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Oct. 17, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 17, 2014, Friday, Hour #3
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diseases That makes him the perfect Ebolazar.
He doesn't know anything about disease.
You know what his specialty is.
Ron's specialty I'm quoting now, Ron Clain's specialty is the whole of government and especially transportation.
The reason Ron Klain is the ideal Ebola-zar is because Ron Klain is a specialist in the entirety of government.
And Ron Klain can go find the best medical people.
And he can find the best transportation experts.
And he can go out and he can find the best containment experts.
And he can find the best hazmat experts.
And he can find the best medical experts.
he can coordinate all of these experts into a great functioning committee to get together and study and make recommendations.
And that's why Ron Klain is the perfect Ebolazar.
And he again is perfect because, precisely because he doesn't know anything about medicine and precisely because he doesn't know anything about disease, that's not what the job needs.
No no, no Ebolazar.
Well, wouldn't anybody think that you need a disease expert in that job?
That's not what's called for.
No no, we need somebody who knows how to spend money.
We need somebody who understands how to waste money in things like Solyndra.
Okay.
Well, we've been through who Ron Clain is, and it's evidence that it's a purely political maneuver.
Ron Clain being the Ebolazar means one thing and one thing only, and that is, the Obama administration thinks they have a guy who can turn this into a winning political circumstance for them, using money, paying it, awarding it, appropriating it, what have you?
That's that's how they do it.
They buy what they want, including votes, greetings and welcome back EL Rushboop online Friday, 800-282-2882.
If you ought to be on the program now, I haven't forgotten.
I mentioned to you at the top of the program well yeah, in the first hour that we actually do have an Ebolazar.
We actually have somebody who serves in that role.
That may not be the exact title, but there is somebody that's been in that job for a long time.
No no no, I'm not.
I'm not making this up.
I found this at Thefederalistpapers.com.
This is a piece by by Molly Hemingway and it's a long piece.
The woman's name Is, uh dot dot dot, dot.
Her name, her last name is Lurie.
L-U-Dr. Nicole Lurie.
Let me read you some pull quotes from this piece.
First off, the headline in the opening paragraph.
President Obama already has an Ebola czar.
Where is she?
As the Ebola situation of West Africa continues to deteriorate, some U.S. officials are claiming that they would have been able to better deal with the public health threat if only they had more money.
Well, that's solved.
Obama has named the number one appropriator and spender, Ron Clain.
Dr. Francis Collins, who heads the National Institutes of Health, told the Huffing and Puffington Post, frankly, if we had not gone through our 10-year slide in research support, we probably would have had a vaccine in time for this that would have gone through clinical trials and would have been ready.
Hillary Clinton also claimed that funding restrictions were to blame for inability to combat Ebola.
Now, I've got another story here, and you may have heard of it by now.
All of the wasteful spending in the CDC budget and elsewhere.
I mean, it's such a baseless, it's a pathetic claim for people in a government that spends over $3 trillion a year to say they got shortcut, to say they got shafted on budget cuts.
These people continue to insult us every day.
We have a budget of $3 trillion every year, and they're running, they cut our budget.
If we hadn't had our budget cut, we would have had a cure for Ebola by what it wasn't a priority.
$3 trillion, there aren't any budget cuts.
This stuff is, I don't know, folks, it's...
It's well, if you take it too literally, it could drive you crazy.
I mean, there were things we've talked about.
How much money did they spend?
$39, $3.9 million on why lesbians are obese and heterosexual women aren't.
Origami condom research.
I mean, there's a list of expenditures here from the NIH and from the CDC that are just meaningless.
They're worthless.
And that the same people are running around.
We had a budget cut.
And if we hadn't, we'd have had a cure for Ebola by now.
And so that's how Molly Hemingway starts her piece.
Dr. Francis Collins, head of the NIH.
Frankly, if we had not gone through our 10-year slide in research support, if we hadn't suffered budget cuts for 10 years, then we probably would have had a vaccine in time for this, that would have gone through clinical trials and it would have been ready, but we didn't get our money.
Hillary Clinton also claimed that funding restrictions were to blame for the inability to combat Ebola.
It's always money.
Other limited government types point to the progressive utopian foolishness seen in opposing political factions, both sides of which seem to agree humanity could somehow escape calamity if only we had a properly functioning government.
Ah, if, and that's why Ron Clain's so great because finally we've got somebody in charge that's going to be a good czar.
Everything that's wrong in America is because the government's not doing it well enough or the government can do it better or what have the solution to everything.
In other words, the government, which is responsible for breaking most everything.
But what's particularly interesting about this discussion, writes Ms. Hemingway here, Nobody's even discussed the fact that the federal government, not 10 years ago, in fact, created and funded a brand new office at Health and Human Services specifically to coordinate preparation for and response to public health threats like Ebola.
The woman who heads that office and reports directly to the HHS secretary has been mysteriously invisible from the public handling of Ebola from the outset.
And she's still on the job, even though three years ago she was embroiled in a huge scandal of funneling a major stream of funding to a company with ties to a Democrat donor, Ron Perelman, at Revlon, and away from a company that was developing a treatment now being used on Ebola.
In other words, the woman, this is maddening.
There is a woman, her name is Dr. Nicole Lurie.
There is an office at Health and Human Services that was set up 10 years ago.
George W. Bush regime created and paid for a brand new office at Health and Human Services specifically to coordinate preparation for and response to things like Ebola.
The woman who heads that office, the woman who heads that office and reports directly to Health and Human Services Secretary has been nowhere to be seen since this happened.
She's still on the job, even though three years ago she was embroiled in a huge scandal funneling a major stream of money.
In other words, this department funded another project in a company with huge ties to a Democrat donor, Ron Perelman, and took money away from a company that was developing a treatment now being used on Ebola patients.
So another department set up for crony corporatism, ostensibly a division of HHS to deal with outbreaks of killer diseases.
And the budget for that department was used to pad a Democrat donor and his company.
And the money that was given to the Democrat donor came from grants supposedly to go to a company working on an actual cure for Ebola or a serious treatment.
The woman who heads the office is named Dr. Nicole Lurie.
And there's a video attached to the story.
And in the video, Dr. Lurie explains the responsibility of her office are to, quote, to help our country prepare for, respond to, and recover from public health threats, close quote.
She says that her major priority is to help the country prepare for emergencies and to have the countermeasures, the medicines or vaccines that people might need to use in a public health emergency.
So a large part of my office is responsible for developing those countermeasures.
She says this on a video explaining what her department does.
Or as National Journal rather glowingly puts it, Lurie's job is to plan for the unthinkable.
A global flu pandemic?
She's got the plan.
A bioterror attack?
She's on it.
Massive earthquake?
Yep.
Her responsibilities as Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services span public health, global health, and homeland security.
A profile of this woman, Dr. Nicole Lurie, quoted her as saying, I have responsibility for getting the nation prepared for public health emergencies, whether naturally occurring disasters or man-made, as well as for helping it respond and recover.
It's a pretty significant undertaking, close quote.
Still another references her as the highest-ranking federal official in charge of preparing the nation to face such health crises as earthquakes, hurricanes, terror attacks, and pandemic influenza.
Now, you might be wondering why the person in charge of all this is a name you're not familiar with.
Well, apart from a discussion of another woman mentioned in the story, Casey, apart from a discussion of Casey's comments on how we don't need any bolazar because we already have one, a Google news search for Nicole Lurie's name at the time of writing brings up nothing in the last hour, nothing in the last 24 hours, not even in the last week.
You have to go back to mid-September for a few brief mentions of her name in minor publications.
Not a single one of those links is confidence building.
In other words, we've got an Ebolazar.
We've got somebody in charge supposedly running a department that's supposed to mobilize because it's ready to be mobilized for outbreaks just like this.
And there hadn't been one story about her.
Another pull quote: The progressive belief that a powerful government can stop all calamity is misguided.
In the last 10 years, we passed multiple pieces of legislation to create funding streams, offices, management authorities precisely for this moment.
That we have nothing to show for it is not good reason to put even more faith in government without learning anything from our story details how in the last 10 years, since the creation of this department, it's not just this department, there have been appropriations of money for projects.
The recipients of those funds were to set up programs, develop vaccines, research and development into other medical things, transportation, infrastructure, everything dealing with a national outbreak of a pandemic like flu or Ebola.
For the last 10 years, supposedly, we have been paying people to devise, improvise, implement programs that could be rolled out immediately because for the past 10 years, they have been in the works.
They should be ready to roll out.
And nobody can find any evidence of where the money has gone.
So in the last 10 years, we've had a lot of pontificating.
We haven't seen it, but there have been multiple hearings before Congress with responsible parties sounding the alarm bell.
There are rampant diseases and flus, and so we need to get ready.
And we need to appropriate X for this department.
And as the person running that department, I assure you that what we will do is X, Y, and Z will get ready.
And when the time an outbreak happens, we'll be ready to roll.
And Congress authorized the money.
And who knows, it probably all went around Perlman or Solyndra.
But it did not go anywhere it was authorized.
We have no department ready to roll.
We have no protocols.
That's why the CDC and everybody's running around here not knowing what to do because we did have, we've got somebody there at Health and Human Services.
It's supposed to be ready to rock and roll a minute something like this happens.
And it's obvious they're not ready to rock and roll.
They have nothing to show for what the money they've been given.
So now, this poor guy Frieden and the other guy, they're just improvising.
They thought somebody else had it handled.
Nobody can have handled government bureaucracy.
And who knows where the money went, but I guarantee you, it's in certain people's back pockets.
It's Open Line Friday, Rush Limbaugh meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
This is Mike in Dayton, Ohio.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Hi, Rush.
Good afternoon.
It's a real privilege for me to talk to you.
Appreciate that.
Thank you very much.
Dido's from a graduate student of the Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies and a retired Air Force pilot.
I was going to correct a slight oversight.
It's been pretty emotional for me to listen to the last few segments you've had because I actually lived through the Iraq stuff.
I was there in 2007 and 2008 as an advisor to the Iraqi Air Force.
And you understated the amount of damage that the lying about what we were doing over there has done.
Not only did they lie about us, and I was certainly in a chow hall in Baghdad when Harry Reid said what he said about us, it's over and the search has failed, but they also lied about the Iraqis.
And I'd be more than happy to amplify that.
But Mr. Sternley wanted me to get to my point.
There is one person who is repudiating the Democrats' position on the Middle East policy and is actually adopting all of George Bush's policies on the Middle East.
And I think it's Barack Obama.
Not only is he completely overthrowing what the Democrats had done all through Bush's presidency, and again, I got to the end of that because I was in Baghdad during that time advising these young men and women for the Iraqi Air Force.
So we had to deal with their carping and lying and degrading our efforts there, and it actually affected them a great deal.
But now, if you think about it, President Obama is citing the 2001 and 2002 authorization for the use of force that Bush came up with.
Yes, he is.
And by the way, that one, the Democrats on that use of force authorization the first time voted no.
Yep.
And Bush let them have a do-over.
They saw public opinion.
The Democrats wanted to vote a second time in favor.
And Bush, rather than play politics and make them live with their embarrassment, he allowed them to come back and vote again so we could have the illusion of a unified country and mission.
Well, and it gets even better than that.
If you recognize what he's doing, he has whipped out the old Bush doctrine against ISIS, and we're doing preemptive strikes.
They haven't struck the homeland yet, so we're doing preemptive strikes against ISIS.
And to me, the icing on the cake is, do you know what carrier was being used for the very first strikes against ISIS?
What carrier was being used?
No.
Yeah, you know it.
It's George H.W. Bush.
Oh, oh, I thought you meant disease carrier.
I'm sorry.
Aircraft carrier.
Okay, yeah, George H.W. Bush.
Well, you're absolutely right.
Everything Obama's doing is the result of Bush putting in place, he's implementing preemptive strikes, everything they tore into Bush for, everything they accused him of violating the law and the Constitution over.
Yep.
But of course, but wait a minute now.
The people that were driven to insane hatred over this are not being told that Obama's doing exactly what Bush did.
So his base, his base is not holding him accountable for this.
Well, they never do, and we shouldn't expect them to.
Can I give you a vignette to tell you exactly how much we've been misled, or you guys have been misled, about the progress that we made in the Iraqi war?
And I can explain why they're collapsing kind of the way they are and the struggles that they're having.
But here's a really good example of what we did over there.
I worked every day with generals and colonels.
Hang on, hang on.
I've only got like eight seconds here.
That's not enough time for you to tell a story.
So let me hold you to the break, and we'll take it, and we'll come back and pick up right where you left off when we get back.
And back to Mike and Dayton.
You were saying, sir.
Oh, yes, sir.
I worked from 2007, 2008, my job was to work with the Iraqis each and every day, helping them set up their training and all that kind of stuff for their Air Force.
And the guys that I worked with were clearly guys that we had either tried to kill or bomb or shoot or something during the course of the decade-long war.
And I actually worked with one colonel who had been shot down by one of our guys.
And so that makes for some interesting conversations.
But do you know what they called us collectively when they're referring to all the Americans?
And this was critical to me.
It was they called us the friendly side.
When you talk about all the stuff they had been through and all the things that had been done to them in the course of combat, they trusted us, the United States of America and our allies, more than they trusted each other, more than they trusted the various factions that they had.
It was unbelievable to me that just by wearing the flag on my flight suit, they didn't know me personally, but they knew what that flag meant.
And you're saying that all of that was undermined by the incessant five years of attacks that the Democrats and the media made on the whole effort.
Oh, absolutely.
For example, the Abu Ghraib things.
Of course, that was a terrible thing.
But when they came to me, they said, do you realize, Major Van, that this is a terrible thing that now the bad guys, they called the bad guys collectively, said now they have more ammunition to use against us.
It made it more dangerous for them.
But I'll bet you what.
I'll bet you you don't know when the first class of Iraqi pilot trainees graduated or when they graduated or how many there were.
That wasn't talked about.
There was a tiny bit on CNN International when something good would happen.
And I'll tell you, the Iraqis desperately needed to have good things talked about.
Coin warfare and insurgency warfare is a PA effort.
It's a public affairs effort.
And so the more bad stuff that got talked about, when Harry Reed said that we lost and we were losers and the search had failed, I was in a Baghdad towel hall that day.
And not only did I get questioned on that when I went back to my Iraqi friends, but you should have heard, you could have heard a pin drop when all those 200 or 300 Marines and Army guys and Air Force guys were just told that they sucked.
And then get back here, put your equipment back on and go back outside the wire and try to keep the Iraqis safe for another night.
It was infuriating.
And I don't know if it was intentional to tube the Iraqi effort too, but that's exactly why they're collapsing.
We couldn't, well, I know I'm going long.
Well, okay, fine then, Dan.
Look, how did you feel when nobody in your side defended you?
Well, that was infuriating.
I actually took steps against that.
And don't worry, Mr. Serbia, I won't say it.
I actually wrote an article from Baghdad that said, you know, hey, how come only half of this is getting covered?
I had one of the advisees, he was a high-ranking general, and he actually was moving his family back into Baghdad because it was so safe about the same time, and I think you may have brought it up.
So they said, Baghdad is so dangerous that, oh, well, they said that it's so bad that the undertakers don't have enough work to do.
It affected the Iraqis.
Oh, I remember that.
Baghdad was so dangerous that not even the green zone was safe.
Baghdad was so dangerous that American troops wanted out.
Oh, I remember all of this.
I remember every word of this.
I remember every lie that was told in the American media about what was going on over there about our military, about the Iraqi military.
They were inept and they were in.
And furthermore, they didn't even want us there.
That was another thing that was going around.
I can imagine this guy is suited up and ready to go, and he comes out and he hears Harry Reed, this war is lost.
This war, the third, has no chance.
And he's got a.
To me, this is well, it's unacceptable.
And I just cringe that there have been no consequences for this.
Pure political effort.
But look, it boils down.
Let's not lose sight of something here.
The Democrats are just being who they are.
And the media was just being who they are.
And the Bush administration had a calculated philosophy to not refute any of it.
On the basis, I don't need it repeated anymore.
They thought responding to it would prolong its lifespan as a news story.
House five years for you.
Is that long enough?
Anyway, Mike, I appreciate the call.
I really do.
Thank you very much.
Open Life Friday rolls on.
Doug in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Great to have you, sir, with us.
Hello.
Good afternoon.
Thanks for having me.
You bet, sir.
I teach in the local school system.
I'm a little bit nervous about losing my job over this call to you, but we received all the teachers K through 12, got an email about classes where we can expand our techniques, learn how to handle violence in the classroom, become better teachers.
And one of the classes that is optional, not required optional, it's brand new, race, class, and culture in school.
It's for teams who are interested in addressing equity issues, changing classroom practices based on effective cultural responsive strategies.
And training will focus on understanding culture, diversity, recognizing the role of power and privilege in individual and institutional interactions, and developing a philosophy of social justice and equality.
Oh, my God.
Unquote.
I know where this is going.
I know right where this is going.
You're going to be teaching white privilege, right?
You're going to be warning everybody.
You're going to have to be critical and condescending toward white privilege.
You're going to have to point out the horrors that white privilege has caused in this country.
Is that where this is headed?
It sure looks that way.
They do want a team that has a diverse background.
They want an administrator, pupil services staff, at least three teachers, and then one individual, possibly a parent, to come together.
And at the end, this is a five-day program.
It's not a simple two-hour class or three-hour class.
It's five full workdays.
And if you complete it, you're awarded a stipend, which you are to use for purchasing, and it's italics here, approved culturally responsive classroom instructional materials.
Wait a minute now.
You're being taught here to teach what age group?
This is for everyone here.
This goes out to K through 12 teachers.
Okay, K through 20.
Oh, geez.
Oh, God.
So you can be teaching kindergarten, first grade kids about privilege and power.
Right.
And the fact that they're going to let you buy approved classroom instructional materials afterwards.
Just about a year and a half ago, we got a new superintendent from California.
Uh-oh.
Yeah.
So I'm fairly concerned about this.
What happens if you just don't participate?
Do you have that on the question?
This one's not required yet.
This one is one for people who are interested in changing the classroom.
Oh, if they, oh, okay, it's for the enlightened who realize that it might be time for cultural evolution here.
If you want to really change your classrooms and instruct your students in white privilege and all this other stuff, this seminar is for you.
Yes.
And again, it's not required yet.
But I find it very concerning when it's hard enough for teachers to focus on reading and writing and math and science to have to have this voiced teachers.
There is no science.
Science is global warming.
Well, if you teach that, you're covered science requirements.
Math is whatever you want the answer to be until you figure it out.
And the rest of the time is all this cultural rot.
My daughter recently received a math lesson about global warming.
Yeah.
And they were told about figure out how much money the city will save by using CFL light bulbs, et cetera, that kind of thing.
Jeez.
Yes, I understand.
I try to laugh whenever possible, too.
But boy, it gets hard sometimes.
I know.
I know.
I'm at my wits.
It has been a tough week, and I'm worn out.
Your call actually comes at a good time because I don't know.
That just makes me.
Global warming combined with math.
How much money a town can save to go to spaghetti light bulbs?
I know, for some reason, it just cracks me up.
It's a screwed premise, and we're screwed.
Yeah, well, not all of us, because my children have been taught to smile and nod and bite their tongues.
Well, yeah, but you know, you said here at the outset of your call that you feared for your job if yes, if I was to go ahead and give more information about where I work, et cetera, as a teacher, because these kind of things are more, how can I put it, accepted and promoted in the workplace.
When they are mentioned, something like global warming, it is dogmatic, not to be questioned, it is to be followed.
I gather there are not too many of you who think as you do in this particular domain, so you have to be close to the vest about this.
I would hazard to say you are correct.
If there are many of us, we're probably all being quiet and nodding our heads.
Yeah, they may not even know each other.
It's hard to take that chance.
Yeah, I just want to be.
Are you?
Are you?
No, never mind.
I'm not asking.
Exactly.
All right.
Well, Doug, you know, Doug, I don't want to get you into trouble, but you know what I'd like to do?
What is that?
Well, I'd like to send you some Rush Revere books and like a care package, some of the things that we send out from the Rush Revere site in your consumer.
I could try that.
I could definitely try that out.
It's truthful American history, and every kid that runs across these books ends up loving them.
And because there's no politics in it, purposely, it's just the truth about American history in a unique way.
And it takes these kids back to the actual events.
They live them by reading about them, and the characters come to life and so forth.
And also, that gets me another smile for you here.
I was recently at a large box store supermarket that had Hillary's book laid out there.
And someone had come up and picked up a copy of 13 Hours in Benghazi and put it on top of Hillary's book.
I took a photo of that to a few friends.
The small moments in life.
Well, look, hang on here, Doug, and we'll get your address so I can send you, put together a care package for you.
They'll send you CDs, audio versions, and a new one when it comes out October 28th, Rush Revere and the American Revolution.
So sit tight.
You'll have some stuff out to you, hopefully, next week, because you deserve all the help that you can get.
Very, very, very courageous thing that you're doing, calling attention to this white privilege stuff.
I've seen how this gets taught.
I've seen the result of it in kids.
You would not believe the guilt that is taught, transmitted to white students, and they end up believing it and living it.
And they basically walk around their life as one big apology in their mind.
It's hideous.
Anyway, Doug, thanks much.
Don't hang up.
Snurdle will be right back there with you.
We'll be back after this.
Larry, Poplar Grove, Illinois.
I've got about 45 seconds, and I wanted to get you on.
I know you've been waiting.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
Mega Dittos.
I'm a practicing hospital pharmacist.
I'm also an attorney.
And people can mess up an ER by walking in with Ebola symptoms.
What we need is pre-treatment screening centers so that as people approach a hospital, they're asked what their symptoms are.
And if they have symptoms of Ebola, they're sent to a place, possibly a trailer in the parking lot, where they get suited up before entering the emergency room.
Now, this can be a legal nightmare for hospitals and a regulatory nightmare.
But if the local county governments would insist on it, if they would set up these trailers, if they would staff the trailers and make it mandatory, then the hospitals relieved of the regulatory and legal responsibility right there.
I think this makes a lot of sense.
This makes a profound lot.
You know what?
I'm going to call the Ebola Czar, who Elaine K. Mark said this is his specialty.
The whole of this is a great idea.
This is something the Ebola Czar could do.
Have a great weekend, folks.
We're out of time here, and I have to, I'm worn out.
It's been a pressure-packed full attention week.
Looking forward to the weekend and also Monday, getting back here, kicking it all up again.
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