Discussion: Conservatives: We Just Can't Trust What Obama Tells Us About Ebola

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The ‘Fairly Unbalanced’ FOXbot freakshow’s Cons and Baggers, as well as the Rightie Radio Rubes, are blaming “lie-buuurals” and “Obummer” for the anxiety and fear surrounding Ebola (That’s O-bola at FUX News) in this country…~gasp!~…I’m shocked and must take to my fainting couch!

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Conservatives only know that ebola comes from Africa and sort of sounds like “Obama”. Anything that comes from Africa is bad to a right winger unless we brought it over in the hold of a ship to work for free.

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So Rupert Murdock and Roger Ailes have finally decided to blame EVERYTHING on Obama.

It would be sad if the people that watch the Fox “News” Entertainment channel had actual thinking ability and realized how stupid Fox News Entertainment sounds.

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And while the right continues their irrational fearmongering, here in Kansas Orman is polling 47 - 42 over Pat Roberts… keep it up boys, even though it’s not working anymore.

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ISIL!! EBOLA!! OBAMA!! BENGHAZI!!

[Edit: It’s significant that the message board software refused to post that, telling me it was nonsense, and asking me to post something less giberish-y, more descriptive.]

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Seem to remember another time in our history and there was a deadly virus around and don’t remember conservative freak outs:

"Reagan’s Legacy

Hank

Plante is an Emmy-winning television journalist who worked for CBS in
San Francisco for nearly 25 years.  He was a pioneer in the coverage of
HIV/AIDS in the early days of the epidemic.  For years in the 1980s,
Hank reported on the disease almost nightly, while at the same time
President Reagan was completely silent on the issue. 
President Reagan would have turned 100 this month.  Hank said he owed it to all the friends he lost to AIDS to write this piece.
This month’s
national remembrance of Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday is focusing
largely on his accomplishments.  But no look back at the nation’s 40th
president would be complete without remembering his inattention to the
AIDS epidemic, which arose on his watch.
Consider that Mayor Dianne
Feinstein’s AIDS budget for the City of San Francisco was bigger than
President Reagan’s AIDS budget was for the entire nation.  That was true
for two years in-a-row in the mid-1980’s.  In fact, Reagan’s proposed
federal budget for 1986 actually called for an 11 percent reduction in
AIDS spending:  from $95 million in 1985, down to $85.5 million in 1986.

No wonder it was left to San
Francisco gay leaders, politicians and medical professionals to forge
their own way through the early days of the disease, forming what became
known as “The San Francisco Model” for effectively dealing with it, a
model which would be replicated world-wide.
The
disease that we now call AIDS was first identified 30 years ago in
medical journals in 1981 – President Reagan’s first year in office.  It
quickly took hold in the media and in the national consciousness.  Yet
it wasn’t until May 31, 1987 that President Reagan would give his first
major address on AIDS.  It was at an outdoor speech in Washington
organized by amFAR, the American Foundation for AIDS Research. 
Elizabeth Taylor, a lifelong friend of Ron and Nancy Reagan, persuaded
the President to be there.  On the exact night that he gave that speech,
saying the word “AIDS” for the first time in public, 21,000 Americans
had already died from the disease.
The Reagans’ close friend Rock
Hudson was one of them, having died from AIDS almost two years before
Reagan’s speech.  Hudson had been a frequent guest in the Reagan White
House, even during the time that he appeared gaunt and frail.  Nancy
Reagan later recalled one such occasion, in which Hudson told her he had
picked up a bug in Israel.  But even Hudson’s ordeal didn’t seem to
shake Reagan out of his lethargy.
President Reagan did have people
around him who were more engaged in dealing with AIDS, notably his
surgeon general, C. Everett Koop, and Dr. Anthony Fauci at the National
Institutes of Health.  But in the office where Harry Truman said the
buck stops, the silence on AIDS continues to be a baffling part of the
Reagan legacy.
Special for The Examiner & San Francisco AIDS Foundation"

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This is the final push – the final offensive to drive scared old white people to the polls, even though they may be disgusted with the process (or the politicians, one…), and pull the lever for the Daddy Party. “Don’t Think: Just VOTE!” That’s their motto.

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Spain has a conservative government AND Ebola, so I guess that doesn’t work either.

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Yes the people who crapped in the pool are bitching about the chlorine again.

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They should have kept their plastic tarps and duct tape handy.

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Of course, to the depraved Republican Cons and Righties in Bonzo Ronnie’s administration, HIV/Aids was “killing all the right people.” Their deafening silence on that specific national health crisis was to be expected.

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To quote Albert Camus from The Plague: “Stupidity has a knack of getting its way, as we would see if we weren’t always so wrapped up in ourselves.”

The Stupid has taken over this country.

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If Obama dropped a daisy cutter on an infected village like in the movie “Outbreak,” these tools would be pissed that a Republican President didn’t get to drop 100 daisy cutters indiscriminately.

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The eight most unamerican, unchristian, unpatriotic conservatives in the land, unanimous in their belief that the American people are unexceptional, ignorant, and gullible.

To top it all off, each one of the eight in fact considers himself or herself more right than the other seven.

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It is sad how the always manly, courageous (well at least to hear them tell it ) and gun totin’ right has become such a group of chicken little, hide under the bed, pants wetters.

Sad!? what am I saying it is hysterical :wink:

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We have a number of these SOWP in my community.
Most are – superficially at least – educated with BA’s and MA’s, but are of the mindset of self-described “conservatives”. They watch Fox faithfully and nearly exclusively to have their worldview affirmed daily.
Long ago, I gave up on ever having a rational, evidence -based conversation with any of them.

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I can’t decide whether the conservatives’ reaction to this imminently controllable (in the US) public health threat is opportunism or rank cowardice. For now I’m gonna go with the former without completely discounting the latter.

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Last week my granddaughter came down with a cold and my wife said honey it must be Obama fault. I asked her where she got that crazy idea and she told me that the remote was stuck on Fox Noise.

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RINOs! As a true conservative, I believe our government needs to stay out of this ebola thing. Let the free market decide. You die from ebola? Sorry, that’s because you didn’t pull yourself up by your bootstraps and heal yourself quick enough! What, you want a government handout or something?

Seriously though, there really must be 11 dimensions. How else could you possibly explain the mental knots these fuckers tie themselves into?

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