Hysterical Media Tell Us to Calm Down

Rachel-Maddow-on-Perry-indictment-081514-MSNBC-800x430In the past week, The New York Times has ridiculed Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Gov. Chris Christie for having “fed panic” by ordering quarantines for health workers arriving from Ebola-plagued countries.

NBC News’ Brian Williams opened his broadcast last Friday announcing that the Obama administration was trying “to restrain the Ebola panic.”

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow complained that the “hysteria” over Ebola was getting “stupider.”

I haven’t noticed any panic. If you want panic, review media coverage of the police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri. That hair-on-fire coverage was based entirely, it turns out, on the media’s gullibly swallowing inaccurate accounts of the incident.

For decades liberals have terrified soccer moms about a slew of imaginary terrors: global warming, Alar on apples, breast implants, heterosexual AIDS, nuclear war, and Republicans taking away their birth control.

Nannies rushed to grade schools to yank apples out of little children’s hands, elderly married couples got tested for AIDS, and students at Ivy League colleges demanded that their health departments stock cyanide pills in case of nuclear attack. (Because the Russkies were definitely hitting Ithaca, New York, and Providence, Rhode Island, first.)

And then, except for a few heterosexual AIDS victims — who also happened to be intravenous drug users — no American ever died from a single one of these liberal-hyped dangers. I do not recall, for example, ever hearing of a nurse acquiring AIDS from treating an AIDS patient, certainly not a nurse wearing a spacesuit, as the Ebola-infected nurses were.

Within the past few years, Rachel Maddow has been panicked about (among many, many other things):

– Right-wing hillbillies murdering census workers (the census worker committed suicide in an attempted insurance fraud);

– Republican budget cuts killing us when bridges collapse (the Minnesota bridge collapsed because of a design flaw, not budget cuts);

– Gun rights supporters plotting another Oklahoma City bombing (they had assembled on April 19, the anniversary of the bombing — which also happens to be the anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord).

But now, the political party that specializes in hysteria has suddenly become too-cool-for-school about a deadly disease being brought to our country for no reason. Oh, you big pussy, you won’t get Ebola.

Let the record reflect, Democrats now oppose “the politics of fear” — as NBC’s Chuck Todd dubbed concerns about Ebola.

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire accused her Republican opponent, Scott Brown, of “fear-mongering” about Ebola, but she sure didn’t mind fear-mongering on health care. In order to pass the widely unpopular Obamacare, Shaheen carried on about insurance companies’ obscene profits and hectored, “We cannot wait!”

The New York Daily News’ Denis Hamill wrote five hysterical columns on Ferguson. One was titled, “Is this Selma in 1965?” But when it comes to a disease that kills more than half of the people it infects, he says, “Take a chill pill.”

How about telling the deranged protesters in Ferguson to “take a chill pill”?

After years of Republican candidates having to assure voters that it would require several million policemen to take away every woman’s birth control kit — but that was an excellent question! — it’s too much to have to listen to liberals scoff at a disease with a 70 percent fatality rate.

Ebola is a lot more dangerous than any of the fears whipped up by liberals. Peter Piot, the Flemish scientist who discovered Ebola in 1976, recently told the British Guardian:

“I always thought that Ebola, in comparison to AIDS or malaria, didn’t present much of a problem because the outbreaks were always brief and local. Around June it became clear to me that there was something fundamentally different about this outbreak. … We Flemish tend to be rather unemotional, but it was at that point that I began to get really worried.”

A few days ago, Piot described the screening being done at arrival airports as “not that effective, to be honest,,” adding, “The most cost-effective method is to screen people before they take the plane.”

(Speaking of which, where did the CDC’s Tom Frieden go? Does he have Ebola?)

It’s beyond idiotic for the media to keep condescendingly instructing Americans that they are more likely to die in a car accident, from food poisoning, skin cancer or heart disease, than from Ebola.

We know that. We have rationally accepted the tradeoffs in order to get places quickly, dine in restaurants, walk on the beach and eat steak. Those are risks prudently taken in exchange for something we deem more valuable.

What’s the upside of bringing Ebola here? And why on earth is the Obama administration preparing to import non-citizen Ebolees? It’s perfectly logical for Americans to ask, “What are we getting out of this?” But the only answer they get is: We can’t build a fence around the country!

We’re not seeing “panic.” What we’re seeing is rage that the country is having a deadly disease foist on it for no good reason.

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  • Fear Propaganda

    Republicans are catering to Paranoid Americans.

    ISIS is being Hyped across Conservative News Networks.

    Fear Mongering is generating support for Big Government.

    • Pete

      ISIS is going to last 6 to 8 more months (at least in Iraq).

      That is only a year with that much territory.

      That is only 1 year DUDE! So I agree with you.

      What is 1 f_cking year? Sure we have millions of refugees and all the future problems that will bring in education, crime, malnutrition, broken families. But so what, ISIS will only last a year. That is not a long time in the life of nations.

      1 year is not much. 1 is a small #. So that is a win right?

      6 is a small #. WW2 only lasted 6 years and we overcame that with no problem. Ask the Europeans. Reconstruction was a cake walk. Just make sure you have a big stupid smile on your face when you do. a smug smile will do.

  • Pete

    Rachel Maddow has a big rack.

    Yes, she has a very big rack and it does not help us. It hurts us.

    Some biologists have argued that Irish deer with big racks, which are bigger than their competitors, fare better in the mating game. At the same time those deer optimize their mating chance, it decreases the chances that the species will survive. The logic being that it is hard to escape the wolf pack when your rack gets caught up in the branches.

    I don’t doubt that Maddow has a sharp wit. But as they say GIGO. All the ability to use the rules of logic come to naught when your assumption are wrong or your base data is wrong.

  • Pete

    While Obama Officials Bloviate About Settled ‘Science,’ DoD Scientists Fear Air Transmission of Ebola

    “the Defense Department’s BAA explains that Ebola is “aerostable” and, since other filoviruses infect through “the respiratory route,” it is at least theoretically possible that Ebola could, too. “

    • Patriotliz

      Ebola can spread by “droplets” from a sneeze or cough of an infected person just like the flu or common cold and can also contaminate surfaces.
      http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/pdf/infections-spread-by-air-or-droplets.pdf

      It is misleading statement to say that “direct contact” with bodily fluids is needed to spread the Ebola virus.

      • Patriotliz

        Apparently that the link to that CDC fact sheet about Ebola spread by “droplets” is being “updated.” Hmmm….

      • Pete

        Exactly

  • bob e

    rachel is the scariest halloween costume i have ever seen ..

  • sundance69

    Rachel and the rest of the crew will ride with this administration down the tubes in flames. After the administration is totally refuted in November I’ll wager they go off the air, They have hardly any viewers now, I think the light is finally shining through the trees.

    • Pete

      Ramesh Ponnuru seems pretty smart. Rush has been saying the same thing.

      A Senate to Come

      We can’t win the midterms and lose all gains during the presidential elections

  • joshuasweet

    watch the Ebola dance as distracts from the illegal actions the millions of identification for the illegals passed out just in time to vote?
    classic do not look behind the curtains, or in this case up the skirt shudder ick

  • seewithyourowneyes

    It’s not enough to redistribute wealth, the Left wants a global redistribution of disease, dysfunction, criminality, and religious warfare as well.

  • joe kulak

    You may be fearful only of what leftist doctrine advocates; be fearful of climate change, guns, Republicans, corporations, and the (racist) police, but not of a deadly communicable disease that has already killed thousands.

  • cacslewisfan

    I read the CDC quarantine guidelines, NJ quarantine center policy, and Ebola test stats. The Fed is refusing to abide by the current laws, and actively discouraging states from enforcing the law.

  • http://shugartpoliticalaction.shugartmedia.com/uncommonsense/ Chris Shugart

    If these were concerns levied mostly by conservatives, the left would be howling “anti science ebola deniers!” It’s interesting how easy it is to neglect science when it’s personally inconvenient. The word “hypocrisy” doesn’t even cover it.

  • JayWye

    a manly woman.

  • DJohnson

    I do believe there is a very good reason that this administration is allowing Ebola into this country. I think they have found the perfect opportunity to cull the herd, so to speak. Unfortunately, WE are the herd.

  • Rich B

    The only thing Rachel Mannow has to worry about is testicular cancer. Being the ugliest dude on PMS-NBC has its drawbacks.

    Wait, someone just told me he was a she! Never mind.

  • MichaelGuy

    In Medieval the Alchemist believed that
    with the right words, they could transform lead into Gold. These pre- Louis
    Debroglie, magi of the Middle ages did have a premonition of the
    interrelation of matter and energy. They believed that thoughts and words
    emanated energy, and with the proper manipulation of energy, reality
    could be changed. You could say they were the original believers
    in” hope and change”.

    Likewise, liberals, progressives,
    communist and Democrats have been trying for decades to transform reality with
    their words and beliefs. These liberal, progressive Democrats believe
    that through their wisdom and words they can change society into a utopia. In
    their world view there is a cornucopia out there, vast sums of wealth hidden
    away by greedy, wealthy capitalist. All that was need was more
    agencies, more bureaucrats, more rules and more regulations. And
    when these failed to transform our lead society into the gold of their
    socialist collective, they tried more and more taxes. They even implemented
    Karl Marx’s graduated income tax. Their goal to take back from those
    wealthy hoarders the wealth to which the rest of us were “entitled’.
    Never mind that admonition about killing the goose that lays the golden egg!

    Unfortunately, government
    employees, with their lucrative pensions, health care and pensions along
    with their agencies and departments are too costly. And so the liberal
    Democrats began to borrow and borrow from the privately-owned Federal Reserve
    Bank and other foreign plutocrats. As we all know, loans come with terms,
    conditions, interest cost and promises of collateral , in case the loan
    defaults. But in the liberal Democrats’ dialectic lexicon, a debt
    is really an investment. The public was forced to cosign a 17trillion
    loan, the national debt, for the progressive Democrats’ investments.

    Now, the Marxist magic is gone. The “yes
    we can” believers, and the public in general are disillusioned. Many of
    the “hope and change” voters are even angry, feeling like they have been
    deceived.. Of course those who live off the public purse will still vote
    Democrat. But those productive people in the over-taxed, over-regulated
    private sector are weary of these magicians. And now these voters are ready to
    throw these alchemist, with their delusions, out of office.

  • Peter Castle

    Spot on.

    See “Ann Coulter’s Journey to Damascus” at http://wp.me/p4jHFp-2L.