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RUSH: Here\u2019s a headline from CNBC: “Major Flu Outbreak Threatens to Slow the Economy Further.” Now, what the hell kind of headline is this? “Major Flu Outbreak Threatens to Slow the Economy Further.” It was just yesterday I was talking about media propagandists, and you see this headline, and you have to understand that I know what I\u2019m talking about and I was right. The flu threatens to slow the economy further?<\/p>\n

Really?<\/p>\n

They\u2019re throwing that out there now?<\/p>\n

We know that it\u2019s not the flu slowing down the economy! We know it\u2019s not the flu that has the economy near a standstill. The economy\u2019s been at a standstill for nearly four years. What has the economy in a standstill are the policies coming out of Washington, DC, right now. Yet here we have a journalist outlet friendly to Obama<\/a>, CNBC — obviously part of the trained media — to make excuses for Obama even before the bad news is out!<\/p>\n

The purpose of this story is to give everybody in Washington an excuse before the flu outbreak even hits. I know the reports of the flu outbreak are starting to trickle in now, but we do not have an epidemic yet. We may. Who knows? But what\u2019s being established now is that if and when there is a flu epidemic, “That\u2019s why! That\u2019s why the economy slowed down.” I guess this is probably to replace Bush for a while to explain a bad economy.<\/line><\/p>\n

“On average seasonal influenza outbreaks cost US employers $10.4 billion in direct costs of hospitalization outpatient visits according to the Centers for Disease Control,” and this story makes the point that flu season “is putting further strains on an already sluggish US economy as companies get slammed with increased health care costs and lower productivity from widespread worker absences.” So the flu epidemic… Am I right?<\/p>\n

It hasn\u2019t hit yet. Or has it? (interruption) In the Northeast the flu has really hit? It really has? I wouldn\u2019t know; I\u2019m not there. Okay. I don\u2019t want to be wrong about this. I\u2019m telling you what this is. This headline is a made-to-order, built-in excuse to cover for slipshod economic policies out of Washington. “Major Flu Outbreak Threatens to Slow the Economy Further.” I\u2019m telling you, folks: All this is is an excuse in advance.<\/p>\n

You know what else is part of this story? It\u2019s possible that we could go into a recession! That\u2019s right. From the flu. It\u2019s possible that this flu outbreak could be so bad, it could reach epidemic\/pandemic proportions, and it could throw us right back into recession. Despite the best efforts of the regime to spur a recovery, despite the best efforts of the regime to get employment moving in the right direction, despite the best efforts of the smartest people in the world!<\/p>\n

“Damn it, they can\u2019t catch a break. Poor Obama.”<\/p>\n

Now it\u2019s the flu.<\/p>\n

Did the flu make TIME Magazine lay off 700 people? I have a companion story here from CNBC: “American Express announced it will eliminate 5400 jobs this year and take a $400 million restructuring charge in the fourth quarter.” Here\u2019s the story on TIME: “Morgan Stanley Planning 1600 Layoffs,” and not a word — not a word — about the flu. So this is what I mean by being on the cutting edge of societal evolution.<\/p>\n

I want you to just keep this in your memory bank. This story is out way in advance. What it tells me is that, in addition to everything else, there are real fears that this economy is gonna sink even further. So, of course, now it\u2019s time for the media to move in and exempt Obama and shield him from any responsibility for it. So now they\u2019re setting up that this flu is gonna be the reason. That\u2019s why there are changes in job applications, of course, \u2019cause it rained one day during the reporting week.<\/p>\n

This is more of the same.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Looky here, folks. I just found this from The Daily Beast. CNN has it, too! ” Flu Outbreak Spreads Across US as Media Drops the Ball.” Nah, they picked it up, folks! They got it just in the nick of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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