Rush Limbaugh & Glenn Beck Should Get Credit For Spread of Swine Flu - "Swine Flu Party!"

[TomCADem]

By encouraging parents and children not to take the vaccine, and arguing that Swine Flu fears were over-blown and over-hyped as another President Obama conspiracy to generate support for health care reform. Heck, Glenn Beck was saying that he was going to attend a Swine Flu Party.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/booster_shots/2009/10/the-folks-who-publicly-said-they-would-rather-see-the-us-go-down-the-toilet-in-the-current-recession-rather-than-see-a-demo.html

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Beck and Limbaugh weigh in on swine flu

Media commentators Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh have apparently fallen prey to the loony websites of the anti-vaccine folks and have begun campaigning against the swine flu vaccine program, according to the liberal group Media Matters for America.

Beck said on one show that he would do "the exact opposite" of what the government recommended and that his inclination is to attend a swine flu party and catch the virus now before it has a chance to mutate. He wouldn't take the vaccine because "you don't know if this is going to cause neurological damage like it did in the 1970s" (Sept. 30)--a prospect that has, incidentally been totally discredited. He also said, "People just feel in their gut, 'I don't trust these people any more...' They think our government could be so incompetent that they don't have any clue as to what they are doing." (Sept. 29)

Limbaugh addressed Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, saying "I am not going to take it, precisely because you are now telling me I must....I don't want to take your vaccine. I don't get flu shots." Later, he added that if "you have some idiot government official demanding, telling me I must take this vaccine, I'll never take it." (Oct. 7) On the same show, he said, "The next time you hear, 'The government says...' don't believe it. You'll be healthier, trust me."

Both commentators are conservatives, but this is not a liberal versus conservative issue. This is a science versus nonsense issue. There are a ton of wacky websites out there--I know, I get e-mails from their readers all the time--telling folks that the flu is not dangerous, that the vaccine is experimental, untested, toxic, loaded with dangerous chemicals, and so one and so forth. Many of them even deny the efficacy of any vaccines, ignoring the fact that their use has virtually wiped out polio, smallpox and a host of other diseases and are universally accepted, along with sanitation, as one of the two greatest medical developments of the 20th century. A few claim that all you need to do is take supplements and live a healthy lifestyle--as though that would have prevented the polio epidemic of the 1940s and 1950s. Some even claim that the swine flu virus was created in a laboratory and released into the world so that pharmaceutical companies could make a fortune by selling vaccines. Others claim that the government is pushing the vaccines because former Vice President Dick Cheney and other government officials now own substantial portions of the companies that make them.

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[GreenPartyVoter]

1. How often did they complain about all the terra alerts being over-blown and over-hyped?

[snagglepuss]

2. What bloody stupid idiots. nt

[snagglepuss]

3. How do we know they aren't getting vaccinated? Perhaps they are cynically

playing with their idiot audience, telling them what they want to hear?

[kestrel91316]

4. Wonder if they will be willing to pay funeral expenses for any

pregnant women they infect and cause to die.

[ellie]

5. Future Darwin award winners!

[mrs_p]

6. i really hope they do go to a flu party

let them lie in bed for a week and cry for their mamas...

[Cha]

7. Also, one important aspect

of not spreading H1N1 is washing your hands often and not touching your face..and, PObama asked the kids to do that(at least wash your hands often) in his speech on Education that the braindead facists didn't want the kids to hear.

[ProgressOnTheMove]

8. As long as Democratic voters are taking their vaccine if need be, I'm fine it only will ...

bring home the point that health care is a right than a privledge when it mostly only effects their voters. Not to wish ill on anyone, but just no cure for the ill informed so far.

[Kingofalldems]

9. And their moranic (sic) listeners obey every command

[Windy]

10. Is there any evidence that you get lifetime immunity from either having the flu or getting the

vaccine?

[Robb]

11. From the particular strain, yes. Gobs of it.

However flu strains change over time, which is why there is a new shot every year. You're immune from the one you lived through or were immunized against, but it will likely not come around again in that form.

[denem]

12. H1N1 is partial to The Obese and Swine so Mr Limbaugh,

under the circumstances, I support your personal decision.

[Marsala]

13. The government should warn them not to go jump off a bridge

I mean, *really really* warn them. Absolutely forbid them, even.

[old mark]

14. between the two of them, they might just kill off a lot of their supporters.

Silver lining in every cloud.

mark