Breaking: Ebola Test Negative for Dallas County Deputy (Chuck Johnson Wrong Again)

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The test results are in for that sheriff’s deputy who was hospitalized for possible Ebola symptoms — and as we suspected, he does not have Ebola.

UPDATE: DALLAS — The Texas Department of State Health Services says negative results were returned from a lab in Austin Thursday, indicating that a Dallas County deputy does not have the Ebola virus.

When it was reported that this deputy had been hospitalized, our pal the smear merchant celebrated the news with a series of self-congratulatory tweets about his powers of prediction:

Wrong again, Chuck.

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1 b.d.  Oct 9, 2014 1:33:56pm

I am very happy for the Deputy and all of his loved ones.

Hopefully that moron writer will fade away as the folks who have been rallying to his defense realize that he is full of sh*t and not worth defending.

2 Bubblehead II  Oct 9, 2014 1:36:30pm

re: #1 b.d.

I am very happy for the Deputy and all of his loved ones.

Hopefully that moron writer will fade away as the folks who have been rallying to his defense realize that he is full of sh*t and not worth defending.

That will be the day they start serving ice water in hell.

3 lawhawk  Oct 9, 2014 1:36:43pm

The symptoms that also mimic that of influenza and other diseases completely unrelated to Ebola. The key to getting Ebola is coming into direct contact with someone who has active symptoms of Ebola.

Also key - having been to West Africa and coming into contact with someone who had Ebola there.

You don’t just get Ebola out of thin air (though that’s another one of the crank theories he’s been pushing - that the disease has mutated and is now airborne).

I am working on a page about all this, should be done later tonight (EDT).

4 goddamnedfrank  Oct 9, 2014 1:39:16pm
5 goddamnedfrank  Oct 9, 2014 1:39:46pm
6 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 9, 2014 1:39:58pm

I predict that Charles C Johnson will drown in his own vomit.

7 jaunte  Oct 9, 2014 1:40:21pm

I predict that many people will continue to spread suffering with Ebola paranoia.

8 Kragar  Oct 9, 2014 1:42:30pm

Got a live one:

9 lawhawk  Oct 9, 2014 1:42:58pm

re: #4 goddamnedfrank

10 Editor in Chief  Oct 9, 2014 1:43:21pm

re: #3 lawhawk

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The symptoms that also mimic that of influenza and other diseases completely unrelated to Ebola. The key to getting Ebola is coming into direct contact with someone who has active symptoms of Ebola.

Also key - having been to West Africa and coming into contact with someone who had Ebola there.

You don’t just get Ebola out of thin air (though that’s another one of the crank theories he’s been pushing - that the disease has mutated and is now airborne).

I am working on a page about all this, should be done later tonight (EDT).

Love how he pulls the psychic trick of making a general statement and then claiming more specificity after the fact.

11 BlueGrl21  Oct 9, 2014 1:43:37pm

I am not on Twitter because I can’t take it. However, I am counting on all of you to give Chuckles absolute HELL for this so I can live vicariously through the tweets posted here.

Unleash the flying monkeys.

12 The Mountain That Blogs  Oct 9, 2014 1:44:25pm

re: #3 lawhawk

The symptoms that also mimic that of influenza and other diseases completely unrelated to Ebola.

You know what’s gonna be awesome? All the people with the flu who happen to have been to West Africa in the previous month and show up in hospitals with fevers.

13 Charles Johnson  Oct 9, 2014 1:44:47pm
14 Charles Johnson  Oct 9, 2014 1:45:00pm
15 ObserverArt  Oct 9, 2014 1:45:14pm

Made this up and posted it this morning in the overnight thread. Looks like this will be a good topic to post it up again. Just say SHUT UPChuck!

SHUT UPChuck…you are a danger to everyone and yourself!

(Click for full image)

16 Editor in Chief  Oct 9, 2014 1:45:24pm

re: #11 BlueGrl21

I am not on Twitter because I can’t take it. However, I am counting on all of you to give Chuckles absolute HELL for this so I can live vicariously through the tweets posted here.

Unleash the flying monkeys.

Can’t.

I’m currently constipated.

17 The Ghost of a Flea (R)  Oct 9, 2014 1:45:29pm

I predict that eventually, someone else will get the infectious disease that someone already has.

Future Psychic!

18 goddamnedfrank  Oct 9, 2014 1:45:33pm

re: #9 lawhawk

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19 The Ghost of a Flea (R)  Oct 9, 2014 1:46:18pm

Shoot the wall, then draw the bullseye.

20 Editor in Chief  Oct 9, 2014 1:46:35pm

re: #18 goddamnedfrank

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Just a lizard.

21 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 9, 2014 1:46:59pm

UpChuck retweeted this.

Except that the deputy didn’t have the “mild symptoms”, not even the fever.

22 Editor in Chief  Oct 9, 2014 1:46:59pm

re: #19 The Ghost of a Flea

Shoot the wall, then draw the bullseye.

Zactly.

23 allegro  Oct 9, 2014 1:49:33pm

re: #21 Backwoods_Sleuth

UpChuck retweeted this.

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Except that the deputy didn’t have the “mild symptoms”, not even the fever.

He had a belly ache. Yanno, gas.

24 nsmith25  Oct 9, 2014 1:51:00pm

So, you might remember that in the KY Senate race, Alison Lundergan Grimes appeared on Kentucky Sports Radio. Mitch McConnell was also to have appeared on the show, did not do so until after taking a hit publicly for it showed up on the show for what has been described as a brutal interview.

Flash forward. Grimes just met with the editorial board of the Louisville Courier-Journal for a Q and A. Team Mitch…

25 Ace-o-aces  Oct 9, 2014 1:55:37pm
26 Testy Toad T  Oct 9, 2014 1:55:41pm

A little bit of basic thought might have saved CCJ this particular ignominy. We know it’s really kinda hard to be infected with Ebola, and we know that it’s fluid-contact-only.

A sheriff’s deputy is going to damned well know not to stick his finger in a puddle of blood and lick it. He’s a first responder. Training is a thing.

On the other hand, basic thought…. yeah never mind.

27 Justanotherhuman  Oct 9, 2014 1:55:56pm

Chuckles and his cohorts are making me ill…

So are the TV networks who kept pounding the “symptoms” the deputy was suffering, and am glad to know he is perfectly fine except for a little GI distress.

28 goddamnedfrank  Oct 9, 2014 1:57:23pm
29 Justanotherhuman  Oct 9, 2014 1:57:46pm

Why don’t they just make an I-pad phone?

Sources: Google this month expects to release its largest smartphone, with 5.9-inch screen - @WSJ
read more on blogs.wsj.com

30 Ace-o-aces  Oct 9, 2014 1:58:34pm
31 calochortus  Oct 9, 2014 2:00:15pm

re: #30 Ace-o-aces

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Of course they all have “criminal records.” He just makes them up, and there it is.

32 Jack Burton  Oct 9, 2014 2:00:40pm

re: #30 Ace-o-aces

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Predicted Response:

That thug was never caught but we all know he was up to no good well before the incident.

33 aagcobb  Oct 9, 2014 2:01:15pm

re: #29 Justanotherhuman

Why don’t they just make an I-pad phone?

Sources: Google this month expects to release its largest smartphone, with 5.9-inch screen - @WSJ
read more on blogs.wsj.com

Wouldn’t that just be a skype ap?

34 allegro  Oct 9, 2014 2:02:44pm

re: #30 Ace-o-aces

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Michael Brown didn’t have a criminal record.

35 Dr Lizardo  Oct 9, 2014 2:02:56pm

re: #9 lawhawk

@ChuckCJohnson you do realize that vague symptoms, fever, chills, weakness can be the flu, which can start in Oct? cdc.gov …

Your Tweet reply to Chuckie got me thinking - we are indeed coming up on flu season, and IIRC, the early symptoms of Ebola are strikingly similar to the flu.

Which means there’s gonna be a whole helluva lot of freaking out in the not-too-distant future.

36 Skip Intro  Oct 9, 2014 2:05:36pm

re: #4 goddamnedfrank

Assholes like Chuck are never wrong, they’re just early.

37 Jay C  Oct 9, 2014 2:06:20pm

Ebola jitters seem to be way more contagious than the disease itself: just watching the local (NYC) news about a wildcat strike by airline cleaning staff at JFK Airport - picketing: claiming that they aren’t being either protected against, or educated about, possible Ebola contact(s). According to their signs, they have to deal with “vomit, blood, urine and feces” as part of their jobs Really makes you feel good about air travel nowadays…

38 allegro  Oct 9, 2014 2:06:53pm

re: #36 Skip Intro

Assholes like Chuck are never wrong, they’re just early.

That’s what his wife said. :D

39 Kragar  Oct 9, 2014 2:07:01pm
40 allegro  Oct 9, 2014 2:07:40pm

re: #37 Jay C

Ebola jitters seem to be way more contagious than the disease itself: just watching the local (NYC) news about a wildcat strike by airline cleaning staff at JFK Airport - picketing: claiming that they aren’t being either protected against, or educated about, possible Ebola contact(s). According to their signs, they have to deal with “vomit, blood, urine and feces” as part of their jobs Really makes you feel good about air travel nowadays…

They, however, have a valid point.

41 Iwouldprefernotto  Oct 9, 2014 2:07:54pm

re: #30 Ace-o-aces

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So it’s ok to murder people as long as they have a criminal record. Fuck him. Fuck Him Fuck Him.

On the plus side I want updings for this picI don’t always drink Diet Coke, but when I do it’s with Charles

42 Bubblehead II  Oct 9, 2014 2:08:09pm

re: #35 Dr Lizardo

Your Tweet reply to Chuckie got me thinking - we are indeed coming up on flu season, and IIRC, the early symptoms of Ebola are strikingly similar to the flu.

Which means there’s gonna be a whole helluva lot of freaking out in the not-too-distant future.

Idaho has already recorded two flu related deaths.

43 Skip Intro  Oct 9, 2014 2:08:19pm

re: #11 BlueGrl21

I am not on Twitter because I can’t take it. However, I am counting on all of you to give Chuckles absolute HELL for this so I can live vicariously through the tweets posted here.

Unleash the flying monkeys.

People like Chuck love getting hell because they live on attention. As one insane owner of a seedy RW website likes to say, “if you’re taking flak, you’re over the target”.

44 A Mom Anon  Oct 9, 2014 2:08:20pm

re: #35 Dr Lizardo

Maybe this will keep a lot of paranoid assholes home for awhile. That would be a bonus I could live with.

45 The Ghost of a Flea (R)  Oct 9, 2014 2:08:44pm

Every black teenager has a criminal record, but there’s a politically correct conspiracy to never release them.

But Chuck and his 150 award-winning model rockets knows better.

46 I Stand With Big Sodomy!  Oct 9, 2014 2:09:22pm

re: #39 Kragar

47 Ace-o-aces  Oct 9, 2014 2:10:17pm

re: #41 Iwouldprefernotto

So it’s ok to murder people as long as they have a criminal record. Fuck him. Fuck Him Fuck Him.

It’s very obvious at this point that CCJ just looks for the criminal record of any black person he sees on TV. I mean really, why would you look up the record of someone whose relative just died of Ebola?

48 The Ghost of a Flea (R)  Oct 9, 2014 2:11:07pm

re: #43 Skip Intro

People like Chuck love getting hell because they live on attention. As one insane owner of a seedy RW website likes to say, “if you’re taking flak, you’re over the target”.

If you’re taking flak, you’re over a location with anti-aircraft.

No guarantees it’s actually the target, or even a target.

49 Skip Intro  Oct 9, 2014 2:11:13pm

re: #30 Ace-o-aces

Neither did Michael Brown, despite Despicable Chuck’s best efforts to prove otherwise. Liars gotta lie. It gets them followers.

50 Justanotherhuman  Oct 9, 2014 2:12:34pm

re: #47 Ace-o-aces

It’s very obvious at this point that CCJ just looks for the criminal record of any black person he sees on TV. I mean really, why would you look up the record of someone whose relative just died of Ebola?

Because at his core he’s just a run of the mill racist?

51 Ace-o-aces  Oct 9, 2014 2:12:43pm

re: #45 The Ghost of a Flea

Every black teenager has a criminal record, but there’s a politically correct conspiracy to never release them.

But Chuck and his 150 award-winning model rockets knows better.

His journalism award winning rockets that he built when he was 6 years old with his 150 IQ and flew to about 4 different countries he had to bribe customs to get into with his wife…who totally exists.

52 allegro  Oct 9, 2014 2:14:21pm

re: #46 I Stand With Big Sodomy!

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That from the Palin crashed party?

53 nsmith25  Oct 9, 2014 2:15:07pm

re: #31 calochortus

Of course they all have “criminal records.” He just makes them up, and there it is.

Chris Rock:

“I was Born a Suspect…When I came out of my mothers womb, I was responsible for every crime in a three block radius.”

54 Skip Intro  Oct 9, 2014 2:15:17pm

re: #51 Ace-o-aces

His journalism award winning rockets that he built when he was 6 years old with his 150 IQ and flew to about 4 different countries he had to bribe customs to get into with his wife…who totally exists.

She’s every bit as real as Rush Limbaugh’s wife (who hasn’t been seen or heard from since 2010).

55 Justanotherhuman  Oct 9, 2014 2:15:28pm

Missouri state senator call for federal probe of fatal shooting of a black teen by a white St. Louis officer - @AP
read more on newpittsburghcourieronline.com

56 calochortus  Oct 9, 2014 2:17:14pm

re: #54 Skip Intro

She’s every bit as real as Rush Limbaugh’s wife (who hasn’t been seen or heard from since 2010).

Well if I were married to either of them, I wouldn’t want to admit it either.

57 Kragar  Oct 9, 2014 2:21:14pm
58 Lidane  Oct 9, 2014 2:21:50pm

Sorry for the OT, but this happened today:

59 Justanotherhuman  Oct 9, 2014 2:22:26pm

This is simple panic, people…

Passenger with ‘symptoms of Ebola’ sends Birmingham firefighters to airport in hazmat gear as precaution

al.com

Evidently Istanbul is in West Africa…

60 WhatEVs  Oct 9, 2014 2:22:48pm

re: #9 lawhawk

61 aagcobb  Oct 9, 2014 2:23:04pm

re: #35 Dr Lizardo

Your Tweet reply to Chuckie got me thinking - we are indeed coming up on flu season, and IIRC, the early symptoms of Ebola are strikingly similar to the flu.

Which means there’s gonna be a whole helluva lot of freaking out in the not-too-distant future.

Its Captain Trips all over again; the government is going to be burning massive piles of bodies all while engaing in denial, denial, denial. Does anyone have any real proof that there is anyone still actually alive in Dallas? Do you!?///

62 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Oct 9, 2014 2:23:44pm

re: #58 Lidane

Sorry for the OT, but this happened today:

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Would love to see both NiN and The Smiths get in. I read recently that Morissey is now battling cancer.

63 SteveMcGazi  Oct 9, 2014 2:24:05pm

re: #58 Lidane

Rock is Dead:(

64 I Stand With Big Sodomy!  Oct 9, 2014 2:24:18pm

re: #54 Skip Intro

Oh no. He’s married to a hot Asian girl. NOT AN UGLY ONE!
In fact, here is a wedding pic of her.

65 Justanotherhuman  Oct 9, 2014 2:24:26pm

re: #58 Lidane

Sorry for the OT, but this happened today:

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Mmm. Yes.

Youtube Video

66 Timothy Watson  Oct 9, 2014 2:25:36pm

What’s the deal with cell phones that vibrate so hard and loud I can fell (the person’s phone is sitting on a shared table) and hear them half a room away?

67 aagcobb  Oct 9, 2014 2:25:39pm

re: #42 Bubblehead II

Idaho has already recorded two flu related deaths.

ITS CAPTAIN TRIPS, THE DARK MAN’S COMING!!

68 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 9, 2014 2:26:01pm

I’m starting to believe that UpChuck is hoping to be named “Asshole of the Day” so he can add that to his tiny list of useless awards.

69 klys  Oct 9, 2014 2:26:16pm

You know, if Upchuck’s wife was out there vehemently defending him, I could see mocking her, but given that she hasn’t made herself a public figure, just had the misfortune of marrying an ass, I think there’s plenty of Upchuck’s shit to talk about that isn’t mocking her.

70 Eventual Carrion  Oct 9, 2014 2:26:20pm

re: #46 I Stand With Big Sodomy!

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I thought that was a picture of the Palin’s showing up at the party.

71 Kragar  Oct 9, 2014 2:27:04pm

re: #67 aagcobb

ITS CAPTAIN TRIPS, THE DARK MAN’S COMING!!

I can picture CCJ following Dim Jim around saying “My life for you!”

72 WhatEVs  Oct 9, 2014 2:28:30pm

re: #41 Iwouldprefernotto

Fuck him. Fuck Him Fuck Him.

Iwouldprefernotto ;-)

73 Rightwingconspirator  Oct 9, 2014 2:29:54pm

I’m planning an interesting public shoot (paid gig!) but I’m now concerned I might set off a disturbance. Lots of you guys have seen my photography of furnace fires, and the guys in the silver suits that work the furnaces and pour gallons of molten metals.

Anyway the plan is to wear the suit out in public to get some shots of the guy as a character that gets up, commutes on the Red Line or bus, goes to Starbucks for coffee etc. Like an ordinary guy. But in the suit.

I hope nobody has a haz mat suit ebola panic when we do this. Not the kind of notoriety we want. I don’t need LAPD or LASD on my ass for a paid gig.

74 WhatEVs  Oct 9, 2014 2:32:38pm

re: #66 Timothy Watson

What’s the deal with cell phones that vibrate so hard and loud I can fell (the person’s phone is sitting on a shared table) and hear them half a room away?

They’re not keeping it in the right place! (wink wink nudge nudge)

75 Ace-o-aces  Oct 9, 2014 2:33:15pm

re: #58 Lidane

NINE INCH NAILS in the Rock n’ Roll HOF?! Excuse me, I have to go yell at some kids to get off my lawn, eat some bran and fall asleep while watching reruns of JAG.

76 Timothy Watson  Oct 9, 2014 2:36:57pm

re: #75 Ace-o-aces

NINE INCH NAILS in the Rock n’ Roll HOF?! Excuse me, I have to go yell at some kids to get off my lawn, eat some bran and fall asleep while watching reruns of JAG.

Catherine Bell needs to be back on network TV.

77 Eventual Carrion  Oct 9, 2014 2:39:53pm

re: #75 Ace-o-aces

NINE INCH NAILS in the Rock n’ Roll HOF?! Excuse me, I have to go yell at some kids to get off my lawn, eat some bran and fall asleep while watching reruns of JAG.

My dad has a Reznor heater in his pole barn. Trent’s families old business. I think they sold it to someone else, but it still carries their name. I was born about 20 miles from where he was born (a few years after me).

78 wrenchwench  Oct 9, 2014 2:41:48pm

re: #77 Eventual Carrion

My dad has a Reznor heater in his pole barn. Trent’s families old business. I think they sold it to someone else, but it still carries their name. I was born about 20 miles from where he was born (a few years after me).

I have a Reznor heater in the shop!

79 lostlakehiker  Oct 9, 2014 4:47:18pm

Chuck was right. He predicted more people would come down with Ebola symptoms, and sure enough, it came to pass.

Symptoms! He hedged his bet to where he couldn’t lose. Ebola’s symptoms, in the early going, are hard to distinguish from the symptoms of other diseases.

Cagy, shady, shabby. Lie and be wrong, but not technically. Because technically, he predicted nothing at all, and could never be wrong having not predicted anything more remarkable than that the sun would rise tomorrow.

80 Egregious Philbin  Oct 9, 2014 5:24:29pm

He is the Washington Generals of blogging….always losing.

81 wheat-dogghazi  Oct 9, 2014 7:00:11pm

I checked over at Sharyl Atkisson’s website. One commenter there is trying to blame “illegals” for the death of Eli Waller, 4, from enterovirus D68. His evidence: 164 Central American kids were sent to Eli’s home county of Mercer, NJ. Ergo, they gave Eli the illness.

I replied, saying if those kids were all infected, Mercer would have way more than one D68 case. Given Eli is a preschooler, he would probably not have any contact with the kids from Central America, most of whom are probably older.

Scaremongers like Atkisson, Hoft and Chuckles the Ginger Clown are just demagogues, whipping up the nativists.

82 William of Orange  Oct 12, 2014 11:23:44am

Bit of a bummer that this Sunday it appears that he’s right now…


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