Hahaha! Great catch.
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How long will it be before FOX and fiendsâ start calling it âŚwait for itâŚwait for itâŚO-bola?
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TPMâs headline itself is Bioterrorism.
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The old âSome have suggestedâŚâ gambit seems eternally efficacious for those inclined to use it.
âFox Newsâ is a terrorism nation.
We already knew that.
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Everything with Fox Not Really News comes down to that Turr guy. You know, Warren Turr.
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I get frantic emails from relatives all the time about such scenarios. By now we should be a quivering mass of fear drenched protoplasm. But still, Ebola is a real candidate for weaponization esp. if the deliverer is ready to die. Iâm sure the nut case extremists have salivated over such an attack.
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Fox News in general:
Weâre all going to die! Vote Republican.
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Weirdest thing is, if a Republican were made President tomorrow all those âweâre all gonna die!â flavored emails would disappear and the entire population of the Right would be dancing a âfreedom!â jig⌠until another Democrat takes office.
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Chris Wallace via TPM: I also suppose if youâre going to do a bioterror weapon, Ebola isnât the most effective one.
Disease is a crap weapon for terrorism. Theyâre good weapons for genocide (c.f., the Incas), but thatâs about it. A terrorist wants massive death, and he wants it done rapidly, so it makes the news cycle with a high body count - bombs and gas. Disease takes days or weeks to incubate, longer to spread, and even longer to spread widely enough to make the news.
Foxâs fear-mongering on this topic isnât just shameful - itâs demonstrably stupid.
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Precious, bodily, fluidsâŚ
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âO.P.E. ⌠P.O.E or some combination thereofâ
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Duct tape and plastic sheeting anyone?
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I found myself explaining to my young daughter that before 9-11 all that was on TV News was the missing girl who had an affair with the congressman and shark attacks. There would literally by breaking news showing a helicopter following some shark around. This Ebola coverage is feeling a little like shark attacks now. The media doesnât even care about ISIS anymore.
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For it to be a candidate for weaponization, it would have to make the rather large genetic leap from being transferred by body fluids to being airborne. If youâre going to set up a Level 5 biolab and recruit microbiologist who specialize in gene splicing in order to genengineer an airborne version of ebola in the misguided belief that somehow a highly lethal airborne virus wonât circle back and kill your own people before the disease burns itself out, then it would be far easier, and more sensible, to refer to the published work on how to rebuild the Spanish Flu virus and set it free.
Granted, âSpanish Fluâ doesnât sound as terrifying as âEbolaâ or âAnthraxâ or âBubonic Plague,â but the fact is that we were only a few weeks a way to a general societal collapse by the time it burned out in 1919. In several American cities they were digging mass graves and burying people in them without coffins or services. By the time the pandemic ended, it had transmitted itself to 30-50% of the human population with a fatality rate of 10-20% Ebola? Pfft.
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Clearly the problem is Texas and Rick Perry who isnât anywhere near the Ebolas as it turns out.
The southern border that allows in all shapes, sizes, variations and colors of terrorists is the Texan border. Plus, they lay down welcome mats in the sagebrush to greet the infected but not showing yet, marijuana bale carrying, job takers-not makers bio-lingual terror carriers.
Texas is the problem, no doubt. Their pigment free carcasses are just too susceptible to everything and they canât fend for themselves. They want Obamaâs help but are only willing to pay him $7.25 an hour for it and no bennies of course, plus he has to denounce his own Government and wear red-white and blue teabags, thatâs all. And that will fix it and Rick Perry can stay in Iowa or the middle of no-where (same-same) forever, because what does he do anyways.
Texans, really proud but incapable of doing anything for themselves, that makes Texas sense I guess?
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Oh, their talking mutation, I forget who because I could give an airborne fuck but that leap has been made.
Faux thinks of everything, at least as far as the devious stuff goes. It will mutate and it will get to El Paso and it will learn Spanish and then BLAM!!! Airebola1nH169 will complete the Kenyanizingican process, partially through Air Jordans shoes, as it walks also too, towards WORLD DOMINATION!!!
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How the mindâs of the paranoid right-wingers work!
Good point. And Fox KNOWS about this paranoid nonsense floating around the ether and is cynically and irresponsibly exploiting it. Theyâre giving their viewers what they like to hear. Fox knows that people with such a world view need constant affirmation.
Mass ignorance propagated by Fox is a much greater threat
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