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RUSH: I better do this before I forget it and before time slips by. ‘Cause I\u2019ve been talking about the latest effort at smearing me over this Ebola business. This happened yesterday morning on CNN\u2019s Reliable Sources. Let me find sound bite six just to make sure. It is sound bite six? Okay, it is. CNN did a segment on Ebola attempting to tell their audience that I said slavery is the reason Obama will not ban flights from Africa to America.<\/p>\n

Now, as you know if you\u2019ve been here… Those of you who have been here know I didn\u2019t even bring slavery up in this. A liberal Democrat author did, and I played him three times. I played this guy\u2019s sound bite three times. They conveniently leave that out. They want their audience to think… Essentially, what they want their audience to think is what I\u2019m saying is accusing Obama of thinking since Africans have Ebola, that we should get it. That\u2019s what they\u2019re attempting to do. It is a half-baked, not-even-good attempt to smear me, but, nevertheless, it\u2019s the latest one. It happened with their media analyst, Brian Stelter. I guess it\u2019s his show, Reliable Sources, and this is what he said.<\/p>\n

STELTER: It has been amazing and frustrating to see the story become a red-and-blue battle over flights from West Africa and over the government\u2019s incompetence. Rush Limbaugh, who is (pause) NOT an infectious disease specialist, said, “Stop the flights,” and then he said on his radio show that the Democratic administration won\u2019t do that because… Well, he thinks that they think we all deserve to get infected!<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, the sad thing is that you\u2019ve got such idiots watching CNN that they probably believe this. So this is one of those times where I\u2019m gonna throw away the philosophy that says, “Don\u2019t respond to it because you\u2019ll only elevate it.” This deserves a response, \u2019cause Mr. Stelter needs to be called out here on what he\u2019s doing. He either himself relied on other people to tell him what happened on this program…<\/p>\n

He ought to know by now that he\u2019s lied to when people do that. When he relies on “media watchdogs” to tell him what happened here or any other conservative show, he ought to know to be suspicious of it. He ought to know it\u2019s never the full story, ought to know it\u2019s out of context. Either that or he did listen and decided to do the smear all on his own. So after that sound bite where he said (summarized), “Oh, yeah! Stop the flights?<\/p>\n

“He said on his radio show, ‘Democrats won\u2019t do that because, well, he thinks that we all deserve to get infected.'” See, this is the guy that runs the show on media bias, right? So he plays a clip totally devoid of context and it\u2019s the network… Well, I\u2019m sorry. The description has got me totally confused. Let me just play the sound bite and I\u2019ll do it<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: People at the highest levels of our government say (translated), “Why? Why shouldn\u2019t we get it? Why should only those three nations in Africa get it? We\u2019re no better than they are,” and they have this attitude, “Well, if they have it in Africa, by God, we deserve to get it because they\u2019re in Africa because of us and because of slavery!”<\/p>\n

STELTER: So now we\u2019re atoning for colonialism? That\u2019s what this is about?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, Brian, it\u2019s not about that. It\u2019s about this. It\u2019s about a guest on your own network, on Anderson Cooper\u2019s show back on October 2nd.<\/a> His name is David Quammen, author of Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus. I was explaining what he means, Brian, a guy who was a guest on your own network. He\u2019s the guy who said what I was translating. He\u2019s the guy who was saying what you said I was trying to say.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t believe that crap! I don\u2019t believe that nonsense. But you can make people think I did if you take it totally out of context the way you did. Here\u2019s David Quammen. He\u2019s talking with Anderson Cooper, and Cooper said it\u2019s senseless to ban flights. You can\u2019t ban them! There aren\u2019t any anyway, right? “First of all, I don\u2019t think there are many flights that directly connect from Monrovia to the US.” But it\u2019s virtually impossible to track somebody, so we shouldn\u2019t even try it, right, Mr. Quammen?<\/p>\n

QUAMMEN: You can\u2019t isolate neighborhoods. You can\u2019t isolate nations. It doesn\u2019t work. And people talk about, well, we shouldn\u2019t allow any flights in from Liberia. I mean, we in America, how dare we turn our backs on Liberia, given the fact that this is a country that was founded in the 1820s, 1830s because of American slavery. We have a responsibility to stay connected with them and help them see this through.<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: So, you see, ladies and gentlemen, it wasn\u2019t I who introduced slavery into this. It was a typical liberal guest on CNN back on October 2nd, the author of… (interruption) What? (interruption) Yeah. (interruption) Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus. David Quammen is well known, and he\u2019s the guy who introduces slavery to the discussion, within the context (summarized), “Hey, you know, we\u2019re responsible for that country.<\/p>\n

“Liberia exists because we had slavery, and so what happens in Liberia, my God, we\u2019re tied to it. We can\u2019t turn our backs on these people. We can\u2019t close our border to these people. We can\u2019t stop people from flying here to Liberia. We\u2019re responsible for Liberia.” Well, if we can\u2019t keep \u2019em out, and if they\u2019ve got Ebola, it\u2019s only a logical progression to ask, “What results?” If you cannot keep Ebola patients out of the United States because they are in a country founded because of our slavery, we have a responsibility, right?<\/p>\n

Maybe even a culpability. So after playing this sound bite two or three times I was explaining how people like this think. People who are politically correct do believe that it is not fair for a certain group to have a lot of money and some not to, and so we should take it away from those who have a lot of money. It\u2019s not fair they have Ebola and we don\u2019t; it\u2019s not fair some people have AIDS and others don\u2019t. We\u2019ve gotta be fair.<\/p>\n

But it was not I suggest that in order to be fair, we need to have Ebola come to the US because we\u2019re responsible. It wasn\u2019t I. It was a CNN guest on October 2nd. Now, either whoever informed Mr. Stelter of the so-called outrageousness on my program neglected to tell him what I was really reacting to, or he knew and decided to conduct this little exercise on his own. But all we do here is react and defend and respond to the outrageousness and the just lunacy sometimes of people on the left, such as this guy, David Quammen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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