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Did Chris Matthews Just Make the Most Illogical Argument Yet Against Ebola Travel Ban?
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Posted on 10/20/2014 5:12:16 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

Greatest, latest parlor game: watching liberals pretzel-ize logic in arguing against a travel ban on people from Ebola-affected countries. We've noted a few examples here, here and here.

But as wacky as those assertions were, they might all have to take a back seat to the absolutely absurd argument offered up by Chris Matthews on this evening's Hardball. Matthews suggested that a travel ban wouldn't work since Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian who infected two people before dying of Ebola, lied to get into the US.

Can't Chris see that his argument runs headlong against logic? That it is precisely because people will lie to get in that the only real solution is a ban on visas for people from Ebola-affected countries? Hello?

View the video here.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chrismatthews; ebola; msm; msnbc; travelban

1 posted on 10/20/2014 5:12:16 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: netmilsmom; Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; Diogenesis; MEG33; PGalt; ...

Chris Matthews offers craziest argument yet against Ebola travel ban. Ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 10/20/2014 5:13:27 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

3 posted on 10/20/2014 5:16:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Liberals employ a distraction technique which means to state a lie with confidence and assume people are stupid. Chris enhances the technique by speaking fast and keep moving. This technique assumes people wont be fast enough to analyze the statement and by the time they do he has moved on to another lie. He has done that for years


4 posted on 10/20/2014 5:19:39 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Subject: Watch Sen. Ted Cruz Discusses Ebola with Candy Crowley …” on YouTube

He responds with such common sense and leaves Candy speechless, just eager to go to another question.

Ted Cruz is presidential material.

http://www.nationalreview.com/node/390677/print


5 posted on 10/20/2014 5:26:42 PM PDT by Dqban22
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Who watches this idiot?

I don’t even know what he says here nor do I care. But I stand by my “ONLY listen to the scientists” on the travel ban And they say “no ban” so I don’t care what the politicians or pundits say.


6 posted on 10/20/2014 5:28:29 PM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Clearly Matthews did not drink enough in preparation for tonight’s show.


7 posted on 10/20/2014 5:40:34 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Liberal a$$holes will lie cheat and steal to protect their idol.


8 posted on 10/20/2014 5:57:55 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: RIghtwardHo

Careful, most of the scientists quoted work for the Federal Government in one way or another.


9 posted on 10/20/2014 6:05:51 PM PDT by jiggyboy
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Anyone who has traveled to an Ebola ravaged country should be isolated in an offshore facility for 45 days before being allowed to enter the country, including returning Americans.


10 posted on 10/20/2014 6:05:56 PM PDT by Hugin ("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!",)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

"Give me an 'E' .... Give me a 'B' .... Give me an 'O' .....

11 posted on 10/20/2014 6:41:19 PM PDT by mikrofon (Quarantine 0bola)
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To: mikrofon
this whole ebola propaganda fiasco is just screaming for the return of Teddy Kennedy........AHEM...


12 posted on 10/20/2014 7:00:56 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The only Bolshie anti-ban proposal I would accept is, if, they said come stay at my house for 21-day quarantine.


13 posted on 10/20/2014 8:22:53 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
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To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
Ping...

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

14 posted on 10/22/2014 6:02:07 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Thanks for the ping!


15 posted on 10/22/2014 7:57:17 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: governsleastgovernsbest; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; ...
Bring Out Your Dead

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...

16 posted on 10/22/2014 9:09:09 PM PDT by null and void ("Agoraphobia": fear of the marketplace; "AlGoreaphobia": fear of the marketplace of ideas.)
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To: Alamo-Girl

You’re Welcome, Alamo-Girl!


17 posted on 10/22/2014 9:39:44 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Actually, Duncan flew through Belgium before coming to the U.S. Unless he didn’t change planes, I doubt that a ban would have stopped him.

Full disclosure: I am in favor of a ban. After all, if we’re supposed to stop it over there, it makes sense to keep it over there.


18 posted on 10/23/2014 6:37:07 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The mods stole my tagline.)
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