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Limbaugh: "AIDS was and still is being hyped in Africa"

October 28, 2009 3:58 pm ET

From the October 28 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:

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    • Author by srichardson (October 28, 2009 4:03 pm ET)
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      He's such a flippin idiot. I was going to say more but what's the use. But...how does he know all that he thinks he knows????? What a job, sit on your fatarse all day and make crap up along the way.
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      • Author by Cannonball (October 28, 2009 4:33 pm ET)
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        I can't listen to anymore of these spots. It's just too painful. There are six or seven a day! Can't we just agree he is insane and remove him from the air? Free Speech be d#mned. Enough is enough!
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    • Author by mwjarv (October 28, 2009 4:07 pm ET)
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      Here are some statistics for the likes of these insane people: http://www.avert.org/subaadults.htm#at . AIDS is one of the largest crisis effecting the world, and is largely ignored. Maybe if the likes of Larry Craig keep up their antics in public restrooms enough right wingers will find out the hard way just how desperate the situation is.
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    • Author by AB-001 (October 28, 2009 4:09 pm ET)
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      Wow! Trying to follow all the threads of this rant is a real challenge. It careens from one idea to the next at rapid fire pace, then doubles back on itself to try and reel everything in. All in the name of knocking Obama's administration. To hell with anything that has to do with health and the potentials experts are saying about the swine flu.
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    • Author by New Frontier (October 28, 2009 4:17 pm ET)
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      Limbaugh:
      "Well to keep that money coming in, whadya need? You need AIDS cases! Even if you don't have them, you report that you do! Everything has a scam aspect to it."


      You see, to Limbaugh it's like when a talk radio host says that Obama is a menacing, dangerous man who wants to destroy America. It's not true, but you report that it is true, and scam listeners anyway because that's how to keep the money (ratings, sponsors) coming in.
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    • Author by pete592 (October 28, 2009 4:18 pm ET)
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      Yeah, it's not about saving lives, it's all about fear, control, and securing aid money.

      Visit a cemetery in South Africa to see how much AIDS "hype" there is.
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    • Author by abstrakt (October 28, 2009 4:20 pm ET)
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      he just admitted he's an elitist :-)
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    • Author by Boxer1979 (October 28, 2009 4:20 pm ET)
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      Limbaugh: "AIDS was and still is being hyped in Africa"

      Yes you are the Archie Bunker of Radio!

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      • Author by christopher howard (October 28, 2009 5:20 pm ET)
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        Unlike Rush, Archie Bunker actually had some good points, and he was better informed.
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    • Author by The New Pilgrims (October 28, 2009 4:21 pm ET)
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      Ah, ole Pimplerumpskin, the gift who keeps on giving. The national poster child of the need for a better educational system and a better health care system. All wrapped up into one neat, yet rotund and grotesque, body.
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    • Author by marco21 (October 28, 2009 4:26 pm ET)
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      The man who sells "Club Gitmo" soap-on-a-rope is crying SCAM on an epidemic, of all things.

      For Rush, there really is no bottom of the barrel to scrape.
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    • Author by shaggles (October 28, 2009 4:27 pm ET)
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      Now that's some heavy duty cynicism.
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    • Author by Jason86 (October 28, 2009 4:33 pm ET)
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      Didn't Limbaugh fail almost all of his courses in college?
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    • Author by thebigsheister (October 28, 2009 4:42 pm ET)
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      "The medical people gave her anti-biotics."

      Really? The "medical people" gave her anti bacterial drugs for a viral infection? I would say Rush just mixed up his words and meant to say anti-virals but doctors don't burn through their tamiflu supply unless the case is severe enough to require it (and they'd be administered in hospital, anyways).

      So the question is: has Rush been fooled by a caller or is he blatantly lying, having fabricated the whole story?
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    • Author by thundavolt (October 28, 2009 4:48 pm ET)
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      This is the reason people die. Didn't his holiness Ronald Reagan have a similar attitude towards the problem.
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      • Author by srichardson (October 28, 2009 5:18 pm ET)
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        If Reagan would've looked at AIDS as a true epidemic instead of a "gay" epidemic than many lives would've been saved. I think this is one example of holier than thou syndrome. People thought it was God's way of dealing with sinfulness. If that's the case, I'd say God was just as upset with heteosexuals as with homosexuals. The attitude that Rush is displaying here is dangerous bc it once again is trying to diminish the AIDS crisis.
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      • Author by jonesjax2374 (October 28, 2009 6:42 pm ET)
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        Thank you for that post thundavolt - EXACTLY my first thought. Reagan never mentioned AIDS during his adminstration.
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    • Author by SLRTX (October 28, 2009 5:19 pm ET)
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      Conservatives continue to prove just how stupid they are.

      Here's a good article about their "base":

      http://www.theonion.com/content/news/nations_morons_march_on_washington
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    • Author by dadre (October 28, 2009 5:47 pm ET)
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      I am a completely non violent person......but if I had the money I would fly as many people in from Africa so they could all line up kick this SOB in the crotch. Maybe he'd finally feel something in the black hole that is his heart.
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    • Author by phredicles (October 28, 2009 6:22 pm ET)
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      Just like the Black Plague was totally hyped all over Europe in the 1340s and 1350s.
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    • Author by tman418 (October 28, 2009 10:19 pm ET)
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      Limbaugh was and still is being hyped on talk radio.
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    • Author by tintinyana (October 29, 2009 11:45 pm ET)
         
      He's at one with former South African president Thabo Mbeki:

      http://africasacountry.com/2009/10/30/rush-limbaugh/
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    • Author by tintinyana (October 30, 2009 7:55 am ET)
         
      He has an ally in former South African President Thabo Mbeki--that's strange bedfellows--who also denied the existence of AIDS as 600 people were being infected every day in his country:

      http://africasacountry.com/2009/10/30/rush-limbaugh/
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