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RUSH: Folks, I must tell you that I\u2019m a little — not conflicted, but I\u2019m guarded here. The news on Ebola<\/a>, if done the wrong way — and of course I don\u2019t do things the wrong way — but if done the wrong way, could create — I don\u2019t want to even say the word “panic,” but some people are beginning to. And I think it\u2019s predictable that it\u2019s gonna happen. <\/p>\n

We\u2019ve had a Missouri doctor from Springfield who flew into Atlanta in full hazmat gear to raise consciousness to his belief that the CDC has no idea what they\u2019re doing, and if they do know what they\u2019re doing, then they\u2019re lying to us. But he\u2019s chalking it up to incompetence. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m telling you, it\u2019s incompetence. Now, it may be some informed incorrectness, but there\u2019s also political correctness, which is guiding all of this as I spent many, many minutes yesterday detailing. And I\u2019m gonna give you more evidence of that today. It\u2019s a combination of incompetence and political correctness, but it\u2019s a chicken-and-egg thing. Which breeds which? Is it political correctness, which leads to incompetence, or does the incompetence come first? And, at this point, we may be running out of time to draw any distinction there. <\/p>\n

<\/a>We just have to deal with the reality that people in these time-honored places, these institutions, like the CDC, we\u2019ve always put implicit trust that people there are the best this country has to do what needs to be done there. We\u2019ve thought that about the Secret Service. And now we\u2019re questioning all of this, legitimately so. We are questioning whether or not we\u2019ve got the best. We know we have a president who\u2019s totally unqualified. We have a president who has never done anything and yet believes he is the smartest and the best and the wisest and whatever. And it\u2019s a dangerous combination. <\/p>\n

Steve Wynn once again is out there talking about he just can\u2019t believe that this country has elected somebody so unqualified for this job. And it all starts there. If you have somebody unqualified in that job, the people they are gonna put in these very important jobs, these institutions, like the FDA, like the Centers for Disease Control, they are also gonna be incompetent because these people, especially those governed by political correctness — competence is not even a factor when it comes to political correctness. Competence is the last thing you look at in filling positions or coming up with policy ideas. <\/p>\n

By definition, political correctness, competence cannot possibly be used because competence means better at it than somebody else or very good at it, and that is not permitted. We\u2019re not to have these kinds of great differences. We\u2019re not supposed to have people super-qualified, really, really good the things, because that humiliates those who aren\u2019t as good, and we don\u2019t want to hurt their feelings. So we put people who aren\u2019t as good, aren\u2019t as qualified in positions of authority to make them feel better, to show that we can be fair, to show that we understand equality and all this gunk, and it\u2019s how you end up in situations such as those that we are finding ourselves in now. <\/p>\n

It is so bad, Obama\u2019s latest numbers, just to illustrate this, only four in 10 people, 40% of the country, approve of Obama\u2019s handling of the economy. And you know what the next two most important issues are in this public opinion poll? Terrorism and national security and immigration, and after them is health care. And on every one of those Obama is well below 50% in terms of people who have confidence in the way he\u2019s handling it. Forty percent approve of the way he\u2019s handling the economy, and his numbers are under 50% for terrorism, national security, immigration, and then health care. <\/line><\/p>\n

So what\u2019s Obama gonna do? He finds himself in negative territory. You know what he\u2019s gonna do today? He\u2019s gonna go make a speech on the economy. He\u2019s gonna go to Chicago. He\u2019s gonna deliver a speech in Chicago explaining why you are wrong in your assessment of the economy. Obama is gonna go out there and do a speech and tell you that you are better off than you were six years ago; you just don\u2019t know it. <\/p>\n

But do you think, with everything that\u2019s happening at the moment…? The economy has been an issue. The economy in the tank has been an issue for years. It\u2019s bad, and people have lost confidence in this Regime, as the polling data indicates, to do anything about it. But things are so bad elsewhere that Obama\u2019s gonna turn to the economy and then, while we\u2019re in the midst of a non-recovery recovery, he\u2019s gonna tell you what an idiot you are. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s not gonna use the word, of course, but he\u2019s gonna tell you that you\u2019re wrong about the condition of the economy. “You\u2019re better off than you were six years ago. You just don\u2019t know it.” This is classic. Now, let me turn to Ebola<\/a> and the umbrella issue again of political correctness, which leads to incompetence, and there\u2019s another issue that is extremely or highly relevant here, and it\u2019s immigration.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s illegal immigration and just who it is that is Patient Zero, how he got here and why he got here. It turns out that there is a huge Liberian community of illegal immigrants in Dallas. It\u2019s in the tens of thousands, I think. I saw the number 10,000. Oh, yeah, the doctor in the hazmat suit. The doctor, he\u2019s from Springfield. His name is Gil Mobley. For some reason, the name rings a bell. <\/p>\n

You know, I\u2019m from Missouri. I am Missouri. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s from Springfield, and I don\u2019t know anybody in Springfield that I know of. But the name Gil Mobley for some reason sounds familiar. But that\u2019s who the doctor is. He\u2019s a microbiologist and emergency trauma physician, and he flew into Atlanta in a full hazmat suit to make the point that either CDC doesn\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing with Ebola or they\u2019re lying to us about how safe everything is, how nobody is at risk. <\/p>\n

But let me pose a scenario and give you some predictions based on the political correctness that\u2019s governing the way we\u2019re handling not just this, but what do you think it is that\u2019s the intellectual justification for the Regime and the left\u2019s view on legal immigration? Again, it\u2019s political correctness. So many things there. “It\u2019s not fair that we\u2019re such a powerful nation!<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s not fair that we\u2019re so rich while the rest of the world is so poor. We have made the rest of the world poor because we are so rich. We couldn\u2019t get this rich on our own. It\u2019s not possible. We had to steal it. So these people from whom generation after generation have been stone from by us, want to come here and improve their life. Well, who are we to tell them they can\u2019t?” <\/p>\n

That\u2019s how political correctness works, and throughout it is guilt. Guilt is one of the primary overriding psychological factors in this. Now, people can come here illegally for benefits. Shouldn\u2019t that include coming here for treatment for Ebola<\/a>? If you\u2019re in Africa and you are in an area surrounded by Ebola<\/a>, and there\u2019s a place in the world where you can get well, maybe — and maybe not even get the disease — wouldn\u2019t you want to go there? <\/p>\n

<\/a>That\u2019d be the United States of America, and if people all over the world are getting into the US simply because they want benefits, why shouldn\u2019t treatment for Ebola being one of those benefits? We have things they want. We have things they want, and we\u2019ve got leaders telling them that they\u2019re entitled to come here because we have been so mean in the past, and our immigration laws are so restricted and punitive anyway. <\/p>\n

“We shouldn\u2019t have all these closed borders. It\u2019s mean of us to treat the peoples of the world this way.” So therefore we open the borders, and that\u2019s exactly what we\u2019ve done. We have opened the borders. The Chamber of Commerce may think this is for jobs and low-skill labor, but there\u2019s a whole heck a lot of lot more than that going on here. <\/p>\n

I mean, whether people in foreign countries are abused by political conditions or viral conditions like Ebola, they\u2019re welcome to come to America as refugees, right? “Who are we is to tell them they can\u2019t come?” Not only is this one of the attitudes of the Regime, I\u2019ve had well-known liberals, TV hosts, say it. I\u2019ve gotten in arguments with them about immigration. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re tell me, “Rush, if some poor slob from Central America wants to come to my country and improve his life and seek the American dream, I am in no way gonna sto them.” <\/p>\n

“What if the guy pitches a tent in your backyard, sir?” <\/p>\n

“Well, that would never happen.” <\/p>\n

“What do you mean, it would never happen?”<\/p>\n

You know, when you personalize it they\u2019ll finally oppose it. But when the illegals are gonna show up somewhere else, it\u2019s all fine and dandy. And when they want to come here for Ebola treatment, why check anybody for past crimes or past infections? “That\u2019s discriminatory, you see. We can\u2019t discriminate against people that want to come here. We can\u2019t discriminate against the sick. <\/p>\n

“My God, what kind people do that? Do you realize how mean and insensitive that is, to discriminate against the sick, especially people who are coming here for love? They need work; we have jobs Americans won\u2019t do. They need treatment for disease; we have it. It\u2019s not fair that they don\u2019t, so who are we to tell them they can\u2019t come? They need medical treatment; we have treatments for diseases that Americans don\u2019t have yet.<\/line><\/p>\n

“So why are we being so selfish with our health care? It isn\u2019t fair! If somebody anywhere in the world is sick and America can treat what ails them, fairness dictates they come here get treatment for free.” That\u2019s how it works., and anything less than that makes you mean-spirited, discriminatory, racist, bigot, sexist — and maybe even a homophobe, depending. “Need a job? We got one! Need benefits? We got \u2019em! <\/p>\n

“Need treatment? We can treat it!” Ebola patients. By the way, if we also tell sick people around the world that they gotta stay where they are, that\u2019s not good because we\u2019re now a “global culture.” You\u2019ll hear this in a moment. We\u2019re a global culture. This is not about just the United States anymore. We are a global culture, and we can\u2019t just act like we\u2019re a single country. We are a part of the globe. <\/p>\n

So these people are really not foreign. “They\u2019re just human beings who want what\u2019s available here. We got no right to tell \u2019em they can\u2019t have it.” This is how politically correct people think, because what I just described to you is how they define justice. So this is what we are up against, and we have people that now run places like the Centers for Disease Control, and we have people in very serious positions — medical research, biological research — who feel the same way. <\/p>\n

We got a president who looks at the world this way. We have everybody he\u2019s appointed in the Regime that looks at the world and the United States this way. This is what we\u2019re up against. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, I didn\u2019t intend to spend this much time on this \u2019cause there\u2019s a lot of stuff I want to roll through here. A lot of people are beginning to question, as news becomes known about Patient Zero, the guy from Liberia who shows up in Dallas, goes to the ER and is sent home with antibiotics, was not tested. Even though he told them he was from Liberia, he was not tested for Ebola.<\/p>\n

There is now many more than 12 to 18 people he\u2019s come in contact with. It\u2019s many more. It turns out there\u2019s an entire community in Dallas of Liberians, and the thing that is probably true, and you can assume this because of the way it\u2019s being reported, many of them are probably here on expired visas. They came here with visas never intending to leave. They\u2019ve set up communities. Nobody\u2019s deporting them. So many of them are here illegally. <\/p>\n

And it goes back to the thing I said at the very beginning of the show. We\u2019ve got treatment. They don\u2019t have it. Why shouldn\u2019t they come here, and who are we to tell \u2019em they can\u2019t? We don\u2019t close the borders anyway. We\u2019re wide open for benefits and other reasons for immigration. Why not this? It\u2019s only fair. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m gonna take you back to 2010, the archives of USA Today<\/a>: “Obama Administration Scraps Quarantine Regulations.” This story will explain to you why Obama isn\u2019t doing anything to stop flights to and from countries where Ebola has broken out or why he\u2019s not doing anything to stop people with diseases from pouring into the country. It\u2019s largely because the ACLU and Obama think such measures are unfair. Here\u2019s the story. This is four years ago.<\/line><\/p>\n

“The Obama administration has quietly scrapped plans to enact sweeping new federal quarantine regulations that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention touted four years ago as critical to protecting Americans from dangerous diseases spread by travelers. The regulations, proposed in 2005 during the Bush administration amid fears of avian flu, would have given the federal government additional powers to detain sick airline passengers and those exposed to certain diseases. They also would have expanded requirements for airlines to report ill passengers to the CDC and mandated that airlines collect and maintain contact information for fliers in case they later needed to be traced as part of an investigation into an outbreak.”<\/p>\n

Now, this was related to the bird flu, but Obama scrapped all this.<\/p>\n

“Airline and civil liberties groups, which had opposed the rules,” airlines, \u2019cause they didn\u2019t want the additional work. It would cost money they couldn\u2019t bill back in fares. The airlines and civil liberties groups “praised their withdrawal” of all of these safety measures, because, after all, folks, we can\u2019t discriminate against the disease. Who do we think we are? What kind of mean society does that, discriminates against a disease? <\/p>\n

“The Air Transport Association had decried them as imposing ‘unprecedented\u2019 regulations on airlines at costs they couldn\u2019t afford.” Well, okay, fine. Take a look at the price of airline stocks today. They\u2019re not going up. Airline stock prices are — I don\u2019t want to say through the floor, but they\u2019re on the downside, and it\u2019s because of Ebola fears. <\/p>\n

“The American Civil Liberties Union had objected to potential passenger privacy rights violations and the proposal\u2019s ‘provisional quarantine\u2019 rule. That rule would have allowed the CDC to detain people involuntarily for three business days if the agency believed they had certain diseases: pandemic flu, infectious tuberculosis, plague, cholera, SARS, smallpox, yellow fever, diphtheria or viral hemorrhagic fevers such as Ebola.”<\/p>\n

This is four years ago. If you want to know why there is no ability to quarantine or to segregate or to identify, it is because Obama and the ACLU considered these steps discriminatory. Therefore, the number one job of the president of the United States, to protect the homeland, to defend and protect the Constitution, to protect the American people, however you want to describe it, the number one job was cast aside because that\u2019s unfair. That\u2019s discriminatory. We can\u2019t treat the sick that way. We can\u2019t segregate them, even if it means protecting the American people. <\/p>\n

Folks, liberalism matters. People who are leftists, it matters what they believe. And what they believe is that there\u2019s nothing special, that we are no better and we ought not have any access to anything anybody else doesn\u2019t have access to, and if we do, we should share it with everybody and not help ourselves first. No, no, no, no. That\u2019s discriminatory. We have to do this because it\u2019s unfair we\u2019re so powerful to begin with. <\/line><\/p>\n

And none of what I\u2019m telling you is an exaggeration. None of what I\u2019m telling you is being exaggerated to make a point. It\u2019s exactly the way they think. “The people of United States do not deserve any more protection than the people in Africa, and if we are able to provide that protection to our people, then we are guilty of discrimination and guilty of caring about ourselves more than others” and on and on. <\/p>\n

To a lot of people, that\u2019s a very seductive message. I mean, that sounds like the essence of compassion, isn\u2019t it? It\u2019s right out of, “Women and children first!” If the ship\u2019s going down, women and children get saved first. What is that all about? That\u2019s about chivalry and taking care of those who can\u2019t take care of themselves. <\/p>\n

Well, this has been expanded now to the point that it ends up being genuinely harmful and detrimental to the people of the United States of America. So this is why what\u2019s happening all over the country now in regard to the enterovirus or Ebola… This is why. Obama, four years ago, scrapped any ability to protect the American people on this basis. Now, part and parcel of this, “Why would Obama and the ACLU do this?” is you\u2019ve gotta understand what their attitude going in is. <\/p>\n

They don\u2019t like this country in the first place because it\u2019s so powerful. They don\u2019t think any of this is fair. “Most of this country is unjust and immoral, and it\u2019s time we pay the price. We gotta find out what it\u2019s like in the rest of the world. It\u2019s a global world now. We\u2019re not a superpower, and we don\u2019t dominate things anymore. We gotta find out what it\u2019s like.” That may be hard to comprehend or accept or believe, but it\u2019s exactly the kind of thinking that is shaping policy on everything that is happening in this country. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: “The Department of Health has confirmed a patient is currently in isolation and undergoing testing in Honolulu. The Hawaii Nurses Association said the person is being treated at The Queen\u00c2\u2019s Medical Center.” It turns out we only know about this because of the nurses union<\/a>. The nurses union made this public.<\/p>\n

“A message sent to all employees Wednesday said that the hospital is ‘evaluating a patient for possible symptoms that may be consistent with Ebola.\u2019 The union that represents the nurses was tipped off about the message Wednesday afternoon. Joan Craft, president of the Hawaii Nurses Association, immediately contacted the hospital for assurance that safety procedures are in place to protect her members.”<\/p>\n

Now, why all the tap dancing here? Why can\u2019t the officials just say the person has Ebola-like symptoms and they\u2019ve been to West Africa recently? What is gained by playing with words like this? All it does is make everybody distrust the authorities even more. Why not just be up front about this? By the way, isn\u2019t that the responsible thing to do? I know, I know, everybody\u2019s worried about panic. But you imagine the panic, if you lie to everybody and tell them, “Nothing to see here. Nothing to worry about,” and then there\u2019s an outbreak, you want to talk about panic? <\/p>\n

It would seem to me that the authorities here want to be trusted and believed, and they want their authority to be respected. And all this tap dancing around here and trying to keep things from people is only going to ratchet up suspicion. From the New York Times we know who the patient in Dallas is. He\u2019s been identified as Thomas Eric Duncan. He\u2019s a resident of Monrovia in his mid-forties. He flew to Dallas, was later found to have the Ebola virus, and it was the Liberian government that successfully identified him. <\/p>\n

So we now know he is not an American citizen. Why was this information withheld? They ran through hoops the past couple days trying to keep the identity of the patient. I know medical health security, safety, privacy, but this is not an American citizen here. Let me just give you this in a nutshell. Thomas Eric Duncan is a Liberian citizen. He had direct contact, physical contact with a woman, whom he knew died of Ebola. He had physical contact. He knew that others who had contact with the same woman at the same time had died. But he did not tell the medical staff in Dallas any of this. <\/line><\/p>\n

Also, we now learn that Mr. Duncan had relatives in Dallas who he said were telling him to come live with them. And we now know that he quit his job with FedEx in Liberia, giving no reason, before getting on the plane to Dallas, all of which indicates that Thomas Eric Duncan was intending to move in with his family, his relatives, here in Dallas. The odds are that they are people who have overstayed their visas and are here, quote, unquote, illegally, and that\u2019s another thing that we won\u2019t be told. <\/p>\n

Can you imagine the firestorm if that kind of thing gets outs? So they\u2019ll try to cover that up, because we\u2019re preparing to do executive amnesty here after the Mary Landrieu runoff in December. That\u2019s what we\u2019re waiting on, by the way, for executive amnesty. Obama\u2019s not gonna do anything that\u2019s gonna impair the Democrats\u2019 chance at winning the Senate. That\u2019s a whole other subject I want to get into today, too, by the way. Michael Barone<\/a> has a column out there saying it\u2019s gonna be a wave, they just don\u2019t know how big. Yet other people are telling them, no this thing is gonna come down to a runoff in two races, Louisiana and Georgia. So there\u2019s nobody that really knows, but the opinions are far and wide on it. I want to treat you to all of it as the program unfolds. <\/p>\n

Now, for the record. People from Liberia have the fifth highest visa overstay rate in the United States. Now, how many times did the administration and the news media make fun of or mock people for suggesting that somebody might come across the border with Ebola? Ever since the Ebola outbreak occurred, coupled with our open borders, there have been people warning, are we doing anything? Are we being vigilant? Are we making sure that this disease is going to be kept out of the country? <\/p>\n

Oh, yeah. Oh, there\u2019s nothing to worry about. Obama goes out, “It isn\u2019t gonna happen.” It\u2019s a hard disease to get, the CDC guy said, it isn\u2019t gonna happen. And everybody who worried about it was mocked and made fun of and there were intimations that we were listening to racists and bigots. That\u2019s what it means. If you want steps to be taken to protect your country and the population of your country, and yourself and your family, you\u2019re bigot. You are not behaving properly according to the tenets of political correctness. <\/p>\n

Well, guess what, folks? Here\u2019s a simple little fact of life. Every international airline is a border, and now we have had somebody come across the border carrying Ebola with them who lied at every step of the process to get here, which makes total sense. The CDC director said yesterday, “Oh, well, you know, we\u2019re … we\u2019re … we\u2019re … we\u2019re … taking their body temperatures before they get on the plane in Africa.”<\/p>\n

“Really? How are we doing that?”<\/p>\n

“Well, we zap \u2019em with this laser device. This laser device tells us whether they\u2019re running a fever or not — and then we ask \u2019em if they\u2019ve got Ebola.”<\/p>\n

“Oh, you asked them if they\u2019ve got it, and you expect them to say ‘yes,\u2019 right? ‘Cause they\u2019re on the verge of getting on an airplane out of Africa.” (scoffs)<\/p>\n

So somebody came across the border carrying Ebola with them, somebody who was visiting probably illegal aliens, family — somebody was probably going to be become an illegal alien himself. “Mr. Duncan, who was a family friend and also a tenant in a house owned by the Williams family, rode in the taxi in the front passenger seat while Ms. Williams, her father and her brother, Sonny Boy, shared the back seat, her parents said.<\/p>\n

“Mr. Duncan then helped carry Ms. Williams, who was no longer able to walk, back to the family home that evening, neighbors said.” Never mind all the warnings about touching Ebola patients. (sigh) All the while, the president and everybody else are telling us there\u2019s nothing to see here. <\/line><\/p>\n

CBS News<\/a>: “The patient, identified as Thomas Eric Duncan by CBS Dallas station KTVT, left Monrovia, Liberia, on Sept. 19 aboard a Brussels Airlines jet to the Belgian capital, according to a Belgian official. After layover of nearly seven hours, he boarded United Airlines Flight 951 to Dulles … After another layover of nearly three hours, he then flew Flight 822 from Dulles to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, the airline confirmed.”<\/p>\n

How many people have come in contact with him during these three flights and these layovers? How many people sat in his seat on subsequent flights? And note, ladies and gentlemen, this detail buried at the bottom of this story: “The CDC typically notifies an airline when it learns that an infectious person traveled on that carrier.<\/p>\n

“The airline then turns over the flight manifest to the CDC, and health officials notify other passengers while the airline deals with crew members. In this case, the CDC told United but not the public what flights the man took.” Why is that? Whatever happened to the public\u2019s right to know? What about the other airlines he used besides United? <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the answer. It\u2019s right here. “In an interview Wednesday, Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the CDC, suggested that doing so would divert public-health resources away from controlling an outbreak of the virus.” How in the world does that happen? How does telling people about it divert resources from controlling it? <\/p>\n

This guy is saying things that literally are contradictory and make no sense. CDC told United Airlines. How much more resources would it take for them to tell other airlines and the public in general? The bottom line is they know things they\u2019re not telling you. We know why. They\u2019re afraid of causing a panic. I think there\u2019s a larger reason. The larger reason is, they may not know what they\u2019re dealing with here. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here is Phil in Rochester, New York. Phil, thank you for calling. It\u2019s great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks, Rush. In my hand I am holding an infrared thermometer. I use it to take temperatures of material that I\u2019m inspecting. It operates between a distance of six to 24 inches and casts a red dot on the item that I\u2019m taking a temperature of. Now, I remember you saying yesterday or heard, rather, in one of the sound bites that they\u2019re saying they\u2019re taking these people\u2019s temperature from a distance?<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s right. The director of the Centers for Disease Control said they\u2019re doing this while people are waiting to board airplanes in Africa to determine whether or not they have a temperature.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m taking the temperature of the side of my face right now, and it\u2019s telling me I\u2019m 91.5 degrees.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Really? And how far away is the device from the side of your face?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Within the operational range of six to 24 inches, with this particular device.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You ought to be, let\u2019s see, 98.6. You should be in deep trouble here.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Body temperature at 91 degrees.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hypothermia.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, actually, you should probably be at the bottom of San Francisco Bay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The point is these things are not accurate, that\u2019s your point, right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Stick the thermometer in the ear of my child, just in the hole, and I can see that working \u2019cause obviously they have accurate readings with that, but I don\u2019t know what device they\u2019re using, but if it\u2019s an infrared thermometer —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You can\u2019t. Again, this is my point. This is my point exactly. You got the CDC guy out there, “Oh, yeah, we\u2019re taking every step imaginable to make sure that the sick don\u2019t get on those airplanes. Why, we\u2019re conducting exhaustive interviews, and there\u2019s a form that they fill out, and they have to admit whether they have Ebola.” Ha-ha. Really? Think they\u2019re gonna do that? “Yeah, and then we got this thing that takes their temperature. We just aim it at \u2019em and it reports back,” and so forth. <\/p>\n

Now, one of two things. Either this guy knows that what he\u2019s saying is full of it and he\u2019s just saying it hoping he can convince us. Or he\u2019s genuinely full of it and doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about. Either way, it does not inspire any confidence. By the way, I should tell you that the family of Thomas Duncan, this is Ebola patient in Dallas, his family\u2019s already complaining because he\u2019s not getting ZMapp. That\u2019s the serum that we\u2019re out of. There isn\u2019t any left. <\/p>\n

ABC News is reporting that Joe Weeks, who lives with Duncan\u2019s sister, said the family\u2019s concerned that Duncan was admitted to the hospital and put in isolation on Sunday, but he has not received this drug, the ZMapp serum. “I don\u2019t understand why he\u2019s not getting the ZMapp.” The manufacturer of the drug has said they\u2019ve run out of it. It\u2019s experimental anyway. This is the stuff that comes from a specific tobacco plant in Kentucky. <\/p>\n

And now the AP is reporting that Liberia plans to prosecute this guy, Mr. Duncan, who brought Ebola to the US. “Liberian authorities say they plan to prosecute the man infected with Ebola who brought the disease to the United States, saying he lied on his airport health questionnaire.” Really? <\/p>\n

Anyway, what this all adds up to is that this man knew he had Ebola. But we were told that he wasn\u2019t showing any symptoms and nobody should be worried. If you came in contact, they told us yesterday, if you came in contact with this man on the airplane, you have nothing to worry about, he was not showing symptoms. Well, he had come in contact with people suffering and who later died from it. I mean, physical contact. He knew when he got on the plane. He lied on his questionnaire. So he knew he was coming here. <\/p>\n

Look, don\u2019t misunderstand. I mean, we\u2019re all human beings here, and the guy knows if he stays in Liberia, it\u2019s hopeless. Who wouldn\u2019t want to come here? That\u2019s the whole point. Who wouldn\u2019t want to? But I think that deserves a little bit of expansion. Why is the US the only place in the world that might offer hope here? And again, it gets back to it\u2019s not because we\u2019re better people. It\u2019s not because we\u2019re smart. We have had a capitalist economy which has rewarded the endless hours of research and development and marketing and production and sale, a growing, thriving economy, which allows people to pursue their dreams and their passions and to invent great things happens in the United States. <\/p>\n

But in Liberia, Monrovia, the per capita income is $700 a year. They have no economic growth. They live under socialist regimes or worse. Here comes the global warming movement telling them they can\u2019t modernize because that\u2019ll create pollution and more CO2. So they\u2019ve gotta stay poor. It\u2019s a death sentence for them. So you can\u2019t blame this guy for wanting to come here to get treated. That\u2019s why these things have to be dealt with by responsible people authoritatively who understand and honestly can tell us what we\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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