Posted on 08/05/2014 11:37:42 AM PDT by servo1969
RUSH: Okay, wait for it, wait for it. You're gonna love this. Folks, you're absolutely going to love this. Well, wait. Maybe some of you won't love this. Let me speak for myself. I love this. You know that magical serum that was given to two white Americans suffering from Ebola? You know what the magic ingredient is? Nicotine. Tobacco is the magical ingredient in the serum. It's a Kentucky tobacco plant from which they derive the magical serum that has caused massive reversals of the symptoms of Ebola in the two white Americans.
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RUSH: Okay. So yesterday on this program, when it was learned that two American missionaries are a man by the name of Brantly and a woman by the name of Writebol, Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol... She, by the way, is the last to arrive. She's arriving today from Africa. They both have Ebola, and a super-secret serum unbeknownst to anybody but a precious few researchers had been tested on monkeys; it had shown some success.
So the rescue flights took doses of this magical serum on the jet from Georgia to Liberia, wherever they went to pick up these two people, and administered the doses, and the reports were that symptom reversals began rather quickly. Now, some people said they noticed changes in an hour. Others say, "No, no, no, no! Not possible." But nevertheless, symptom reversal has been profound.
So yesterday on this program, I -- your sensitive, ever-in-touch host -- posited that it wouldn't be long before we would hear people in the media saying, "Wait. Wait just a second. You have people dropping like flies with this disease in Africa, and you only took enough of this stuff for two white Americans, and you didn't give any to the native Africans who are dying in record numbers with this disease? What's with that? How in the world can you only give this to Americans? White Americans to boot! Why didn't you take enough for everybody?"
Well, it didn't take five hours. Let's go to audio sound bite number one from CNN last night.
BURNETT: I know it's miraculous. I know it was untested, that it was very risky, but what about everyone else? I mean (stammering), nearly a thousand have died, all of them Africans! Suddenly two white Americans, um, get the disease, and -- and suddenly all the stops get pulled out?
GUPTA: Keep in mind, this had never been done before. I mean, he was the first human. So I think there is now some proof of principle, and the question becomes: "Is this something that could be, y'know, made more available to the masses?" This is a very unusual situation, Erin. Typically you test things. It goes through a clinical trial to test for safety --
BURNETT: (mumbling)
GUPTA: -- to test for how effective it is, and then they figure out if it can be distributed to the masses.
RUSH: Right. That is Dr. Sanjay Gupta, who announced the details of the serum yesterday, and he said, "Weeeell, look, it had only been tested on monkeys. I mean, the fact of the matter is, these 'white people,' as you say, were guinea pigs. We didn't know what was gonna happen. You can't say that we denied giving it to Africans -- who are black, by the way -- in favor of two Americans -- who are white, by the way -- 'cause, hell, it could have killed 'em!
"We didn't know. This stuff had never been tested. Now there's some proof of principle. Now we know that maybe it could be used. So these two Americans..." (chuckles) That's excuse that's being offered. I don't buy it. They wouldn't have given this stuff to these two people if they thought it was gonna make 'em worse. In other words, they had enough evidence to know, based on the reaction that monkeys had with it.
But, I mean, how long did it take? It was hours! It was hours.
Do I know these people or do I know these people? Now the piece de resistance. The name of the serum is ZMapp. It's named after a Kentucky bioprocessing company in Owensboro, and it is made from ... tobacco! It is made from a unique Kentucky tobacco plant. "The drug is a cocktail of three 'humanized' monoclonal antibodies that are manufactured in a group of fragrant plants or bushes known by the genus name Nicotiana."
What do you think the root word of "Nicotiana" is? Try Joe Camel. Try nicotine. Exactly right. Joe Camel is the root word. Nicotine! As Granny on the Beverly Hillbillies used to say, "Tabacki!" It is "tabacki" that is responsible for the magical potion and serum that was used to treat these two white Americans.
Again, the "drug cocktail" is known as ZMapp, developed by a San Diego company, Mapp Biopharmaceutical (two P's in there: Mapp). "It is manufactured in Kentucky using fast-growing tobacco plants, which act as 'photocopiers' to produce proteins that are extracted from the plants and processed into the drug." Not just any tobacco plant. I mean, this is a bat-out-of-hell, fast growing tobacco plant.
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RUSH: You know what? You know how convoluted things are, folks. Here the media is all concerned that we have this magical serum from the tobacco plant in Kentucky that has produced a magical reversal in two white Americans suffering from Ebola, and why didn't we give that to these poor, suffering Africans? Why did they only take enough for these two white Americans?
Yet nobody talks about the number of Africans who have been killed from malaria because we banned DDT! Do you know how many people have died unnecessarily because of this nutcase Rachel Carson? The ban on DDT has caused the spread of malaria, which has killed people by the tens and hundreds of thousands in Africa.
There's always a sense of proportion that is missing on all of these things, and it's largely because conventional wisdom simply picks up some piece of information that is wrong. But it's established as so-called fact, and it just survives -- and, again, it survives because it's approved by left wingers! It's all political, every bit of this. Ebola is political -- given the way it's dealt with, I mean.
You know, I think that's the thing that really presents us with the biggest problem in trying to persuade low-information voters of what's going on. Isn't it true that most low-information voters -- and maybe not confined to low-information voters. Isn't it true that you hear a lot of people say, "I just hate politics! I hate it. I don't trust politicians. I'm fed up with it. I don't want to hear about it. Nothing ever gets done," blah, blah.
You hear that all the time from people. Those are the same people that do not know that everything is political. They hate "politics," but the only thing to them that's "politics" is whatever the president and Congress might be arguing about or if it's happening in Washington. But they would never see that there's politics attached to virtually everything in pop culture that they are consuming.
They hate politics -- and this my point. If they knew, if they were able to spot the politics in everything, given how much they hatred, it might be productive. But that, to me, is an indication of the great task it is. I mean, low-information people, let's be frank: They're gonna have to be turned into more-information-than-they've-got people if we're gonna have a serious reversal here.
We can't continue to have the lowest-common denominator among us dominate things. It's not that we do. It's that the Democrat Party panders to them. The Democrat Party cultivates them. The Democrat Party wants them to remain low-information for as long as possible, and they don't even see that. There's politics in so much, and these are the people that hate "politics."
They think they're escaping politics by watching TMZ, or E! Entertainment TV or reading whatever they read, or going to Twitter and Facebook. There's nothing but politics on social media. But they don't see it there. They only see it if acknowledged politicians are talking about things, and therefore they miss so much. That's why, folks, for 27 years, 26 years I have been on this quest to get everybody to see the ideology that's present in practically every news story.
Chesterfields are good for the T-zone.
I think this is great.
Second, as for ‘two white Americans’ well, since they are accusing Westerners of conspiring to kill Africans with Ebola, why not try it on two whites who won’t accuse the US of trying to kill them.
The fact that these two are still alive means that something has been created, a major miracle. Normally they would be dead by now.
El Rushbo hits the nail on the head, once again.
Thanks for posting ;)
Tobacco is a very unusual plant, botanically speaking, and I believe it has been used before in the development of drugs meant for human or even agricultural use.
I love a great cigarette (I don’t smoke regularly, but I guess I smoke a couple of high-end cigarettes a week the way a guy would smoke a couple of cigars) but the plant itself is way beyond that.
Doctor: I have good news and bad news for you.
Patient: Give me the good news first, Doc.
Doctor: Your Ebola has been cured!
Patient: What’s the bad news?
Doctor: You now have lung cancer................
Ya’ mean second-hand tobacco maybe?
Ugh, of all the things to go wrong in life!
What a strange era. Doctors huffing on, and extolling the health benefits of tar bars.
Chimney sweep scrotum down your windpipe. It’s all the rage.
No matter what high profile scenario is out there, the left will take the opportunity to politicize it in order to gain an advantage.
If this had been used on Africans right after monkey trials, they’d have screamed about some racism associating monkeys with black Africans.
If it had been tried and failed or killed them, they would have cried about the Africans being used in a risky experiment.
Sounds like that would be some good stuff to chew.
One of my grandmas remedies for cuts, etc. While it was still bleeding....sugar. When it stopped bleeding...a tobacco poultice. Was supposed to aid in healing and keep it from getting infected. She chewed tobacco so would chew a wad up til it was wet and on it went then wrapped it good.
During the American colonial era in the 1700’s, tobacco plantation growers and workers would sleep on top of a stack of tobacco leaves when the deadly plague was spreading to prevent contagion. That is also why they chewed tobacco and smoked it. Tobacco leaves, like many plants, contain a natural pesticide to repel insects.
What I never understood is why some company did not buy the DDT formula from the owner, and manufacture it overseas? There HAS to be a market for it in Africa, South America, and Southeast Asia.
What am I missing?
It is 2 AMERICANS, white or black, who cares.
I think/believe many things or activities could/should be added to the list of societal anesthesia including basketball(which I like to watch), football at all levels(which I also like to watch ) along with all kinds of ball games and especially Hollywood stuff.
That’s very interesting! I think tobacco does have antibiotic properties.
I read about a folk cure in England where people would go out to the stables and scrape the mold off the harnesses and saddles (leather gets very moldy very quickly) and rub it on a wound...obviously, primitive penicillin.
Never dismiss folk cures!
The American Indians, early settlers and even homeopaths all found medicinal uses for tobacco.
From what little I’ve read on-line, there seems to be some value to the chemical components in it.
It’s hard to say whether this new serum will work in treating Ebola victims - but if so, all the better.
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