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Oct. 15, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 15, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Back we are Rush Limbaugh and the one and only Excellence in Broadcasting.
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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 can't, I don't have the words to tell you what his call meant to me and all of us that work on the Rush Revere adventure series.
As we are a tight little team with our heads down 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 dry, abstract way, in a recounting of history kind of way, but actually go back to these seminal events in American history and take children, our primary target audience,
back to these events and let them live them in ways that they can understand and enjoy and be inspired by.
And here is the great-great-grandson of Patrick Henry, an adult who was moved by the books in exactly the way that we are trying to achieve.
I can't, if you, I hope you'll forgive me for talking about this.
You might think it's somewhat of a private matter, but how much that 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 great, great-grandfather, but brought him back to life.
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 up, what they contributed and so forth.
And we have, I mentioned the other day, we've got a Rush Revere Facebook page that we have, it's been out there for a while, but we're really pumping it now.
It's facebook.com slash Rush Revere.
And we want this page to have something for everyone.
And we're going to have personal interviews, behind-the-scenes plans, lesson plans, and so forth.
And 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.
To go beyond the book, use the books as a starting point or as a reference source material and to have them essentially be a launching pad for people to want to know more and to make that more available.
Right there at the Facebook page.
And 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 young readers and fans can send emails to the characters and get replies from Liberty to Talking Horse, many people's favorite characters and so forth.
So there's really been a rewarding thing, and I get phone calls like that.
A, I'm thankful they got through, that Tom got through.
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 happened.
But this all worked out.
The guy made it through and 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 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're so excited because this is a TUFER.
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 students in Rush Revere's history course who time travels 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 excited about this.
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 well as the standard mission of teaching the truth of American history to young people who are not.
By the way, 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.
It 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 such a great degree.
I got to take a brief time out here.
We'll come back.
And the Ebola story continues to grow out there as more and more questions are being raised about the second nurse, healthcare 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 confidence here.
It is just overwhelming.
And we shall continue.
We've got a brief time out 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 Akron.
She's also the Ebola patient who is being transferred to Emory University.
Now, the Dallas Morning News reports that Vinson earned her bachelor's degree in science in 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, WFAA Eyeball News, 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?
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 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 rises.
She's 99.8 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 honor.
Thank you, sir.
It's great to have you here.
Yeah.
So, you know, the White House and stuff, CBC, I mean, CDC, have promised us that they had careful protocols, yet they had 77 health care workers treating one Ebola patient.
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.
I think what happened is that 76 or 77 people came in contact with her.
I don't think.
Yeah, they 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.
I mean, especially for somebody who's supposed to be monitored.
I've been to the hospital, you know, seven times or so.
To touch 77 people, I'd literally have to be walking around touching people.
Wait, but 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 at most come in contact with five.
Right.
77.
I mean, 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, you know, when to take your gloves on and off and 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 ER.
My dad's an ER doctor.
He works in Scram.
But the protocols are magic.
The CDC guy said, we got protocols and people following the protocols.
And then the protocols will save us all.
Exactly.
Because why?
Because a liberal set them up.
Look, I know that.
Here we go again.
If you're new to the program and you hear me say something like this, you think, come on, would you get to, I am serious, folks.
I know these people better than I know the back of my own hand.
And I'm telling you that they really believe, they are so impressed with themselves.
They're so superior in their caring and their compassion.
They really do believe.
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's combined with a conceit 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 a, do I think candidates should be using this Ebola thing on the trail?
Let me.
Let me think about this.
I think you're asking me this in light of my previous monologue today.
In this case, if it were me, if it were I, I don't think I would.
You know, I might name Frieden.
I might name him, but 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.
I'm not afraid of hammering Obama.
I don't buy this polling data that says if you hammer Obama, you send the independents running back to the Democrats.
I'm just talking about being effective.
I think it's bigger than Obama.
Obama's, he's the, you know, the head of the tail here because he puts all these people in these, in these positions.
But this is institution, institutional.
These are institutions people have trusted.
They implicitly trust them.
The Centers for Disease Control.
I mean, let's be honest.
A breakout of anti-disease happens when you hear the CDCs on the scene, you kind of sigh 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, ways in which to deal with.
That's what's breaking down here.
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're already assuming that the best people you have are in these positions, when you find out that they aren't, it's a scary thing.
And I think that's where people are right now.
And at that point, then, yeah, 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 17.
I got some audio soundbites.
Oh, and the first one, I got to go back to October the 2nd.
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 Kwamen, 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 Kwaman, 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 from 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 Kwamen, 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.
It's our fault, see.
If it hadn't been for us and our evil ways back at the country's founding, why there might not even be any Ebola 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?
This whole notion of slavery and race relations and so forth, I've concluded that the left of today thinks, how to put this, let me put the way I look at it.
You know, we founded the country and there was slavery.
And 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 one of the rotten compromises that were made.
The Constitution and documents since 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 Limbaugh guy thinks that this country deserves credit for dealing with slavery.
And I do.
We are one of the countries that fought away.
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.
It was a hugely staggering death toll.
Over 500,000 people died.
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 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 going to 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 have at it.
And it's, I get the impression that list of these guys like this, David Kwaman guy did it.
We haven't even begun to pay a price yet for our originals then.
Do you get that feeling?
It astounds me.
Look, it's not that I want to walk around claiming credit here for them.
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 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, we can't isolate these people.
It's not fair.
We're to blame for this, you see.
Up next is Dr. Frieden of the CDC.
And this was this afternoon at the Centers for Disease Control Hill at teleconference with reporters, and he got a question.
I'm curious if you can go into some more detail about 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 settings and we have protocols.
This is beyond comprehensible.
But I mean, this is it, folks.
Fox just ran a, I guess Ernest is doing the press briefing today right now, Josh Ernest at 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 Ebolazar.
That was CNN's big deal to the CNN earlier today.
So we need an Ebolazar.
We need an Ebolazar.
We've got one.
It's called Dr. Thomas Frieden, the CDC.
We've got an Ebola Messiah.
We've got the president of the United.
What more do we need?
We need an Ebolazar?
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 Ebolazar.
And I'm sure it's because they think they already are the Ebolazar.
Well, anyway, Thomas Frieden 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 15 other nations have done, maybe 10, I'm not sure, simply ban flights from Ebola-stricken countries.
Until you figure it out, just ban the flights from those countries.
15, 10, 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 Frieden of the CDC last night on Fox with Megan Kelly.
You could 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 are 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 going to spread to other parts of Africa.
How is it going to make it harder to make it happen over there?
Because you can't get people in and out.
Why can't we have charter flights?
You know, charter flights don't do the same thing commercial airlines do.
What do you mean?
They fly in, they fly out?
For a week, 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 going to happen is disease staying there.
It's going to 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 going to 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 commercial flights do.
Why?
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're good liberals.
See, I'm a good person.
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 anymore.
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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