Posted on 10/20/2014 5:08:25 AM PDT by rootin tootin
The folks at Media Matters for America are angry at the press. In a sublimely ironic post, Eric Boehlert fumes, “As Republicans seek to gain a partisan advantage by ginning up fear about the Ebola virus … they're getting a major assist from the news media.” Boehlert believes that media coverage of Ebola has abetted the GOP’s low designs by creating the “unfair” impression that the Obama administration is somehow incompetent ...
Presumably, this indictment includes notorious right wing rags like the New York Times, which recently published an op-ed by Joe Nocera that points out the obvious: “When you think about it, many of the Obama administration’s ‘scandals’ have been failures of competence ... The Ebola outbreak is not exactly enhancing the CDC's reputation for competence.” Nocera has a gift for understatement.
If the “news” media had done their job from the outset of Obama’s presidency, the scrutiny might have prevented some of his countless blunders. The mishandling of the Ebola crisis might seem anomalous rather than typical, and congressional candidates might be willing to go near him without a hazmat suit. As it is, both they and the voters can see that the Obama administration is infected with the incompetence virus.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
One man’s perceived incompetence is another man’s agenda!
Baloney. Ebola panic is a threat to our way of life. Ignore at our peril. The administration may have frittered away opportunities to contain it.
The Obama admin is incompetent in almost every way...
“The Obama admin is incompetent in almost every way...”
The only people more incompetent are the vast majority of those working in the MSM environment.
Don’t believe it for a second, these people are not incompetent, they are not stupid. EVERYTHING is carefully planned, focus grouped, and so on. They are in it for the Long Game. Their goal is domination and complete control of everything. The are Just plain EVIL.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Have you seen this George Will piece?
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/10/george-will-scientists-also-lying-about-ebola.html
Scientists Also Lying About Ebola, Explains George F. Will
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
I don’t understand what you are saying.
Thanks for the ping!
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