{"id":8154,"date":"2014-10-09T17:51:36","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T17:51:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-10-09T17:51:36","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T17:51:36","slug":"will_democrats_let_ebola_crisis_go_to_waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/10\/09\/will_democrats_let_ebola_crisis_go_to_waste\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Democrats Let Ebola Crisis Go to Waste?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Listen<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: Eric in Margate, New Jersey. Hi, Eric. It\u2019s great to have. You\u2019re up first today on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: How you doing, Rush?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Very good, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Listen, I wanted to talk about Ebola<\/a>. Now, I was telling Mr. Snerdley — by the way, I\u2019m here in New Jersey two hours from Newark and hopefully we\u2019ll be safe here. But if I was in Africa right now, Rush, and I was visiting my family — now, follow me here — and the whole family\u2019s not shown any symptoms of Ebola, but one of them has and they don\u2019t know it yet, and I kiss them good-bye and I contact Ebola from them. Now, mind you, I tell the airport people I haven\u2019t had any contact with Ebola. My temperature\u2019s normal. I get on the airplane, sweat on it, whatever I do. I land in America and two weeks later I come down with Ebola. Now, aren\u2019t I basically contaminating us?<\/p>\n

RUSH: You could well be. If the scenario you\u2019ve just described is exactly what happened. Now, wait, you went to see family in Africa, and —<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — none of them had Ebola.<\/p>\n

CALLER: One of them actually did, but wasn\u2019t showing symptoms yet.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And you kissed that family member, hello or good-bye or whatever.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And then you get a call from Africa two days later, “Hey, little Johnny came down with Ebola. I hope you didn\u2019t get it.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yeah. And now you\u2019re wondering, when you got on the plane and landed and went about your business, have you been contaminating people, you\u2019re wondering if that\u2019s how it works?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Now, Rush, if this disease takes off, I was telling Mr. Snerdley, the CDC guys said there\u2019s gonna be clusters. What does that mean? And also, do you think there\u2019s gonna be an NBA if this takes off? These guys sweat all over each other. What about the guy that wipes the floor when they run down the other court? What about all the gyms that people sweat on? What about the store clerk, if he has Ebola, he sneezes all over my canned goods? How long does Ebola live on a product, if it does get contaminated?<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, about that, I saw yesterday — this might be relevant to you — that Ebola survives 90 days in male semen after a patient is cured or recovers.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Great.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The virus is still in semen for three months, they\u2019ve found.<\/p>\n

CALLER: What is the survival rate of Ebola?<\/p>\n

RUSH: The death rate, depending, 50 to 90% is the death rate. About half of the reported cases, 3,500, have died.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Jacksonville, Florida, it\u2019s Michael. Thank you, sir, for waiting, and you\u2019re next.<\/p>\n

CALLER: All right. Good afternoon, Rush. How you doing?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m great. Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I listened to two days of conversation about the Ebola virus being active in male sperm for like 90 days.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s what they say.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yep. And I\u2019m getting ready to go into a convenience store, open up my wallet and I\u2019ve got all this US currency. That\u2019s why I had to call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You actually have some of that? I\u2019m happy for you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. Yes. It probably has all kinds of previous owners\u2019 germs. I\u2019m just wondering what\u2019s the chance of this virus getting on foreign currency that make its way all over the world, plus US currency.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s what I\u2019ve heard about that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The CDC, Centers for Disease Control, says that Ebola can live on surfaces for several hours. Several hours is as specific as they will get, and they also don\u2019t get specific on surfaces, but I would assume currency\u2019s a surface.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, it\u2019s porous.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So they\u2019re saying several hours that it can survive. It\u2019s like a tabletop or whatever surface where the virus has come in contact with the surface it\u2019s alive, per se, for several hours.<\/p>\n

CALLER: A second thought I\u2019ve had, reading an article on the American Thinker website, this administration has always taken advantage of the next crisis to its fullest. And we\u2019ve got an upcoming general election in less than four weeks. I\u2019m just wondering what their game plan is.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, what are you thinking?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m thinking institute martial law because of this outbreak. Just a thought.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. Well, let\u2019s explore that because you mentioned this in the context of the election. How would declaring martial law before the election benefit the Regime? I\u2019m not saying it doesn\u2019t. I just want to know what you\u2019re thinking here. I mean, if you can\u2019t leave your house, if martial law —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: If you are an enforced recluse, how does that help \u2019em before the election? I can\u2019t imagine something like that\u2019s gonna be cheered by people who then can\u2019t wait to go vote for the Democrat Party to keep doing stuff like that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I mean, if they take control of the airports, take control of people coming and going in hospitals, institutions, who knows what\u2019s up their sleeve. I\u2019m just saying, this crisis might be the best one in their playbook.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, I understand your thinking on this. I was in LA last week, we were talking about this with some people. And there are some people — you\u2019re not the first — who have raised the possibility, and they didn\u2019t couch it the way you did, as in never let a crisis go to waste. They thought it would be an ideal opportunity for autocrats, if there are any, to use the potential spread of a deadly virus as an opportunity to exercise further control over the population under the guise of protecting everybody. And don\u2019t forget that\u2019s always the way things like this happen. It\u2019s always for the benefit of the victim that these kind of things happen. <\/p>\n

I have no feeling for it, and no clue. My instincts on this haven\u2019t spoken up yet. But I know there are a lot of people from all kinds of different walks of life who are thinking that there are people running the show to whom this might be an attractive option.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Beth in Memphis, great to have you here. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. Thank you for taking my call. I\u2019m very happy to talk with you finally, and also wanted to tell you I do love the books. I bought \u2019em for several people.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, thank you. Thank you very, very much. I appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I did want to say that I think it\u2019s mighty suspicious that Ebola\u2019s been around for a couple of years or more and all of a sudden one month before the election we have the outbreak. And not only that, but that the patients that have been brought here are in hospitals in red states. And just kind of interesting that, you know, if you want to scare people away from the polls or away from those states, that\u2019s a very quick way to do it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. Let me follow through with you on this. People have been suffering from Ebola for at least a couple of years, but it wasn\u2019t until a couple or three months ago that we all began to hear about the major outbreak in the three African countries.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, and the reporting of it in that way makes you suspicious. (summarizing the caller\u2019s point) “Now we have Ebola patients who are being flown to America to be treated. It\u2019s not accidental that they\u2019re ending up in places like Texas and Nebraska, which are red states, Republican-voter states,” and that means…? I lost you on this. What does that mean? It means people aren\u2019t gonna…? How will an Ebola patient being in Texas affect Republican votes or Democrat votes there? <\/p>\n

Did we lose her? (interruption) The line dropped? Oh, darn. (interruption) People would be afraid to come out, what? Of the house? Be…? (interruption) Oh. Oh. Oh. I see. People will be afraid… So they\u2019d be hermits. (interruption) Including not going to the polls \u2019cause if Ebola is all over the place, like in Texas? They\u2019ll stay home, come in contact with few people as possible in order to not contract it? It could be a voter…?<\/p>\n

(interruption) Oh, so she thinks a voter suppression is a possible part of the operation. Now, ladies and gentlemen, I don\u2019t know what your reaction to that theory is. But let me share with you mine, and I\u2019m not gonna address the substance of it. But that woman from Memphis was obviously intelligent. She was well spoken. She was not ranting or fantastical. She\u2019s a very reasonable woman, and yet look what she thinks is possible. (interruption)<\/line><\/p>\n

Mr. Snerdley, why are you laughing? Is this…? Is it…? (interruption) It may be bordering on a little bit of kookiness, but I\u2019m more interested in how it is that an intelligent, apparently reasonable-sounding woman can even start thinking of this. My point is that look at what this administration is spawning, all the conspiracy theories and all of the concern. I think it\u2019s amazing. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m fascinated, as you know, \u2019cause I\u2019ve said it on several occasions that I\u2019m fascinated by how people think, when they\u2019re really thinking and not just reacting. When they\u2019re really thinking, I\u2019m fascinated by it. The fact that she could conceive of this as something that would be politically possible is quite telling to me. She doesn\u2019t have to be right. She thinks it. She thinks it\u2019s a legitimate possibility that the whole thing is planned.<\/p>\n

What she\u2019s thinking is… I don\u2019t think she thinks that the disease was planted and timed to outbreak now, but that it is being used as a political weapon. She thinks, given everything else she\u2019s seen this Regime do, that it\u2019s entirely reasonable to think that they would do this. That fascinates me, that people would have that kind of reaction, and it certainly isn\u2019t healthy. You talk about distrust of government? We know that a lot of that exists and is prevalent. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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