"Left will politicise Ebola like they did with AIDS" - Rush Limbaugh

There are few things more offensive for someone who's HIV+, to be accused of using the disease for political gain. It's offensive now, let alone back in Reagan's day. He was a fuckin prick to gays, didn't give a shit about them dropping like flies. Thought it was god's wrath and all. Apparently to criticise Reagan's response to the AIDS epidemic in the 80's was to "politicise" it.

Now US wacko Rush Limbaugh has asserted that the left will use Ebola like they used AIDS as a political tool against the right. Man this guy needs to be on medication.

“Have you ever heard of AIDS?” Limbaugh asked. “You think that wasn’t political? One of the most intense efforts to undermine support for Ronald Reagan was hatched through AIDS.” 

“I mean, the left politicizes everything. They look at everything within the realm of whether or not it can move their agenda forward.” 

After Reagan’s death in 2004, reporter Alan White wrote in 2004 that “[h]istory may ultimately judge his presidency by the thousands who have and will die of AIDS.” 

After the very first cases of AIDS were confirmed in 1981, Reagan waited until over 36,000 Americans had been diagnosed before finally addressing the epidemic in 1987. 

Meanwhile, he reportedly took advice about the disease from evangelicals like the Rev. Jerry Falwell, who said that “AIDS is the wrath of God upon homosexuals.” Then-White House communication director Pat Buchanan even repeated the sentiment, saying that it was “nature’s revenge on gay men.” 

Dr. C. Everett Koop, who was Reagan’s surgeon general, later said that he was cut off from participating in AIDS discussions for five years. Koop said that White House officials believed that AIDS primarily affected the homosexual community, and Reagan’s advisers “took the stand, ‘They are only getting what they justly deserve.’” more