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How a Racist Political Hashtag Spread Like the Ebola Virus ("Obola")
Vocativ ^ | October 14, 2014 | Markham Nolan and Adi Cohen

Posted on 10/17/2014 1:42:45 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: Politicalkiddo

psssst...over here...the reason it might be(looks around for any eavesdroppers...) racisssssss, is that Obola might be black...


21 posted on 10/17/2014 2:45:17 AM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: skr

I think we have a winner...


23 posted on 10/17/2014 2:46:59 AM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: Islander7
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Absolute genius ...


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24 posted on 10/17/2014 3:07:53 AM PDT by Patton@Bastogne
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wow. We have a potential for the final nail in our coffin, and these sycophants are concerned about a term. It’s just another finger pointing to racism for them.

But what they know and fear is that the term points the finger back at obama and lays the blame where it should be, therefore .... Ebola/obola.

Brevity is the soul of truth.


25 posted on 10/17/2014 3:11:48 AM PDT by Heart of Georgia
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Without airplane flights out of infected African countries, the exact number of Ebola cases in America right now would be ZERO.


26 posted on 10/17/2014 3:19:57 AM PDT by EternalVigilance ( Impeach. Remove. Rinse. Repeat.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What a couple of dimwits. Maybe when our POTUS decided to behave like a true leader and make a few intelligent comments and protocols, then we will unite behind him.

In the meanwhile, it is apparently everyone for him/herself. The exposed persons are told to be in quarantine and with so many uneducated people, they continued to travel around, and take their temperature every so often as though that is enough. Our population is just as dumb as Obama.


27 posted on 10/17/2014 3:26:33 AM PDT by Gumdrop (~)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“U.S. pundits seem more concerned with using Ebola to berate President Obama rather than dealing with the impact of the disease”

That’s because President Obama is golfing rather than dealing with the impact of the disease.


28 posted on 10/17/2014 3:28:35 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (You know what, just do it.)
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To: Politicalkiddo

It is racist because it precisely describes this excuse for a President and it gets their goat to no end. And because he is black (half black, anyway) it is therefore racist.


29 posted on 10/17/2014 3:33:04 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: RginTN

Liberals are lazy. Why work when they can take your money. Same goes for the spoken and written word. Why say “teabagger” when “bagger” (which they now use) will do?

They are hopping mad about Obola, because it describes him and this Ebola indecision and excuse making to a tee.


30 posted on 10/17/2014 3:35:02 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s not like the left called Bush names....you know...like Chimpy Bushitler or other names. (snicker)


31 posted on 10/17/2014 3:43:27 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Which is a more dangerous infection: ‪#‎Ebola‬, or the dreams from his father?

Flip an honest coin.

On second thought, the former. It can be solved via evolving medical technology.

The latter, however, amplified by the MSM, continue to infect and reinfect the low-information pukes out there.

32 posted on 10/17/2014 3:47:04 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: Islander7

You really deserve serious kudos for that.


33 posted on 10/17/2014 3:53:46 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The left uses ridicule to demonize those that disagree with them. For years the right has just stood there and took it. I do not know if “Obola” will catch on, but it does this old man some good to see how much it bothers the left.

Americans dying overrides the race card.


34 posted on 10/17/2014 3:54:18 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I do not doubt that our climate changes. I only doubt that anything man does has any effect.)
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To: Gaffer

I’m sure the MSM will get some incompetent Republican to denounce calling Obama Ebola...


35 posted on 10/17/2014 3:58:29 AM PDT by RginTN
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To: RginTN

That really doesn’t matter, it just makes that politician as a bona fide RINO for reals. I’m gonna use it wherever I can and I hope many others do the same.


36 posted on 10/17/2014 4:00:37 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m sure Obola has been invented independently many times, it is too easy and accurate a meme.


37 posted on 10/17/2014 4:09:05 AM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So what part of Obama is it racist against? The half-white part of him? The Arab slave trader blood that makes up most of the rest? Or the little bit of Obama that is actually black?


38 posted on 10/17/2014 4:15:42 AM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

#obola ping


39 posted on 10/17/2014 4:17:28 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: Islander7

You deserve a prize for that!


40 posted on 10/17/2014 5:05:31 AM PDT by all the best
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