these things.
I mean, I'm not saying the flight crew has ulterior motives.
I just don't know what expertise they've got.
You know, all these efforts to reassure people are fine.
I understand not wanting to cause a panic, but for crying out loud, this is if there was ever a case for the mayor of Realville, this is it.
And what is how does the flight crew know that the patient had no symptoms?
And even if she wasn't exhibiting symptoms, then what does that make of what Friedman told us?
The CDC directors, well, you can't get this disease if the patient isn't showing symptoms.
I mean, then it's not transferable, and you can't, it's not contagious, really.
Well, the flight crew says she wasn't showing symptoms.
What do they know?
What does the flight crew know that the CDC director does not know?
And they probably do know more.
This guy is just a typical touchy feely lib who wants to be judged on his intentions.
Like they all do, wants to be judged on his good intentions in his big heart and how much he really cares and so forth, as though that gets things done.
These people on the left believe that just saying something accomplishes something.
Proclaiming something makes it so.
Giving a speech changes the world, lowers the sea levels, or what have you.
And I'll tell you what makes people think that is just pure arrogance, arrogance and conceit.
The idea that they're better, the idea they're smarter, the idea they care more, the idea that they uh their intentions are more honorable and so forth, and the idea that their political opponents are racist, sexist bigots, homophones, they don't get it.
That's it, all of that stuff is relevant here.
You know, and the Democrat Party unfairly benefits from an image of all of this compassion and all of this caring and all these good intentions, and they haven't earned it.
What they've earned is distrust, mistrust.
What they've earned is the realization they're not competent.
We don't have the best and brightest and the smartest in these key positions.
And not just here.
It's true in the judiciary, it's true at uh all these government bureaucracies, and every day the news is filled with evidence of this.
Now let's go back to the nurses union claiming that Mr. Duncan sat in the ER for hours.
How many of you have been to the ER?
I've often I've been to the ER.
I haven't ever had to really go back and take people, and I don't know why they call it emergency.
Nobody's acting like there's any emergency in any ER I've been to, and I'm not being critical of medical people here.
I'm just making an observation.
Nobody's in a hurry unless somebody comes in is not breathing.
Somebody comes in with a heart, somebody's on a stretcher, bam, okay, do something.
But if you walk in there and you have a genuine emergency, it's getting a line of wait, like going to any other doctor's office.
And that's the point.
You get in line, you sit down and you wait with a whole lot of other people doing the same thing.
Except when Duncan went in there, we had an Ebola patient sitting around.
And he was exhibiting symptoms.
But who knew?
Nobody was told.
The nurses didn't even know.
The nurses weren't given the protocols.
After they treated him the first time they sent him home, they didn't know what they were dealing with.
Now we can be critical and say, were they not paying attention to the news?
But these people, these places are very regimented.
Protocols, policy, the manual, the book, that's how you do things.
Step outside that, get reprimanded.
Take matters into your own hands at the protocol.
The protocol supersedes, dominates everything.
And in a in a in a in a situation where you've got fear of violating protocol, you're going to adhere to the protocol.
And in this case, it was a protocol that didn't exist and it wasn't applicable.
It was a long time before Duncan was put in isolation.
He probably had contact with at least seven other patients, and who knows how many other people in the ER.
And then on top of that, the nurses who treated Duncan went on to treat other patients.
And bear in mind during all of this that we were assured by the CDC for weeks that every hospital in the country was prepared to handle Ebola cases.
Obama told us.
The CDC director told us.
Flight crews may as well have told us.
Now I still maintain, like I just said, contrasting Katrina.
Remember that?
And here you had a nationwide mobilization effort to get people, supplies, uh, repairs, temporary electricity, any number of things needed to be done in New Orleans after Katrina went through it.
It was a nationwide mobilization effort.
And remember how the left, and I'm sorry, folks, it is political.
I don't care.
Sooner everybody realizes this, stops chewing my face off because it better be better off.
This is all political.
You've got it.
The motivation for the people in charge here is politics, politics, politics.
First, second, third.
Because it always, always is.
The substance of whatever they're dealing with is way down on the list.
The politics, the ramifications, the opportunity that politics presents.
Never letting a chaos go to waste or crisis, as Rom Emanuel said.
And here it is.
I still maintain that it would have been much easier just to ban flights from Africa than what Bush had to deal with, uh, deal with Katrina.
And yet, these same people, they're praising themselves for being so smart doing the right thing, having so much compassion and care and love for their fellow men and so forth, just couldn't wait to hammer Bush and Brownie and everybody else that they want to do accused of totally botching Katrina, and they were throwing charges of racism around.
Bush didn't care because there's black people in New Orleans, and he really especially didn't care.
More black people leaving New Orleans to go into Houston, it's better for the Republicans because that would mean there'd be fewer blacks voting in Louisiana.
That's the way they were thinking, and that's what they were charging.
Those are the accusations they were leveling at Bush.
All the while, the Bush administration would make a nationwide mobilizing effort to get supplies, repairs, assistance into New Orleans.
And they told him to get out of the city.
Meanwhile, school bus Nagens over there, blameless.
That mayor at the time, Kathleen, whatever it is, she she was blameless.
Those two are the culprits in this for not being prepared.
Want to talk about being prepared?
How about all the school buses?
I don't want to focus on Katrina.
My point is the same people that were leveling all of these baseless, senseless, mean-spirited, extreme political charges that Bush and his regime of Katrina.
How hard would it have been to ban airplanes from landing in this country from Africa?
That's all they had to do, folks.
That is the first failure in their precious protocol was not closing our airports to people from Ebola countries.
And we know why.
That would have been really mean, because we couldn't turn our backs on Liberia, especially because of slavery.
Yes, because we had slavery.
Liberia was set up So people who had been slaves could escape the horrors of this country and set up in their own paradise in Liberia, and we can never turn our backs on them.
Right.
So that's why we didn't shut down flights from Ebola countries in Africa.
So far, we have at least two more people who are at risk of dying because we refuse to take that single precaution.
And we refuse to take that single precaution all because it wouldn't look nice.
And it wouldn't seem fair.
And you see, it's just not fair that they have Ebola in Africa and we don't.
That's not fair.
No, I'm not saying that they just they did define fairness as us then getting Ebola.
No, no, no, don't misunderstand.
Saying their their preoccupation with diversity, equality, and fairness, and all this other stuff leads them to not taking correct protective measures for the United States of America, pure and simple.
Whatever happened at old argument.
What if a Republican had come out and said, if stopping flights from West Africa might save just one child?
Remember how the Democrats used.
Remember, there was a debate.
Presidential debate 96, Bob Dole and Clinton was dole, right?
He was a nominee.
Right.
And Dole actually mounted a very substantive charge at Clinton based on his catting around, his immoralities, lying under oath, and all that sort of stuff.
And Clinton's reply was to smile and to say, no attack, especially on me, ever fed a hungry child.
And the audience wilted, and the media started crying.
Oh my God, he's so good.
Well, what if somebody had stood up and said, if if stopping flights from Africa might save just one child?
I don't know.
Centers for disease control.
I mean, if you didn't know, but if you just landed here from Mars, you might want to call them the Centers for Disease Redistribution.
Because that's what's happening.
CDR.
Now CNN is currently gobsmacked, meaning they're incredulous at the news that the latest Ebola victim was allowed to fly to Cleveland the day before he or she was diagnosed.
They just don't understand this.
CDC is now asking anybody who was on that flight, Frontier 1143 to get hold of them immediately.
But we don't need to close the airports.
No, no, no, no.
And you can't get it from somebody not showing symptoms.
Then why do they want to talk to them?
Why do they want to screen them?
Here's uh part of the CDC's statement.
The health care worker exhibited no signs or symptoms of illness while on flight 1143, according to the crew.
Did the crew take her temperature?
Did the crew feel her forehead?
Why would they have noticed her out of 132 passengers?
I mean 132 people on that plane.
How did the crew know to focus on this patient?
She wasn't showing symptoms.
TSA protocols?
Really?
You mean focus on Grammy?
Is that what it is?
And here's more from the CDC statement.
The healthcare worker exhibited no signs or symptoms of illness while on flight 1143, according to the crew.
I got nothing against the crew, but what did they do?
I mean, what did they just eyeball it and say, hey, it looks perfectly healthy to me.
They have one of those laser guns that you zap somebody with and supposedly can tell their temperature.
Did they do that?
Have to take another time out, my friends.
Be patient.
Courage.
Yes.
Okay, let's uh let's go to the phones because if I if I if I don't, it's gonna be a while.
I just got to discipline myself here to get to the phones and get some in here.
Well, it's it's only the polite thing to do.
Uh people we invite them to call.
They've been patiently waiting here, and we'll start in um a town named after me, Rushville, Ohio.
This is Sam.
It's great to have you, Sam.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
We were here before you.
Well, that's just the way it is, then.
Um, my my question is in the infinite wisdom of the CDC.
Why did they not tell these people that work in that hospital not to travel until they know for sure.
Great question.
That just add that one to the list.
Yes, sir.
I mean, I why I I thought these are the kind of things we thought they were going to be doing, monitoring all of these people.
This is a nurse in there who treated Duncan and was involved.
We thought they were going to be monitoring.
For crying out loud, we we we quarantined the NBC medical person, Nancy Snyderman, because she violated the voluntary quarantine to go to some leftist soup Nazi place and get a bowl of soup.
And so we found her, we quarantined her.
Oh, by the way, the media is all hipped up about that.
You know, it may be time here, also in addition to phone calls to uh to some sound bites.
Let's let's start here with uh number four.
Mike Rawlings, he is the mayor of Dallas.
And this was from this morning at Texas Presbyterian Hospital during a press conference.
While Dallas is anxious about this, and with this news this morning, the anxiety level goes up a level.
We are not fearful.
And I'm pleased and proud of the citizens that I talk to day in and day out, knowing that uh there is hope if we take care and do what is right in these details.
It may get worse before it gets better, but it will get better.
Well, we have some reassuring news from the mayor of Dallas.
I thought you'd want to hear that.
May get it may get worse before it gets better, but it will get better.
Well, yeah, Ebola does run out of well.
I mean, it it it it it how many thousand it does run out of victims at some point.
Um here's Daniel Varga, Dr. Daniel Varga, Texas Health Resources Chief Clinical Officer at the same press conference, Texas Presbyterian hospital this morning.
I want to thank the mayor, the judge, the CDC, state health officials, and the Dallas County Health Department for their continued partnership as we manage this unprecedented crisis.
As others have said this morning, today's development, while concerning and unfortunate, is continued evidence that our monitoring program is working.
We're a hospital that may have done some things different, with the benefit of what we know today, but makes no mistake.
No one wants to get this right more than our hospital.
So they're working on it, and they're doing what they can do, and they're doing what they have to dealing with with uh public reaction to all this.
The uh the best they can, but it's right, everybody's doing this on the fly.
That's the takeaway here, folks.
I mean it is Dr. Friedman of the CDC was going on and on and on about how precious the protocols are.
And we've got them in place.
Yes, our protocols, and they're being followed, and we've got our manual here, protocol here, protocol there, all the protocols.
Everybody's winging it, is what's happening.
If there are protocols, nobody can find them to follow them.
If there are protocols, nobody knows what they are.
And they could be changing.
Yes, they are changing.
Friedman even said they're gonna change the protocols uh yesterday.
The BBC, the BBC has decided to ban guests from Ebola countries.
The BBC is going to ban guests from its buildings if they have Ebola symptoms, as staff admitted, they fear they will catch it.
Star broadcaster Fiona Bruce, 50 has revealed that staff, including makeup artists are fearful because they have physical contact with guests from high-risk countries.
A news reader, anchor, said that their fears are not unreasonable and admitted that she would refuse to report from an Ebola stricken region.
The news schmooze.
Notwithstanding, the hell with the news.
I'm not going here to report, and we're not letting any Ebola people into our building.
The BBC, the Bib.
A bunch of leftists, by the way.
How about those Kansas City Royals, folks?
Just have to win one more game, and they're in the World Series for the first time in 29 years.
They have the whole baseball world befuddled.
Nobody can figure it out.
Everybody's still scratching their heads about it.