Limbaugh: H1N1 vaccine shortage "ought to be Obama's Katrina," but won't because "they have to protect the little man-child"
November 03, 2009 3:10 pm ET
From the November 3 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
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Anyhow, the CDC disagrees with you - I know, it's GOVERNMENT, and can't get anything right.
It was a model, silly puppy. A future forecasting model. That's all. The flu season is not already over.
And the flu vaccine makers haven't lived up to their early projections, but that's not a failure on the part of Obama, which is the point here.
How Neocon.....
It was a model, silly puppy. A future forecasting model. That's all. The flu season is not already over.
And the flu vaccine makers haven't lived up to their early projections, but that's not a failure on the part of Obama, which is the point here.
Mulligan...Someone should string together all of the nonsense that this son of a horse had rattled off in the past year. It would be one of the most hateful and ridiculous two to twenty-four tape ever edited by man.
Actually, you could have a daily 1/2 hour show akin to the America Funniest Video show. It would give MSNBC hours of great yet scary entertainment. Just look at today. I will wager anyone that the dittoheads can't remember what was said in the first two hours after listening to the third hour.
Rush, settle down. "Beastiality" line, fabulous. I think you may offend some of your listeners in the Red States. Or are you telling us something deep and dark.
You're awful, what a visual. Thanks for a good laugh.
They did a similar book on Bill O'Reilly, The Oh Really? Factor.
The most interesting anti-Rush book I found was Logic and Mister Limbaugh by Ray Perkins, Jr. It goes through various comments made by Rush and shows the logical fallacies made. It's also an 'old' book, but the techniques are still effective.
Nah, that was the Reverend Jessie Jackson who used to spit in white people's food in his younger years.
And it's not Obama's fault that in the previous administration, Bush didn't think it was very important to help ensure that there was a vaccine producer in the USA.
Right now, the reason we don't have as much vaccine as we'd like to have is mostly due to the fact that countries that host vaccine-manufacturing plants keep enough for their own citizens, and we get the leftovers! Now, that's hyperbole, but it's really not that much of an exaggeration.
On the other hand, there's clear evidence that Bush mismanaged Katrina miserably.
Another false equivalency.
The reason we'd immunizing Gitmo detainees (which won't create much of a nationwide 'shortage' at all,since it's like 200 people) is to help with the herd immunity theory - immunizing as many people as possible protects the community better than just immunizing those whose protection from the virus you care most about. Someone has determined, and I don't disagree with that decision, that protecting our servicemen is a higher priority than protecting an average adult without health issues.
Immunizing a whole community, not just those at risk or most valuable to us, is the best way to protect people from deaths from the flu.
This is why many hospitals across the nation are limiting visits to patients. It's not because they are concerned about visitors getting sick after visiting the hospital. It's because they are worried about the vistors bringing H1H1 into the hospital.
In a similar way, we don't want any detainees who get infected getting one or more of our servicemen ill. We can't stop the interactions the guards and the detainees have, and so we need to immunize both groups, not just the guards.
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Of course, that's President Obama's fault, too, right?
/snark
Still, the DCCC says that a vote against the bill essentially equaled a vote against combating H1N1 and means Republicans who voted against it...favored a public health program that would have resulted in even less vaccine than is available now."
From Talking Points Memo.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/11/joe-wilson-says-obama-has-put-the-lives-of-americans-at-risk-due-to-h1n1-vaccine-shortage.php
Stop it you guys. You're killing me!
Takes a man to make a marriage work. Takes a man to admit he has a problem.
That leaves you out, Rush.
Just sayin'
Limbaugh is blaming vaccine producers for caving to people who are afraid of thimerosal? This is Limbaugh's core audience, isn't it? On October 8, 2009, Limbaugh said that the H1N1 vaccine contains ingredients that cause autism -- and that's a direct reference to conspiracy theories about thimerosal.
So now Limbaugh is upset because the production of the vaccine has been limited by the very fears promulgated by Limbaugh?
Who knew Rush read?
Actually, Limpy, it won't be "Obama's Katrina" for two reasons:
1) Obama wasn't playing air guitar while the vaccine was being manufactured, and
2) The head of the CDC has not declared himself a "fashion god"
during the shortage