CNN Story On Rush Limbaugh's H1N1 Vaccine Backlash

[jkllad]

Why is Ms. Sebelius' nose blue? lol

[indiajesuslovesyou]

This program was another big government push of intrusion into our lives! Most medical doctors did not take this medicine! Let my doctor advise me whether or not I need to take this! These decisions are not to be made by white house? Thankyou. James Sasse.

[harry4now]

An in the end, Rush was right. H1N1 risk way way way over hyped. Basic mistrust of government is a healthy thing. Overly self important beauraucraps acting like they know more than they do, over reacting, polically correct reacting,,,, always question. Always.

[Cornswalled]

Vaccines are an abominations and an insult to God himself. Vaccination may very well be the mark of the beast.

[dischordia23]

@Cornswalled "Vaccines are an abominations and an insult to God himself." The eradication of the smallpox virus by vaccine has by itself saved tens of millions of lives. God is 'insulted' when people are alive and not suffering horrible diseases? Kind of sick.

[Cornswalled]

@dischordia23 Your comment falsely and foolishly assumes vaccines work.

They don't.

Show me some evidence that anything other than improved sanitation and the decline of the Pagan abomination known as the Catholic Church had ANYTHING to do with the decline of Smallpox.

Better yet, prove Smallpox is gone. Genetically it's the same virus as Chicken Pox.

[dischordia23]

@Cornswalled "falsely and foolishly assumes vaccines work. They don't." Ridiculous. Here is a test--look for reports of rabies infection in your country. "All human cases of rabies were fatal until a vaccine was developed in 1885 by Louis Pasteur and Émile Roux" If the infected patient in given the vaccine early nearly 100% now survive! See if 100% still die. Report back the results. Then let us know if you'd get the vaccine it bitten by a rabid animal, or just decide it must be 'your time'

[Cornswalled]

@dischordia23 we were talking about Smallpox. I asked you for proof that Smallpox wasn't just re-branded as chickenpox and you failed. You as good as admitted that Smallpox and chickenpox are the same virus.

As for rabies, there are non-vaccine treatments for rabies too.

[dischordia23]

@Cornswalled "Smallpox wasn't just re-branded as chickenpox" You're kidding right? Debunked: Chicken pox, Cowpox, Smallpox, etc. have been infecting humans for many centuries. Their lethality varies substantially from extremely high with smallpox to very low with cowpox and chickenpox. We have mapped the full genome of all of these viruses. We've known they were distinct diseases caused by distinct pathogens for CENTURIES. We can actually see all the genetic distinctions.

[ebolavac1]

@Cornswalled

What??? They are NOT the same virus. If they were, there wouldn't have separate names. They aren't even in the same family of viruses. Chickenpox virus is a type of herpesvirus and smallpox virus is a type of poxvirus. Lord. Talk about clueless.

[Cornswalled]

@ebolavac1 You poor, sad, deluded fool. Didn't you know the first "Smallpox" vaccines were developed using cowpox and chickenpox? If they aren't related how did they supposedly work to give immunity to one another?

[brendandugan]

yes, let the government put chemicals into your body. How stupid are you people? Not only did u vote a moron into the presidency who will cause you to be financially dependant on the gvmt, but now you want to be physically dependant on the government? You people are so stupid. Please move so America can prosper again. The dems are driving this place into the ground. Your goals to achieve mediocrity have ruined this proud nation. GET A CLUE!

[klard]

I did not get a flu shot. Why didn't I get sick and die? More proof that the government and pharmaceutical companies are lying sacks of crap.

[blawlor100]

H1N1 UPDATE: February 2010, CDC reports more than 11,690 US H1N1 deaths, more than 70 million US vaccinated against H1N1, more than 257,000 H1N1 hospitalizations. Children are dying at rates 5 times greater than during a seasonal. Pregnant (& post partum) women are 6 times more likely to die from a H1N1 infection than another infected adult. Vaccine prevents H1N1 & is available to all at county health departments, doctors' offices & pharmacies. See my channel for more information.

[Jesuslovingfreak]

@blawlor100 Your facts are correct (the statistics that is...) but your claim that the vaccine prevents H1N1 is no necessarily true. How can you be so sure that it prevents it? Aren't there any adverse side affects?



[soleilangela]

We should get vaccinated? yeah, and we should also jump off a bridge right?

Notice that they keep saying it's safe but have absolutely nothing to back up what they are saying. They think we are all Bart Simpsons.

[pgdevil]

Look a Rush, flailing his arms around like a monkey.

[ConservativeHealth]

We as conservatives stand against the socialized government controlled vaccine program that currently exists in the United States.

We want to privatize this institution. Americans should have the freedom to take responsibility for themselves, stop looking for hand outs, and shop the free market for a best H1N1 vaccine.

NO to publicly funded vaccines.

[neuronsactivated]

Last week someone posted a thing titled Rush Limbaugh-Obama's Swine Flu Fiasco 11/4. On that, Mr. Limbaugh is bitching about how the Obama administration is failing to deliver the h1n1 vaccine FAST ENOUGH.

That's being a hypocrite, right?

[neuronsactivated]

I doubt Mr. Limbaugh or Mr. Beck were ever reluctant to use Viagra and that got FDA approved awfully fast.

[jakefree25]

As if Rush has any scientific background as well as credibility left. Good Rush, don't take it, get sick and die.

[jackpelton]

actually doctors have backed him up, so the doctors dont know anything?

[jakefree25]

Most doctors think that is all a crock. Of course, Rush can find a few docs to parrot his party line, This reminds me when the retards periodically surface to whine about "Evilution". They can always come up with a couple of discrepensies & scientists to agree with their creationist ID nonsense.

Since Rush has lied or been wrong about so many major issues, why does ne1 take him seriously. He recycles the same garbage designed to pander to morons who call anyone smarter than themselves elitists!

[jackpelton]

same goes for obama... finding enough to agree, lying, being wrong, and pandering to morons who voted for him that want to line up for "obama money"

[jakefree25]

I guess since you switched the topic away from Rush's BS, that means you agree with me? Palin was a perfect example of the GOP & Rush pandering to the stupid, non-thinking redneck base. If you admire Palin & Rush, then you have no right to complain about Obama's dishonesty or stupidity

[jackpelton]

how did i switch the topic? it had to do with your last comment, i didnt say i admired anyone either. i am neither a liberal nor conservative, i agree with certain views from both sides. i do agree with you that there are non thinking rednecks, but there are also non thinkers that vote for the person who wants to give them money and they drink more koolaid and fall in deeper...

[jakefree25]

While that is true, there were tons of morons who voted for Obama based on wishy washy fairy tale thinking, the topic here is Swine Flu and Rush blubbering his usual nonsense concering that.

[ponybastard999]

Ginny Pigs first. Then comes the tv commerical. If you took the h1n1 shots and had a stroke, heart attack, respiratory problems, limb teabags, dry uterus, smoker cough, nose bleeds, looney attacks, nose rubbing rush limbaugh rotten tea bags, call the Law Office of Beavis & Butthead.

[avenged100fold]

Darwinism at work. Go ahead, skip the vaccine, then die from the flu - or give it to your pregnant wife and she'll die.

Flu vaccines have been produced every year for a long time. This one is no different from the rest - except it will save more lives.

[jakefree25]

Reminds me of the Darwin Awards!

[billfurd1]

CNN hows that WhiteHouse running you? Fricken Commi's!!!!

[bonsallamo]

Hey CNN, hey Whitehouse... why don't you just give up and HIRE RUSH LIMBAUGH since you don't seem to be able to go ONE DAY without talking about him.

[mountaindweller44]

Yeah...funny how they are losing popularity...Fox and Rush are gaining like crazy...and NOW the Whitehouse decides to declare them enemies!!! Stupid! That's like giving China all our food, manufacturing, and commerce and then bankrupting on them...oops...wait...the idiots have done that, too!!!

[bonsallamo]

They are helping Rush thinking they are helping themselves. When they get a rating increase from being Rush parasites, they quickly lose it, and Rush takes a permanent rating increase because people turn him on and decide he's not a racist after all and they agree with him.

[uncleoscar7]

however dangerous the flu may or may not be, a person still has to deal with the fact that the vaccine can cause just as much damage, or more, than the flu

it is called allergic reaction or "bad side effect" or "secondary effect"

do you want a week with the flu or twenty years of paralysis

in 1975 and 1976 no one died of the flu but many died of the vaccine

it's a dangerous world

pick the danger you are comfortable with

[molloyx]

Do you have any information that supports your position regarding the current situation? Citing what happened 33 years hardly seems useful [ a time when there were no personal computers, cell phones, or cable news paranoid wind bags]. Any resonable person understands there have been significant medical advances since then [ including medications that drastically reduce death via AIDS] and there is zero evidence of death from the present vaccine. 43 little kids have died in the past month.

[billfurd1]

Your wrong!!!! Get informed!! Their have been 25 deaths from to Vaccine in small children alone....the media is trying to hide it!!

[mountaindweller44]

You haven't seen the amount of coverup that will come by March 2010...this, I am afraid, is going to re-sculpt the American nation...

[uncleoscar7]

In 1975 , in the first "swine flu" scare, nobody died from the flu. but a lot of people died from the vaccine, and others developed severe permanent disabilities

I remember when they brought the vaccination program to a screaching halt because of the deaths

[molloyx]

There has not been a single incident of anyone dying from the H1N1

[molloyx]

.....[whoops] vaccine. Forty three children have died from the virus [ an unprecedented number that cannot be written off as an anomaly] and the risk for pregnant women is six times greater than the rest of the population. I am usually skeptical of nationwide health 'scares' but this time the data and science are impossible to ignore.

[uncleoscar7]

the term "mad hatter" refered to the fact that men who made hats in Britain years ago would all grow a little daffy because of the mercury they used in making the hat

in the late 1970's people were told get those mercury fillings out of your teeth, because it was leeching into their blood stream and poisoning them

certain fish were off limits for eating because they had gotten mercury in them from polluted water

[uncleoscar7]

you ask any parent whose child was normal until the child got a shot with mercury in it and developed autism

several hundred of them got together in a class action lawsuit against the government

[vivalabayern]

i don't fear the flu, or the swine flu. Why should I need to have one. If I get sick I get sick. Even if I was vaccinated, though I MIGHT not get sick, I can still expose other people to the illness.

[cosmeticnerd]

of course you wouldnt. people are cautious for those who are VULNERABLE.

i dont give a crap if it is called swine or feet flu. people should be cautious about the flu in general. especially their children, the elderly & pregnant women.

my goodness have folks never taken a biology course before if they did they would know the strain always changes thats why you get a difference shot every year. if people have been taking flu shots, this one is no different. freaking out over the shot is silly.

[uncleoscar7]

All vaccines have dangerous chemicals in them that do not belong in the human body.

Mercury is a common ingredient, and mercury is a brain poison.

it causes brain damage

as in AUTISM

other chemicals cause paralysis and other horrors

take your chances with the flu.

the poisoner of Tylenol back in the 1980's

was not the only lunatic in the world who thought it would be fun to kill people by poisoning the medicine

think about that

[cosmeticnerd]

omg.

stop spreading misinformed "facts"

take a statistics course. put down the number of those who have been SAVED by vaccines & those who "contracted" autism(which has yet to be proven).

if you claim to be right:

lets think of it this way. if everyone stopped taking their vaccines to prevent autism, their kids would die from measles, small pox, etc... instead. do folks not use their common sense

[RubytheHedgehog123]

lol...it says "screw you Sebelius" underneath her name...lmbo

[Verified1]

Oh how I wish I could be the vaccinated nurse who takes care of his sorry ass when he is hospitalized with pneumonia brought on by H1N1 flu. Of course I'd care for him ethically, but I'd make sure Air America Radio was on in the ICU 24/7 while he was on a vent and couldn't get out of bed. Maybe he could make a Glenn Beck style crying video about the health care system when he didn't get enough Oxycontin. There's a devil in me that is saying good riddance - maybe this virus will thin the herd.

[Minimoy]

I'd rather die of the virus, frankly. At least it would have been transmitted in a natural fashion.

But even then, H1N1 doesn't quite scare me. If I am to die from it then so be it, but I'm not taking any vaccines again, ever.

[Verified1]

The thing that makes me sad about your bravado is that in the real world if you do become very ill from this virus (and I hope you don't), then I have no doubt you'll show up at an ER begging for Tamiflu and cursing the healthcare system for making you sit in the waiting room with a mask on your face for four hours feeling like crap, while other very sick people are served before you. I hope I'm your nurse. And I won't remind you of your knee-jerk comment that you'd rather die of the virus.

[tech590]

35 years old and I never get flu shots.. AND NEVER GET SICK.. Everyone I know who gets them gets sick every year..

Hey Kathleen Cunt.. In NY there is a requirement for medical personal to take the Flu Shot... Go fuck you own ass with your flu shot.

[cpoppe]

Doesn't it make sense to make it mandatory for nurses and doctors to get vaccinated? Many patients have weak immune systems and contracting the flu could by very dangerous for them.

[imaginepeace63]

I hate Rush but I am not taking the vaccine. Tell that to the Mass government. They are making it mandatory. It could have thermasol in it.

[Wanglesownz]

If you like rush plz don't take the vacine, the world will be a better place

[Christopher0312]

Maybe Rush will catch it and die?

One can hope! LOL!

[noliberalzone]

look up what happened in 1976 with a swine flu panic with a vaccine .. it sounds just like this swine flu .. the main difference is our government gave them a waiver so the pharam co making the vaccines cannot be sued like they were in 1976.

[Verified1]

noliberal, I am afraid you are making decisions here which are not based upon facts. Look at the cdc website which will answer your concerns about the current vaccine, about the 70s swine flu issue, and about Thimerosal, which has never been shown scientifically to be harmful, despite semi-informed pseudoscientific conspiracy theories to the contrary. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, especially when the knowledge is not factual.

[noliberalzone]

yes mercury was proven to be harmful.. I should know I lived it .. go back and look up the congressional hearings with Dan Burton .. the FDA and CDC sent out a letter in 1999 stating that vaccines from 1992 to 1999 had high levels of mercury. which my grandson who has autism was given vaccines during those years. it was stated that if vaccines were given to close together it would cause harm .. I have the proof .. why was mercury taken out all childhood vaccines if there was no risk..

[Verified1]

nolib, I am sincerely sorry to hear your grandson has autism, but there is no conclusive scientific evidence that autism is caused by Thimerosal. I wish it were that simple and we could prevent autism by eliminating mercury from our environment. The CDC in fact denies that there is a proven link. It makes sense to me that if mercury is not an important additive, it should be removed for many reasons. Autism, unfortunately is not one of them. I'd put more credence in the latest DNA evidence.

[noliberalzone]

your knowledge on the subject is nothing .. so you need to stfu and get an education on the subject before you correct me you idiot

[Verified1]

nolib... I should add your cause is not advanced by calling people names. In fact I am educated on this subject. I wish you and your family well.

[noliberalzone]

Rush is not the only one saying this about this about the H1N1 vaccine .. there have been many others who have said the same thing .. the difference is Rush is a conservative talk show .. so of course you want to attack him.. there will be high levels of mercury in the H1N1 vaccine they were unable to make the vaccine mercury free even though it has been proven the damage that mercury can cause. mercury has been removed from all childhood vaccines and the regular flu vaccine

[SuperFlyTyler]

Good dont get the vaccine, Rush.

I cough in your general direction.

[bizkin]

glad to see america is still full of dumb asses who do not know what they are putting into their bodies... makes me almost want to cry... if i was not so bloody cynical already.

[soothingvoices]

Rush is already a pig, he has nothing to fear.

[sjcpal]

How can anybody believe anything that comes out of Rushs' mouth , It's beyond me ...Seriously i was wondering about the safety of the vaccination, was waiting for Rush (yeah right) Now i know i'm geting it ..

[cheeseaura]

Then you're an idiot. If politics instead of documentation for what you use for health, I just don't know what to say.

[Isambay]

OMG! Americans are no different from those Muslim radicals in Northern Nigeria who prevented their children from taking the polio vaccine. Dumb!

[cheeseaura]

The UN is currently sterilizing Africa with vaccines.

[jasonsadventure]

could rush be any more ignorant?

screw you mrs sebelius, i'm gonna put this gun to my head and pull the trigger precisely because you tell me not to.

well fat boy, you showed her.

i bet corpulence-ignoramus hustled his fat ass to get immunized right after the show.

i mean he wouldn't put his porky-pale white behind in jeopardy, just his listeners.

[freedomman121]

There have already been deaths from the vaccine.

I wonder if Ms. Sebelius will take the vaccine on camera?

[jasonsadventure]

yo, freedomman121, your both dumb & dangerous

ur 125 thousand times more likely to die if u get infected with h1n1 than if u would die from taking a vaccine

that is only because 1/100 people get the flu from the nasal spray, which contains a weakened virus.

remove those & your odds of dieing are 1.4 million times more likely to die from h1n1 - and this is only because of allergic reactions to the vaccine

dude read a book, take a class or find a smart friend to talk to before you kill someone

[freedomman121]

Jason, you are dumb, dangerous, IGNORANT and a punk. Take the shot, PLEASE.

[freedomman121]

I just read your post again. You're an asshole as well. Don't you get any news other than the mainstream media propaganda? You ignorant tit, Obama won't even get his daughters vaccinated. Do humanity a favor, go get your shot, then run along and play on the freeway.

[jasonsadventure]

whoa! let me guess, there's only one set of grandparents in your family tree, huh? bet you hunt for supper in the woods instead of shop for dinner at the store huh?

r u the smart one in ur clan? i mean, i can tell by all the wisdom and knowledge that just oozes out of each of your posts. you certainly do have a handle on viral immunology and the efficacy of modern immunization regimes.

teach us more so we can learn, oh fount of knowing. (lmao)

[jakefree25]

better to get your news from the MSM than an asshole like Rush or your Liberty Lobby

[freedomman121]

@jakefree25, asshole Rush is mainstream media too. If you like 100% bullshit propaganda, then keep sucking from the MSM teet.

[waltermh111]

proof?

[freedomman121]

Ever heard of Google? Let your fingers and your mind do the walking. The vaccine is a nightmare.

[cheeseaura]

The vaccine is poison.

Rush is an idiot, but that doesn't mean the vaccine is safe.

[jasonsadventure]

wow cheeseaura! how could you be so wrong and so convinced?

i mean, do you decide true or false with like facts and evidence or do you like lick mushrooms and use the force?

[cheeseaura]

They've barely started testing of this same vaccine over in Europe just last month and it's already maimed homeless test subjects.

It got buried in the news.

All Rush is doing is throwing a political element in there to prevent people from thinking rationally about this.

The vaccine is not safe from the few tests it has been put to.

[jasonsadventure]

"it's maimed homeless test subjects in europe?!"

i mean, did this come from sarah palin's facebook page or glen becks "research department"

it got buried in the news? could it be because, i don't know, it's a lie!?

this vaccine is as safe as every vaccine recently released in the u.s.

and rush is societal cancer whose awful stench appeal only to the most putrid and heinous instincts of the extreme right

[MichaelHodgson]

Say no to the shot!

[geffel]

Gotta love how stupid scared paranoid deluded conspiracy theorists think vaccines are mind control drugs or attempting to kill them.

Look at histyory, tyou stupid cunts. The Spanish flu killed tens of millions back in 1918. That was before people traveled as much as they do today. Any one of you could be a carrier or this flu, and you think you're being clever by railing against it.

It may not matter if you die, but why spread you hate and madness to others?

[eyehear10]

Good. Don't take it. Natural selection in action.

[Bear5177]

LMAO. Indeed! Let the moron idiots that are truly delusional decide not to take the flu vaccine and allow nature to "thin the herd" so-to-speak.

[cheeseaura]

Enjoy your h1n1 shot with mercury preservatives.

[Bear5177]

Mercury was in use in antiseptics, ointments, topical creams, and many over-the-counter drugs right up until the late 20th century. I don't recall seeing news stories about millions or even thousands of Americans dieing from those applications.

The "h1n1 shot" also contains monosodium glutamate. Are you going to stop eating foods that contain that now? Enjoy not eating any packaged or processed food from here on.

[cheeseaura]

monosodium glutamate is avoidable, so that's fine. Not to mention most quality meat is devoid of it entirely, so that's fine.

As mercury preservatives continue to be used, or contaminate 2/3's of high fructose corn syrup products, the cases of mercury based problems continue to arise.

The reason you're not recalling news stories is because you have to actually look into it rather then being told.

[voyeurdug]

Limbaugh & company are - as usual - attacking something that's a figment of their imaginations. Strongly recommended is not in the same quadrant with required. Required is what they're attacking. Why does anyone listen to them?

[waltermh111]

even stupider is his reason for not taking it.

He admits its only because she is recommending it to him

So hes continueing the conservative policy of being the party of NO.

No rational reasoning needed, just the need to oppose.

I didnt like the polls either, why do health care people not want to take it?

They feel its mild and can handle things?

Rational worry, or paranoia, or religion?

Nurses arent know it alls about medicine and many even smoke, even those that work in cancer centers

[LeGioNoFZioN]

thats why America is backwards, more of you are scared of h1n1 than regular flu, even though many more die yearly from regular flu than h1n1. only around 11% of all Canadians intend on getting the flu shot. Canucks are smarter, we already have universal health care, and shun the flu vaccine.

[GreenEnergy2112]

Would it be wrong to pray for Rush Limbaugh to die from H1N1 flu ? Yes very wrong, but I'm just sayin'

[chadbro97]

wow, so mature of Limbaugh. You said I have to but I won't! That will show you!

I do understand that he is excersising his right to do what he wants, but this is rediculous. This puts other people at risk

[LeGioNoFZioN]

but if you and other people take the vaccine how are you at any risk ?

[chadbro97]

no i was unclear. I meant convincing other people not to take the vaccine puts them at risk. Of getting the flu. I mean, him not taking it puts others at risk too, because if he gets it he can spread it, but it's his own right to refuse to get it.

[LeGioNoFZioN]

but if everyone does it but him, why is that an issue ?

[chadbro97]

well not everyone will do it, because many people aren't getting the swine flu vaccine. So if he was around unvaccinated unninfected people and he had it he could spread it

[LeGioNoFZioN]

so then the only people with whoes lives he is playing is other people like him who won't have the flu shot ? Doesn't it seem like you should just let him be, if he is wrong he may die, then you have one less conservative to worry about ?

[chadbro97]

well other unvaccinated people, but also the vaccine isn't 100% effective. like I said before, it is his right to not get it. nevertheless, he is putting other people's health at risk by not getting vaccinated. Seeing as I don't want all conservatives to die, I do care if he puts other people's lifes at stake. But he can do what he wants, that is the beautifil thing about America

[LeGioNoFZioN]

well put

[junkforkaryn]

"serious static".. a new name for limbaugh! as someone still recovering from the "pig virus" (another name for rush), i can tell you folks, this is the mother of all flu viruses. unless you want to sit around for 2 weeks responding to youtube videos, you and your family need to get vaccinated to ward off this wicked stuff!

[throwback2now]

I didn't realize Rush was a health care worker.

[verstwo2]

I hope all of Limbaugh's listeners die from H1N1. That would be ironic justice.

[revolutionUSA2009]

Hilarious! The heading in all caps and up for most of the story, "SCREW YOU, MS. SEBELIUS!"