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(2014/10/28) Hard to believe that this got political (Ebola)

Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

Jay Tomlinson

Politics, News Commentary, News

4.53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2014

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Edition #872

Today we take a look at the conscience-shocking ways that conservatives are politicizing the news of very few cases of Ebola in the US

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Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith

Ch. 2: Act 1: Ebola in the U.S. - Time for Healthcare for All! - @Thom_Hartmann - Air Date: 10-01-14

Ch. 3: Song 1: Kill the poor - Dead Kennedys

Ch. 4: Act 2: Hey, Libertarians! Your Policy Helped Spread Ebola - @majorityfm - Air Date: 10-15-14

Ch. 5: Song 2: Is it for Freedom? - NewAmericaNow on YouTube

Ch. 6: Act 3: Ebola-Obama Link Might Be The Craziest Right Wing Theory Ever - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 10-11-14

Ch. 7: Song 3: Comptine D'un Autre Été: L'après Midi - Yann Tiersen

Ch. 8: Act 4: Deranged Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory: Obama Intentionally Wants "To Infect The Nation With Ebola" - Media Matters Minute (@mmfa) - Air Date: 10-15-14

Ch. 9: Song 4: Comptine D'un Autre Été: L'après Midi - Yann Tiersen

Ch. 10: Act 5: Liberals Believe Americans Should Die from Ebola - @davidpakmanshow - Air Date: 10-22-14

Ch. 11: Song 5: Mountain Sound - Of Monsters and Men

Ch. 12: Act 6: GOP forgets anti-czar nonsense, calls for Ebola czar - Rachel @maddow Show - Air Date 10-17-14

Ch. 13: Song 6: 007 (From "From Russia With Love") - The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra

Ch. 14: Act 7: There aren't two sides on how to manage Ebola - @jimmy_dore Show - Air Date: 10-18-14

Ch. 15: Song 7: Call it even - Scott Simons

Ch. 16: Act 8: Washington is broken or functional depending on your perspective - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date: 10-24-14

Ch. 17: Song 8: Go do - Jónsi

Ch. 18: Act 9: Breaking News Consumer’s Handbook Infectious Disease Edition - @onthemedia - Air Date: 10-24-14

Voicemails:

Ch. 19: Reviewing health care systems - Mike in Michigan

Ch. 20: 5 points toward progress - Daniel from Albany, NY

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Voicemail Music:

Loud Pipes - Ratatat

Ch. 21: Final comments on the unbreakability of the conservative fever

Closing Music:

Here We Are - Patrick Park

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0:00.0

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0:08.0

Now welcome to the award-winning BestofTheLeft podcast with Cups Today from the Tom Hartman program, the Majority Report, the Young Turks, the Media Matters Minute, the David Pakman Show, the Rachel Maddo Show, the Jimmy Dores Show,

0:18.0

the Countess Ben and on the media and not to stoke any unnecessary fear but I haven't heard anyone say specifically that you can't catch Ebola from watching conservative media. So just a word for the wise.

0:29.0

It's been reported that there may be a second Ebola victim in Dallas. This would be a close relative or friend of the guy who is right now in critical condition in the Dallas hospital.

0:41.0

And this person is also being quarantined and being carefully monitored and it will probably stop there although it may go a little farther but the fact of the matter is that they're paying attention.

0:53.0

Now here's one of the things that I find so ironic about all this.

0:58.0

The idea that brown people coming to the United States, particularly children from Central America are somehow a horrible public health threat to us.

1:12.0

Like you to keep in mind that Guatemala has a national health care system.

1:18.0

In Texas, Rick Perry's Texas, George W. Bush's Texas, there are 6.4 million Texans, a quarter of the population who have no health insurance and Texas children are vaccinated at lower rates than Guatemalan children.

1:44.0

Why are we not talking about Texas? You want to talk about Ebola, you want to talk about public health, you want to talk about kids coming across the border who might be contagious with something on my God.

1:55.0

Back to clip number one here from from Michael Wiener performing as Michael Savage, it just to remind you that means because Obama broke down our borders and has eliminated any testing or screening of illegal aliens, whether they be coming from Guatemala.

2:12.0

El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, well now from Africa. Because of this open door policy, the CDC has confirmed the first Ebola case in the United States.

2:24.0

This is heartbreaking. It's an active treason. The treason was committed by your government.

2:30.0

And he goes on to say that Obama should be impeached for this. We do have an open door policy. It's called visitors visas. We get millions of, I don't have the numbers in front of me, but I used to work in the travel business.

2:44.0

Louise and I started a travel business in Atlanta, 1983, sold at 86. And there are, I think it's over a million people a month. It might be over a million people a week. I mean, there's like millions of people have come to the United States every day.

3:02.0

I fly out of Dallas airport. There's planes coming in from all over the world and people coming off the planes and they don't speak English or they get their phrase books. It's like being in Paris and seeing all the Americans walking through. Of course, we've got millions of people coming through this country.

3:18.0

Some of them come in here without documentation. Is that being that they're more likely to be spreading disease? No.

3:30.0

But, you know, this is, this is the, this is the right way world is let's not talk about Rick Perry keeping a quarter of Texans from having health insurance. Let's not talk about that because that's an actual public health crisis.

3:47.0

Let's instead talk about impeaching president of Obama because a guy flew over here from Liberia and when he got to Dallas, he got sick with light with Ebola.

3:57.0

And this is some kind of treasonous conspiracy on the part of a black president who who has overseen Detroit collapsing the same way South Africa did for obviously the same reasons.

4:09.0

Equal rights for black people. Presumably, I don't know. I, you know, it's, but it's pretty amazing. I mean, it's, in fact, this is clip number six. Just play this one.

4:23.0

This is really worth, especially the lily. Maybe, maybe he bet it hyperbolicly. Let's cut Michael winner a little, a little slack. Here he is performing his Michael Savage.

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