Just when I think there’s no possible way these far-right sociopaths can sink any lower, they prove me wrong. It’s one thing to distrust the government; I think it’s healthy to be skeptical, but. . .
This country was founded by men who did not see eye-to-eye on every issue, which is why they devised a system of checks and balances which allowed for divergent opinion and a stable government. Too many of today’s right-wing pundits and politicians, however, aren’t just disagreeable — they’re certifiably insane.
Yes, I know that anything that comes out of Rush Limbaugh’s pie hole is designed to increase ratings and keep himself “in the news“. A week without progressive, liberal outrage over some idiotic invention from his diseased imagination is just another missed opportunity to cash in on a dwindling advertiser base.
The problem, as I see it, is “normal people” (okay, Republicans) actually believe Rush when he posits “people at the highest levels of our government” think Americans should get Ebola and die because of slavery. Wait, what? Ask him directly and he’ll deny saying it, calling the accusation another attempt by the left “to smear me with this Ebola business”. Fine — judge for yourself.
Rush played an audio clip from an interview aired on CNN with author David Quammen (who literally wrote the book on Ebola); Mr. Quammen said, “How dare we turn our backs on Liberia . . . a country that was founded in the 1820s, 1830s because of American slavery,” and then Rush said the following:
“These are the kind of people running the CDC. These are the kind of people running the FDA, the EPA, the IRS, the Justice Department, the White House. This kind of thinking that you just heard in this sound bite from David Quammen, that’s what is leading the country.”
I’d need to alter my prescription medications (which currently include none) to make sense of his logic. But he’s not alone in trying to perpetuate this new Ebola myth. One of the authors at a website called (ironically enough) “The American Thinker” just opined that President Obama picked Ron Klain as his “Ebola Czar” because what he really needs is a “population control czar.” Read it again if you need to: “Ebola czar a population control zealot” (says the headline, with next to nothing to back up their claim). I’m betting your idiot Tea Party neighbor knows this song and dance by heart.
Not to be outdone, radio host Rick Wiles, who calls his program (ironically enough) “TruNews,” told his audience of mouth-breathing cretins that “Ebola Barry” (yes, that’s his moniker for President Obama) “is deliberately spreading Ebola inside America,” because his goal is to “release a highly contagious virus” and he’ll “contaminate paper money (to) spread the plague.”
I keep thinking to myself that folks really can’t be this stupid, and yet “normal people” (okay, Republicans) sent Louie Gohmert (R-TX) to represent them in Washington, D.C.
Louie is the guy who alleged the president of the United States “has cut a deal with African leaders … to bring people” into the United States who are infected with the Ebola virus disease. He also seems to believe, or at least has said publicly, that the reason President Obama wants to mobilize American forces isn’t to stop the contagion at its source, but rather that we’re sending the military to Africa, “where (U.S. troops) can get Ebola that they can bring back.”
You can’t have a rational debate with crazy people; anyone who swallows what these loons are dishing out is going to develop what most psychologists would refer to as “excessive distrust” or suspicion of their government. The more often “normal people” (okay, Republicans) are subjected to this kind of tripe, the more likely it is they’ll harbor persecutory beliefs and begin to believe (if they don’t already) that any benign or innocent statement, from anyone inside the government (with the exception of those “brave patriots” sounding the alarm), must be masking malicious intent.
There really ought to be a law — but people like Louie are writing the laws these days — and that doesn’t bode well for the future of our republic. Please, VOTE.
H/T: GAWKER | Images: Creative Commons
They’re in the business of agitating folks and playing to their prejudices, fears, and anger.
They’re in business, all right, and business is good.
But if the folks they aim to agitate had an ounce of sense, this $#!t wouldn’t get them worked up.
lol founded on slavery. and many sold by there own people but lets not mention that. so many idiot followers of left and right bullshit. the politicians must laugh their asses of everytime they look at their bank balance.
Thats a derail. The fact that a few select persons sold their own into slavery cannot erase the truth that the AMERICAN slave trade, related in origin only to other methods of slavery, is significantly more sinister and is still in a modified existence when you at the systematic discrimination and oppression of decendants of slaves.
lg it still exists over there with the same race doing it please / help yourself fool
You call me a fool. Mature
Yeah, so what does that mean, exactly? Finish your thought, there’s still room in the toilet bowl.
Yes, that’s true, many Africans sold people from other tribes into slavery - so what? It doesn’t change the facts of slavery in America or the founding of Liberia - it just means that a few dumba*es learned something that most people already knew and and think it proves something important about racism when actually all it proves is that a little history in the wrong hands is a dangerous thing.
‘ Read it again if you need to: “Ebola czar a population control zealot” (says the headline, with next to nothing to back up their claim). ‘
is this anything like your claim that Limbaugh claims that ‘ “people at the highest levels of our government” think Americans should get Ebola and die because of slavery. ‘?
well, it actually is a bit different. you provide LITERALLY nothing to back it up. knowing Limbaugh I could certainly believe he said it. what disappoints me is that if he did, you don’t even bother to post him saying it.
http://money.cnn.com/2014/10/21/media/stelter-response-to-rush-limbaugh/
It’s right there, linked in the article that you’re saying doesn’t back itself up. He posted it, you just can’t read or be assed to click a link, apparently.
You listen and like Rush don’t you.
Recommending population control is not the same as recommending Ebola as a method of population control. You got that from your tinfoil hat.
the zombies are here, we just call them teapublicans…they have no brains, they follow the lost leader, whoever that is at the moment. They devour others brains, actually they make ours explode from the stupid crap that comes out of their mouth, which sound very much like moans, groans and grunts. See they are here already, and they can destroy everything.
Seemingly intelligent people believe all this nonsense and pass it on to other seemingly intelligent people who pass it on and so on, and so on and so on…
i’m sorry but he could have put a little more thought into the choice for the so called ebola czar, he’s not looking to sharp of late
I know, my gawd, why hasn’t he solved the problem around the world, I mean he’s been in the job for like TWO WEEKS or something already.
So i guess you are ok with his credentials which are none.
No, you’re talking about YOUR credentials. You have none by which to judge this President.
I noticed this article was written by Tom Joad, same name as character Played by Henry Fonda in “The Grapes of Wrath”, How ironic. If we keep down this financial spiral thanks to our President and his Democrat cronies that wish to borrow money from China, to give endless supply of welfare monies, while not caring for wounded warriors. We as a nation are headed right for the grapes of wrath, once again.
Amazingly, Tom Joad is also the character in a book written by one of America’s greatest writers, John Steinbeck and, BTW, the title comes from the Bible. I’ve never figured out if the US education system is failing or if Repubs just like to simplify things. You always seem to skip steps in your reasoning process like 1- your country has borrowed from China over successive presidents since Bush the elder 2- most of your debt is internal ie you owe it to yourselves 3- welfare is actually a catch-all phrase which includes aid to veterans which you people keep demanding cuts to because bad poor people and 4- giving lip service to vets while doing nothing for them seems to be a time-honoured American tradition going back at least to the War of 1812. Oh, and you really should look up the meaning of irony because what you think it is, it ain’t.
It’s amazing how 2 people can live in the same country, and view their govt so differently. But, its been going on forever. Many would say Abraham Lincoln was the greatest President ever, one could argue he was the worst President ever, simply based on the fact that he is the only President to have the nation divide, which is not a good sign of a leader. It will be interesting to see how History books years from now portray Obama. Will they praise him for health care reform, or choose many other reasons to say he made Jimmy Carter look great. This country is heavily politically divided, there is no going across the aisle by Congress and Senate. A good leader could bring this country together. Obama is not a good leader. A great speaker, yes, the best speaker ever. BTW, in the fashion I used the term Irony, was correct.
What’s ironic is that he doesn’t know Steinbeck said this: “I want to put a tag
of shame on the greedy bastards who are responsible for this [the Great
Depression and its effects] . . . I’ve done my damndest
to rip a reader’s nerves to rags.” This work won a large following among
the working class due to Steinbeck’s sympathy to the migrants and
workers’ movement, and his accessible prose style. (from Wikipedia)
“Ebola czar a population control zealot” (says the headline, with next to nothing to back up their claim)
“I think the top leadership challenges in the world today is how to deal with the continually growing population of the world and all the resource demands in places on the world. […] We have to find a way for the world to work for everyone.”, said Ron Klain
This is too easy. Oh, and there’s a video of Klein talking about population control, where this quote comes from.