{"id":338593,"date":"2020-02-28T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T21:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=338593"},"modified":"2020-03-02T16:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T21:26:01","slug":"dont-tell-me-im-the-one-politicizing-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/02\/28\/dont-tell-me-im-the-one-politicizing-this\/","title":{"rendered":"My Instant Take on the VP Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Thank you again to the Vice President Mike Pence<\/a>. We have known that the vice president was going to be a guest on the program for a few days, but we had to keep it quiet for security reasons. We\u2019re more than happy to do that. But he\u2019s just such a genuine person, nice guy. Very serious. I just was looking here. I wish I had a chance to run this by him, but he\u2019s already off to his meeting with Governor DeSantis. But, apparently, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was being questioned by a member of Congress, Ted Lieu.<\/p>\n

\"\"Ted Lieu is a Democrat from California, he is one of the most radical, anti-Trump, hating Democrats in Congress. He said, “Look, this is not even a gotcha question. Do you believe the coronavirus is a hoax?” And Pompeo said, “That is a gotcha movement. It\u2019s not useful.” He refused to totally accept the premise. Now, nobody is saying it\u2019s a hoax. They are accusing people of saying it is a hoax! The media, no question, has attempted to… Look, when the media says…<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sorry to drumbeat this, but when the media says, “This could be an opening for the Democrats.” What the hell are they talking? That is a political reference. When you then accuse the media of weaponing this thing, much as they weaponize Trump Russia collusion, then somebody comes along and says, “Oh, so you think it\u2019s a hoax!” No, nobody said this is a hoax. So it\u2019s an attempt… What they were trying to get Pompeo do was ridicule the idea that it was a hoax so he could then name names on the Republican side who he was going to accuse of referring to this whole thing as a hoax.<\/p>\n

Nobody thinks it is a hoax. But the people attempting to manipulate this to their political advantage are the Democrats. You know one of the reasons why the president and his team have no choice… They have to deal with this. This is one of the things. You run for president, you run for governor, you get the emergencies. You get the crises. They have to deal with it, have to fix it. The party out of power looks at that as a disadvantage. “Oh, my gosh, Trump is in office.<\/p>\n

“He\u2019s got the power. He\u2019s got the chance to deal with it. If he succeeds, it\u2019s bad for us politically,” is how they look at it. But they have to deal with it. The party out of power doesn\u2019t really have to deal with it unless they want to find a way to try to benefit from working with the administration. Now, to me that would be the smart thing to do. If you\u2019re the governor of California, Gavin Newsom… I know all kinds of hatred for Trump everywhere you go in some of the Democrat states.<\/p>\n

But the disease doesn\u2019t know Republicans from Democrats. This virus doesn\u2019t know liberal from conservative, man from woman, transgender from whatever. It\u2019s in everybody\u2019s best interest in government that this thing not become bad. If you\u2019re an elected official and the federal government has the authority, the power, the money to deal with this, it seems to me it makes much more sense to partner up with them.<\/p>\n

Because at the end of the day, turning this back — making sure it doesn\u2019t become what it has become in China — is a win-win for everybody. But then you\u2019ve got real partisans like Pelosi and Chuck-U Schumer, who do not want to play second fiddle even on a successful — what could be, what would hopefully be a successful solution. And not to mention it\u2019s a presidential election year. So it\u2019s ripe. It\u2019s ripe for discord.<\/p>\n

\"\"You also heard the vice president, I think twice, maybe three times, acknowledge the early action by the president as far back as mid- to late-January, in banning flights from China and making sure that people coming into the country from infected places were tested; examined; in some cases, quarantined. He made a point of this at least twice. Now, some people might think that that\u2019s a little overboard. It\u2019s not. Vice President Pence is extremely loyal. He is a loyal person, he is a loyal soldier, and he\u2019s loyal to the team that he\u2019s on.<\/p>\n

But, in addition to that, I happen to know that he has a great deal of personal respect for President Trump. From even before he was selected as vice president, he\u2019s had it. And he stuck with him through all of the controversies of the campaign. So that\u2019s genuine. He\u2019s a decent person. He\u2019s just a genuine, nice, decent person, and I think everybody should feel confident that he\u2019s running the task force. I was glad to hear the story that there\u2019s no gag order on these people. How can they enforce that?<\/p>\n

If there was a gag order, the people on the task force would be out there complaining about it. You\u2019re not going to be able to gag people like Anthony Fauci, who has been at the National Institutes for Health and one of the most prominent doctors in the study of the HIV virus and the successes that have occurred. You\u2019re not going to keep people like that quiet, even if you tried. It\u2019s got to be frustrating to deal with some of the stuff that\u2019s reported. But like I told him, we want them to succeed in this. But the thing is that there are, I guess, some who don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

(interruption) No, we were able to clear the vice president. It just took him a couple of days to pass EIB security clearances. People want to know, “Was he able to just walk in?” No, no, no. We have our own security clearances. They have theirs and we have ours. Vice President Pence had to undergo an exhaustive security check. So did his 25-person Secret Service detail. We even have a security procedure for their canine, the bomb-sniffing dog that went through here. No, no, we were never at risk. No, no. (chuckles) Don\u2019t anybody think that. Not at all.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

Now, you heard Vice President Pence three times reference the president\u2019s travel ban from China in January. I have some headlines from back then that I want to share with you, because the media is even now doing stories on Trump allies attacking the media. I want you to listen to these headlines. These are some of the headlines from around the time the United States stopped flights to and from China because of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n

From the medical website Stat on January 31st, “Health Experts Warn China Travel Ban Will Hinder Coronavirus Response.<\/a>” From Al-Jazeera on February 3rd: “Trump\u2019s Expanded Travel Ban Sows Fear in Communities Across the U.S.<\/a>” From the National Interest, February 3rd, “Why a Travel Ban Will Not Stop the Coronavirus<\/a>.” From the U.K. Observer, February 3rd: “How Trump\u2019s Panicky Coronavirus Travel Ban Cost Me $4,000 in Two Hours to Save My Job.<\/a>”<\/p>\n

From the U.K. Guardian, February 4th: “Coronavirus: Could the U.S. Government\u2019s Quarantine and Travel Ban Backfire?<\/a>” Boston Globe Editorial Board, February 17: “Trump\u2019s Xenophobic Travel Ban Punishes Americans Above All<\/a>.” From the Atlantic, February 18: “Trump\u2019s Nationalistic Response to the Coronavirus<\/a>.” And from today, via NBC News: “Civil Rights Groups Condemn Trump\u2019s Travel Ban Expansion to Six African Countries<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

If Trump had not initiated the travel ban to and from the ChiComs at the first mention of coronavirus, can you imagine what the media would be doing to him today? But the moment he announced a travel ban, they all made fun of it. They all called Trump a racist. They all said Trump\u2019s a xenophobe. They said it was going to backfire and wasn\u2019t going to help anything.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t tell me that I\u2019m the one politicizing this. It\u2019s like everything else. I get up. I\u2019m minding my own business and I look at the media attacking people and things that I love and appreciate, and I come here and defend them. And the minute we start defending them, then they, who started it all, accuse us of politicizing stuff. These people are a bunch of sick puppies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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