The Raging Cognitive Dissonance of Michael Savage: “Obola” Will Destroy America

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Radio screamer Michael Savage is continuing his bizarre, utterly insane campaign to convince right wingers that President Obama is deliberately trying to bring an Ebola epidemic to America. In the clip above, he begins by saying Obama is “much cleverer than anyone can imagine,” has “managed to destroy the country’s chief institutions,” and is “achieving [his] revolutionary goals,” then concludes by saying his handling of the Ebola outbreak “shows us how incompetent the man really is.”

Totally incompetent, yet cleverer than anyone can imagine. I wonder if that much out-of-control cognitive dissonance causes Savage or his audience any discomfort?

But it didn’t stop there. Savage proceeded to attack Obama for praising Abraham Lincoln. This is the level of sick rhetoric common in today’s right wing; Michael Savage’s audience is currently measured at 4 to 6 million listeners.

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1 Targetpractice  Oct 10, 2014 11:45:37am

Yeah, the President planned to have an Ebola outbreak. Which is why he let the GOP cut funding to the NIH and the CDC, allowed them to reject his Surgeon General nominee because the NRA threw a hissy fit, and tried to address the outbreak in Africa rather than sitting behind our borders and hoping it would never get here.

He truly puts Bond villains to shame.////

2 Kragar  Oct 10, 2014 11:46:06am

“OBAMA IS DESTROYING AMERICA!”
“Is this true?”
“Yes, it’s true. This man has no dick.”

3 Bulworth  Oct 10, 2014 11:48:01am

And the Ebola is currently raging through the American country-side, it’s everywhere, it’s….wait, how many confirmed cases of Ebola in America are there?

/

4 Bulworth  Oct 10, 2014 11:49:17am
In the clip above, he begins by saying Obama is “much cleverer than anyone can imagine,” has “managed to destroy the country’s chief institutions,” and is “achieving [his] revolutionary goals,”

Obama destroyed Congress and the Courts by um, something.

5 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 10, 2014 11:49:53am

Can someone help me get up to speed on this “will destroy America” thing? Apparently, America has been destroyed several times now and I seem to have missed every one of them. Thanks in advance!

6 Kragar  Oct 10, 2014 11:50:20am

re: #4 Bulworth

Obama destroyed Congress and the Courts by um, something.

BREATHING!

7 Decatur Deb  Oct 10, 2014 11:50:21am

re: #3 Bulworth

And the Ebola is currently raging through the American country-side, it’s everywhere, it’s….wait, how many confirmed cases of Ebola in America are there?

/

When this shit settles, more Alabamans will have been struck by meteorites than will be dead of Ebola.

8 b.d.  Oct 10, 2014 11:51:06am

I’m tired of all of these American’s contracting Ebola here in the United States!

If we get another case that number will skyrocket to one.

9 Ace-o-aces  Oct 10, 2014 11:51:07am

Yeah, how dare Lincoln take those drastic moves. I mean, it’s not like there was some kind of CIVIL WAR going on.

10 lawhawk  Oct 10, 2014 11:51:50am

Now watch right wingers try to claim no true conservative. He doesn’t speak for them.

Except that the GOP establishment isn’t distinguishing itself either.

David Vitter and Ted Cruz both oppose the President’s $1 billion aid package to deal with Ebola at its source in Africa. They complain that the plan doesn’t do enough to protect Americans.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) had a similar complaint on Wednesday, saying on Fox News that while his “prayers” were “obviously with the thousands of people in West Africa who’ve been afflicted with this terrible disease,” the “top concern of the U.S. government should be protecting the American people.”

That’s what the President is doing - by stopping the outbreak at its source.

It’s also obvious that Cruz and other GOPers don’t particularly care what’s happening in Africa so long as none of our tax dollars go there and instead go to a fence and other measures that aren’t foolproof ways to stop the outbreak from coming into the US.

They’re rather like Nero fiddling while Rome burns in the distance. The fire keeps getting closer, but they’d rather go after Obama for taking decisive action (mind you, Congress is on recess until after Election Day).

In the time it’ll take for Congress to eventually get around to acting, thousands more will likely become infected in West Africa. In fact, it now looks like the number of cases is doubling every three weeks, which means that by the end of the month, you’re looking at 16,000 new cases.

And to top it off, James Inhofe (R) had blocked shifting additional funding until today.

Don’t tell me that there are compassionate conservatives. They’re extinct. Dead, Jim. The GOP simply cares about being reelected, and if it means going after the President for giving aid to West Africa to stop the epidemic there, then that’s what they’ll do.

11 Targetpractice  Oct 10, 2014 11:51:58am

re: #9 Ace-o-aces

Yeah, how dare Lincoln take those drastic moves. I mean, it’s not like there was some kind of CIVIL WAR going on.

The South was getting ready to give up on slavery! The North forced them to secede!!!

12 jaunte  Oct 10, 2014 11:53:47am
Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) is urging his colleagues to oppose President Barack Obama’s request for $1 billion to fight the spread of Ebola, in part because the plan “focuses on Africa” instead of “our own borders.”

Ladies and Gents, the double dog-whistle.

13 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 10, 2014 11:54:01am
14 Bulworth  Oct 10, 2014 11:54:18am

re:
#5

Can someone help me get up to speed on this “will destroy America” thing?

Well, various wingnut patriots have promised-threatened to employ their Bundy Militias in support of Operation American Spring but the truckers failed to show up to block the Washington DC beltway.

/

15 lawhawk  Oct 10, 2014 11:54:33am

re: #7 Decatur Deb

When this shit settles, more Alabamans will have been struck by meteorites died from lack of affordable health insurance because the GOP refused to expand Medicare than will be dead of Ebola.

FTFY

16 Ace-o-aces  Oct 10, 2014 11:55:05am

And by the way, He bases his rant that Obama will impose martial law on the fact the Obama says Lincoln was a role model. Really, has there been a president in the last 150 years who hasn’t praised Lincoln?

17 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Oct 10, 2014 11:55:53am

You know, the logic the right used in the “War on Terror” really does apply to Ebola. We need to fight it over there so it doesn’t spread here. At least IMO.

18 Targetpractice  Oct 10, 2014 11:56:32am

re: #10 lawhawk

That is because the GOP, at the end of the day, is a reactive party. They have no way of addressing a major crisis that doesn’t boil down to “Let it blow up and hope the people that matter don’t get hurt.” They don’t want to deal with the world as it is, they want to deal with their fantasy world where our borders are absolutely impenetrable and the only way any infected persons can reach the US is if the President allows it.

19 jaunte  Oct 10, 2014 11:56:43am

re: #17 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

If we could bomb it away, they’d be all for it.

20 dog philosopher  Oct 10, 2014 11:56:48am

re: #9 Ace-o-aces

Yeah, how dare Lincoln take those drastic moves. I mean, it’s not like there was some kind of CIVIL WAR going on.

the southern states were merely trying to set local standards for employment regulations and property law

21 HappyWarrior  Oct 10, 2014 11:56:55am

re: #10 lawhawk

Now watch right wingers try to claim no true conservative. He doesn’t speak for them.

Except that the GOP establishment isn’t distinguishing itself either.

David Vitter and Ted Cruz both oppose the President’s $1 billion aid package to deal with Ebola at its source in Africa. They complain that the plan doesn’t do enough to protect Americans.

That’s what the President is doing - by stopping the outbreak at its source.

It’s also obvious that Cruz and other GOPers don’t particularly care what’s happening in Africa so long as none of our tax dollars go there and instead go to a fence and other measures that aren’t foolproof ways to stop the outbreak from coming into the US.

They’re rather like Nero fiddling while Rome burns in the distance. The fire keeps getting closer, but they’d rather go after Obama for taking decisive action (mind you, Congress is on recess until after Election Day).

In the time it’ll take for Congress to eventually get around to acting, thousands more will likely become infected in West Africa. In fact, it now looks like the number of cases is doubling every three weeks, which means that by the end of the month, you’re looking at 16,000 new cases.

And to top it off, James Inhofe (R) had blocked shifting additional funding until today.

Don’t tell me that there are compassionate conservatives. They’re extinct. Dead, Jim. The GOP simply cares about being reelected, and if it means going after the President for giving aid to West Africa to stop the epidemic there, then that’s what they’ll do.

Good catch and fuck Cruz and Vitter.

22 Decatur Deb  Oct 10, 2014 11:56:59am

re: #15 lawhawk

FTFY When this shit settles, more Alabamans will have been struck by meteorites died from lack of affordable health insurance because the GOP refused to expand Medicare than will be dead of Ebola.

If it weren’t for ACA HIPPA, I could put names to your statement.

23 jaunte  Oct 10, 2014 11:58:39am

re: #17 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

You know, the logic the right used in the “War on Terror” really does apply to Ebola. We need to fight it over there so it doesn’t spread here. At least IMO.

But if we do it the right way, that would mean paying to build hospital facilities for poor black people. How could David Vitter and Ted Cruz justify that to their constituents?

24 aagcobb  Oct 10, 2014 12:00:11pm

re: #16 Ace-o-aces

And by the way, He bases his rant that Obama will impose martial law on the fact the Obama says Lincoln was a role model. Really, has there been a president in the last 150 years who hasn’t praised Lincoln?

President Ron Paul!!

25 HappyWarrior  Oct 10, 2014 12:00:19pm

re: #16 Ace-o-aces

And by the way, He bases his rant that Obama will impose martial law on the fact the Obama says Lincoln was a role model. Really, has there been a president in the last 150 years who hasn’t praised Lincoln?

That’s what I was saying downstairs. You’d be hard pressed to find any president or really any politician in the past 150 years that hasn’t praised Lincoln. Hell even Jefferson Davis called the day of Lincoln’s death a sad day for the South. Weiner is grapsing at more straws than usual here but then again he’s a typical right wing whiner who wants to tell you he’s persecuted when he’s far from it. People like him see their wallets get thicker in Obama’s years because they sell fear and hate. There’s a reason why you hear more from Rush during the Clinton and Obama years than you did in the Bush ones and that’s because Rush makes his dollars spreading fear and lies during Democratic presidencies. It’s not as easy for him just to be a cheerleader for whatever the Republican president does.

26 Timothy Watson  Oct 10, 2014 12:02:28pm

Stupid question for anyone in the medical field: How is it not medical protocol to automatically admit someone who is suffering from 103°F fever?

27 RealityBasedSteve  Oct 10, 2014 12:03:29pm

re: #10 lawhawk

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) had a similar complaint on Wednesday, saying on Fox News that while his “prayers” were “obviously with the thousands of people in West Africa who’ve been afflicted with this terrible disease,” the “top concern of the U.S. government should be protecting the American people.”

Yes, because prayers don’t actually cost anything. Actually taking action that could have measurable results at the core of the problem is expensive, carries an element of risk, and requires thought beyond what fits on a bumper sticker.

Tell you what Ted. Lets say that for the next 2 years, you and your family go without any health care of any kind at all. If you or your get sick, send us a note here at LGF and we’ll pray for you…. What??? You don’t like that idea…

I need to walk over to the building’s pond and feed the turtles to calm down.

RBS

28 dog philosopher  Oct 10, 2014 12:03:50pm

re: #16 Ace-o-aces

And by the way, He bases his rant that Obama will impose martial law on the fact the Obama says Lincoln was a role model. Really, has there been a president in the last 150 years who hasn’t praised Lincoln?

well his audience is made up of people who buy bumper stickers that say things like “america is a republic, not a democracy - let’s keep it that way!”

29 Kragar  Oct 10, 2014 12:04:25pm

re: #26 Timothy Watson

Stupid question for anyone in the medical field: How is it not medical protocol to automatically admit someone who is suffering from 103°F fever?

“You got proof of insurance?”

30 Lidane  Oct 10, 2014 12:05:15pm

re: #11 Targetpractice

The South was getting ready to give up on slavery! The North forced them to secede!!!

The Confederacy would have voted to end slavery if they’d been given the chance! That asshole Lincoln invaded and forced their hand!

Has Lincoln been called an inspiration to Hitler yet?

31 Bulworth  Oct 10, 2014 12:05:18pm

re:
#27

the “top concern of the U.S. government should be protecting the American people.”

Which is why American presidents only ever act within U.S. borders; they never order invasions of foreign countries or bombing missions or anything like that.

//

32 Targetpractice  Oct 10, 2014 12:06:11pm

re: #26 Timothy Watson

Stupid question for anyone in the medical field: How is it not medical protocol to automatically admit someone who is suffering from 103°F fever?

Flu-like symptoms and a fever that high would be cause for efforts to stabilize the patient. Both in conjunction with “I’m from Liberia” should have been grounds for immediately isolation.

33 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Oct 10, 2014 12:06:50pm

Komen again.

34 Targetpractice  Oct 10, 2014 12:07:06pm

re: #31 Bulworth

re:
#27

Which is why American presidents only ever act within U.S. borders; they never order invasions of foreign countries or bombing missions or anything like that.

//

Yes, exactly. That’s why we shouldn’t spend time worrying about Ebola in Africa and instead spend it worrying about ISIS in Syria.

35 Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 10, 2014 12:07:08pm

Reposted from downstairs. You all pissed off upstairs while I was composing this, so here you go:

re: #403 Higgs Boson’s Mate

I was born in the late Forties. My parents and their friends had gone through the Great Depression and WWII. We were living in the world with a robust, nuclear armed, saber rattling Soviet Union during the years I grew up. My memory might be failing me but, I don’t remember anyone ever doing the kind of sniveling that the our right wing does every fucking minute of every fucking day. Most people would be ashamed of themselves but this collection of cowardly, abnormal assholes seems incapable of that particular emotion.

When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, they also launched attacks on most of our possessions in the Pacific, which were largely successful. For the first 6 months, we did nothing but lose ground. Even Midway, the turning point in the Pacific, was largely a matter of luck. Our parents and grandparents faced TWO better armed, better prepared opponents, and the outcome was by no means certain.

After the War, as the Cold War got in gear, there was the CONSTANT threat of nuclear annihilation. A substantial portion of the country believed that nuclear war with the Soviets as inevitable, and we came damned close at least once.

I’m always amazed at the clowns who were CONVINCED that Al Qaeda was an EXISTENTIAL THREAT and they tried to convince all of us that we faced a threat worse than any the US had ever faced.

Pansies.

36 Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 10, 2014 12:07:48pm

re: #33 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Komen again.

Komen tolly deja vu

37 Lidane  Oct 10, 2014 12:08:37pm

re: #9 Ace-o-aces

Yeah, how dare Lincoln take those drastic moves. I mean, it’s not like there was some kind of CIVIL WAR going on.

WAR OF NORTHERN AGGRESSION! ELEVENTY!

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38 Timothy Watson  Oct 10, 2014 12:09:27pm

re: #32 Targetpractice

Flu-like symptoms and a fever that high would be cause for efforts to stabilize the patient. Both in conjunction with “I’m from Liberia” should have been grounds for immediately isolation.

But with a fever that high, and apparently still increasing, isn’t the patient at risk for brain damage if it gets above 104° or 105°F?

And the doctors only course of treatment are antibiotics which won’t even help combat a virus or reduce a fever down from a danger area?

39 Lidane  Oct 10, 2014 12:11:29pm

OT, but it looks like the interns over at the RNC have discovered emoji:

40 RealityBasedSteve  Oct 10, 2014 12:14:34pm

re: #39 Lidane

OT, but it looks like the interns over at the RNC have discovered emoji:

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41 calochortus  Oct 10, 2014 12:14:43pm

re: #29 Kragar

“You got proof of insurance?”

Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner.

42 Targetpractice  Oct 10, 2014 12:15:15pm

re: #38 Timothy Watson

But with a fever that high, and apparently still increasing, isn’t the patient at risk for brain damage if it gets above 104° or 105°F?

And the doctors only course of treatment are antibiotics which won’t even help combat a virus or reduce a fever down from a danger area?

103° is roughly the limit of the safe zone. 104°-106° is cause for worry, as it indicates something more serious than a common infection. 106°+ is the danger zone, as brain damage can and generally will set in without aggressive steps to bring down body temp.

As for the antibiotics, the excuse I’ve heard is that they’re for combating opportunistic bacterial infections that might set in due to the body’s inability to combat the viral infection.

43 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 10, 2014 12:15:16pm
44 aagcobb  Oct 10, 2014 12:16:01pm

re: #26 Timothy Watson

Stupid question for anyone in the medical field: How is it not medical protocol to automatically admit someone who is suffering from 103°F fever?

When that someone doesn’t have medical insurance.

45 EPR-radar  Oct 10, 2014 12:16:30pm

re: #38 Timothy Watson

I still remember the first time I was delirious with a fever as an adult. Most unpleasant. Now I’m very aggressive about trying to head off the really high temperatures with aspirin.

When I was a kid, having a fever was great. Guaranteed get out of school day.

46 HappyWarrior  Oct 10, 2014 12:16:46pm

re: #39 Lidane

OT, but it looks like the interns over at the RNC have discovered emoji:

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Man they’re hopeless when it comes to millennials. My kid brother is taking civics and he found a GOP teen feed on Twitter and he just can’t stop laughing at how stupid it is. The logo no joke is an elephant with sunglasses.

47 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 10, 2014 12:17:47pm

re: #35 Blind Frog Belly White

Well said. Until recently, I hadn’t known that pants-wetting cowardice was considered by so many people to be a virtue.

48 Targetpractice  Oct 10, 2014 12:18:37pm

re: #44 aagcobb

When that someone doesn’t have medical insurance.

And the doctor can deem the patient “stable.” In other words, take patient temp at time of admittance and then a short while later. If not dramatically higher and patient otherwise isn’t looking half past dead, you write if off as flu/cold/etc and send their ass home with a generic prescription.

49 EPR-radar  Oct 10, 2014 12:19:57pm

re: #47 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Well said. Until recently, I hadn’t known that pants-wetting cowardice was considered by so many people to be a virtue.

I’m also old enough to laugh at the notion that al-Qaida et al. are an existential threat to the US.

No, the only real danger from terrorists is the US destroying itself from within via stupid/evil responses.

50 Bulworth  Oct 10, 2014 12:21:11pm

re:
#39

OT, but it looks like the interns over at the RNC have discovered emoji:

The Internet. How does it work?

51 aagcobb  Oct 10, 2014 12:21:30pm

re: #48 Targetpractice

And the doctor can deem the patient “stable.” In other words, take patient temp at time of admittance and then a short while later. If not dramatically higher and patient otherwise isn’t looking half past dead, you write if off as flu/cold/etc and send their ass home with a generic prescription.

Thank goodness Texas didn’t expand Medicaid, huh? Anyway, I’m reading on Vox doctor’s nightmare scenario on Ebola, and it begins with it keeps spreading In Africa out-of-control. So logically, that is where you try to stop it, unless, of course, you are a Republican.

52 Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 10, 2014 12:21:55pm

re: #49 EPR-radar

I’m also old enough to laugh at the notion that al-Qaida et al. are an existential threat to the US.

No, the only real danger from terrorists is the US destroying itself from within via stupid/evil responses.

“The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street”

53 Ace-o-aces  Oct 10, 2014 12:24:19pm

re: #26 Timothy Watson

Stupid question for anyone in the medical field: How is it not medical protocol to automatically admit someone who is suffering from 103°F fever?

It depends on how overall sick a patient appears. An otherwise healthy adult with a 103 fever and overall stable vitals would not have to be admitted unless their history (such as travel to an Ebola outbreak area) warrants it.

54 lawhawk  Oct 10, 2014 12:24:39pm

Meanwhile, on Ebola Fear Factor (aka Drudge Feeds):

Six ambulances have surrounded a plane this morning at McCarran International Airport amid reports that a passenger on a Delta flight from New York is showing symptoms similar to Ebola.

Delta Airlines Flight 404 at Terminal 1, Gate D40 is the focus of the medical response.

UMC officials say they have been placed on stand-by to receive patients.

Again, the symptoms on their own isn’t enough - the person has to have had contact with someone who had active Ebola. So, if the person had been to West Africa and was showing symptoms, then that’s worrisome.

There’s no word on whether the person originated their flight in NY, or it was a stopover from some other location.

55 Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 10, 2014 12:24:55pm

re: #47 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Well said. Until recently, I hadn’t known that pants-wetting cowardice was considered by so many people to be a virtue.

And I neglected to mention that they faced this less than a decade after a financial collapse that dwarfs the 2009 crisis, and the Dust Bowl.

56 Targetpractice  Oct 10, 2014 12:25:01pm

re: #51 aagcobb

Thank goodness Texas didn’t expand Medicaid, huh? Anyway, I’m reading on Vox doctor’s nightmare scenario on Ebola, and it begins with it keeps spreading In Africa out-of-control. So logically, that is where you try to stop it, unless, of course, you are a Republican.

It’s funny, but the people who talk about the need for us to send troops to fight ISIS because of it being a “humanitarian crisis” and moans about the deaths…don’t seem overly moved by the horrors of Ebola or the need to address the lives being lost due to a lack of basic medical care.

57 RealityBasedSteve  Oct 10, 2014 12:25:41pm

re: #52 Blind Frog Belly White

“The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street”

I watched that on Netflix or Hulu just a couple of weeks ago. Amazing what they could fit in 30 minute show in terms of drama and suspense.

58 Kragar  Oct 10, 2014 12:26:17pm

re: #50 Bulworth

re:
#39

The Internet. How does it work?

59 Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 10, 2014 12:26:25pm

re: #56 Targetpractice

It’s funny, but the people who talk about the need for us to send troops to fight ISIS because of it being a “humanitarian crisis” and moans about the deaths…don’t seem overly moved by the horrors of Ebola or the need to address the lives being lost due to a lack of basic medical care.

Africa < Asia < Middle East < Europe << America

60 Targetpractice  Oct 10, 2014 12:26:44pm

re: #54 lawhawk

Meanwhile, on Ebola Fear Factor (aka Drudge Feeds):

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Again, the symptoms on their own isn’t enough - the person has to have had contact with someone who had active Ebola. So, if the person had been to West Africa and was showing symptoms, then that’s worrisome.

There’s no word on whether the person originated their flight in NY, or it was a stopover from some other location.

Remember when every occurrence on a plane, even if it was simply a guy being drug off a plane for arguing with a stewardess, was cause for alarm because it might be a terrorist plot?

61 HappyWarrior  Oct 10, 2014 12:28:20pm

re: #58 Kragar

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Nice.

62 Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 10, 2014 12:28:37pm

re: #60 Targetpractice

Remember when every occurrence on a plane, even if it was simply a guy being drug off a plane for arguing with a stewardess, was cause for alarm because it might be a terrorist plot?

I remember flying in April of 2002, half a year after 9/11, and having a toy cannon I’d bought for my son in Gettysburg CONFISCATED by Airport Security (not sure it was the TSA yet) because “It’s a replica of a gun!”

63 lawhawk  Oct 10, 2014 12:28:53pm

re: #60 Targetpractice

Yup. Every instance of air sickness, the flu, or other medical emergency will now result in an emergency response from the hazmat units.

Which will actually reveal just how many sick people are traveling on a daily basis and putting people at risk for lots of other diseases that we don’t really pay attention to.

64 Dr Lizardo  Oct 10, 2014 12:28:53pm

re: #57 RealityBasedSteve

I watched that on Netflix or Hulu just a couple of weeks ago. Amazing what they could fit in 30 minute show in terms of drama and suspense.

Youtube Video

65 ausador  Oct 10, 2014 12:29:14pm

re: #10 lawhawk

David Vitter and Ted Cruz both oppose the President’s $1 billion aid package to deal with Ebola at its source in Africa. They complain that the plan doesn’t do enough to protect Americans.

We pay the military to die heroically while killing brown people, not to die of some damn disease while trying to save them! Our boys never signed up for that!!!

66 Decatur Deb  Oct 10, 2014 12:29:24pm

re: #54 lawhawk

Meanwhile, on Ebola Fear Factor (aka Drudge Feeds):

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Again, the symptoms on their own isn’t enough - the person has to have had contact with someone who had active Ebola. So, if the person had been to West Africa and was showing symptoms, then that’s worrisome.

There’s no word on whether the person originated their flight in NY, or it was a stopover from some other location.

“Ya know how to win in Las Vegas?
When you get off the plane, walk into the propeller.”

—Buddy Hackett?

67 HappyWarrior  Oct 10, 2014 12:29:29pm

re: #57 RealityBasedSteve

I watched that on Netflix or Hulu just a couple of weeks ago. Amazing what they could fit in 30 minute show in terms of drama and suspense.

I’ve been watching some old episodes. Really clever stuff. I watched “To Serve Man”. Kind of caught up on the twist fast since they reversed it in a Simpsons Treehouse of Horror episode but it was good. I also saw another episode that inspired a Simpsons Halloween bit and it was the doll episode with Tally Savalas.

68 lawhawk  Oct 10, 2014 12:31:03pm

More Drudge, this time linking to Infowars claiming that the CDC is ignoring half of the suspected Ebola cases.

69 Decatur Deb  Oct 10, 2014 12:31:41pm

re: #68 lawhawk

More Drudge, this time linking to Infowars claiming that the CDC is ignoring half of the suspected Ebola cases.

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Those are the unskewed cases.

70 HappyWarrior  Oct 10, 2014 12:31:48pm

re: #68 lawhawk

More Drudge, this time linking to Infowars claiming that the CDC is ignoring half of the suspected Ebola cases.

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Amusing he has time to go to Infowars but not enough time to bring his site out of the late 90’s.

71 b.d.  Oct 10, 2014 12:32:26pm

Well good thing there was no panic caused then!

72 Schadenboner  Oct 10, 2014 12:33:01pm

re: #13 NJDhockeyfan

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What could possibly go…

…oh.

73 Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 10, 2014 12:33:08pm

re: #67 HappyWarrior

I’ve been watching some old episodes. Really clever stuff. I watched “To Serve Man”. Kind of caught up on the twist fast since they reversed it in a Simpsons Treehouse of Horror episode but it was good. I also saw another episode that inspired a Simpsons Halloween bit and it was the doll episode with Tally Savalas.

“It says ‘How To Cook Humans’!!”

“No, look!” *pheeeew* ‘How To Cook FOR Humans’!!”

*pheeeew* ‘How To Cook FORTY Humans’!!”

*pheeeew* ‘How To Cook FOR Forty Humans’!!”

I loved that!

74 b.d.  Oct 10, 2014 12:34:03pm

re: #68 lawhawk

More Drudge, this time linking to Infowars claiming that the CDC is ignoring half of the suspected Ebola cases.

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MOST AMERICANS MAY HAVE DIED FROM EBOLA AND NOT EVEN KNOW IT!!

75 Targetpractice  Oct 10, 2014 12:34:06pm

re: #68 lawhawk

More Drudge, this time linking to Infowars claiming that the CDC is ignoring half of the suspected Ebola cases.

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Yeah, nice loophole abuse, “potential cases.” Yeah, they might be Ebola, but they might also be any of a bunch of different diseases. The fact that all of those claiming to be “potential cases” have in no way come in contact with somebody from West Africa doesn’t mean anything!

Yegods.

76 Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 10, 2014 12:36:25pm

re: #75 Targetpractice

Yeah, nice loophole abuse, “potential cases.” Yeah, they might be Ebola, but they might also be any of a bunch of different diseases. The fact that all of those claiming to be “potential cases” have in no way come in contact with somebody from West Africa doesn’t mean anything!

Yegods.

Well, remember, these are the people who think it makes sense to worry about Ebola being brought into the US from countries where it’s never, ever been found, which split off from Africa tens of millions of years ago.

77 HappyWarrior  Oct 10, 2014 12:37:13pm

re: #73 Blind Frog Belly White

“It says ‘How To Cook Humans’!!”

“No, look!” *pheeeew* ‘How To Cook FOR Humans’!!”

*pheeeew* ‘How To Cook FORTY Humans’!!”

*pheeeew* ‘How To Cook FOR Forty Humans’!!”

I loved that!

So many great lines in that.
I love the line “Look, you made Serak the Preparer cry.” Just a great one. First ever episode that had Kang and Kodos who are two of my favorites. The episode where they pretend to be Dole and Clinton is also awesome.

78 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Oct 10, 2014 12:38:42pm

Frank Arguello, a quack “doctor” peddling an “alternative” cancer therapy, is threatening to sue Dr. David Gorski over exposing him as a quack.

79 lawhawk  Oct 10, 2014 12:38:52pm

re: #54 lawhawk

Note that the flight number kept changing from report to report. First it was Delta 404, then Delta 496.

Now, it appears that it was Delta Flight 495, and three passengers took ill midflight.

But they don’t meet the criteria for being exposed to Ebola.

Delta Airlines Flight 495 from JFK is at Terminal 1, Gate D42 is the focus of the medical response. A source says at least three people are ill.

UMC spokeswoman D’Anita Cohen says the hospital has been contacted by the airport about two unconfirmed cases of Ebola-like symptoms.

They have not been moved, yet.

Cohen says the hospital is ready to place them in their two isolation rooms.

McCarran spokeswoman Christine Crews said the flight was quarantined at the gate “after reports that a passenger who had recently traveled in Africa vomited on board the aircraft.

“Clark County Fire Department, the Centers for Disease Control and the Southern Nevada Health District have responded. After a thorough assessment, it has been determined that the affected passenger does not meet the criteria for Ebola.”

80 Bulworth  Oct 10, 2014 12:39:02pm

re:
#68

More Drudge, this time linking to Infowars claiming that the CDC is ignoring half of the suspected Ebola cases.

Oh, totally believable. And nothing Drudge or InfoWars will ever have to answer for. They’ll just keep peddling the derp.

/

81 Lidane  Oct 10, 2014 12:39:56pm
82 Targetpractice  Oct 10, 2014 12:40:17pm

Seems simple enough to ascertain the odds of one being infected with Ebola.

“Have you been out of the country?” No.

“Have you been in contact with anybody who has been out of the country?” No.

“Have you come in contact with the bodily fluids (blood, urine, vomit, feces) of a person you didn’t know?” No.

“You don’t have Ebola.” *click*

83 Kragar  Oct 10, 2014 12:40:30pm

INFOWARS SIGHTINGS added you to list INFOWARS3/special-people

Yeah, I’m going to have to go ahead and block you.

84 Bulworth  Oct 10, 2014 12:41:24pm

re:
#83

Good call.

85 HappyWarrior  Oct 10, 2014 12:41:31pm

re: #81 Lidane

[Embedded content]

Should I find it sad or funny that Huckabee hates gay people so much that he’s willing to leave the GOP over them not hating gays enough for him? I want to laugh and weep at the same time.

86 HappyWarrior  Oct 10, 2014 12:42:33pm

re: #82 Targetpractice

Seems simple enough to ascertain the odds of one being infected with Ebola.

“Have you been out of the country?” No.

“Have you been in contact with anybody who has been out of the country?” No.

“Have you come in contact with the bodily fluids (blood, urine, vomit, feces) of a person you didn’t know?” No.

“You don’t have Ebola.” *click*

As with Islamic terrorism, the people most paranoid about Ebola are least likely to get it but they go on listening to people like Rush who tell them that Obama is spreading Ebola to get revenge for slavery.

87 Bulworth  Oct 10, 2014 12:42:46pm

re:
#81

NOM heaps praise upon Mike Huckabee for threatening to leave the GOP if the party doesn’t stand against gay marriage:

Well, NOM and Huckelberry can go off and form their party of 8 or however many. Maybe they can get in a phone booth and secede from Idaho or something.

88 b.d.  Oct 10, 2014 12:43:10pm

re: #81 Lidane

[Embedded content]

Please proceed

89 HappyWarrior  Oct 10, 2014 12:45:12pm

But really Huckabee reminds me a lot of those who did end up leaving the Democratic Party of civil rights. The difference here is though the GOP didn’t embrace SSM. They just aren’t being bigoted enough for the bigoted fucker that is Mike Huckabee. Really if your allegiance to a party is based strongly off your opposition to gays having equal rights then I really have to question your moral values. Then again that’s assuming that Huckabee has moral values in the first place.

90 EmmaAnne  Oct 10, 2014 12:45:15pm

re: #81 Lidane

Please proceed, Governor.

91 HappyWarrior  Oct 10, 2014 12:45:47pm

Huckabee’s gonna go ballistic when Cruz’s amendment goes nowhere.

92 EmmaAnne  Oct 10, 2014 12:46:30pm

re: #88 b.d.

Please proceed

Pwned!

93 b.d.  Oct 10, 2014 12:46:57pm

re: #91 HappyWarrior

Huckabee’s gonna go ballistic when Cruz’s amendment goes nowhere.

UP OR DOWN VOTE!! UP OR DOWN VOTE! Let’s get us a litmus test in the senate.

94 Dr. Matt  Oct 10, 2014 12:47:27pm

If the president is trying to destroy America, he’s certainly doing a piss poor job at it with the employment rate at a 6 year low and a stock market at an all time high.

95 HappyWarrior  Oct 10, 2014 12:48:20pm

re: #94 Dr. Matt

If the president is trying to destroy America, he’s certainly doing a piss poor job at it when the employment rate at a 6 year low and a stock market at an all time high.

That’s his plan. Lure the country into a false confidence and then leave office with a positive legacy. It’s downright Hitlerian.

96 Dr. Matt  Oct 10, 2014 12:50:52pm

re: #95 HappyWarrior

That’s his plan. Lure the country into a false confidence and then leave office with a positive legacy. It’s downright Hitlerian.

97 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 10, 2014 12:51:16pm
98 ausador  Oct 10, 2014 12:51:36pm

re: #54 lawhawk

Meanwhile, on Ebola Fear Factor (aka Drudge Feeds):

[Embedded content]

Again, the symptoms on their own isn’t enough - the person has to have had contact with someone who had active Ebola. So, if the person had been to West Africa and was showing symptoms, then that’s worrisome.

There’s no word on whether the person originated their flight in NY, or it was a stopover from some other location.

7 percent of all flights are diverted for a medical emergency, and that was before Ebola became a concern…

‘If there is a medical doctor on board, please identify yourself to a flight attendant.”

Anyone who has heard that plea has probably wondered: How often does this happen?

Well, researchers have answers. There is an in-flight medical emergency once every 604 flights. Put another way, for every one million passengers, 16 will have a serious medical problem while on a plane. That’s about 44,000 people a year globally. Air Canada flights alone deal with about 1,500 medical emergencies annually.

theglobeandmail.com

There are multiple sick aircraft passengers every single day in this country and with Ebola symptoms being so generic we are going to be seeing a lot more of this.

99 jaunte  Oct 10, 2014 12:52:35pm

re: #81 Lidane

…He threatened to leave the party and take a bunch of “God-fearing, Bible-believing people” with him…

Now that sounds like a party!

100 Kragar  Oct 10, 2014 12:52:56pm
101 HappyWarrior  Oct 10, 2014 12:53:37pm

re: #100 Kragar

[Embedded content]

Sexist Prick is still a sexist prick, news at 11.

102 withak  Oct 10, 2014 12:53:52pm

All this ridiculous paranoia and overreaction makes me really nervous about flying to Florida next Wednesday. I’ve got a bit of a cold, and have been coughing and sneezing. It’ll probably clear up by then, but that doesn’t mean that some other dolt won’t attempt to ruin our vacation.

103 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Oct 10, 2014 12:54:06pm

re: #100 Kragar

Efuck Efuckson is disgusting.

104 lawhawk  Oct 10, 2014 12:54:19pm
105 HappyWarrior  Oct 10, 2014 12:55:21pm

re: #104 lawhawk

[Embedded content]

You’re a racist for pointing this out.//

106 RealityBasedSteve  Oct 10, 2014 12:56:05pm

This one simple trick drives Ebola Crazy!!!!

Coming soon to a browser near you.

RBS

107 Targetpractice  Oct 10, 2014 12:57:58pm

re: #104 lawhawk

[Embedded content]

We need to have a discussion about black culture! Obviously it’s the reason why they’re breaking the law so much!

Well, this kid got shot after a cop chased him without reason or warning.

HE WAS GUILTY OF SOMETHING! IF HE WASN’T, HE WOULDN’T HAVE RUN!!!

108 aagcobb  Oct 10, 2014 12:58:01pm

re: #85 HappyWarrior

Should I find it sad or funny that Huckabee hates gay people so much that he’s willing to leave the GOP over them not hating gays enough for him? I want to laugh and weep at the same time.

If the Religious Right did leave the GOP over this (and they’re just bluffing, I believe), it could be the first step in the GOP returning to sanity.

109 HappyWarrior  Oct 10, 2014 12:59:20pm

re: #108 aagcobb

If the Religious Right did leave the GOP over this (and they’re just bluffing, I believe), it could be the first step in the GOP returning to sanity.

It would be but the econ cons are just as bad as the So-Con whackjobs. But yeah it would be a positive start if the GOP lost the so-con wackjobs that have dominated their party for the past generation.

110 RealityBasedSteve  Oct 10, 2014 12:59:54pm

This just showed up in my FB Timeline, from the “Wee Man in Black”, Gary Player…. Be so busy loving your life that you have no time for hate, regret or fear.

I think I needed that today.

RBS

111 Bulworth  Oct 10, 2014 1:00:38pm

re:
#100

Stay classy, Erick son of Erick.

112 RealityBasedSteve  Oct 10, 2014 1:01:22pm

re: #111 Bulworth

re:
#100

Stay classy, Erick son of Erick.

Stay would imply that he was once classy. False premise.

RBS

113 aagcobb  Oct 10, 2014 1:01:49pm

re: #102 withak

All this ridiculous paranoia and overreaction makes me really nervous about flying to Florida next Wednesday. I’ve got a bit of a cold, and have been coughing and sneezing. It’ll probably clear up by then, but that doesn’t mean that some other dolt won’t attempt to ruin our vacation.

Make sure when you sneeze on the plane you cut the tension by saying something witty like, “probably Ebola!”//

114 No Country For Old Haters  Oct 10, 2014 1:04:15pm
115 b.d.  Oct 10, 2014 1:05:30pm

Ok, any Friday news dump going to happen today?

116 Kragar  Oct 10, 2014 1:08:57pm
117 lawhawk  Oct 10, 2014 1:09:55pm

Cognitive dissonance watch. Drudge headlines include report that Ebola crisis sends conspiracy theories into overdrive.

Going viral? From zombies to Government plots to miracle cures… the Ebola crisis gives internet conspiracy theorists something to get their teeth into
Outbreak being compared to Danny Boyle Film 28 Days Later
Fake picture of ‘first Ebola zombie’ went viral over the internet last week
Revealed to be a screen grab from another Zombie movie World War Z
Theories being fuelled by stories of Ebola victims ‘rising from the dead’
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan called it a ‘race-targeting bioweapon’
World Health Organisation warns against bogus vaccines and cures

Left out of that is that Drudge is itself responsible for a whole lot of that conspiracy mongering - between linking to Infowars and peddling nonsense about how it spreads.

118 b.d.  Oct 10, 2014 1:11:49pm

Dudebros to the left of me wingnuts to the right…

119 TedStriker  Oct 10, 2014 1:16:06pm

re: #26 Timothy Watson

Stupid question for anyone in the medical field: How is it not medical protocol to automatically admit someone who is suffering from 103°F fever?

re: #29 Kragar

“You got proof of insurance?”

re: #44 aagcobb

When that someone doesn’t have medical insurance.

re: #48 Targetpractice

And the doctor can deem the patient “stable.” In other words, take patient temp at time of admittance and then a short while later. If not dramatically higher and patient otherwise isn’t looking half past dead, you write if off as flu/cold/etc and send their ass home with a generic prescription.

If this was indeed the case with Mr. Duncan, some heads need to roll at that hospital and a hefty financial chunk taken out of their asses.

120 Bulworth  Oct 10, 2014 1:16:59pm

re:
#119

Everybody had healthcare without Obamacare you could just go to the emergency room!!!!!111

121 Jay C  Oct 10, 2014 1:19:22pm

re: #108 aagcobb

If the Religious Right did leave the GOP over this (and they’re just bluffing, I believe), it could be the first step in the GOP returning to sanity.

Careful what you wish for: I also think it’s mainly/mostly bluff, but while the notion of Mike Huckabee hiving off the Religious Nut Party from the “normal” (scare-quotes deliberate) Republicans, I’m not sure it would be much of a political positive to have a non-trivial segment(s) of the country run by - or, at the very least, influenced by - a Party or faction which would (I’m guessing) either adopt militant Dominionism as a party platform, or front for it in one way or another.

And yeah, I know the common response is that the Dominionists are “just a fringe” or a “crackpot minority”: but that’s been said of a lot of unpleasant movements: ISIS/ISIL is just the most recent example….

122 EPR-radar  Oct 10, 2014 1:21:02pm

re: #119 TedStriker

If this was indeed the case with Mr. Duncan, some heads need to roll at that hospital and a hefty financial chunk taken out of their asses.

Particularly if this bit of apparent patient dumping occurred after at least one person at the hospital was told of the probable direct exposure.

There’s a huge difference between symptoms + travel history and symptoms + travel history + probable/definite exposure.

123 No Country For Old Haters  Oct 10, 2014 1:22:35pm

re: #121 Jay C

a Party or faction which would (I’m guessing) either adopt militant Dominionism as a party platform, or front for it in one way or another.

Sure, and they’ll never have any power outside the worst of the poorly-educated states. Look at the Constitution party for a current example of the nuttiest Republican types founding a more purely bonkers party,

124 b.d.  Oct 10, 2014 1:22:51pm

The NFL looking more pathetic every day:

125 De Kolta Chair  Oct 10, 2014 1:23:35pm

Statue of Edward Snowden unveiled today in Moscow at the Russia Academy for Anorexia Research.

127 Jenner7  Oct 10, 2014 1:24:09pm

Sick.

128 Bulworth  Oct 10, 2014 1:25:37pm

re:
#124

Gotta throw the book at a player that won’t wear the ribbon right sponsor-approved headphones or else anarchy.

/

129 aagcobb  Oct 10, 2014 1:26:09pm

re: #121 Jay C

Careful what you wish for: I also think it’s mainly/mostly bluff, but while the notion of Mike Huckabee hiving off the Religious Nut Party from the “normal” (scare-quotes deliberate) Republicans, I’m not sure it would be much of a political positive to have a non-trivial segment(s) of the country run by - or, at the very least, influenced by - a Party or faction which would (I’m guessing) either adopt militant Dominionism as a party platform, or front for it in one way or another.

And yeah, I know the common response is that the Dominionists are “just a fringe” or a “crackpot minority”: but that’s been said of a lot of unpleasant movements: ISIS/ISIL is just the most recent example….

When you look at the Texas GOP party platform, they are already there. ISIL has gotten where it has because its operating in failed states, Syria and Iraq.

130 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Oct 10, 2014 1:26:35pm

re: #127 Jenner7

What kind of humans would wear something like this? This goes even beyond the usual conservative racism.

131 Bulworth  Oct 10, 2014 1:26:38pm

re:
#127

Stay classy, dicks.

132 Bulworth  Oct 10, 2014 1:27:46pm

re:
#127

Next they’ll be selling magnets/bracelets of Dim Jim’s blown eye socket File Photo..

half sarc

133 Varek Raith  Oct 10, 2014 1:29:00pm

re: #125 De Kolta Chair

[Embedded image]

Statue of Edward Snowden unveiled today in Moscow at the Russia Academy for Anorexia Research.

It’s Slenderman!
RUN!

134 EPR-radar  Oct 10, 2014 1:29:03pm

re: #127 Jenner7

Well that’s a revolting thing to see. It’s almost enough to make me want to put the relevant parts of St. Louis county under Federal Martial Law. But we need to be better than these jackasses.

135 Targetpractice  Oct 10, 2014 1:29:37pm

re: #119 TedStriker

If this was indeed the case with Mr. Duncan, some heads need to roll at that hospital and a hefty financial chunk taken out of their asses.

Odds are they’ll say that he was stable, that he had no obvious symptoms of Ebola infection, and that they followed the law to the letter in “stabilizing” him before kicking him out the door.

136 Amory Blaine  Oct 10, 2014 1:29:53pm

Is the text bigger or did George the cat change my settings?

137 EPR-radar  Oct 10, 2014 1:30:43pm

re: #121 Jay C

Careful what you wish for: I also think it’s mainly/mostly bluff, but while the notion of Mike Huckabee hiving off the Religious Nut Party from the “normal” (scare-quotes deliberate) Republicans, I’m not sure it would be much of a political positive to have a non-trivial segment(s) of the country run by - or, at the very least, influenced by - a Party or faction which would (I’m guessing) either adopt militant Dominionism as a party platform, or front for it in one way or another.

And yeah, I know the common response is that the Dominionists are “just a fringe” or a “crackpot minority”: but that’s been said of a lot of unpleasant movements: ISIS/ISIL is just the most recent example….

The so-cons aren’t going to bolt from the GOP. That would be idiotic, since they have a good chance of taking over the entire party.

138 TedStriker  Oct 10, 2014 1:37:55pm

re: #124 b.d.

The NFL looking more pathetic every day:

You know why, right? Because the NFL just inked a exclusive marketing deal with Bose.

139 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 10, 2014 1:50:26pm

re: #63 lawhawk

Yup. Every instance of air sickness, the flu, or other medical emergency will now result in an emergency response from the hazmat units.

Which will actually reveal just how many sick people are traveling on a daily basis and putting people at risk for lots of other diseases that we don’t really pay attention to.

here’s my contribution, again!

ebola!!!

140 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 10, 2014 1:51:42pm

re: #65 ausador

We pay the military to die heroically while killing brown people, not to die of some damn disease while trying to save them! Our boys never signed up for that!!!

hey…like the wingnuts now screaming about Obama “sending our military into harm’s way”…

smh

141 Romantic Heretic  Oct 10, 2014 2:10:46pm

Man, I wish I could make money off of my mental illness.


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