Limbaugh mocks reports of the number of children who have died from H1N1
October 19, 2009 3:29 pm ET
From the October 19 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
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This guy is a tool. And not a nice shiny garden tool, either. I'm thinking sump pump.
I'm thinking he's a sack of cow manure.
Conspiracy theorist that he is, somehow he claims that this emphasis on a public health issue is being driven by the Dem's push for healthcare reform, instead of being pushed because it's a public health issue!
But, Rush, it's being pushed because it's a public health issue.
It's your side that uses events to their advantage. It's our side that fairly addresses issues. It's your side's pattern that you're imagining - it's called projection. Just because you guys would behave shamelessly like this doesn't mean that we would.
Fact is, kids are dying in unprecedented numbers. And it's your side that's baselessly making people scared of getting the vaccine that would not only protect the person who receives the vaccine, but would also protect anyone else that might catch that disease from someone who didn't get the vaccine and instead got the flu virus.
People with the flu are contagious for a day or two before they even know they're sick. Many people who get this flu won't get very sick, but will still be shedding the virus for days - they won't know that they have the flu, but they might infect someone who has very severe symptoms.
Someone who gets the flu vaccine can't infect someone else. It's a public health issue, Rush.
He is becoming more and more extreme. At some point it has to be a strategy of diminishing returns as his model becomes less and less believable.
I guess that if you are into it purely for the money, it does not matter. Who cares if the cow runs out of milk when you have so much that you are swimming in it. I forgot, his ego will be his downfall before this happens I suspect.
Why do people listen to this hateful, hateful man?
I wonder can someone point out how what Rush says in the clip is alright?
But the facts disprove what he's saying. This is not a problem for just the USA. We aren't falsely creating panic or worry without the data to back it up.
So, even if someone tried to come here and defend Rush, they wouldn't be able to effectively do so.
He's setting up a strawman argument, and then knocking it down, and then patting himself on his back for his 'success'.
It is the ignorance and heartlessness of it. He doesn't bother to give the number of children that have already died, and the fact that flu season has barely started. It is understandable that parents and the CDC are concerned.
Parents with young children should listen to the warnings. For what it is worth,I will tell you this; if my kids were young enough to be vulnerable as the young'uns are - they would be the first ones in line.