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Jon Stewart rips 'sanity-resistant' Ebola coverage
Yahoo News ^ | Oct, 15th, 2014 | By Dylan Stableford

Posted on 10/15/2014 7:57:17 PM PDT by Mariner

Americans' fear of an Ebola outbreak is being fueled by "sanity-resistant" cable TV news coverage and some members of Congress, Jon Stewart said on Tuesday's "Daily Show."

News that a Dallas nurse became infected with Ebola after treating a Liberian man stricken with the disease has sparked fears that the virus — which has killed thousands of people in West Africa — could spread to other parts of the United States.

"Clearly the news anchors are having trouble drawing the distinction between a person contracting the disease after working in close contact with an Ebola patient," Stewart said, "and the inevitability of all of us getting it now! Run!"

Later in the segment, Stewart introduced a clip of Texas Rep. Pete Sessions urging the White House to ban all U.S.-bound flights from West Africa

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It's kinda funny.

These guys on the left and their politicians in office today do not realize the entire universe has changed in the last 72 hours.

Each and every one of them will be hanging from a lamp post before another year passes.

Silly bastards.

1 posted on 10/15/2014 7:57:17 PM PDT by Mariner
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Stewart won’t be laughing so much when someone coughs on his stupid ass and gives him Ebola, if we could be so lucky


2 posted on 10/15/2014 7:58:58 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Mariner

Great comment.


3 posted on 10/15/2014 8:01:30 PM PDT by Christie at the beach
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To: Mariner

Stewart must be one of those Ebola “experts”. There are a lot of them out there these days.


4 posted on 10/15/2014 8:01:33 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Ebola and Enterovirus-D68. Proud members of Viruses Without Borders.)
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To: Mariner
Reminds me of Lt Gorman in "Aliens" -- he stays in the safety of the armored personnel carrier and sends a squad in to explore the facility.

He's in charge. He's giving orders.
Aliens attack. Things go bad. He's still sitting back, giving orders.
Things go very bad. The squad is dying one by one. They're getting wiped out.
In a stunned, quiet, mumbling voice, Lt. Gorman says: "Ummmm ... fall back? ... Hicks? ... retreat ... that's ... an order?"

Jon Stewart will get there eventually.

Who knows? Perhaps Sarah Palin will play the part of Ellen Ripley, push the Lt. out of the chair, take the wheel, drive that personnel carrier into the facility, and save the remnants.

5 posted on 10/15/2014 8:04:07 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("Now is not the time for fear. That comes later.")
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To: Sarah Barracuda

I want someone to ask these people how many healthcare workers we can sacrifice before we can get serious...


6 posted on 10/15/2014 8:04:32 PM PDT by Kozak ("It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal" Henry Kissinger)
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A few nurses dying? Meh. This is how callously the left views life.

I know six nurses, and they’re all freaked.


7 posted on 10/15/2014 8:04:40 PM PDT by agrarianlady
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To: Christie at the beach
All of us human being alive today have a genetic predisposition against central government and groups of other people with epidemic disease.

That's why we are alive.

Those who had no fear of diseased others did not survive.

It's a lizard brain thing.

And Democrats are going to die trying to change human nature.

Or kill all humans trying.

8 posted on 10/15/2014 8:05:25 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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I just heard that one of the nurses who has Ebola now, also too a flight from Cleveland to Dallas while infected. I wonder how funny Stewart would think this was if HE or his family had been on that flight.


9 posted on 10/15/2014 8:06:41 PM PDT by JaguarXKE (1973: Reporters investigate All the President's Men. 2013: Reporters ARE all the President's men d)
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I’ve seen a lot of the coverage of the Ebola thing, and I don’t think I’ve actually seen much real panic-mongering. There seems to be this image, probably from bad sci-fi movies, that whenever there’s any bad news there will be masses of people running pel-mel in the streets breaking everything in sight. Except... In actual times of emergency that just never seems to happen.


10 posted on 10/15/2014 8:06:48 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
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"In actual times of emergency that just never seems to happen. "

Until they show up on the Capitol Mall.

Ask Mussolini.

11 posted on 10/15/2014 8:08:52 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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The point is, Jon-Jon, pResident Obola BROUGHT IT INTO THE COUNTRY!!!


12 posted on 10/15/2014 8:09:07 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: agrarianlady

Yes, nurses are our friends. Jon Stewart is saying that it’s insane to be concerned about their well-being. What a jerk.


13 posted on 10/15/2014 8:09:29 PM PDT by purplelobster
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The left doesn’t actually care about people. They are selfish, but spout a lot of PC crap to salve their own conscience that they aren’t selfish.

One need only look at Dr. Nancy Synderman. Going to her favorite restaurant more important than staying quarantined for 21 days.


14 posted on 10/15/2014 8:14:07 PM PDT by SteveAustin
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To: Mariner

Jon’s job is to make a prime advertising demographic feel smart.
Not to be intelligible.


15 posted on 10/15/2014 8:16:07 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: Kozak
I want someone to ask these people how many healthcare workers we can sacrifice before we can get serious...

My own opinion is it'll have to hit Hollywood or DC before they get serious about it.
16 posted on 10/15/2014 8:18:46 PM PDT by Shannon
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To: agrarianlady

“I know six nurses, and they’re all freaked.”

The wife in a couple I know is a nurse supervisor. Her daughter is an ER nurse.

She went OFF today when her left-leaning, Daily Show-watching hubby started spewing the official line on Ebola. She knows what could happen, and what is happening.

It was actually kinda epic to watch.


17 posted on 10/15/2014 8:20:02 PM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: Mariner

And just think - a significant number of people rely on this comedian for their news.


18 posted on 10/15/2014 8:20:28 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: mrsmith
"Jon’s job is to make a prime advertising demographic feel smart. Not to be intelligible".

Jon is just a prominent manifestation of the philosophy of a dying genetic aberration.

These folks and their code will not survive because the survivors will kill them. Or, they will die by their own stupid actions and devices.

19 posted on 10/15/2014 8:21:21 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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His whole comedy act over this would say the exact opposite if it were a Romney in office. You can bet the entire farm on that. Leibowitz is just a partisan democrat twerp.


20 posted on 10/15/2014 8:22:02 PM PDT by Bullish (You ever notice that liberalism really just amounts to anti-morality?)
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