Discussion for article #228794
Good point, Guttie. Except thereâs a bright line that connects the preparation and response to Katrina to Bushâs priorities and staffing decisions.
And Bernie Sanders stated on the Sunday shows that Bush and Cheneyâs illegal war in Iraq is directly linked to the creation of ISIS and the current situation in the Middle East.
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My takeâŚGutfeld doesnât understand rhyme so can misunderstanding reason be far behind?
The great cable nooz unmentionable? Ratings sliding across the channels from a handful of semi-non compos mentis sunroom viewers to a scattering of souls still capable of maneuvering their wheeled scooter down the hallâŚ
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Ah! Such magnanimity! Two (?) cases (?) nationwide?
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If not the CDC, exactly who the fuck else can be trusted to contain ebola???!!!
when it comes to ebola shrill, the stoopid is as thick as soup molassesâŚand btw, CNN is as horrible as FOX.
o.m.g.
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Overall, Fox News has taken quite a bit of flak from the science community in recent weeks for its coverage of the Ebola outbreak.
They donât need to take flak. What they need to take is sustained bombardment with armor-piercing high explosives.
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I have already seen (on the looney-toons reich-wing web sites) people referring to it as: âOBOLAâ and claiming it is a âsinisterâ attempt to âinfect White Americaâ with a dastardly AFRICAN DISEASE as Obamaâs revenge on âWhiteyâ for Slavery (and even more insane ideas.)
Expect FOX and Rush and Huckster to start calling it âOBOLAâ within the week as they crank up the Fear-of-Black-People meme in the election run-up.
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The chyron in the screen cap is all that one needs to know as to whom Fox is blaming for ebola.
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Donât worry - the free market will take care of it.
Remember, the Black Death had a bright side - Europe had full employment for centuries afterwards.
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Every right wing nut knows that all you have to do is pray hard enough to Jesus that you donât get ebola.
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That rosy outlook on the plague must be part of that new proposed AP curriculum, no?
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They need to be taken off the air.
That is going to take them right to 1950âs KKK territory.
âring-a-round-a-rosies
Pocket full of poseys
Ashes! Ashes! we all fall down.â
-Reminds me of the MontyPython and the HolyGrailâŚ
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Actually, if you read various histories about the plague and its aftermath, it did result in a shortage of labor to work the farms and emerging industries. Those workers who survived could demand higher wages and get out of poverty. This is not to discount the horrible ravages of the plague on people of all economic groups, especially the poor. The plague also fanned anti-Semitism, with rumors that the Jews had poisoned the drinking water to cause the plague.
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You have to understand that, among authoritarian followers, only recognized authorities may hold an opinion, which the followers must embrace as a matter of faith. The authority does not need to be a subject matter expert. But they need to be a bona fide authoritarian leader. This is why Republicans will believe anything that comes out of Dick Cheneyâs mouth, whether demonstrably false balderdash or not. No other subject matter expertise will ever, ever, ever trump this âconservativeâ reality. It is built into their epistemology. Just because you are a disease cowboy for the CDC who has spent years researching Ebola or other filo-viruses, doesnât mean you know jack shit about the subject. Dick Cheney will tell you what to believe and not to believe.
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They need to be taken off the air.
Or regulated or something. Why, week after week, is a medium of expression once regulated to prevent exactly what happens now and once profitableâŚa medium that pretends a slavish response to market forcesâŚallowed to foment pointless public discord under the guise of âinformedâ news-related and political discussion without even engaging in reporting news and with declining audiences that would fit inside neighborhood movie theaters?
âWe are both guilty of this, and we should probably avoid blaming people for tragedy.â
Good point. Intellectual viewers realize that blaming a political party for cutting funding for emergency health services is exactly the same as blaming the President of the United States for personally enabling the spread of this disease.
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âRepublicans should probably stop telling insane lies, and Democrats, by the same token, should stop telling the truth.â
Pretty much the essence of the state of bi-partisanship and objectivity in MSM world.
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All so unexplainable say the pundits and the corporations and North KoreaâŚ