Vaccine Storyline Is New War on Women

RUSH: It's unbelievable. It is happening again! It's happening all over again. You remember during the Republican -- it was a primary debate in January, two years ago, Mitt Romney, out of the blue, was asked by George Stephanopoulos, "So what do you think about contraception?" And Romney's going, "What? Contraception? George, what are you talking about?" Stephanopoulos kept pushing and kept pushing, and it wasn't an issue anywhere.

So Romney finally answered it, and that gave birth to the War on Women. There was no War on Women, and now this vaccination thing has popped up. It's another attempt at re-creating the War on Women. This is designed to destroy Republicans, particularly Republicans running for president, by creating a phony debate over vaccinations, a debate that does not exist, a controversy that was not alive. And, all of a sudden, now the Drive-By daily soap opera theme or meme today is a debate between Christie and Rand Paul and others in the Republican primary field over whether or not vaccinations should be mandatory, while nobody's even talking about why we need them.

We're talking about vaccinations for a conquered disease, measles. We haven't had measles in this country in ages. Why do we have it now? And this is the one thing that's not being talked about in any of this, and that is Obama and his illegal immigration and the flood of measles-infected kids from Central and South America who, by the way, have not been vaccinated and are not subject to mandatory vaccination because they're not citizens and so forth. This is the most incredible thing. We're watching it play out exactly as the phony contraception debate did, and then here came the War on Women.

What's being set up here, there are some Republican parents who don't want to have to vaccinate their kids. They don't want the government to have that kind of power. So Republicans are once again being set up as anti-government, anti-health, all this stuff. There's another reason why this is happening, folks, and that's to cover up Mrs. Clinton.

If you go back and look, Mrs. Clinton -- maybe one of my crack researchers will do this -- if you go back and look, Mrs. Clinton has plenty of anti-mandatory vaccination statements that she's made on the record over the course of many years. I mean, she's been on both sides of this. She wanted vaccinations to be mass manufactured, mass distributed, and she did have a period of time where they mandated everybody should have them. And other times she's been on the other side of it, too.

But I mean this is the new birth control of 2016. That's what this is, and I'm stunned that nobody's talking about why we even have the problem. Illegal immigration! The flood of kids that we first heard about, began to hear about a year ago. So what are we gonna have: War on Families, War on Kids, War on Science. There are going to be three or four wars here that the Democrats are gonna create just like they created the War on Women. And it is the left that has been so fervently against vaccines. They pushed the idea it was the cause of autism. It was the left, our good friends on the left, as they say in Washington, our good friends on the other side of the aisle, our good friends the Democrats that are out there claiming that autism was the result of unnecessary, unneeded vaccines.

RUSH: This vaccination business. Out of the clear blue of the western sky, all of a sudden -- literally out of the blue -- there is a massive controversy in the Republican Party over vaccinations necessary for our kids for an outbreak of measles. We're being told that the Republicans oppose mandatory vaccines, and the Republicans don't want government to be involved in this, and the Republicans therefore are against public health, and of course it's just like the Republicans and the War on Women with that question Stephanopoulos kept ridiculously asking Mitt Romney: "Do you support contraception?" It wasn't even an issue.

The only reason this is an issue... By the way, I'm telling you, I resent having to come here and talk about this, because it makes it look like I'm falling for the trick, and it's nothing more than a leftist Democrat trick. What they're trying to do here is distract everybody from the abomination that is the Obama administration. They're trying to distract everybody from stupid, ridiculous budget that's dead on arrival. They're trying to distract everybody from Obamacare and how that's literally gonna hurt people.

I mean, Obamacare and what's coming with that when people file their taxes, and the new tax increases, and all of the exemptions Obama is granting to cushion that blow? The things that are happening because of Obama's policies are all trying to be covered up and hidden and distracted from with this silly vaccination thing. If we need to vaccinate our kids today, there's one reason for it: Barack Obama and the Democrat Party and open borders, and that's something that nobody's talking about in this whole debate. No, the whole debate somehow is now once again focused on what a bunch of Neanderthals the Republican presidential candidates are!

Meanwhile, if you do some research, you find out it was both Obama and Hillary who were out there spreading this idea that certain vaccines might lead to autism, and they were cautioning against mass vaccination. They're the ones doing it. They're the ones that are on record as being opposed to mass vaccines whenever government says you must have it. Hillary has been on both sides because she and her husband, at the same time, have been on the financial good side of mass-vaccine manufacture and sale and import. What a convoluted mess.

Folks, this is exactly what I mean when I say I get up every day, I'm minding my own business, and I get here and I find out how people on the left are trying to destroy traditions, institutions, and people. So I have to come in here and react to the absolute crap these people dump on our culture and dump in our politics and dump in our society. So now everybody's running around with their heads cut off here trying to get in on this vaccination debate. Nobody wants to be seen as insensitive to our kids. Oh, no! Nobody wants to be seen as heartless and cold to our kids.

We conquered that freaking disease, in case anybody's forgotten. We conquered measles. But the kids that Obama has let flood the country via the Southern border were not vaccinated against anything, and Obama's demanding that they be populated in schools and communities, neighborhoods all over the country. They don't have to be vaccinated before coming into the country. They really don't have to be medically checked after getting into the country because they're here as future voters, and anything that gets in the way of that is gonna be shoved aside.

This is simply a retread, if you will, or a repositioning of the War on Women. There's a piece at the Federalist here called, "The Insane Vaccine Debate -- We've had mandatory vaccine policies in America since before the Emancipation Proclamation. Why are they controversial now?" It's Ben Domenech. Exactly. Why are they controversial now? Well, one of the reasons they're "controversial" is -- make no mistake -- that this is the new birth control pill question for the GOP. That's exactly what this is.

This is no different than when George Stephanopoulos asked Romney, "How you feel about contraception? Do you think the government ought to mandate contraception? Do you think states ought to be involved in contraception?" Romney had no idea. Nobody was even talking about it. "What the hell you talking about, George? I don't know." Romney should have just said, "No, I'm not answering the question. I don't know what you're talking about. Move on."

But he answered it. It didn't matter what he said, he answered it. Bingo! "Republican Candidate Speaks Out on Contraception! Here Comes the War on Women!" And you know how that went. So we now inject, out of nowhere -- literally out of nowhere! We throw an issue into the Republican primary debate, and the only reason to do this is that it hurts Republicans. This is about destroying Republicans. It's about destroying every Republican running for president. The purpose is to falsely position political enemies, political enemies of the Democrat Party.

They're trying to poison the GOP brand. At the same time, they're trying to control people. But make no mistake: This vaccination debate, as it has reared its head, is not about science. It isn't about medicine. It's not about informing concerned parents. It is all about politics, just like global warming is all about politics. If there's an epidemic in this country that's literally hurting people, it is liberalism and the intolerance of people on the left. It is not measles. We have a measles outbreak precisely because of the Democrat Party.

And, I might add, the Republican establishment that joins them and doesn't stop this and doesn't fight back against it and doesn't oppose it. You open the borders to kids, from poor, underprivileged, undereducated South American/Central American countries, who knows what you're gonna get! When you make no effort to find out who they are before they get here, this is what's gonna happen. So we got a measles outbreak. The cynic part of me says somebody probably hoped this would happen, figured it would happen.

It's another opportunity to portray Republicans as a heartless, cold, insensitive, anti-government -- therefore anti-people -- political party. You know, the irony of this is that if you go to Republican candidate after Republican candidate, you're gonna find most of them are probably pro-vaccination. There are a lot of GOP voters who aren't, though. See, thaaaaat's the dirty little secret, if I may use that cliche. There are a lot of Republican voters suspicious of this. Most of the candidates are for it.

But you remember...? Do you remember all that talk about these vaccines, mandatory vaccines were causing autism? Do you remember, by the way, that nobody ever established a firm link between vaccines and autism? Yet do you know how many people bought that because people are desperately looking for an explanation, and they're desperately looking for a way to make sure their children don't become autistic. And if one of the ways to avoid autism is to not get vaccinated, well, guess what I'm not gonna do? I'm not gonna get vaccinated.

It was Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton. (shuffling papers) I have the transcripts of what they said about it right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. It's a Huffing and Puffington Post story. "Obama Climbs on the Vaccine Research Bandwagon -- No matter who wins in Pennsylvania today..." This is 2008. "No matter who wins in Pennsylvania today, the next President of the United States will support research into the growing evidence of some link between vaccines and autism.

"Senator John McCain has already expressed his belief that vaccines and the mercury containing preservative thimerosal could be implicated in what he has rightly termed an 'autism epidemic.'" Thank you, Senator McCain. Just join the conventional wisdom bandwagon and get right on it. "Senator Hillary Clinton, in response to a questionnaire from the autism activist group A-CHAMP, wrote that she was 'Committed to make investments to find the causes of autism, including possible environmental causes like vaccines.'

"And when asked if she would support a study of vaccinated vs. unvaccinated children, she said: 'Yes. We don't know what, if any, kind of link there is between vaccines and autism, but we should find out.' And now, yesterday," remember, this is seven years ago, "at a rally in Pennsylvania, Barack Obama had this rather surprising thing to say: 'We've seen just a skyrocketing autism rate. Some people are suspicious that it's connected to the vaccines. This person included,'" meaning himself.

"'The science right now is inconclusive, but we have to research it.' So there you have it, our next president will share the views of such radical fringe crazies as ... Democrat Robert Kennedy, Jr. ... former NIH and Red Cross chief Bernadine Healy, and several researchers at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, the Universities of California and Washington and elsewhere," that we must dig deep looking into vaccines before we universally prescribe them. Right. Democrats. Opposed to universal vaccines. They might lead to autism.

Now, all of a sudden, seven years later, it's those rascally Republicans -- those incentive, compassionless Republicans -- who don't think you ought to have to put up with vaccinating your kids against measles 'cause of what... I mean, it's out of nowhere. I just want you to know I have not fallen for this. I am not talking about this as though it's a real issue. I'm trying to dispel the real issue and trying to tell you what it's really all about, the next war-on whatever that Republicans are conducting.

This is pure politics, like everything is with the left. If we've got a problem, if we have an outbreak-of-a-disease problem, you can trace it right to the Oval Office, you can trace it right to the man whose face I'm looking at on television right now: Barack Obama and his open borders and a hello and welcome and, "Come on in!" to millions of kids from Central and South American countries, poor and what have you, who are bringing this disease and who knows what others with them. They are not arriving vaccinated.

RUSH: Here, folks, we have Obama, Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, April of 2008, here's Obama saying what I just quoted him saying: Vaccine science inconclusive, we have to be very careful about proceeding with universal vaccines.

Rand Paul got it right.

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Not hard to do when you stake out positions on both sides of the issue.

Probably need to check that Measles vaccine just to make sure it hasn’t been “Bill Gates’d” with a sterilization component. Got to get rid of 5.5 billion unwanted people.

In fairness to Bill Gates, he came to realize that forced sterilization was a stupid idea a long time ago. He recognizes that stable healthy societies are inherently driven to voluntary reductions in birthrates.

He advocates saving people from childhood diseases and improving nutrition. And he’s putting up billions of his own dollars to do it. By the time he’s done his efforts will likely have saved more lives than those of any individual human being in modern history.

And he’s even seen somewhat of a light on abortion: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/06/12/bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation-says-it-will-no-longer-fund-abortion/

Maybe you should share with us how many billions of dollars you’ve put toward reducing human misery.

Better check the latest reports from Africa about the “sterilization” component of his latest efforts.

Additionally, if he were serious he would use he vast influence to bring back DTD to fight the major devastating Malaria epidemic. Or he want to provide clean water and sanitation to preclude Cholera.

As for not funding abortions, they mean not funding abortions directly and publicly; however, that doesn’t preclude funding through the Clinton or the other big Progressive funds.

Maybe you should share with us how many billions of dollars you’ve put toward reducing human misery.

I cant speak for RTV but if you average Bill Gates and me, we each have given several tens of billions.

“I cant speak for RTV but if you average Bill Gates and me, we each have given several tens of billions.”

Nice one. You should definitely put that on your tax return!

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