That was quick...

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

Or on the other hand, what took them so long?

The right-wing crazy website inforwars.com is spinning a little tale about how the Obama Administration "transported" the Ebola Virus to the United States (the effected personnel were actually flown back to the U.S. using private funds) just days after signing an Executive Order "mandating the detention of Americans who show signs of respiratory illness." The article goes on to explain just how easily Ebola can spread, if it were in fact an entirely different disease with an entirely different pathology.

Infowars.com quotes a noted Epidemiologist stating that "one tear in a rubber glove, and the virus is loose." What's that? It wasn't a noted Epidemiologist? It was another columnist at inforwars.com? Well, I guess that saves on consulting fees.

And just to close the book on this episode of ass-hattery, the E.O. signed by Obama was an extension of an Order signed by George W. Bush that allows health officials to quarantine persons with highly infectious respiratory diseases. Two things of note: The original order from Bush included Ebola and...um...Ebola is not a respiratory disease.

Swing and a miss...

[shenmue]

1. Anybody else want to slap the Baker Act on Alex Jones?

Sonofagun is a danger to himself and others.

[GP6971]

2. A true whiff

plus falling down after the swing

[Fred Sanders]

3. The fearmongers, the talented ones with a nose for the shit, can smell fear and produce

monstrous turds of lies faster than Glenn Beck can say "buy survival seeds".

[Turbineguy]

4. Oh yes, of course! It's all so clear to me now!

Obama wants to import a difficult to control disease so he can put a bunch of us in the FEMA camps.

[deathrind]

5. That is all republicans have.

Fear, fear and a side dish of more fear and unfortunately it works.

[GeorgeGist]

6. Back in the day ...

this nonsense was published in The Tattler or similar rags and laughed at by 99% of people. Now it's almost mainstream. We're so phucked on this planet.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

7. When I was a kid...

I remember going to the county fair and seeing these guys at a booth with bumper stickers about how Queen Elizabeth was a communist and how fluoride promoted thought control or some damn thing. They were crazy. We all knew it. But we only saw them and their mimeographed newsletters once a year.

Thanks to the internet and Fox News, these crazy bastards are part of our national political discussion. And also thanks to the rest of the mainstream media, which for some twisted reason thinks these people should be given a fair hearing ("balance" and all that), we're never going to get rid of them.

But it's probably Obama's fault...