Posted on 01/11/2013 3:56:37 PM PST by Kaslin
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RUSH: Here's a headline from CNBC: "Major Flu Outbreak Threatens to Slow the Economy Further." Now, what the hell kind of headline is this? "Major Flu Outbreak Threatens to Slow the Economy Further." It was just yesterday I was talking about media propagandists, and you see this headline, and you have to understand that I know what I'm talking about and I was right. The flu threatens to slow the economy further?
Really?
They're throwing that out there now?
We know that it's not the flu slowing down the economy! We know it's not the flu that has the economy near a standstill. The economy's been a standstill for nearly four years. What has the economy in a standstill are the policies coming out of Washington, DC, right now. Yet here we have a journalist outlet friendly to Obama, CNBC -- obviously part of the trained media -- to make excuses for Obama even before the bad news is out!
The purpose of this story is to give everybody in Washington an excuse before the flu outbreak even hits. I know the reports of the flu outbreak are starting to trickle in now, but we do not have an epidemic yet. We may. Who knows? But what's being established now is that if and when there is a flu epidemic, "That's why! That's why the economy slowed down." I guess this is probably to replace Bush for a while to explain a bad economy.
"On average seasonal influenza outbreaks cost US employers $10.4 billion in direct costs of hospitalization outpatient visits according to the Centers for Disease Control," and this story makes the point that flu season "is putting further strains on an already sluggish US economy as companies get slammed with increased health care costs and lower productivity from widespread worker absences." So the flu epidemic... Am I right?
It hasn't hit yet. Or has it? (interruption) In the Northeast the flu has really hit? It really has? I wouldn't know; I'm not there. Okay. I don't want to be wrong about this. I'm telling you what this is. This headline is a made-to-order, built-in excuse to cover for slipshod economic policies out of Washington. "Major Flu Outbreak Threatens to Slow the Economy Further." I'm telling you, folks: All this is is an excuse in advance.
You know what else is part of this story? It's possible that we could go into a recession! That's right. From the flu. It's possible that this flu outbreak could be so bad, it could reach epidemic/pandemic proportions, and it could throw us right back into recession. Despite the best efforts of the regime to spur a recovery, despite the best efforts of the regime to get employment moving in the right direction, despite the best efforts of the smartest people in the world!
"Damn it, they can't catch a break. Poor Obama."
Now it's the flu.
Did the flu make TIME Magazine lay off 700 people? I have a companion story here from CNBC: "American Express announced it will eliminate 5400 jobs this year and take a $400 million restructuring charge in the fourth quarter." Here's the story on TIME: "Morgan Stanley Planning 1600 Layoffs," and not a word -- not a word -- about the flu. So this is what I mean by being on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
I want you to just keep this in your memory bank. This story is out way in advance. What it tells me is that, in addition to everything else, there are real fears that this economy is gonna sink even further. So, of course, now it's time for the media to move in and exempt Obama and shield him from any responsibility for it. So now they're setting up that this flu is gonna be the reason. That's why there are changes in job applications, of course, 'cause it rained one day during the reporting week.
This is more of the same.
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RUSH: Looky here, folks. I just found this from The Daily Beast. CNN has it, too! " Flu Outbreak Spreads Across US as Media Drops the Ball." Nah, they picked it up, folks! They got it just in the nick of time.
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The Obama Flu
it’s a “Look Over there” moment again...more distraction...more we head towards that big bright and shiny $1 trillion make-believe coin...
I wonder when Willy Wonka and his posse will make their appearance?
I would think that the outbreak would be a BOOM for the economy. People going to the doctor, paying out for medications, more nurses hired, more pills made, more ambulance runs, more special food, people will be buying masks, gloves, soap...it is a BOOM and a few cases even funeral parlors will have a good week.
Pres. Bush caused the flu (It’s all his fault, afterall)?
Our Government Media is acting exactly like the USSR’s state run mouthpieces during the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s.
I remember hearing every excuse offered from vermin in the wheat fields to production levels being down because of cold weather and slow miners. Everything and anything other than blaming the truly abysmal economic policies of the Reds.
I feel like we are living in Venezuela and I’ve awakened to Comrade Chavez and his minion.
The saddest part of all this is that our “Journalists” and “Newsmen” are propagandists and they DON’T KNOW IT because they are simply the unthinking tools of their masters.
The Obama flu.
So one industry gets busy while all others lose workers to illness?
The only real gain is if congress gets the flu.
So one industry gets busy while all others lose workers to illness?
The only real gain is if congress gets the flu.
Obama’s servants, slaves, and minions in the MSM
KNOW exactly what they are doing.
They hate the American people,
and the idea of American freedom,
as much as the Tyrant.
Influ-enza is Kenyan for Barack Obama.
“What’s that sucking noise...jobs going to Mexico...no...MSM paying homage to “The One””.
Thanks Kaslin.
Partisan Media Shills ping.
I assume they have examples when this has occurred in the past, or are they just making up a CYA again.
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