{"id":348939,"date":"2020-05-15T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T20:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=348939"},"modified":"2020-05-21T16:00:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T20:00:12","slug":"leftists-have-hijacked-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/05\/15\/leftists-have-hijacked-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftists Have Hijacked Science"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Jerry in Atlanta. Great to have you, sir. Hello. You\u2019re on Open Line Friday and you\u2019re up next.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks, Rush. I appreciate all you do. Hey, I want to paraphrase a comment, something I read about 20 years ago and just hear your thoughts if you think it applies today. The comment was, “Science is great but scientists are dangerous,” and they\u2019re human and sometimes they\u2019ll act like a cheap defense lawyer rather than a pure speaker and seeker of the truth. And it just made me think, and I was just kind of curious if you thought it may be applied today.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So what is the question you\u2019re asking me specifically?<\/p>\n

CALLER: In terms of — and I don\u2019t really want to cite Dr. Fauci about this — but when studying this coronavirus, there are facts, there are inferences that you can make — analogies to other viruses — and then there are opinions. And those are the only three things out there. And I think we\u2019re hearing a lot of opinions that are being taken as facts, and I\u2019m just… I was curious if you thought maybe they\u2019re not saying and stressing out that, “Hey, these are the facts,” versus, “This is my opinion or this is my thought on what might happen,” if that makes sense.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, but let me answer it anyway. The best way to understand science today is that it has been corrupted by the left. The left has pretty much corrupted everything it\u2019s touched, purposefully. It\u2019s not just happened because a bunch of people who are liberals decided to go into, quote-unquote, “science.” It\u2019s that they actively decided to do it for the express purposes of advancing the liberal political agenda.<\/p>\n

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To leftists and liberals and communists and socialists, all that matters is the agenda and advancing it. It\u2019s the number one objective for being alive. They\u2019re not interested in persuading hearts and minds that they\u2019re correct. They\u2019re not interested in debates. They\u2019re not interested in having to persuade people that their view is correct by having a superior view and having a more persuasive way of presenting it.<\/p>\n

They demand that you accept it or else. They do not want any opposition. They do not want any obstacles into the implementation of what they believe, and so it\u2019s all a game. Pretty much everybody in Washington government is a leftist and a careerist. And there are exceptions, but that\u2019s the most of them. Science has been set up as infallible. You can\u2019t dispute it. You can\u2019t disagree with it.<\/p>\n

In fact, let me find… There\u2019s a sound bite here that will make partially the point, if I can find it. It happened last night on Shannon Bream\u2019s show. Let me see if… Here it is. Grab sound bite number 17. Shannon Bream last night had the Peace Corps medical director. The Peace Corps… Now, what is the Peace Corps? The Peace Corps is some government established group.<\/p>\n

JFK established this thing. A bunch of young people run around the world spreading peace, and now they\u2019ve got a medical director. They\u2019re just a bunch of, you know, left-wing hikers. They go hike in Africa. They go hike in India. They go hike and they run into people and they spread peace. They wear khaki shorts, they run around with backpacks. They\u2019re hikers.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s called “the Peace Corps,” so that you think the work is wonderful and good and you cannot object to it. They\u2019ve got a medical director. So last night, Shannon Bream is talking to the medical director for the Peace Corps about my comments on the guidelines that have been set up for reopening the economy and how they keep moving.<\/a> They keep moving the goalposts on us and here is how that sound bite sounded…<\/p>\n

BREAM: I want to play a little bit of what Rush Limbaugh had to say about this today about how people are feeling like the goalposts keep moving. Here\u2019s what he said…<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: So we had to flatten the curve, had to follow the data of flawed model, we need more testing. So we got more testing. It\u2019s not enough. Now that\u2019s not enough. We need even more. We need antibodies. That doesn\u2019t mean anything anymore. Now we need a vaccine. There may never be a vaccine.<\/p>\n

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BREAM: All right, Doctor. I know that you want to keep us safe, but you can hear the frustration in his voice.<\/p>\n

WEINBERG: I certainly could. I love Rush. He is the best conservative journalist probably ever. I looked today on his bio. I can\u2019t find where he went to medical school. Uhh, not sure he has a medical degree. And the goalposts haven\u2019t moved, Shannon. What we\u2019ve done is we\u2019ve learned a lot more about the disease.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: So you see, I am immediately disqualified for having any kind of opinion about what he later acknowledges is true: The goalposts are moving. But I don\u2019t have a medical degree. I don\u2019t wear a lab coat. I don\u2019t have any kind of health expertise on my resume.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: My point is, they\u2019re moving the goalposts.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re doing everything they can in the blue states to keep this economy shut down. I point it out, and I\u2019m immediately disqualified because I didn\u2019t go to medical school. I\u2019m just… Folks, look, I\u2019m trying to make this as simple as I can. When it comes to science — science in climate change — science everywhere has been corrupted. Every government institution has been hijacked over the years. It didn\u2019t just happen yesterday.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been going on my whole life to the point now that the administrative state exists to thwart personal liberty and freedom and conservatism, and advance the notions of gigantic Big Government and authoritarian control that that conveys, and they have taken over fields like science. You can\u2019t dispute it! “You can\u2019t dispute what Dr. Fauci says. You don\u2019t have a medical degree!”<\/p>\n

And even if you did, you wouldn\u2019t be allowed to dispute Dr. Fauci. But he\u2019s not alone. I mean, you can\u2019t dispute the climate change people. “A consensus of scientists. A consensus of scientists!” Right there, you can\u2019t disagree with, or if you do, nobody should listen to you \u2019cause you\u2019re a plebe. Well, there\u2019s no consensus in science. It\u2019s not up to a vote.<\/p>\n

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So again, it\u2019s just something to be originally, inherently doubtful and suspicious of when a bunch of government scientists (or government anything) tell you things. Don\u2019t believe it at first. Wait for it to be confirmed or true, \u2019cause I\u2019ll guarantee you, all it\u2019s about is advancing the liberal Democrat (what is now socialist) agenda.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

Okay. So earlier today we played the following sound bite from Shannon Bream\u2019s show last night on the Fox News Channel. She had a guest, the Peace Corps medical director Steve Weinberg. And I used this bite as an example of how people will disqualify others from having opinions that are worthwhile if they are not men of science, if they\u2019re not doctors or what have you. So here to start, this is the bite.<\/p>\n

BREAM: I want to play a little bit of what Rush Limbaugh had to say about this today about how people are feeling like the goalposts keep moving. Here\u2019s what he said…<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: So we had to flatten the curve. We had to follow the data of flawed models. We need more testing. So we got more testing. It\u2019s not enough. We need even more. Now that\u2019s not enough. We need antibodies. That doesn\u2019t mean anything anymore. Now we need a vaccine. There may never be a vaccine.<\/p>\n

BREAM: All right, Doctor. I know that you want to keep us safe, but you can hear the frustration in his voice.<\/p>\n

WEINBERG: I certainly could. I love Rush. He is the best conservative journalist probably ever. I looked today on his bio, I can\u2019t find where he went to medical school. I\u2019m not sure he has a medical degree. And the goalposts haven\u2019t moved, Shannon. What we\u2019ve done is we\u2019ve learned a lot more about the disease.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. So he was defending the goalposts moving. When I played the bite, I was a little snarky \u2019cause the guy said, “Okay. Well, yeah, he\u2019s a great conservative, but I don\u2019t see that he\u2019s got a medical degree.” Of course this is how leftists — not even just leftists, some people — I told you it was all part of a monologue where the left doesn\u2019t care to win debates. They don\u2019t care to prevail. They don\u2019t even think they should have to face opposition. They just quiet it.<\/p>\n

Well, I got a note from Shannon at about 10 minutes after 2, so 50 minutes ago, 45 minutes ago.<\/p>\n

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She said, “Hey, Rush, the weeks are much more entertaining and informative when you\u2019re on. The doctor we had on last night really is your biggest fan. He did run the Peace Corps for Bush 43. He pulled it as far to the right as he could. I think he was just trying to be cheeky with the comment that you don\u2019t have a medical degree. But he started his remarks praising you immensely. He would love to connect if you have any desire. The guy\u2019s a die-hard conservative. He credits you with much of that. Not only an MD, he\u2019s a JD and a professor, and he\u2019s a legitimate Texan and he\u2019s a good egg. His name is Steve Weinberg. You continue to be in our daily prayers, Shannon Bream.”<\/p>\n

Well, I\u2019m glad she sent me the note. Did I sound overly snarky at the guy originally? Nah. Okay, good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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