cause fiction is more fun?Rush Limbaugh: Obama Wants Americans To Get Ebola As Payback For Slavery
by Igor Volsky Posted on October 6, 2014 at 2:35 pm
CREDIT: AP
Radio host Rush Limbaugh suggested on Monday that President Barack
Obama is refusing to divert flights from Ebola-infected countries and
close down America’s borders because he believes that the nation
“deserves” to be infected with the virus given its history of
perpetuating slavery.
Responding to a caller on his nationally syndicated radio show,
Limbaugh launched into a soliloquy about so-called politically correct
liberals who believe that America is responsible for the spread of Ebola
in Liberia because that nation was established by freed American
slaves. “And if it hadn’t been for that they probably wouldn’t have
[Ebola]. So there are some people who think we kind of deserve a little
bit of this,” he said, before accusing elected leaders of purposely
leaving the country vulnerable to the virus.
“The danger we have now is that we elected people in positions of
power and authority who think this or think like this in terms of this
country being responsible, this country being to blame for things and
it’s that kind of thinking that leads to opposition to shutting down
airports from various countries,” Limbaugh explained, referring to the
Obama administration’s handling of the crisis.
“It leads to opposition to keeping these people out of the country:
‘How dare we? We can’t turn our back on them! They exist because of us.
We can’t turn them away!’” he said. Listen:
Though Republicans have been calling on the Obama administration to
impose strict travel bans on countries with Ebola infections, experts
warn that such a policy could make things worse.
Ill patients would have a harder time seeking treatment, international
health personnel wouldn’t be able to enter the country, and local
economies and the health infrastructures would further be devastated by a
travel ban.
Instead, the Obama administration has sent troops to infected
countries, is providing ground expertise to medical staff, establishing
field-deployable hospitals, and offering “personal protective equipment
and laboratory reagents, support for technical advisors, and other
requests.” 4951