Posted on 03/10/2020 1:09:57 PM PDT by Kaslin
They’re Covering the Coronavirus Like a Hurricane
Mar 10, 2020
RUSH: You know, watching the coverage of this and the ongoing effort to create a panic — and let’s make no mistake here that that’s exactly what is happening here — I finally came up with what I think is a good analogy. The coronavirus is like a hurricane several days away from making landfall.
Take your pick of any hurricane out there in recent memory — if you want to use Katrina, any hurricane — and then remember how the media covers it. “It’s going to devastate wherever it’s headed. It’s gonna just obliterate! It’s a Cat 5. It’s going to mean total destruction.” No one knows the strength when it hits, despite their predictions. No one knows where it’s gonna hit. No one knows when.
Our forecasts have gotten better, but it’s still a gigantic crapshoot, particularly the farther out at sea the hurricane is. But the media knows that it’s gonna deliver clicks, it’s gonna deliver hits, it’s gonna deliver massive headlines, it’s gonna create massive attention by the public. It will deliver eyeballs — and they know they can blame Trump, right up until the moment they can’t. They know.
They know and they salivate over the chance to blame Trump. You’ve got an oncoming hurricane here. The outer bands have begun to strike the Continental United States. The evidence is there! They’ve got the reporters out on the beaches out on the Outer Banks, for example, of North Carolina, and they’re showing us the waves are about six inches higher than usual.
“See, it’s coming! It’s coming! There may be a flood here, a flood there. The initial reports of damage are coming in, and it all means it’s gonna be a grand disaster.” The Drive-Bys are all collected out on the beach. Their cameras are pointed westward, eastward, wherever it takes to get this hurricane, any indication of it whatsoever. The same thing was true of the impeachment hearings. The same exact thing was true of the impeachment hearings.
All we had was hearsay evidence.
We had endless speculation.
The same thing was true with the Russia-Trump collusion story. There was never any evidence, there was never a shred of evidence, and yet look at what we were told was coming. The walls were closing in on Donald Trump! We had these endless anonymous sources from the intelligence community who were telling us that it was only a matter of time before the evidence would be forthcoming.
Hearsay evidence before the impeachment hearings, endless speculation.
It was the same thing with the Mueller report.
The coronavirus is one of those moments for the Drive-By Media, and just as a hurricane is an opportunity to blame people who don’t believe in climate change — man-made climate change. Just as a hurricane is exaggerated and built up and lied about before anybody knows its true strength and nature in order to advance a political agenda (i.e., climate change), coronavirus is being used to advance the agenda that Donald Trump:
A. Doesn’t care about you; he only cares about himself.
B. Donald Trump is incompetent.
C. Donald Trump’s not taking it seriously enough.
D. You might die; it’s all gonna be Donald Trump’s fault.
E. It’s an opening for the Democrats!
They’re Covering the Coronavirus Like a Hurricane
Mar 10, 2020
RUSH: You know, watching the coverage of this and the ongoing effort to create a panic — and let’s make no mistake here that that’s exactly what is happening here — I finally came up with what I think is a good analogy. The coronavirus is like a hurricane several days away from making landfall.
Take your pick of any hurricane out there in recent memory — if you want to use Katrina, any hurricane — and then remember how the media covers it. “It’s going to devastate wherever it’s headed. It’s gonna just obliterate! It’s a Cat 5. It’s going to mean total destruction.” No one knows the strength when it hits, despite their predictions. No one knows where it’s gonna hit. No one knows when.
Our forecasts have gotten better, but it’s still a gigantic crapshoot, particularly the farther out at sea the hurricane is. But the media knows that it’s gonna deliver clicks, it’s gonna deliver hits, it’s gonna deliver massive headlines, it’s gonna create massive attention by the public. It will deliver eyeballs — and they know they can blame Trump, right up until the moment they can’t. They know.
They know and they salivate over the chance to blame Trump. You’ve got an oncoming hurricane here. The outer bands have begun to strike the Continental United States. The evidence is there! They’ve got the reporters out on the beaches out on the Outer Banks, for example, of North Carolina, and they’re showing us the waves are about six inches higher than usual.
“See, it’s coming! It’s coming! There may be a flood here, a flood there. The initial reports of damage are coming in, and it all means it’s gonna be a grand disaster.” The Drive-Bys are all collected out on the beach. Their cameras are pointed westward, eastward, wherever it takes to get this hurricane, any indication of it whatsoever. The same thing was true of the impeachment hearings. The same exact thing was true of the impeachment hearings.
All we had was hearsay evidence.
We had endless speculation.
The same thing was true with the Russia-Trump collusion story. There was never any evidence, there was never a shred of evidence, and yet look at what we were told was coming. The walls were closing in on Donald Trump! We had these endless anonymous sources from the intelligence community who were telling us that it was only a matter of time before the evidence would be forthcoming.
Hearsay evidence before the impeachment hearings, endless speculation.
It was the same thing with the Mueller report.
The coronavirus is one of those moments for the Drive-By Media, and just as a hurricane is an opportunity to blame people who don’t believe in climate change — man-made climate change. Just as a hurricane is exaggerated and built up and lied about before anybody knows its true strength and nature in order to advance a political agenda (i.e., climate change), coronavirus is being used to advance the agenda that Donald Trump:
A. Doesn’t care about you; he only cares about himself.
B. Donald Trump is incompetent.
C. Donald Trump’s not taking it seriously enough.
D. You might die; it’s all gonna be Donald Trump’s fault.
E. It’s an opening for the Democrats!
It’s an opportunity for the Democrats, just like impeachment was an opportunity for the Democrats, like the Mueller hearings an opportunity for the Democrats, and a gigantic hurricane is an opportunity for the Democrats and the climate change crowd. So the coronavirus is one of these moments.
This is the pattern. This is what Drive-By Media is. This is the utter definition. You’re looking at it here. The problem for them is, they have been wrong every time during the Trump administration. They have been wrong about every dire prediction they have made, and they have made these predictions with ontological certitude.
They’ve made these predictions with anonymous sources guaranteeing the “walls were closing in” on Donald Trump, guaranteeing the evidence was forthcoming that Trump colluded with Russia, guaranteeing the evidence was imminently forthcoming that Donald Trump did indeed cheat. “He might even be a Russian agent!” It never stopped. Even when the evidence never came in, the evidence was never forthcoming.
Even when the evidence was invisible, they continued to tell us that it was going to be the exact opposite of what it’s turned out to be every time. It’s always Trump’s fault before the facts are known. And when the facts are finally known and when the media is proven to be dramatically wrong again, they are never held to account. They are never to blame for whatever mess they have made, for whatever drive-by confusion they have made created.
Even hurricanes are attributed to Trump via the fact that he doesn’t believe in man-made climate change. Before there’s even a dollar’s worth of destruction, it’s all Trump’s fault. And then when their predictions of doom fail spectacularly, it’s off to the next hoped-for incident that will definitely take down Trump. When the impeachment bombed out, remember what I said?
“Folks, there’s 10 months to go. There’s gonna be something else. There’s gonna be something else. There’s gonna be many something elses between now and the election that are gonna get the same treatment,” and voila! Here we are: Coronavirus. “Mr. Limbaugh, are you saying the coronavirus is not…?” No, I’m not. Don’t attribute things to me that I’m not saying. I’m saying exactly what I mean to say, and I love hearing myself say what I say ’cause I’m right. I love being right.>
You would be, too, if you knew what it was like. I’m not saying things I’m not saying. Like I’ve got a sound bite coming up from Honore. Remember him? Hurricane Katrina, military guy. He got so fed up with the media, so fed up with the way Katrina and the whole thing was being covered, and he’s on a roll again today. He’s lashing out at Wall Street. (paraphrased) “Why the hell do they get to panic?
Rush sees the stitching on the fastball, as usual.
Is it true that if you watch Television you can catch it??
Corona virus is a racist taunt against Mexico.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Facts for those interested in Science and data not hysteria and panic mongering.
About 118,000 cases world wide, 108,000 recovered or mild.
Exactly 4267 deaths
Average age of deaths: 80 years old
I hope Rush is well isolated.
Given lung problems and probable treatments he’s getting which lower the immune system.
When I had radiation for cancer, I suffered from some bad colds the six months afterwards.
Correct. The whole scare is now officially turning into a joke with proof that unless you’re over 70, you’re not that much at threat from this virus.
If it bleeds, it leads.
If they are after Trump the virus came too early. It should have been in September.
The media aren’t the only culprits.
Swine flu killed 12,469 people in the US from mid 2009 to mid 2010. I don’t recall this level of panic .
To prevent people from panicking in case the hurricane doesn’t actually cause death and destruction, maybe the weather service shouldn’t mention it until it makes landfall and is actually a serious problem. If one took the warnings of potential pandemic seriously they could have gotten all the face masks, bottled water and tp they wanted a couple of weeks ago. If you wait until your neighbors and family members are lying on stretchers in a hospital hallway you may be sol.
the corrupt media definitely wants to turn the ‘china virus’ into a Katrina type situation for Trump
they are very desperate to interject a racist angle into the response (aided by idiot governors like Cuomo, Newsom and Jay Inslime) and I expect this to be manufactured very soon.
however, the virus doesn’t discriminate
Rush has his studio in his home now with his money I am quite sure he can arrange to have his treatment at home also!!!
If he’s getting radiation, I’d say probably not.
That’s a pretty huge machine with some seriously big electrical service.
“I hope Rush is well isolated.
Given lung problems and probable treatments he’s getting which lower the immune system.
When I had radiation for cancer, I suffered from some bad colds the six months afterwards.”
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Rush would still claim it’s all a hoax and out himself as part of the vast conspiracy.
I think it is more like the Iran Hostage Crisis the way they are covering it.
There wasn’t this panic AND children were affected by the swine flu where they don’t seem to be affected with this virus!! Two words for ALL of this hysteria Donald Trump!!!
How does a Chicken Freeper, cope with cognitive dissonance generated by the Trump/Rush axis on one hand and you profound belief that this is TEOTWAWKI?
It must be overwhelming. Is Trump wrong? Is Rush going to be humbled?
Stay tuned.
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