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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, my one little line (sigh) has once again hijacked cable news. When I jokingly suggested that we need to quarantine Governor Christie<\/a>, that line has hijacked cable news. We have a montage here. And by the way, they love this storyline. They love this, because now, you see, they\u2019re able to present me… Let me tell you why. They\u2019re able to present me as the leader of the GOP, because they think that is a negative thing for the GOP.<\/p>\n

They think that is very damaging to the GOP. One week before the election, I rear my head, and they think I am in an internecine battle with Governor Christie. That means there\u2019s discord within the Republican Party. I suggested he needed to be quarantined, and they\u2019re off to the races thinking they\u2019ve got a real story of strife within the Republican Party. <\/p>\n

Republicans have shut up all through this campaign. Now the Democrats are all happy. I open my mouth. Here\u2019s the montage to get… I would dare say half of the audio sound bite roster is about this today. Here\u2019s the first.<\/line><\/p>\n

CAVUTO: Rush Limbaugh saying that conservatives should quarantine Christie for caving.<\/p>\n

REPORTER: …backlash from Rush Limbaugh.<\/p>\n

REPORTER: Rush Limbaugh criticized him for caving in to Obama.<\/p>\n

REPORTER: Rush Limbaugh called it comparable to the so-called Obama hug he claims cost Mitt Romney the presidency!<\/p>\n

REPORTER: Your reaction to what Rush Limbaugh said on his show?<\/p>\n

GINGRICH: About 80% of Rush\u2019s background is as an entertainer, and it\u2019s a pretty funny line.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, that was Newt Gingrich. You know what\u2019s interesting about this is that all of these other people are once again back to treating me as the leader of the GOP. Yeah. Nobody\u2019s saying I\u2019m an entertainer except Newt! (laughing) What a reversal. Normally it is the Democrats who toss me aside as irrelevant \u2019cause I\u2019m just an entertainer. But in this bite, it was our old buddy Newt. “Well, you know, 80% of Rush\u2019s background is an entertainer; it is a pretty funny line,” quarantining Christie.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve changed that, by the way. I\u2019ll tell you who we need to quarantine. We need to quarantine Obama<\/a>. We need to quarantine Biden. We need to quarantine Elizabeth Warren. And we need to quarantine Harry Reid and Pelosi. That\u2019s who we need to quarantine, and that\u2019s what the election is going to do. But I\u2019m not drifting away. <\/p>\n

<\/a>This quarantine was in relation to the Ebola story. This next bite, this is CNN\u2019s The Lead. This is last night. Who is The Lead? Who hosts that? (interruption ) No, Anderson Cooper… Is it Jacob Tapper, our buddy Jake? That\u2019s his show? (interruption) Who? (interruption) Wolf? (interruption) Yeah, he\u2019s still got his show. It\u2019s called Wolf. That\u2019s why in The Lead…<\/p>\n

I guess it is Jacob Tapper\u2019s show. I get \u2019em all confused. Anderson Cooper\u2019s show is a number, so I know it\u2019s not his show, and then there\u2019s Erin Burnett Up Front. She\u2019s Up Front, Out Front. So The Lead, I guess, it\u2019s Jake Tapper. Anyway, on this show last night they had their senior political correspondent, Brianna Keilar, reporting about Governor Christie\u2019s New Jersey Ebola quarantine “flip-flop” and me, and this is classic. <\/p>\n

They make it sound like public opinion is on Christie\u2019s side against me, and I am a guy on the radio, pure and simple, but they make it sound like public opinion\u2019s on Christie\u2019s side against me. Here\u2019s the sound bite.<\/p>\n

KEILAR: Christie\u2019s greater challenge as he\u2019s considering gearing up for the Republican presidential primaries is backlash from Rush Limbaugh!<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: One week before the election, once again New Jersey governor Chris Christie has caved and is seen as … We need to quarantine Chris Christie is what needs to happen here, folks.<\/p>\n

KEILAR: Critics point to Christie\u2019s calls over the weekend with HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell and top Obama aide Valerie Jarrett, but he insists he did not cave. In Christie\u2019s corner, public opinion: Almost eight-in-10 people surveyed in a recent CNN\/ORC poll say the US government should quarantine US citizens returning from Ebola affected West Africa if they show symptoms.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so what does that mean? What does that poll result actually mean? It doesn\u2019t mean what this Drive-By infobabe attempted to tell you. They make it sound like in this bite that public opinion is on Christie\u2019s side against me, except I don\u2019t have anything to do with Ebola policy. It doesn\u2019t matter what people think of me on Ebola \u2019cause I have no impact on policy. Zilch, zero, nada. <\/line><\/p>\n

Public opinion is on Christie\u2019s side versus Obama, is what this means! Chris Christie had the public on his side when he was insisting that that nurse remain quarantined in New Jersey. He has the Joint Chiefs on his side. The Joint Chiefs want a quarantine of returning military personnel. Right now you\u2019ve got Elizabeth Warren sideswiping — well, frontally attacking — Christie while the White House hits him from the front.<\/p>\n

Governor Christie, regardless if he appears to be caving or not, whatever he\u2019s doing, I\u2019m sure he thinks it\u2019s a common-sense thing to protect the people of New Jersey because there isn\u2019t any leadership coming out of Washington on this. That\u2019s the bottom line, and that\u2019s why this is a story. The reason why this is a story is that Christie and Governor Cuomo decided to take action to protect the people of their state because there wasn\u2019t any leadership coming from Washington. <\/p>\n

Nobody had made up their mind. Everybody was floating around trying to do the politically advantageous thing. The Regime, led by Obama, looks at everything politically first and judges\/assesses what they could do to take more political or best political advantage of it. To hell with anything else. Now, the people of Maine, officials in Maine agree with the quarantine that Christie imposed on this nurse, Hickox, and that\u2019s where the nurse is now. <\/p>\n

<\/a>The quarantine is the only common-sense thing to do here. Twenty-one days is nothing given the alternative, but we have selfishness running rampant, selfishness that is… I\u2019ll tell you… (sigh) I don\u2019t know how else to say it. I mean, these are a bunch of screaming liberals who are behaving in this selfish, “me, me, me” way. So this argument they\u2019re trying to set up here with me versus Governor Christie?<\/p>\n

Governor Christie is not at war with me and I\u2019m not at war with him. I\u2019ve got nothing to do with it. He does have a battle going on with the White House because they\u2019re dispatching Elizabeth Warren and everybody\u2019s doing what they can. If Governor Christie makes a mistake, it\u2019s this notion of compromise, reaching across the aisle and that sort of stuff, when the other side\u2019s not interested in that. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re interested in scalps. You know, this is blood sport to them. This is not about cooperation or getting along, and these moderate Republicans seem to think that the American people want that. It\u2019s not… We\u2019re so past that now. The American people want these people defeated. The American people want the Democrat Party gone. The American people want Obama\u2019s power greatly reduced, is what they want.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: So somebody just asked me in an e-mail, “Is CNN trying to pretend that you, Rush, are against quarantines?” No. That\u2019s not what CNN is doing. You know, what CNN is doing, they\u2019re trying to create another — what was her name? O\u2019Donnell. The candidate for the Senate, the Republican in Delaware. They\u2019re trying to create a Christine O\u2019Donnell or Todd Akin moment here. That\u2019s all they\u2019ve got. <\/p>\n

This is why the Republicans have had this omerta out there, this code of silence. They\u2019ve done everything they can to avoid wacko comments that the media and the Democrats can focus on and tar the whole party with. So they\u2019ve been sitting lying in wait. They just have been hoping and praying that some Republican would say something they think is stupid, that they could run with \u2019cause they don\u2019t have anything else. You know, even playing the race card doesn\u2019t appear to be working. <\/p>\n

The War on Women, particularly in Colorado, isn\u2019t working. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now back to Ebola. Neil Cavuto was talking to Mitch McConnell yesterday, and he wanted to get Mitch McConnell\u2019s take on my “feud” with Chris Christie. (laughing) See? (laughing) They\u2019re so hoping that they can make something out of this little rat-tat-tat between me and Christie, which is not a rat-tat-tat. It was just a little line, “We need to quarantine Christie.” Anyway, here\u2019s what McConnell said.<\/p>\n

CAVUTO: Some conservatives in the party, even those outside the political spectrum — Rush Limbaugh, for example — criticized the New Jersey governor\u2019s handling of this saying that maybe conservatives should quarantine him, that he\u2019s been all over the map on this and has caved once again to the CDC and the White House. What do you say?<\/p>\n

MCCONNELL: Well, I think these governors are doing what they think is in the best interests of their constituents, and I don\u2019t think second-guessing that from Washington is something I want to engage in.<\/p>\n

RUSH: If you want to second-guess \u2019em on the radio, go right ahead, but I\u2019m not gonna second-guess \u2019em (laughing) from Washington. They so don\u2019t want to make any waves here. They\u2019re so close! They\u2019re just a week away. They\u2019re not gonna take the bait. Anyway… And there is no bait here. Nobody doubts what Chris Christie\u2019s trying to do in this case! Hell, the governor of Maine…<\/p>\n

Where is the story? “Maine Governor Seeks to Make Nurse Abide by Quarantine,” the same thing Christie wanted to do. Governor Paul LePage said he would try to force the nurse, Kaci Hickox, to abide by Maine\u2019s Ebola quarantine. But she\u2019s out there saying (summarized), “Nope, I got my ACLLU lawyers, and I will sue everybody in sight if I have to. I\u2019m not gonna do it! I\u2019m not gonna do it. You can\u2019t make me.” She\u2019s auditioning for a Simpsons episode, I think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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