Discussion: The Media Is Now Convinced That Ebola Will Doom Obama's Presidency

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What pisses me off about ebola coverage is that the press makes nothing of how the GOP claimed just last month that Obama talking about ebola was just a ploy to defect from Benghazi and ISIL. Nobody is making a stink about how the effort to engage the DoD in suppressing ebola in Africa was delayed a month by the ignoramus from Oklahoma Jim Inhofe. The GOP and its propaganda arm at FOX has mocked Obama’s concern and urgency about ebola until we had the first case in the US and now the second. They have no credibility.

And honestly, the cowardice and ignorance of the ebola coverage shames me as an American. What a bunch of weak and stupid people we have become.

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Soon Ebola will be out of the headlines just as all the other Obama’s “katrina”. Does anybody remember H1N1 epidemic 4 years ago? Nope. And that has killed far more people then Ebola.

Obama will be remembered for Obamacare.

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Couldn’t agree more with OregonActivist. And not just the initial fear mongering from the media but, specially after the important unrevealed details emerging from this week’s nurse’s union conference call, the way media employees of the 6 anti union media giants are cherry-picking this information if reporting it at all.
Clearly, for-profit medicine and their political tools understand the danger rationality poses to their political and economic interests.

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The Media Is Now Convinced That Ebola Will Doom Obama’s Presidency

As if it might??? Seriously???

Did you see the nurse from Dallas Presbyterian on the news this morning? She voiced concerns over the handling of the first victim and that she had to wear three pairs of gloves but that her neck, eyes etc. were completely exposed?

Also, she is not unionized. Seems that in Tejas, in this hospital at least, the nurses are not unionized and she fears for her job after coming on the air to talk about this.

As for the media coverage I’m still quaking in my boots over Legionnaires disease. As if the media today is any more responsible than the media of the nineteen seventies…

Fear sells don’t you know?

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“The Ebola crisis in the United States has become an anchor threatening to sink the Obama presidency.”

WTF! 2 cases of Ebola = “crisis”???

“Get A Grip: Ebola Is Not Going To Define Obama’s Presidency”

Of course not. What we’re witnessing is self-aggrandizing bobblehead pundits and conceited partisan propagandists trying to be the one who defines Obama’s presidency. It has nothing to do with reality, they just want to be the one who manages to throw the biggest clump of feces at him that also manages to stick. It’s the “I said it first, I SAID IT FIRST” syndrome run amok and nothing more. It’s more about themselves and their narcissistic internal dialogues than about the facts present in the external world. Barbaro is a fucking twit and The Hill and Daily Beast are just another couple run of the mill nontroversy sensationalization machines with a severe conservative bent to them.

Anyone who thinks ONE dude getting on a plane in Liberia with ebola and coming here to die in one of our hospitals is a presidential failure akin to Bush’s failure to respond to Katrina effectively while at least 1,833 died and 400,000 people were displaced from their homes due to the damage and flooding…anyone who thinks that is an outright fucking crazy person who belongs in a home. Period.

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Dear Press Types: It’s OK to just write facts and forego opinions and speculation. I seem to remember long ago when I was in school, that was what we were taught journalism was.

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As a chemical operator 1st thing you learn is HAZ-MAT training. When the hospital 1st became aware of EBOLA they should immediately went in emergency mode by: 1) Inform hosp. admin. asap 2) at that point admin. should have the hosp. on medical alert 2) They should have isolated all personnel who have or maybe came in contact w/ the patient in isolation from the gen. population of the hosp. 3) All emergency personnel & equip, train in emergency response should have taken charge 4) Hosp. admin. should have notify the state (Gov. Perry) 5) At this point Perry should have put all 1st HAZ-MAT responders on full alert 6) All reports, diagnosis, & procedures reported the federal govt. (CDC, NIH) ASAP 7) All hosp. personnel should have to been instructed to follow emergency procedures ASAP.
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Brass tacks: This is the MSM trying to help the GOP/Teatrolls take the Senate because they think it will make a better story for this election cycle AND will give them better nontroversy for the next 2 years. No ifs, ands or buts…the MSM is desperately trying to ruin Obama and the Dems and get themselves some even more broken gov’t to report breathlessly about.

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Goobernor Perry do whaaaaa?

Other than cut their funding I mean…

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But we’ll always have #Benghazi.

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Why would it??

Because the Chicken Little News Network… where the sky is always falling! (attribution unknown), says so?

Because hysteria drives ratings?

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Wasn’t Perry gallivanting around Europe this week?

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If he was then I hope they put him in a HazMat suit and FedTex his butt back to quarantine in Tejas!

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No, Ebola won’t define Obama’s presidency. But lightning will http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/12/us/colorado-lightning-strike/index.html 2 dead in 2 days vs 1 dead in a month. What has Obama done about this crisis? Nothing…

He is sympathizing with the lightning bolts because Barack means “lightning” in Hebrew. Coincidence? I think not…

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Hah!

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I could not decide which one was the best fit for today’s fit.

You decide!

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Previous the U.S. have handled 3 EBOLA patients w/o incident. Where the hospital & the FEDERAL GOVT. worked hand in hand. Who did their job w/o hysteria or panic to the citizens in the state. But yet, when it came to TX we have a privatize hospital who chosen to forego federal regulations which was bless by the incompetent governor (Perry). Who seem fit to take a vacation to Europe (UK) to give a ‘Amer. Foreign Policy’ speech. Who sent a message “he’ll be leaving for home on the next day.” A Amer. media who have their head so far up Pres. Obama ass that they lost all objectivity on how to report the news w/o false drama. With the mentality of a child that only look for blame & point fingers.
Perry failure have been well document, W. TX explosion that killed 11 ppl. - NO REGULATION, Wildfires out of control - Cause Rick Perry decided to lay-off the fire fighters at the height of the DRY SEASON - extensive damaged, Immig. border so-called crisis which gov. Perry decided to put the Nat’l Guard on the border w/o a clear mission - cause $$$ million on the taxpayer dime. Now the media is trying tell you Obama BAD, Perry GOOD… WHAT A JOKE…

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Exactly, a total FU, which the Amer. media seem to turn a blind eyed.

It is always interesting to watch the hysteria build. The patten is so predictable you can set your watch by it. Three people have gotten sick and the end is near. Until the next story comes along, or people get bored.

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