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Oct. 15, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 15, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #3
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I I want to I want to go back just for a moment here and talk about our last caller, Tom from Columbia, Missouri, the great great-grandson of Patrick Henry.
I um I I can't I I don't have the words to tell you what his call meant uh to me and to all of us that work on the on the Rush Revere Adventure series, as we are a tight little team uh with our heads down and and and doing a whole lot of work to get these books right, make sure the mission survives in each one of them and so forth, and his call was exactly what we are trying to do.
We want to bring these great figures from American history to life for people so that they can actually experience who these people were, not just read about them in a in a in a dry abstract way,
in uh in a recounting of history kind of way, but actually go back to these seminal events in American history and take children, their primary uh target audience, back to these events and let them live them in in ways that they can understand and enjoy and be inspired by.
Of Patrick Henry, an adult, who was uh moved by the books in in exactly the way that we are trying to achieve.
I can't if you if you I hope you'll forgive me for for talking about this week.
You might think it's somewhat of a private matter, but how much that how how good that makes me feel, all of us feel to work on these books, because that's exactly what we're trying to do here.
His reaction to it, and he was personal for him, being that Patrick Henry is his uh great great grandfather, but brought him back to life.
That's that's these are these are great people.
These were crucially important people.
And we want everybody to know them.
Who they were, what they sacrificed, what they believed in, what they gave, uh gave up, what they contributed, and so forth.
And we have uh I mentioned the other day we've got a uh Rush Revere Facebook page that we have uh it's been out there for a while, but we're really pumping it now.
It's Facebook.com slash RushRevere.
And we want this page to have something for everyone.
And we're gonna have uh personal interviews, behind the scenes plans, uh, lesson plans, and so forth.
If you go there today, for example, if you go to our Facebook page, which again is Facebook.com slash rush revere, you'll see a green post for destination education.
Our goal is to create free downloadable lesson plans for parents and teachers and families to use to continue education in American history.
Uh to go beyond the book, you know, use the books as a as a starting point or as a reference, source material, and and to have them uh essentially be a launching pad for people to want to know more and to make that more available.
Uh right there at the Facebook page, and then Rush Revere website is up and running, and that's got its own content as well, which is related to the characters in the book in the series where um young readers and fans can send emails to the characters and get replies uh from Liberty to Talking Horse, many people's favorite characters and so forth.
Since there's really been a rewarding thing, and I get phone calls like that.
A, I'm thankful they got through that Tom Guthrie.
And the second thing I'm thankful for is that Snerdley allowed the call through.
I mean, you never know.
Some people don't bring it off when they call and they get rejected.
It's just one of those things that happen.
But this all worked out, and the guy made it through, and he was he was just fantastic.
So we ran out of time with him up against the well-known hard break.
I could not be flexible by even a second.
So, again, thanks to Tom in uh in Columbia, and it's all about I would be remiss if I didn't mention that the third book has just been announced, and it's out there for pre-order now, Rush Revere and the American Revolution.
And this one, we can't wait for this one to hit.
We j we're so excited because this is a twofer.
It's the usual Rush Revere Adventure series, which goes back in time to seminal events in the American Revolution, but we combine a modern-day story with it in dedication to the U.S. military.
So many children of military families have a tough time dealing with mom or dad being deployed for long periods of time.
And despite knowing that mom and dad are in the military, it's still tough.
The separation is tough, and sometimes these kids feel personally abandoned, even though their instincts tell them that's not what's happening, have a tough time dealing with it.
And when I found out this was a real event, a real thing that happens to a lot of military families, we incorporated a story of one of the characters whose father is deployed to Afghanistan.
And he's one of the time travelers, one of the one of the students in Rush Revere's history course, who time travels with uh with the crew and learns via American history what his dad today is doing and how important it is.
I don't want to give the whole story away, obviously, the character is Cam, but we're so um excited about this.
So we love the military so much, we're just in literal awe of what they do.
So the next book is a tribute and a dedication to them as as well as the uh standard mission of teaching the truth of American history to young people who are not.
By the way, in the in the stack today, let me just find this.
There's a story today about here it is.
And it's in the Wall Street Journal.
Study finds many colleges do not require core subjects like history and government.
Get this.
A majority of U.S. college graduates, a majority of U.S. college graduates do not know the length of a congressional term.
They do not know what the emancipation proclamation was.
They do not know which revolutionary war general led the American troops at Yorktown.
And the reason for this, according to a recent study, is that few schools mandate courses in core subjects, like U.S. government, American history, or economics.
The sixth annual analysis of core curricula at 1,098 four-year colleges and universities by the American Council of Trustees and alumni found that only 18%.
This is mind-boggling.
Actually, it isn't.
This doesn't surprise me to tell you the truth.
18% of schools, 18% of nearly 1,100 schools require American history to graduate.
Only 18%.
Only 3% require economics.
Only 13% require a foreign language.
So not only are American colleges not teaching anything useful, they're charging people out the wazoo for doing nothing.
And this is a lose-lose for all America.
And I'm telling you, this is why the whole idea of doing these books for children in American history resonated with me to uh to such a great degree.
I gotta take a brief time out here.
We'll come back, and the uh the Ebola story uh continues to grow out there as more and more questions are being raised about the second nurse, health care worker, Who flew to Dallas from Cleveland on a Frontier Airlines flight?
The flight crew said, no, we didn't see any symptoms.
But she has them.
She has the disease.
She has Ebola.
So now people are starting to ask the next logical question.
Well, how did she get to Cleveland?
If she flew to Dallas from Cleveland on a Frontier Airlines flight, how did she get to Cleveland?
How many people might have been infected on that trip?
What airline did that happen on.
We are witnessing, ladies and gentlemen, the breaking of the illusion of government competence here.
It is it is just overwhelming.
And we shall continue.
We've got a brief timeout here.
We'll be back before you know it.
Don't go away.
Okay, here are the details, ladies and gentlemen, on the identity of the second Ebola patient.
Her name is Amber Joy Vinson.
Ms. Vinson is the Ebola patient who flew to Cleveland for two days, even though she was supposed to be being monitored by the CDC in person every day.
She's a health worker in Dallas.
The CDC said that all of those people were going to be monitored.
They had come in contact with Thomas Duncan.
But somehow, she escaped the net.
And she got on a plane and she flew to Cleveland.
She has family in uh in in Akron.
She's also the Ebola patient who is being transferred to Emory University.
Now the Dallas Morning News reports that Vincent earned her bachelor's degree in science from Kent State 2006 and finished nursing school there in 2008.
She's been a registered nurse in Texas for three years, two years, 2012, according to state licensing records.
She visited family in Akron from October 8th to October 13.
But again, she was supposed to be being monitored by the CDC in person every day.
She is ill.
She's exhibiting symptoms.
They say that she is stable.
From ABC's Dallas affiliate.
Second Ebola nurse traveled on plane with low grade fever.
From the article, eyeball News 8 has learned the second patient, Amber Joy Vinson flew on an airplane Monday with a low-grade fever at 99.5.
So is that high enough to be an official symptom, or does it have to be 101 something?
Did I read it has to be 101?
Or have you heard that or seen that?
And I'm like, okay, I might.
All right, all right.
Anyway, she flew with symptoms on the plane, but the flight crew said no.
She didn't have any symptoms.
And the flight crew was the source authority for a while, not the CDC.
We were supposed to rest assured because the flight crew said, no, no, she was uh not symptomatic at all.
But then that shouldn't have been a problem because the CDC said that if you're not showing symptoms, you're not contagious.
But it's all out the window because she was with a low-grade fever.
Low grade is 100 rise.
Is it 99.8?
Uh, somewhere out there.
Here's Zach State College, Pennsylvania.
Hi, Zach.
I'm glad you called.
It's great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hey, it's pretty great to call.
It's an oddter.
Thank you, sir.
Very it's great to have you here.
Yeah.
I um so you know, the White House and stuff, CBC.
I mean CDC have promised us.
They had careful protocols.
Yeah, they had 77 health care workers treating one Ebola patient.
So that's a lot of health care workers.
I didn't see it.
What did they think was going to happen?
You know, my mom and dad worked in the uh I think what happened is that 76 or 77 people came in contact with her.
I don't think it may have, I don't think they're all health care workers, but that's how many people came in contact with her, yes.
That's a lot.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Especially for somebody who's supposed to be monitored.
I've been to the hospital, you know, seven times or so.
To touch 76 77 people.
I'd literally have to be walking around touching people.
Wait a minute.
You've been to the hospital 17 times?
Or you know people who have.
Yeah.
I've been there seven times, and I mean, I've the most common contact with five.
Right.
Seventy-seven.
And you know, my mom and dad worked in the ER, and they talked about how hard it is to follow the protocols.
You know, about uh, you know, when to take your gloves on and off, and you're taking the gown off the patient, you know, what part of the gown to touch.
Wait.
You can put those workers in there.
I mean, what do they think is going to happen?
Wait a minute, Zach.
We haven't heard that before.
The protocols are hard to follow.
Your parents told you that?
Yeah, they work in the R. But that's an ER doctor, he works in screen.
But the protocols the protocols are magic.
The CDC guy said we got protocols and uh people following the protocols and then see the process.
Uh exactly.
Because why?
Because a liberal set them up.
I look, I I know that here we go again.
If you're new to the program and you hear me say something like this, you think, well, come on, you would you get to I am serious, folks.
I know these people better than I than I know the back of my own hand.
And I'm telling you that they really believe that they are so impressed with themselves.
They're so superior in their caring and their compassion.
They really do believe in Obama's all you have to say is it's not coming here.
And that will keep it out.
You give a speech, and that ends the subject.
You give a speech on beating ISIS, it's going to happen.
It's just the personality type.
And it it's combined with uh with a with a conceit and and an arrogance.
So, yeah, I'm being snarky when I say, wait, the protocols are hard?
No, no.
Everything's easy.
Everything's easy.
We set up the protocols, you follow the protocols, and nothing will go wrong.
It's uh do I think candidates should be using this Ebola thing on the trail.
Um let me let me think about this.
I think you're asking me this in light of my previous monologue today.
The um in this case, if it were me, if it were I, I don't think I would, you know, I might name Friedman.
I might name him, but I would I would couch this as a clear demonstration of the utter incompetence in reaches of the government in institutions that people have long trusted.
And I would point out that it's symptomatic of this current administration, and it's why we desperately need a change to competent, qualified people in these terribly important positions that we currently don't have.
I don't know, but hammering Obama.
Uh I'm not afraid of hammering Obama.
I don't buy this polling data that says if you hammer Obama, you send the independence running back to the Democrats.
I'm just talking about being affected.
I think it's bigger than Obama.
I mean, Obama's he's he's the, you know, the head of the tail here because he puts all these people in these in these positions.
I Um but this is institution, institutional.
This is these are these are institutions people have trusted.
They implicitly trust them.
The centers for disease control.
I mean, let's be honest.
A breakout of any disease happens when you hear the CDC's on the on the scene, you kind of sigh, go with a relief.
Okay, somebody's on the case.
You just trust that the best in the business are there in terms of diagnostics knowledge, uh ways in which to deal with these.
That that's what's breaking down here.
That That's what I mean when I say that the illusion of government competence is breaking here.
And I think it's scaring a lot of people.
Because this is, you know, what do you do when you when you've already assuming that the best people you have are in these positions when you find out that they aren't?
It's a it's a scary thing.
And I think that's where people are right now.
And at that point, then yeah, I would I would use it campaign-wise to tout my own ability to fix it.
Actually, give me 23-24, then we'll go to 16 and 70.
I guess an audio soundbite, so in the first one I gotta go back to October the second.
We played this for you back then, and I just want you to hear it.
This will provide some backup for some of the assertions, not allegations.
Some of the assertions that I have made today.
This was on CNN Anderson Cooper, 175.
He spoke with the author David Quaman, a well-known leftist writer of great repute.
He has a book called Ebola, the natural and human history of a deadly virus.
The natural and human history of a deadly virus.
And Anderson Cooper asks David Quammen, There are those who say that there should not be flights accepted from Liberia to the United States, or even flights that have connected through Europe.
That's not even really possible.
First of all, I don't think there are many flights that directly connect for Monrovia to the U.S. There are.
There are a bunch of them a day.
Cooper is wrong about that.
And then he says to Dr. David Kwam and the author, so most of them are connecting flights.
It's virtually impossible, sir, in real time to track somebody, I would think.
Am I right about this?
You can't isolate neighborhoods, you can't isolate nations.
It doesn't work.
And people talk about, well, we shouldn't allow any flights in from Liberia.
I mean, we in America, how dare we turn our backs on Liberia, given the fact that this is a country that was founded in the 1820s, 1830s because of American slavery.
We have a responsibility to stay connected with them and help them see this through.
If it hadn't been for us in our evil ways back at the country's founding, why there might not even be any bolo wiping out people in Africa.
So we have a responsibility, a shared responsibility.
It's our fault.
We can't turn our back.
No, we can't isolate.
No, that'd be unfair, and blah, blah, blah.
You know what I've found?
I've I've this whole notion of uh slavery and race relations and so forth.
I have I've concluded that the left of today thinks how to put this.
Let me let me put the way I look at it.
You know, we founded the country and there was slavery.
And it it was abhorrent even at the founding.
It was the union was everything, the revolution was everything.
In order to get the Southern states to go along, they wanted it.
It had to be kept in.
The Northern States hated it.
It was it was one of the rotten compromises that were made.
The Constitution and document sense all allowed for the eventual elimination of it.
And eventually we fought a war, the civil war, in which slavery was a big part.
500,000 people died, in part to end slavery in this country.
That seems to not count for anything to today.
If I didn't know better, I would think there still is slavery, and race relations are worse than ever, and racism is worse than ever, and bigotry is worse than ever, and we have in no way come close to even paying the price for that original sin.
That is the attitude I detect everywhere on the left today when race comes up.
It is as though 500,000 people dying in a civil war to end slavery never happened.
It's worse than ever.
In other words, there is nobody on the left that wants to even talk about the premise that maybe we deserve some credit for eliminating it to them.
It's still rampant.
Racism is worse than ever, and this is something that does not compute with me.
Some guy even wrote a piece about this as saying this Limbaugh guy is actually, he's stupid.
This Limborn guy thinks that this country deserves credit for dealing with slaves.
And I do.
We are one of the countries that fought a we one of the few countries that's actually abolished it and ended it, and that counts for nothing today.
To me, that's kind of amazing.
I it was a hugely staggering death toll, over 500,000 people die, and it doesn't count.
As far as the left today is concerned, it may as well not have happened because nobody really wanted to wipe it out back then.
They knew they just had to.
It's like it's it's like David Koch gives $25 million to a New York hospital, and the left says we don't accept it, he doesn't really mean it.
Really?
You're gonna reject the $25 million.
Yes, because he's just trying to cover his bigotry and racism and the fact that he doesn't like these people.
Okay, fine and dandy.
You're perverted thinking, you're have at it.
And it's I I get the impression, I list these guys like this, David Quaman guided it.
We haven't we haven't even begun to pay a price yet for our originals then.
Do you get that feeling?
I I it it astounds me.
But look, it's not that I want to walk around claiming credit here for it's not the point.
But this country has dealt with it.
We have done, but to these people, the left of today, the only relevant date is 1964 forward.
The Civil Rights Act, and there hasn't been nearly enough done.
We we still we haven't even begun to pay the price for the horrors of the way this country was when it was founded.
And that's how you get thinking like this.
How dare we turn our backs on Liberia, given the fact that this is a country founded in the 1820s and 30s because of American slavery.
Well, that's only 200 some odd years ago.
That doesn't count.
If you say that, oh.
Well, anyway, that's the guy.
I just wanted you to hear what he had to say.
And why we can't ban flights is because we're culpable, and it's just not right.
I mean, if we we can't isolate these people is not fair.
We we're to blame for this, you see.
Up next is Dr. Friedman of the CDC.
And this was this afternoon at the Centers for Disease Control Teleconference with reporters, and he got a question.
I'm curious if you can go into some more detail, but how this nurse was able to get on an aircraft and not being monitored or quarantined if she'd been in contact with the index patient Thomas Duncan in Texas.
She was in a group of individuals known to have exposure to Ebola.
She should not have traveled on a commercial airline.
The CDC guidance in this setting outlines the need for what is called controlled movement.
That can include a charter plane, that can include a car, but it does not include public transport.
We will, from this moment forward, ensure that no other individual who is being monitored for exposure undergoes travel in any way other than controlled movement.
Now, can I translate this for you?
You know what this guy is saying?
He's essentially saying, well, that nurse, she should have known.
The honor system she should have known that she should not have gotten on a commercial airline.
She was in a group of individuals known to have exposure to Ebola.
She should not have traveled on a commercial airline.
We have guidance in this setting.
Outlines for the need for what is called controlled movement.
See, they've got guidelines.
They've got protocols.
Problem solved.
Except somebody either didn't know or wasn't thinking or took the risk or what they weren't being monitored.
We were told they were being monitored.
They weren't.
It was the honor system.
Because you see.
Why we have guidance and outlines and we have uh settings.
And we have protocols.
This is beyond comprehensible.
But I mean, this is it, folks.
Uh Fox just ran a I guess Ernest is doing the press briefing today right now, Josh Ernest of the White House.
And there's a Fox has got a graphic caption up there that said White House second Ebola diagnosis indicates a serious situation.
Really?
We have a serious situation.
They just said so at the White House out there, folks.
Yeah.
Must be because Obama canceled that fundraising trip.
He also said we don't need an Ebola Tsar.
That was CNN's big deal to the CNN earlier today, so we need a new Bolazar.
We need an Ebola Tsar?
We've got one.
It's called Dr. Thomas Frieden, the CDC.
We've got any ball of Messiah.
We got the president of the United States.
What what more do we need?
We need an Ebola czar.
See, we have a problem created by government incompetence, and what's the solution?
Okay, government creates a problem.
We need more government.
We need the same people who made the original mistakes fixing them.
And the White House rejected the idea that we need an Ebola Tsar, and I'm sure it's because they think they already are the Ebola.
Well, anyway.
Thomas Friedman was on with Megan Kelly last night on Fox.
And I want you to hear what it sounds like when common sense confronts liberalism.
I have to take a break, but you'll hear it when we get back.
If we would have done what fifteen other nations have done, maybe ten, I'm not sure.
Simply ban flights from Ebola stricken countries.
Until you figure it out, just ban the flights from those countries.
Fifteen, ten, whatever other nations have done that.
Philippines, Canada, any number of nations have done it.
We haven't.
Because we may be responsible.
So here's here's Frieden of the CDC last night on Fox with Megan Kelly.
You can almost call this what it sounds like when common sense confronts liberalism.
Her first question was, why not a travel ban from West Africa until we're certain that our facilities here up to the task and that our system has solved the flaws that you yourself admitted today exist?
Above all, do no harm.
If we do things that are going to make it harder to stop the epidemic there, it's gonna spread to other parts of the world.
How is it gonna make it harder to stop it over there?
Because you can't get people in and out.
Why can't we have in and out?
You know, charter flights don't do the same thing commercial airlines.
What do you mean?
They fly in, they fly out.
For a week, I sat in Liberia while the African Union team that wanted to send hundreds of health care workers was stranded in Senegal because commercial airlines weren't traveling.
If we isolate these countries, what's not gonna happen is disease staying there.
It's gonna spread more all over Africa and we'll be at higher risk.
Does any of that make any sense?
This is profound in its ignorance.
Above all, do no harm.
See, I'm a good liberal.
I have just said, above all, do no harm.
I'm a good person.
Okay, that's mission accomplished one.
If we do things that are going to make it harder to stop the epidemic, then it's going to spread to other parts of Africa.
I'm a really good person because I care about it not spreading.
And I have just said if we make it harder to stop the epidemic, then it's going to spread.
I'm a really good person.
Well, how's it gonna make it harder to stop it over there?
Well, because you can't get people in and out, you can't get supplies.
Well, what about charter flights?
Charter flights go in, they go out.
Well, you know, charter flights don't do the same thing commercialized do.
Why?
Well, what?
Charter flights land, they take off, they carry people and stuff, and you get in there, you get it and get out.
Well, I was stranded once when a commercial flight couldn't get in.
All the more reason to get a charter.
No, no, because charters can't do what commercials do.
See, I'm a man of the people.
Commercial charters.
That's for the elite rich, and we're not the elite rich.
We don't want people in and out, is the point.
But I don't know how in the world isolating the disease in Africa spreads it.
But this is what he's maintaining.
Somebody needs to help me.
Isolating it spreads it.
And then she said, You're convinced that charter flights can't do the same thing commercial airlines can do?
Above all, we don't want to make the situation worse.
If it's worse, if it spreads more in Africa, it's going to be more of a risk to us here.
Our only goal is protecting Americans.
That's our mission.
We do that by protecting people here and by stopping threats abroad.
You're not stopping threats abroad, you're importing them.
You, sir, are importing threats from abroad.
You're not stopping them.
On that, my friends, I can't handle any more.
Sadly, my friends, we are out of time.
No more busy broadcast moments for the remainder of the program today.
But there's always tomorrow, as there always is.
And I look forward to being with you back then.
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