RUSH: Folks, remember that story that we had yesterday… Everybody found this story after this program ended yesterday, everybody had this story, headline of the story: “World Health Organization Now Says Lockdowns Are a Bad Idea That Should Be Avoided.” Remember our collective reaction to that? What the hell is this? Lockdowns are a bad idea that should be avoided? The only people promoting and sustaining — this is economic lockdowns — are Democrat blue states and their governors.
And they have been engaging in this lockdown strategery purposely in order to make sure that the nationwide economy does not rebound in time to benefit President Trump prior to the election on November 3rd. And then out of nowhere — and the World Health Organization got all this going. They’re the ones that promoted and suggested the lockdown that we did engage in. We shut this country down for a couple months. We haven’t recovered from it yet. It was never necessary to do.
So now they’re coming along and saying what we’ve known from the beginning and what we’ve been saying from the beginning. Lockdowns, bad idea. Should be avoided. Instead, protect the most susceptible. Everybody else, wash your hands, don’t lock down. If you want to wear a mask, go ahead and wear a mask.
So everybody picked up on this yesterday. And they did so with varying degrees of incredulity like we did here. Said, well, what is this? There’s gotta be a reason. This stuff just doesn’t happen. Now today we have another story. Ready for this? “New York Times: Experts Confident Pandemic To Be Over ‘Far Sooner’ Than Expected, Trump Efforts ‘Working With Remarkable Efficiency.”
Now, something is behind this, folks. Something is behind this. I think part of it is that there must be polling because everything in major political party politics, especially the Democrats, is done bouncing off of or reacting to polling. Now, last week when the president was going to appear here on Friday in the largest Radio Rally in American history — and, boy, was it — we asked listeners to submit questions.
We set up a special page at RushLimbaugh.com. We asked listeners to submit questions that they would like us to ask the president. And, my friends, I think I mentioned this to you on Friday. I told the president when we were doing the rally, the number-one topic that people mentioned — and I’m telling you, it was hundreds of thousands of responses. The number one topic was health care.
People are scared. A subset of the overall health care topic, preexisting conditions. People are scared. Health care is a big, scary issue, despite it not being talked about much in the campaign. Now, they’ve turned the Amy Coney Barrett hearing into an emotional prop-filled infomercial on Obamacare. And the only thing that her hearings have to do with Obamacare, and the only thing the Supreme Court has to do with Obamacare, is whether or not it’s constitutional.
The policies contained within it — and she has said this herself — are irrelevant and matter not at all to judges in the federal judiciary. It’s just a simple question of whether or not, as written, Obamacare is constitutional. And that’s the mandate, that’s where it all started, other aspects of this.
So, New York Times: “To Be Over ‘Far Sooner’ Than Expected.” So World Health Organization says lockdowns, bad idea. We’re three weeks from the election. What and how do these three things tie together? Three weeks ago from the election, World Health Organization now admits what everybody’s known, lockdowns are counterproductive and do great damage, are not necessary. And experts — New York Times! — express confidence that the pandemic is gonna be over far sooner.
Now, you would think three weeks into the election that the stories would be the exact opposite. Pandemic racing, pandemic worsening, Trump administration horrible at dealing with it. You would think, likewise, that the World Health Organization would be doubling down on lockdowns because the pandemic is so bad, it’s so damaging, it’s so out of control. But it’s the exact opposite. They’ve gotta have some polling data.
Where is Trump on all this? Where is Trump on health care? He’s in control of it. He’s in charge of it. He’s, as an issue, he’s the one talking about it. He talked about it at length on this program on Friday, the largest Radio Rally in history, talked about it in Sanford, Florida, last night. He’s opposed to lockdowns, doesn’t think that the first one should have happened, went along with it because we didn’t know as much then as we know now.
I still haven’t been able to synthesize this down to its simplest form, you know, to make the complex understandable. But there’s something here, give me time, this stuff just hit me a few short hours ago. And I’ve had to do my thinking about this as well as fulfill the duties of show prep and all that.
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RUSH: By the way, there’s another thing here on this New York Times story: “Experts Confident Pandemic to Be Over ‘Far Sooner’ Than Expected, Trump Efforts ‘Working with Remarkable Efficiency.'” New York Times? You know, who does this leave hanging out there at the end of the limb? Dr. Fauci.
Now, look, I know that there’s also the possibility gigantic setup and that next or later this week, the New York Times may say, “We sadly have to report that there’s been a dramatic turn for the worse in Operation Warp Speed. Vaccines are killing people!” But whatever it would be, it’s still remarkable here.
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