Posted on 10/16/2014 12:41:27 PM PDT by servo1969
RUSH: Do you know, folks, that you can transmit Ebola on a bus but you can't get it on a bus? Have you heard that? Well, okay, try this now. And I assure you here, we're not laughing. We're not doing satire or parody here. We're not taking advantage of the situation for that. I mean, I'm shooting you straight here.
"Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said during a telephone press briefing Wednesday that you cannot get Ebola by sitting next to someone on a bus, but that infected or exposed persons should not ride public transportation because they could transmit the disease to someone else," like someone sitting next to you on the bus.
No, no, you heard right. You're out there saying, "Well, no, Rush, you had to make a mistake there. That's a contradiction." No, no, you heard exactly right. You can give Ebola, you can transmit it on a bus, but you can't get it on a bus. Well, okay, if you can transmit it on a bus, but nobody on the bus can get it, then what's the big deal? (interruption) And if you can transmit it on the bus but you can't get it on a bus, why do they expect infected or exposed persons not ride the bus? (interruption) Yeah, that's exactly right.
I've got everybody shouting at me. "You mean to tell me that if I ride on the bus, I could give it to you, but you couldn't get it?" Yeah, that's what they're saying. But then they're asking you not to get on the bus because somebody on the bus could get it. (interruption) Well, no. Let's not make this any more complicated than it is. In fact, let's take a pause. Let's take a pause because this is challenging all of our brain cells, folks, just trying to stay even with this. And one thing that might help in keeping track of all this is remember the objective, the November elections.
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RUSH: Here is, by the way, Thomas Frieden. This is yesterday afternoon. This is the how-you-can-give-it-on-a-bus-but-you-can't-get-it-on-a-bus sound bite, and I realized some of you might have thought I was making this up. I mean, that's how ridiculous this is, and I just want to play the sound bite. I assure you I'm not. It was during the Q&A after they had their teleconference with reporters yesterday on the latest to do with Ebola.
A reporter said, "In a video message to countries in West Africa that are experiencing Ebola outbreaks, President Obama told residents in these countries in West Africa that they can't get the disease by sitting next to somebody on a bus. Did the CDC vet that message before it was released and posted on US embassy websites, and is it true that a person runs absolutely no risk of contracting Ebola on public transportation such as a bus?"
FRIEDEN: Yes, CDC vetted the message -- and, yes, we believe it's accurate. I think there are two different parts of that equation. The first is, uh, "If you're a member of the traveling public and are healthy, should you be worried that you might have gotten it by sitting next to someone?" and the answer is, no. Second, uh, "If you are sick and you may have Ebola, should you get on a bus?" and the answer to that is also, no. You might become ill! You might have a problem that exposes someone around you.
RUSH: Wait, pal, you just said... It's only a 30-second sound bite! You just said 25 seconds ago that can't happen! He's doing this every time he opens his mouth. He is contradicting himself. I think this may be a record. This time it was in 30 seconds. You want to listen to this again? I mean, I could read it to you, but I... No, let me parse it and then play it for you again. "Yes, we vetted the message.
"We made sure that it was the right message for the West Africans -- and, yes, we believe it's accurate. There are two different parts of the equation here. See, the first is if you're a member of the traveling public..." What kind of talk is that? "[I]f you are a member of the traveling public"? Where do you join the club? What's the membership form? Are your dues current? What do you mean, membership? If you're a member of the traveling public?
Anyway, "If you're a member of the traveling public and are healthy, should you be worried that you might have gotten it by sitting next to somebody? Answer is no. Second, if you're sick and you may have Ebola, should you get on a bus? The answer to that is also no. You might become ill." No, no. If you have Ebola, you are ill. What is this "you might become ill"? 'Cause he just said... (interruption)
Oh, is that what he means? (interruption) Oh. Okay. Somebody just gave me a heads-up here as to what he might really mean. So let me read it again and say it as he intended it. "Second, if you are sick, and you may have Ebola, should you get on a bus? The answer to that is also, no. You might vomit! You might have a problem that exposes someone around you."
But you can't get it sitting next to somebody on a bus.So if you get on a bus, and somebody on the bus has Ebola, it's not a problem. But the person with Ebola shouldn't get on the bus because he might expose somebody around him. Here it is again in Dr. Frieden's own lingo.
FRIEDEN: Yes, CDC vetted the message -- and, yes, we believe it's accurate. I think there are two different parts of that equation. The first is, uh, "If you're a member of the traveling public and are healthy, should you be worried that you might have gotten it by sitting next to someone?" and the answer is, no. Second, uh, "If you are sick and you may have Ebola, should you get on a bus?" and the answer to that is also, no. You might become ill! You might have a problem that exposes someone around you.
RUSH: Who you just said can't get it by being near you!
Not exactly shocking that he’s a registered democrat.
Freiden speaks like a true Obama appointee.
He was in favor of ebola before he was against it.
It is better to give than receive.
"When you're out and about - looking up looking down
Take a word of advice from Ebola the clown
"Hey kids wash your hands and your face- don't be out of place"
If someone if coughing - don't say la la la"
Keep your own Ebola!
I don't want that silly stuff - it won't make me feel too tough...
La la la la la la la l - Ebola Ebola"
FRIEDEN: “Your chances of getting Ebola on a bus are still less than my throwing you under it for attempting to speak out...”
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The liberals are even tarnishing the CDC.
The problem is all inside of Washington D.C.
The answer is easy, they just can’t think logically
Everybody knows except Obama’s CDC
There must be
Fifty ways to spread Ebola
Fifty ways to spread Ebola
They say another one has just been found in Spain
They’re back up at that podium and trying to explain
Why a total flight ban somehow would not ease the pain
There must be
Fifty ways to spread Ebola
Fifty ways to spread Ebola
You just duck out the back, Jack
Hope a flight from Akron, Ron
Touch the restroom doorknob, Bob
Don’t even need to be a slob
You just hop on the bus, Gus
You don’t need to discuss much
They’ll just hop on the T.V.
And keep lyin’ to me
I’m getting an amlgam of Firesign Theater ‘I think we’re all bozos on this bus’ and the Merry Pranksters ‘you’re either on the bus or off the bus.’
It’s pretty awful.
bfl
A 5 year old could run the country better than Obama.
"Dr Frieden said there's nothing to worry about. He knows
my trusted aide sitting next to me, Susan Rice, is experiencing
rectal bleeding, is soaked in blood and is going to change her clothes."
Nothing this idiot says makes sense.
He told Megyn Kelly US health personnel just need to wear gloves and face mask to prevent the contagion.
But here he is in Liberia---covered to the hilt.
CDC's Frieden in haz-mat.
Frieden's suck-up is so complete---Mexico is sending him a case of Tabasco-flavored Chap-Stix.
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