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Oct. 20, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 20, 2014, Monday, Hour #3
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Here's the story.
Amid assurances on Obala.
Amid assurances on Ebola, Obama said to see.
Mentioned the story in the uh in the first time.
He's found out that uh his administration has dropped the ball.
He's livid.
He's just mad as he can be.
And I don't know who it was that told him, but I wouldn't want to be the person.
But then you see why this story ran.
The next story writers, Obama to seek more money to fight Ebola.
Well, then it all makes sense.
Obama goes out, he expresses anger.
He's seething the New York Times.
He's outraged at the uh the the lack of progress the regime has made, and now we know there hasn't been enough money.
And why?
The old standby, Republicans cut funding.
You know, and I I hate even addressing that, because you know, if you if you say no they didn't, then you are in a way conceding the argument that government can fix it.
And government's not going to fix Ebola.
Government's not going to come up with a cure.
Government isn't going to come up with a vaccine.
Private sector, private enterprise companies are going to do that.
So it's a trap, folks.
It may be a trap that most people won't catch.
But if they come out and say, yeah, see, the Republicans, they cut, they cut the Ebola budget, they cut the infectious disease budget in the CDC.
And then if you point out, no, they didn't.
Actually, they authorized more.
Then you're actually agreeing that big government is what's needed to solve problems.
But still the temptation.
You don't want the Republicans being ripped to shreds for something they didn't do.
So then what happens?
You run out of, no, no, the Republicans, they authorized even more money than Obama wanted, which is true.
But then you fall into the trap of advocating for the premise of big government and a lot of spending equaling a solution to the problem.
And it isn't.
Government isn't going to come up with a vaccine.
The CDC, the NIH, none of these people are going to come up with vacciner or any of this.
Some private enterprise entrepreneur is going to do that.
This this money that Obama wants for Ebola is not going to go to Ebola.
There's no way it can.
It's just going to be another Democrat slush fund.
Military preps for Ebola response in U.S., this U.S. military forming a 30-person quick strike team, equipped to provide direct treatment to Ebola patients inside the United States, says a Defense Department official.
It's on CNN.
What would the military be doing this for?
The U.S. military is forming a 30-person quick strike team equipped to provide direct treatment to Ebola patients inside the U.S. Again, attempted to go, all right, all right, somebody's taking it seriously.
Then it hits you, and you say, wait a minute, a military?
Nothing against the military, but this is not what the military does.
We can't send them to the border to keep it secure, but we can have a 30-person strike team to provide direct treatment to Ebola patients.
Okay.
Amber Vinson, one of the two nurses to contract Ebola, has hired a very high-profile Washington lawyer named Billy Martin.
And the reason is the CDC dumped on her.
CDC said, well, she shouldn't have flown.
She should have flown commercial.
She shouldn't have taken public transportation.
She didn't tell us she wasn't honest up front, so they dumped on her, so she's gone out and she's hired a big time DC lawyer.
She's the second nurse diagnosed with the disease after caring for Thomas Duncan.
She troubled by some of the negative public comments and media coverage that mischaracterize her and her actions.
So she hired the uh high profile Billy Martin to clear some things up.
Clear some things up, or maybe cash in.
Although, to be fair, even Obama has hired a lawyer to help him, and that would be Ron Klain.
Ron Klain, the Ebola Tsar is a lawyer.
He didn't even go to the first two Ebola meetings.
Do you know that?
He didn't go.
He was in a hot tub.
Or I saw a picture of him in a hot tub with some woman in the story that explained that he didn't make it.
Thomas Duncan's fiance said to complete her Ebola quarantine today.
For nearly 20 days, Louise Tro has had to endure tremendous fear, grief, and isolation when told of the death of her fiancee Thomas Duncan.
She fell to the ground.
The man giving her the news couldn't even consult her with a hug, however.
She might be contagious.
But why was she so surprised?
He had Ebola for crying out.
Anyway, her 21st day of quarantine is today.
And the quarantine's expected to end for her, her son, and two nephews.
Forty-eight other people who managed to stay quarantined without an armed guard, but CNN doesn't seem to care about their tremendous fear or grief or isolation, just the fiancee.
In unrelated news, black vote seen as last hope for Democrats to hold Senate.
Grab summite number one.
Gotta play this in case you miss this, folks.
We uh we lifted temporarily my imposed ban on any and all sound bites from MSNBC for the following soundbite from Tina Brown, who was on Morning Joe today.
The subject was Obama losing vast support from women.
The Democrat Party losing big in polling data with women ahead of the November elections.
Tina Brown, a big Hillaryite, it should be pointed out, and a doyen of left-wing culture, both political and social, was asked to come on MSNBC and explain why women are abandoning Obama.
Particularly for women, I don't think he makes them feel safe.
They're feeling unsafe.
They feel unsafe economically, they're feeling unsafe with regard to ISIS, they're feeling unsafe about Ebola.
What they feel unsafe about is the government response to different crises.
And I think that they're beginning to feel a bit that Obama's like that guy in the corner office.
Calls a meeting, says this has to change, doesn't put anything in place to make sure it does change, then it goes wrong, and he's blaming everybody.
Holy smoke, she just dumped on Obama as making women feel unsafe.
Unsafe economically, unsafe regarding ISIS, unsafe about Ebola, unsafe.
She didn't say about Obamacare.
Unsafe about the government response to different crises.
The meeting you feel a bit that Obama's like the guy in a corner office, too cool for school, calls a meeting, says this has changed, that has changed, doesn't put anything in place to make the change, and then when it goes wrong, blames everybody else.
But she's got that nailed.
I'm telling you, this is classic what what liberals do.
Call a meeting, give a speech, problem solved.
Write a paper, problem solved.
Simply go out and address the issue, identify the issue, tell everybody you know there's a problem, problem solved.
Uh low unemployment or low employment, tough times economically.
Go have a summit in the White House.
Call it a job summit.
By five o'clock that day, problem solved.
You've addressed it.
And she's calling him out on it.
But I think this is big.
Unsafe.
First African American president, she says making women feel unsafe.
But the point of it is women in polling data abandoning Democrats ahead of the November elections.
But it's worse than even that.
A confidential memo from a former pollster for President Obama contained a blunt warning for Democrats.
Written this month with an eye toward election day, it predicted crushing Democrat losses across the country if the Democrat does not party doesn't do more to get black voters to the polls.
African Americans surge voters came out in 2008 and 2012, but they are not well positioned to do it again this year, said Cornell Belcher, the pollster, in a memo dated October 1st.
He said, in fact, over half of African Americans aren't even sure when the midterm elections are.
Yet you heard me, a Democrat pollster, in a memo to Obama and the party, said if you don't get the blacks to turn out, you don't have a prayer.
It's going to be a bloodbath.
And it's even worse, over half of African Americans don't even know when the midterm elections are.
Now you know what they'll chalk that up to?
They'll blame the Koch brothers for running a dirty tricks campaign to lie to black voters about when the election is.
They'll blame the Koch brothers for this.
Maybe me, but more than likely the Koch brothers.
Cornell Belcher's assessment points to an urgent imperative for Democrats to keep Republicans from taking control of the Senate.
They need black voters in four key states.
Yet the one politician guaranteed to generate enthusiasm among African Americans is the same man that many Democrat candidates want to avoid, Barack Obama.
They've got a problem, they think.
So women are abandoning them.
African Americans are uninterested.
Over half don't even know when the election is because of the trickster campaign of the Koch brothers.
And now I'm making that up.
Look, the way I said that, I can see some people, but the Koch brothers have nothing to do with this.
Half of African Americans have no idea when the election is.
They don't vote in midterms anyway.
Historically, they don't vote in midterms.
And the one guy who theoretically could inspire them and get them out would be Obama, but nobody wants him on the trail with him.
Except Obama went to Upper Marlboro, Maryland yesterday, finally campaigned for somebody other than himself.
He campaigned for an African American seeking the governorship in Maryland.
It was a largely black audience.
And they walked out.
There were hecklers and they walked out.
All this after the memo, claiming if African American voters don't show it's hopeless, and the only guy that can inspire them to get out is Obama.
And so he goes out and does a campaign appearance with a black audience and they walk out.
And we're back.
Sound by number six.
I better do this before I forget it and before time slips by.
As I've been talking about the latest effort at uh at smearing me over this Ebola Bis happened yesterday morning on CNN reliable sources.
Let me find Sound by Six just to make sure that it is something.
It is.
CNN did a segment on Ebola attempting to tell their audience that I said slavery is the reason Obama will not ban flights from Africa to America.
Now, as you know, you've been here...
Those of you who have, know I didn't even bring slavery up in this.
A liberal Democrat author did.
And I've played three times.
I've played this guy's soundbite three times.
They conveniently leave that out.
They want their audience to think, essentially, what they want their audience to think is that I'm saying, accusing Obama of since Africans have it bullet that we should get it.
That's what they're attempting to do.
It is a It's a half-baked, not even good attempt to smear me, but nevertheless, it's the latest one.
And it happened with their media analyst, Brian Stelter.
And I guess it's his show, reliable sources, and this is what he said.
It has been amazing and frustrating to see the story become a red and blue battle over flights from West Africa and over the government's incompetence.
Rush Limbaugh, who is not an infectious disease specialist, said stop the flights.
And then he said on his radio show that the Democratic administration won't do that because, well, he thinks that they think we all deserve to get infected.
Now the sad thing is that you've got such idiots watching CNN that they probably believe this.
So this is one of those times where I'm going to throw away the philosophy that says don't respond to it because you'll only elevate it.
This deserves a response because Mr. Stelter needs to be called out here on what he's doing.
He either himself relied on other people to tell him what happened on this program.
He ought to know by now that he's lied to when people, when he relies on media watchdogs to tell him what happened here or any other conservative, he ought to know to be suspicious of it.
He ought to know it's never the full story.
He ought to know it's out of context.
Either that or he did listen and decided to do the smear all on his own.
So after that soundbite where he said, Oh yeah, stop the flights, he said on his radio show, Democrats won't do that because well he thinks that we all deserve to get infected.
See, guys, this is a guy who runs a show on media bias, right?
So he plays a clip totally devoid of context.
And it's it's the network.
Well, I don't know.
Sorry, the description has got me totally confused.
Let me just play the soundbite and I'll do it.
People at the highest levels of our government say, why?
Why shouldn't we get it?
Why should only those three nations in Africa get it?
We're no better than they are.
And they have this attitude.
Well, if they have it in Africa, by God, we deserve to get it because they're in Africa because of us.
And because of slavery.
So now we're atoning for colonialism.
That's what this is about?
No, Brian, it's not about that.
It's about this.
It's about a guest on your own network.
On Anderson Cooper's show back on October 2nd, his name David Kwaman, author of Ebola, The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus.
I was explaining what he means.
Brian, a guy who was a guest on your own network.
He's the guy who said what I was translating.
He's the guy who was saying what you said I was trying to say.
I don't believe that crap.
I don't believe that nonsense.
But you can make people think I did if you take it totally out of context the way you did.
Here's David Kwaman.
He's talking with Anderson Cooper, and Cooper said it's senseless to ban flights.
You can't ban.
There aren't any anyway, right?
We have I don't know there are many flights that directly connect from Monroe to the U.S. But it's virtually impossible to track somebody, so we shouldn't even try it, right, Mr. Kwaman?
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.
So you see, ladies and gentlemen, it wasn't I who introduced slavery into this.
It was a typical liberal guest on CNN back on October 2nd, the author of what?
Ebola, the natural and human history of a deadly virus.
David Kwaman, well known, and he's the guy who introduces slavery to the discussion.
Within the context, hey, you know, we're responsible for the Liberia exists because we had slavery.
And so what happens in Liberia?
My God, we're tied to it.
We can't turn our backs on these people.
We can't close our borders to these.
We can't stop people from flying here from Liberia.
We're responsible for Liberia.
Well, if we can't keep them out.
And if they've got Ebola, it's only a logical progression to ask what results.
If you cannot keep Ebola patients out of the United States because they are in a country founded because of our slavery, we have a responsibility, right?
Maybe even a culpability.
And so after playing this sound by the two or three times, I was explaining how people like this think.
People who are politically correct do believe that it isn't fair for a certain group to have a lot of money and some not too, so we should take it away from those who have a lot of money.
It's not fair.
They have Ebola, we know.
It's not fair.
Some people have AIDS and then others don't.
We've got to be fair.
But it was not I suggesting that in order to be fair, we need to have Ebola come to the U.S. Before it.
Wasn't I, it was a CNN guest on October 2nd.
Now, either who informed Mr. Stelter of the so-called outrageousness on my program, neglected to tell him what I was really reacting to, or he knew and decided to conduct this little exercise on his own.
But all we do here is react and defend and respond to the outrageousness and the just lunacy sometimes of people on the left, such as this guy, David Kwaman.
And we will be back.
John in Garden Grove, California, next.
It's great to have you with us on the program today.
Hi.
How are you doing?
I I wanted to know uh when when Obama wanted to go in, when we wanted to go into Syria, Obama put the red line out saying that he has a red line that if if Assad used gas, that we would go in, and he said this is weapons of mass destruction.
He kept linking gas and weapons of mass destruction together, and he said we would go in there.
He did not go in.
However, when Bush saw when Bush showed the photos in 2003 of the Kurds being uh that were gas there, there were photos, and the Kurds were gas.
I think it was 80,000 Kurds that were gas, and also he gassed the Iranians, those weren't m weapons of mass destruction then.
They were only weapons of mass destruction when Obama said the weapons of mass destruction.
But when the press says it, I mean, when the when Republicans go against it, they're not weapons of mass destruction.
The other thing I wanted to wanted to say was how come nobody's asking Mr. Colin Powell, General Colin Powell, about Obama's performance over there, since he backed him both times.
Now that is a fascinating question, John, because you are right.
In both elections, General Powell said that that uh uh Barack Hussein was the guy.
He was more qualified, he was a guy, and and uh he has not been asked about the and people say that I look like him, but uh, you know, I used to admire him, but I don't anymore because of the way the way he's played the tricks on and you know in the poly in the political arena.
But you know something, God told Israel, the welfare program is not going to be the people just get things free.
He told the people that when they glean when they pull their crops that they were to leave a certain peripheral uh uh edge around their crops, and that they were to leave that, and then the poor people could go and glean the glean it from there.
He didn't tell them to to cut the whole crops and then let it out there so the poor people go out there and get it free.
They had to work also to get their to get the their welfare.
And but we just give it just free.
No work involved, no nothing.
Germany used to have a work and work program where you get welfare, but we just do it free.
I I did not you know, you you're full of it.
I didn't know Obama told Israel that it's shocking.
I mean, if if you tell Israel that, but not us.
That is that is that's really strange.
That Obama would tell Israel that welfare is anyway, the great questionnaire, General Powell, where is he?
What does he think of the way Obama's dealing with ISIS?
What does he think of the way Obama's dealing with the Syria situation?
What does he think about the way Obama's dealing with Iraq?
Because General Powell told us he was imminently qualified.
General Powell titular head.
No, no, no, no.
General Powell, the ideal Republican, we were told.
Great question, John.
Absolutely fabulous.
Kay, somewhere in Michigan.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello.
Yeah.
Hi.
Hi.
I just called, we were talking about the Ebola thing, and um I have a daughter that works in an emergency room.
She's a nurse, and they had a patient that came in from Africa uh short while back and claiming to be sick, so they brought her and put a uh they put the patient in isolation and everything.
Uh the doctors wouldn't even go in the room to look at the patient because they said they had no experience and knew nothing about this disease, so the nurses had to suit up and go in.
You are kidding us.
No, that's what she said.
She said so it was up to us, so they had to go in and do whatever had to be done to test to make sure the patient didn't have Ebola, but the doctors wouldn't even go in there because they said they knew nothing about this disease and had no idea how to treat it.
When was this?
Uh I'm not sure the exact day it was just a short while ago.
Short while ago.
So this is during this recent outbreak.
Yes.
That's unbelievable.
The doctors wouldn't go in there, they ordered the nurses to.
Yeah.
They had they had to go in.
They don't go in and the doctors wouldn't, so did they go in?
Did the nurses go in?
Yeah.
Uh at least my daughter did.
She suited up and she said they had a very limited supply of those um respirator type masks that you use, and I guess those are only good for a certain amount of hours or something.
But um anyway, she said so she suited up and went in.
I don't know how many other nurses had to go in, but she said here they wouldn't even go in, but we had to.
You know, this just one of those things, it just doesn't sound right.
Uh I mean, I'm not I'm not disputing you.
I don't don't misunderstand, but I've just never heard of this.
I mean, I can understand a doctor not wanting to go in there, but you go in there, Mabel.
I ain't going.
I don't know what this thing's about.
You go in there.
I just whatever happened to women and children first.
I guess it's m metamorph women and children first now is you take the plunge, babe.
I'm going in late.
Before I was really concerned about all the stuff going around and with her being an emergency, they have uh you know, everything comes in there, so I to had told her to be careful, and then she told me this uh the other day, and I didn't really have a chance to question her too much about it or anything, but um that's what she told me, and she said she said she thought it was kind of odd that they wouldn't even go in there, but the nurses had to.
Well, I appreciate that uh information and the phone call.
There's this stuff happening with this.
Uh I'm I do not blame people for being alarmed, scared, frightened.
It's a it's a disease with the mortality rate anywhere from seventy to ninety percent.
And there hasn't been any confidence inspired the way the regime has dealt with this.
But that's still first for me.
Now, at the Titanic, there was it was women and children first into the lifeboats.
But now the doctors are saying, get out of my way.
I'm leaving the hospital.
If you want to go in there and find out what's going on, go right ahead and put it on the chart, and I'll see it tomorrow.
Carolyn Twin Valley, Minnesota, you're next, and I appreciate your call.
Hello.
Hi, Russ.
I calmed down a little bit since I first made this call.
But there's our days when I get so mad at you I can't even see straight.
You took this Ted or Tad, I didn't quite get what his name was, and you took his call, and you used the opportunity again to rake the Republicans over the coals.
And then you wonder why people stay home.
Oh, no.
Like the call a couple weeks ago.
This guy calls in and says, boy, I'm going to teach those Republicans a lesson.
I'm going to vote for an independent election.
And you said, Oh, you can't do that.
Well, what do you expect?
You know, yes, we now wait.
We the people are responsible for this mess that we're in.
Wait just a sec.
Wait a second.
I you I am not the reason that four million people didn't vote for Romney.
I understand that.
And I'm a lot of people are you're responsible for a lot of people that didn't vote, but I have a solution.
Will you listen to my solution?
All right.
What what's happening?
I I wish to hell somebody had one.
What is it?
We have no choice right now in this election but to vote Republican.
Because we have no other alternative.
Then we have to, we the people have to get involved.
We have to put people like Boehner and our representatives on our speed dial, and we have to hold their feet to the fire.
I'm one person that calls John Boehner one gutless wonder.
But he is in there because somebody voted for him.
Well, let's hold his feet to the fire.
Maybe we have to clean house.
But then right now we can only vote for Republicans.
Have you heard me say not to?
Nope.
No, I certainly have not.
But the impression you're giving when you rake those Republicans over the coals day after day after day.
Here's the thing.
You know, I can't I can't I can't win.
If I talk 'em up, people call me, you sell out.
You're nothing but a you you oh you you're just you're just a mouthpiece for the Republican Party.
And then if I tell what I really think about what I think they ought to be doing, you call and tell me I'm to blame for whatever negative is gonna happen.
No, you're I can't I can't win with this.
Oh, come on.
I'm not feeling sorry.
I don't feel sorry for myself.
I'm simply pointing out how I'm in the middle here, and no matter what, I'm gonna have critics.
Which tells me I'm doing something right.
No, you're not.
Yes, I am.
You're you're you're you're crushing people's butterflies, and you're just gonna cr uh uh making them think it's okay to stay home and not go vote.
Well, it's our remote.
Wait a second.
You know, you you say vote for them, and then after we vote for, then give them hell.
Well, what else are we gonna right now exactly?
Well, wait a minute, but the point is that's been happening, and it isn't changing anything.
No, it hasn't been happening.
People vote these people in and then they go about their business and they quit the Oh no, they haven't they've been letting them have it over the budget, the continuing resolution.
They've been shutting down the phone lines.
Why do you think people are mad at them?
Because they aren't listening.
Eric Candor got thrown out by people who are paying attention.
It's dangerous times.
Anyway, ask Carolyn for her number because maybe continue this tomorrow.
I'm out of time, Carolyn.
Well, that's it.
We're out of time here, folks.
And then it's it's uh my time to be the punching bag today is over.
Be back here in twenty-one hours, ready to be beat up all over again.
And I'll be ready.
No worry.
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