KEN: Rush often mentioned Governor DeSantis. You know, Rush lived in Florida, and Florida is considered a free state. I consider a lot of other states — including cities like New York City and Washington, D.C. — occupied cities, sadly. And you know the level of panic of the left by the ferocity of their attack on people. So there’s a handful of people out there, and you know who they are. Maybe it’s Sidney Powell. Maybe it’s Ron DeSantis.
The level of attack and misinformation and bold-faced lying that’s taking place is not just from the Democrat Party, but from the news media. Now, I don’t know if you’re aware, but Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida has been doing a great job, and he’s been utilizing something that, well, it bothers a lot of Democrats. He’s been using the Constitution of the United States. So maybe you saw it, but over the weekend 60 Minutes very maliciously and deceptively edited his video. That’s another common thing on the left. Here’s Rush.
RUSH: I want to start with a graduate, or the closest that we’ve ever had to a graduate, of the EIB Limbaugh Institute, and that would be Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. As you know, there are no graduates from the Limbaugh Institute because the learning never stops. We don’t issue degrees here because there never is a time where we have proclaimed that our students have learned it all. Because our curriculum is constantly expanding. There is no set curriculum here.
But Governor DeSantis has asked in the past for an honorary degree, and Governor DeSantis has said that if said honorary degree were ever bestowed, that he would frame it, hang it proudly on the wall in his gubernatorial office. And if anybody has come close to earning an honorary degree from the Limbaugh Institute, it is the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis. He has clearly had enough of the Drive-By Media. After months of being slammed by fake news and by the gloom and doom casualty forecasts over his handling of the coronavirus, the governor called them out.
Who continues to be an abject failure! Who has presided over the unnecessary, untold deaths of how many seasoned citizens by farming ’em out to nursing homes to get rid of them! He never did face the massive hospital shortage that the president set him up for, never needed any of the additional hospital spaces, hospital beds. So the Drive-By Media, just as Trump must look bad every day in as many ways as possible, Andrew Cuomo must look like perfection.
He must look like brilliance. He must be portrayed as the legitimate inheritor of the brilliance of his father, Mario “The Pious” Cuomo. And he just can’t pull it off. New York is an absolute disaster area because of the way it has been dealt with. It has been set up to be an ongoing disaster area because Governor Cuomo refuses to even contemplate the prospect of opening up the city — and in the service of what?
DeSantis is a Republican; he doesn’t know what he’s doing. They got this massive retirement thing down there they call The Villages. Guess what? Not a single reported case. Not a single reported death. And as DeSantis points out, not only is his own population diverse with a significant-sized elderly population, a bunch of the people fleeing New York and the Northeastern states where these lockdowns are in place are coming to Florida. And even those people are staying healthy. The predictions that Florida would be just like New York never materialized.
DeSantis ran through the coronavirus data for Florida. He compared it with states like New York, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana. He also studied Hong Kong and he studied South Korea, and he found out how they… He studied Italy. He was hell-bent on not repeating any of the policies and the mistakes that had led to massive numbers of cases and deaths in either other states or other countries.
And as I say, despite the massive numbers of people escaping to Florida — escaping the infected Northeast — Florida did better than all the others. New York has over 350,000 coronavirus cases compared to under 50,000 cases in Florida — and 29,000 of those in Florida are in the southeastern counties of the state. There have been about 2,000 deaths in Florida, but that’s less than one-tenth the 23,000 deaths in New York.
And yet the Drive-By Media puts Andrew Cuomo up on this pedestal and touts him as great and compassionate and concerned and qualified to replace Plugs as the Democrat presidential nominee, and they still try to cast DeSantis as a right-wing kook conspiracy theorist who can’t think or open his mouth without talking to Donald Trump first — and he’s finally had it. Here is Governor DeSantis. This was yesterday in Florida after he and Pence delivered masks and gloves to a nursing home in Orlando.
“Wait two weeks! Florida’s going to be next, just like Italy. Wait two weeks!” Well hell, we’re eight weeks away from that, and it hasn’t happened. Not only do we have a lower death rate… Well, we have way lower deaths generally. We have a lower death rate than the Acela Corridor, D.C., everyone up there. We have a lower death rate than the Midwest. Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio. But even in our region — Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia — Florida has the lower death rate.
And I was the number one landing spot from tens of thousands of people leaving the number one hot zone in the world to come to my state. So we’ve succeeded, and I think that people just don’t want to recognize it because it challenges their narrative. It challenges their assumption. So they got to try to find a boogeyman. Maybe it’s that there are black helicopters circling the Department of Health. If you believe that, um, I got a bridge in Brooklyn I’d like to sell you.
KEN: Florida is a stellar example of leadership, and Mr. Limbaugh is an example of leadership, and that’s why he can describe it so brilliantly for us. And that’s why theory still attacking DeSantis and governors and senators and congressmen of other free states which are saying, “Okay. Enough already. You’re leveraging covid. You leveraged death to manipulate an election. We’re done with it now. ‘We the people’ are done, and we will no longer comply,” and that’s a message that a lot of bureaucrats don’t want to hear because there’s over 300 million of us.
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