{"id":8088,"date":"2014-10-16T16:53:05","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T16:53:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-10-16T16:53:05","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T16:53:05","slug":"our_aim_is_not_to_cause_panic_shep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/10\/16\/our_aim_is_not_to_cause_panic_shep\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Aim Is Not to Cause Panic, Shep"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Now, I want to explain something at this point to those of you who are new. I try constantly to keep in mind that we have people listening for the first time every day, and those of you who are veterans understand fully that it requires a minimum of six weeks listening to this program in order to have just the basic understanding of what happens here and how it happens and to have a chance at understanding the context in which events happen and comments are made.<\/p>\n

Because we don\u2019t start from ground zero every day. The assumption by me is that everybody in the audience has a base level of knowledge that is assumed, and we start from that point. But if you\u2019re new, you don\u2019t have that base of knowledge because you haven\u2019t been here. So I always have to keep that in mind. So in that light, let me make something clear. <\/p>\n

Yesterday afternoon on Fox News, Shepard Smith decided to get all preachy and condemn the loud voices on the radio, and the loud voices on TV, and the loud voices in print for unnecessarily spreading panic. There\u2019s no panic, that there\u2019s no spread of Ebola going on.We only got two people in the country that have it. There\u2019s no outbreak. You don\u2019t need to be worried about anything.<\/line><\/p>\n

And do not fall prey to these loud voices on radio, TV, and print that might benefit with higher ratings because they\u2019re trying to get you to panic. This is the guy who spent how many hours in a row on the air in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina raising panic, cautions, and whatever else about whatever wasn\u2019t happening there? But I want to stress here, all of you, you veterans and of those who are new.<\/p>\n

There is no desire here to spread a panic, and I am not secretly harboring a belief that we have a wide outbreak and they\u2019re not telling us. I don\u2019t believe that. Not yet. My concern is what it always is. One thing you can count on. Whether you\u2019re a new listener here or whether you\u2019re a veteran, one thing you can count on from me is consistency. <\/p>\n

If there are people who are fearful of a panic out there, or if there are people who think they\u2019re not being told the truth, it\u2019s because we have a level of incompetence I have yet to see in my life prior to this. The point that I\u2019m trying to make with all of these things I highlight is the utter incompetence of the people that you think are trustworthy in these institutions that everybody counts on. <\/p>\n

The CDC has automatic credibility and authority. People just believe in it. “It\u2019s the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It\u2019s part of the government!” People have an unquestioning belief in the integrity of the presidency, and in most of government. And when those positions are filled with people that have no business being there because they\u2019re not competent, because they are not qualified, then we\u2019ve got a major problem. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s what we are facing today. When I\u2019m simply trying to point out to you in all of this is what you\u2019re hearing is making no sense whatsoever. It is senseless, and the reason for it being senseless, and the reason they can\u2019t tell you the truth… I mean, I\u2019m watching some of the testimony before a congressional committee that\u2019s happening now, and there is a central theme: “In order to stop the spread of Ebola, we must contain it in Africa.”<\/line><\/p>\n

Everybody in the government is saying that: “We must contain it in Africa.” <\/p>\n

And then when you propose ideas how to accomplish that, they reject them. <\/p>\n

“Oh, you mean like banning travel from Africa?”<\/p>\n

“No, no, no, noooo! We can\u2019t do that! Why, that would spread the disease.”<\/p>\n

“How does that spread the disease? If you\u2019re gonna contain it in Africa and then you take steps to keep it in Africa, how does that spread the disease?” <\/p>\n

“We just… We just… We just can\u2019t do.” <\/p>\n

My point to you is, just like with Obamacare, and just like with a number of other things with this administration, the election coming up in November is crucial, and whatever is really known about this is not going to be shared with us until after that point. But more than that, I\u2019m just trying to alert you to be curious and to question some of these things that you\u2019re hearing, because it\u2019s nonsensical. <\/p>\n

I think it\u2019s not too powerful to say it\u2019s tragic that we have such levels of incompetence in positions of leadership that are really important. Now, I know why we have such a high degree of incompetence. It\u2019s because the people that are choosing those to lead these institutions are themselves incompetent and have never really done anything. They\u2019ve not accomplished anything.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re a bunch of theoreticians and philosophers who\u2019ve sat around all their lives criticizing everything everybody else has actually done while they haven\u2019t done anything, and they sit around with super egos thinking they could do it better, they\u2019re smarter, they\u2019re brighter, they care more. Now they are the ones in leadership positions, and they\u2019re clueless — and, as such, it\u2019s dangerous.<\/p>\n

The things that are being said! They\u2019re dumping on the nurse now. Wait \u2019til you hear why we can\u2019t allow anybody get on commercial but we can charters, and then wait \u2019til you hear that Frieden said the nurse from Cleveland to Dallas should have taken a charter! She shouldn\u2019t have flown commercial. She shouldn\u2019t have taken a charter, if she wanted to come back. <\/p>\n

Uh, I don\u2019t think your average nurse is even going to contemplate chartering a jet for personal travel. It\u2019s not in their realm of reality or possibility. They wouldn\u2019t know how to do it, because they know they can\u2019t afford it. What do you mean, charter a jet if you\u2019re a nurse and you need to get to Dallas from Cleveland? She should have chartered a jet! Who do these people think they\u2019re dealing with? It may be easy for them to dial up a jet; they\u2019re at the government. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Shep Smith was crying so much during his reporting from New Orleans on Hurricane Katrina, his mascara was running. But we need to dial it all back here, radio, TV, and print loud voices — seeking ratings, of course. Who is it that\u2019s always touting their ratings, by the way? Isn\u2019t it Fox? <\/p>\n

Anyway, one other thing, folks, about the criticism here. I just want you to understand, the same people who are illustrating their blatant incompetence in all of this, they\u2019re the same people telling you that there is global warming. They are the same people telling you you\u2019re not paying enough in taxes. The same people that promised you shovel-ready jobs and stimulus spending. These are the same people that told you you could keep your doctor. The same people told you you can keep your insurance plan if you liked it, lied to you about that, same people. <\/line><\/p>\n

The same people that told you you can\u2019t have a 32-ounce soft drink in New York. The same people that told you that you can\u2019t smoke because smoke kills in New York City and elsewhere. The same people that said you shouldn\u2019t eat trans fat \u2019cause that will kill you. The same people that demand calorie counts on menus at fast food restaurants in New York City. <\/p>\n

The same people telling you that, don\u2019t worry, you can\u2019t get Ebola sitting next to somebody on a bus, but if you have Ebola, you shouldn\u2019t get on a bus \u2019cause you might spread it. The same people telling you that global warming is happening. That\u2019s my only point in all this. I hope that you would at some point see the light about these people and stop granting them this automatic credibility you do. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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