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<\/p>\nRUSH: You know, a lot of people sent me emails, “Rush, why are you so suspicious of the medical and health expertise that gathers at the briefings and so forth?” Folks, this is it. I\u2019m gonna answer this to the best of my ability. It\u2019s a case of, “Once you learn what people are capable of is, you better never forget they can keep doing it.”<\/p>\n
And I\u2019m telling you, this Trump-Russia collusion scandal was the biggest political scandal in our nation\u2019s history, what was done — the people who participated in it knowingly lying and making things up — and it was done for one reason. Without getting into all of the reasons, they hate Trump.<\/p>\n
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They just despise Trump for all the reasons we\u2019ve discussed. They want him gone. They\u2019re not gonna stop \u2019til they get rid of him, no matter what it costs, no matter what damage is incurred, they\u2019re not gonna stop until they get rid of him. They hate his guts. And that has not changed.<\/p>\n
And so if there is representation of that kind of thinking found in the Washington establishment that is then employed and used in this coronavirus task force, I can\u2019t help being suspicious. I know that the Washington establishment will not stop until they get rid of Donald Trump. And I don\u2019t believe it\u2019s changed. “Are you saying that Fauci and –” No, I\u2019m not saying that. If I were saying that I would have come out directly and said that. ‘Cause Trump would know if there are people in there that are trying to sabotage him, he would theoretically know.<\/p>\n
All I\u2019m telling you is, folks, that the effort and the desire to get rid of Donald Trump has not stopped. It hasn\u2019t ended. The people who want that to happen have not lost any of their energy for it. They\u2019ve thrown everything they\u2019ve possibly had. The shutdown was not Trump\u2019s idea. It was recommended to him. “Hey, Rush, when you come out and say you think the shutdown was a mistake, are you separating yourself?” No. Because this was not Trump\u2019s idea.<\/p>\n
Trump will tell you every day at the briefing — I forget his exact words — “They came to me and they said you gotta shut it down, you gotta shut it down, you gotta shut it down, that\u2019s what I\u2019ll tell you, that\u2019s what they told me, you gotta shut it down.” So he was told he had to shut it down. They told him 2.2 million people would die. You\u2019d shut it down, too, if they told you that. That number was never the valid. It was never real, because it was all predicated on if we don\u2019t do anything to attack the virus.<\/p>\n
Then you throw China in the mix here and I\u2019m just telling you that it would be foolhardy to not consider this is a continuation of the movement to get Trump. “You think the Chinese are -” no, folks, don\u2019t assign things to me I haven\u2019t said yet. I\u2019m giving you generic overall suspicions. My general distrust of conventional wisdom, and after what we\u2019ve learned about the Washington establishment, why would we automatically just forget all of that and start slavishly believing everything they now tell us?<\/p>\n
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The smarter thing to do would be to remain skeptical throughout. What if it\u2019s true? What if they are dead wrong? All they\u2019re using is computer models. What if they\u2019re dead wrong about the actual number of infections? What if the Stanford people are right — and there are three or four other studies that are documenting it — what if the number of infections as in Santa Clara County is 50 to 85 times higher than the reported number? Do you realize the death rate is infinitesimally smaller?<\/p>\n
It means the virus is not nearly as lethal as the New York City situation is making everybody think it is. And do you realize they never shut down the subways in New York? And they couldn\u2019t. Because all the essential businesses that were kept open, their employees had to get to work. So you\u2019re sardining people in subways and buses. It\u2019s a petri dish for spreading any kind of sickness, and it did.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I just got a note. Somebody said, “You\u2019re sounding more bummed out today than you usually do.” Do you guys think I\u2019m sounding bummed out today? (interruption) Well, of course, what would you say? They\u2019re saying “no” on the other side of the glass.<\/p>\n
Folks, look. Damn it, I am bummed out over the economy being shut down, I\u2019m not gonna deny that. I\u2019ve been bummed out, but I haven\u2019t hidden that from you since I\u2019ve been talking about this. I\u2019ve told you why it bums me out. I don\u2019t need to repeat that. You know, I have to travel for medical treatment stuff. I see closed businesses, boarded up things, and there are people behind all those closed businesses to me, in some cases their dreams. And they\u2019re just gone.<\/p>\n
And it defies logic to me that we have an actively large number of Americans satisfied with this and want to continue it. When the subject of opening up comes up, they don\u2019t even fake being interested in it. They go straight to, “We can\u2019t. We\u2019re not anywhere near open.” You talk about me being bummed out.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: We had a guy who was on hold up here, and he had to hang up for some reason. But his point was gonna be that they… (sigh) The euphemistic “they.”<\/p>\n
He was gonna say, “Rush, look at how easily they have learned that they can manipulate public psychology,” and his example was gonna be, “Look at what happens in South Florida every hurricane season.” If anybody in the country is familiar with hurricanes, it\u2019s people who live in South Florida.<\/p>\n
And yet they are routinely successfully scared out of their wits when a storm is still a thousand miles away by a model showing a potential landfall. And they go to grocery stores and they buy everything out. They buy all the water, they buy the batteries, they start hoarding things, even though they know that the odds are that a thousand-mile-out forecast is not gonna be right.<\/p>\n
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If you go back and you do a study of the hurricane models, the track forecasts — and I\u2019ve done this \u2019cause I happen to live in Hurricane Alley here, and I have comforted myself by realizing that when they have a forecast for 10 days out — and you only have the models for this — that show a landfall right where you live? If that\u2019s 10 days out, you can rest assured it ain\u2019t gonna happen.<\/p>\n
Forecasts are not that accurate. They just aren\u2019t. It\u2019s when you get down to five days and four days that you really have to start paying attention, because then there\u2019s less room for the storm to be affected by atmospheric steering things and sea level steering currents and so forth. But a forecast that\u2019s longer than five days, even six or seven or 10? Certainly when using models, those of us in Hurricane Alley have learned to pretty much…<\/p>\n
They\u2019re items of interest. They make for great talking points. “Hey, you see that model? That model shows a right-dead hit.” Never happens. I haven\u2019t seen one yet. There has been one — I take it back — and I wish I could remember. There has been one hurricane that, from the moment they started predicting it was gonna hit us, it did. It never wavered. It came from the east as opposed to from the Gulf.<\/p>\n
And I kept waiting for it to change, because the standard is no forecast 10 days or longer out is right, even eight days. But this one hit. One time it\u2019s happened. His point was gonna be, “Look at how they have successfully used hurricane track models and forecast tracks to affect behavior.” Now, the counter to that is, “Hey, they\u2019ve got to! They\u2019ve got to get people prepared.<\/p>\n
“They\u2019ve gotta get people prepared for the worst — and if the worst doesn\u2019t happen, then that\u2019s good news. The last thing they want is to get a forecast right, and to have an area hit that it was not forecast to hit so therefore people weren\u2019t prepared.” I know it cuts both ways, and I know that the general behavioral pattern is safety. That\u2019s the primary bit.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m telling you, though, that politics has found its way into virtually every aspect of our government. It\u2019s found its way into every aspect of our lives, and you have to factor it now. If you\u2019re gonna pay attention to this stuff — if we\u2019re gonna pay attention to this coronavirus, if you\u2019re gonna pay attention to every aspect of it — you have to factor it.<\/p>\n
If you want to be a critical thinker, if you want to be an independent thinker, if you don\u2019t want to just be a conformist and go along with the conventional wisdom, if you don\u2019t want to just rely on the experts — and I\u2019ll tell you why I don\u2019t rely on the experts is because how often are they wrong? They\u2019re telling us the computer models are experts.<\/p>\n
They are not.<\/p>\n
They are the equivalent of tarot card readers, folks. The computer models have yet to be right. They have to be revised every day based on how wrong they were the day before, and yet they\u2019re still used. Paul Ehrlich wrote The Population Bomb back in the 1970s. It was all about if the world population ever became half what it is today, mass starvation, mass poverty, the end of civilization as we know it.<\/p>\n
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The guy hasn\u2019t been right yet, and he\u2019s still a recognized source authority for the left. The same thing with these computer models on climate change or now on the coronavirus. Not to be critical here, but the hurricane track models, as I just said, are never right until a day or two out — and even then, they give themselves a 250-mile cone in their charts, in their own forecast track.<\/p>\n
Their cone will give them at least a 250-mile (either side of the line) variance \u2019cause they just don\u2019t know. So once you know all that, you have to factor it in if you\u2019re gonna be a critical thinker. I am. I do not go… I\u2019m not a conformist. I don\u2019t go with conventional wisdom, and I do distrust government experts. If the CDC is so hot, why weren\u2019t they doing their jobs and on the case of this virus before it got here?<\/p>\n
Isn\u2019t that what they\u2019re supposed to do? When you think of the Centers for Disease Control and you think of America, you think, “In America, is the best. In America, we have the highest tech. We have the smartest people. We have the most committed people. We have the highest degree of expertise.” Well, if that\u2019s true, then why wasn\u2019t this virus detected? Why wasn\u2019t it known? ‘Cause it\u2019s been around a lot longer than we think.<\/p>\n
The World Health Organization was not helpful at all — another bureaucracy which did not do its job — yet they are the acknowledged experts. And now after the acknowledged experts have gone on record and are responsible for public policy, now we\u2019re getting independent scientists who were doing their own studies and finding that the infection may be much more widespread, 50 to 85 times more widespread.<\/p>\n
These are people not in government. These are people in universities and other research places. So, yeah, I\u2019m… Now, the left loves to run around now and suggest that one of the problems with Trump voters and Trump supporters is a general distrust of expertise. Let me tell you what the big problem is.<\/p>\n
The big problem is how the Drive-By Media doesn\u2019t question a one of them. The Drive-By Media does not have one question for any government expert they talk to. It could be an intel official lying to them about Trump and Russia. It could be somebody in the National Security Council lying to them about Trump\u2019s phone call with the president of Ukraine.<\/p>\n
It could be anybody at any government bureaucracy, whatever anybody there says, unless it\u2019s a noted Trump appointee, they are lying, according to the media, but everywhere else they do not mistrust this expertise. I\u2019ll never forget, I was watching, CNN did a town hall on something, might have been Hillary\u2019s health care thing. And we\u2019re going back, Bernard Shaw was still working there. He was still the primary face of CNN, the prime time anchor. And they were doing a daytime town hall summit.<\/p>\n
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It was on while this program was on. And they goofed up and they let a bunch of people in the audience that were not screened, and the people in the audience began to protest before the town hall even began. They began to protest before anybody had taken the stage. And Bernard Shaw is up on stage trying to get everybody to calm down. He\u2019s trying to restore order. And you know what he\u2019s saying, “Just wait for the officials. Wait for the authorities. Just wait for the officials.”<\/p>\n
So he was perfectly calm, whatever they were, officials of government. Whatever the subject of the town hall was. Wait for the officials. So whatever they came out and said, Bernard Shaw wasn\u2019t gonna question it, he wasn\u2019t gonna be suspicious of it, he was gonna totally sop it all up, he was gonna lap it all up, he was gonna soak it all up, whatever they said he was gonna believe it unquestioningly, and that still happens to this day.<\/p>\n
And I am suspicious after what I\u2019ve seen elements of this government who are invisible that we didn\u2019t elect, after I\u2019ve seen what they did to try to get rid of this president, the scam they ran, the hoax they ran, the silent coup that they ran, do it once and you can bet that they could do it again or not stop doing it in the first place. If they\u2019re hell-bent on something happening, they\u2019re gonna make it happen. They\u2019re not gonna stop. In this case, getting rid of Trump. It would be stupid to not be suspicious.<\/p>\n
Now, you can be suspicious without being accusatory. And you can be suspicious without jumping the gun. You can be suspicious without being prejudiced. But to not be curious, to not be questioning, to just blanket accept whatever the experts say. Remember during the campaign Trump bragging, “I could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and my supporters would still support me.” Well, Dr. Fauci could come out and say anything he wanted and everybody in the media would believe it no matter what it was he said.<\/p>\n
Dr. Fauci could come out and say, “I have evidence that Trump actually cooked up this virus in the White House kitchen with Ivanka and Jared Kushner,” and they would believe it. They would believe it without even questioning it because it came from the expert Dr. Fauci. Scarf Queen, same thing. And why wouldn\u2019t they? They all are from the same sector of life. They\u2019re all from the Washington government, slash, political class. You and I aren\u2019t.<\/p>\n
You and I are frowned upon, looked down upon, mocked, laughed at. Look up there on CNN. Madeleine Albright\u2019s back, and she\u2019s purple this time instead of blue. Look at that. Do you believe this? Last time she was up she went blue. Now she\u2019s purple.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: You want another example of sheer stupidity — no, I better dial that back — well-intentioned ignorance. Are you familiar with the actor Idris Elba? He plays Luther. He\u2019s been touted as perhaps the next James Bond. He just came out and said, “When this is all over, we all need to quarantine for a week every year so that we never forget this.” We need to quarantine a week every year so we never forget it, as though – (sighing) never forget it. And of course, as an actor, he carries a certain level of expertise with the groupie crowd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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