Containing Ebola is worse than communism
by digby
It’s been a helluva day for wingnut quotes. One of the best we’ve seen in ages. But this one from Laura Ingraham has to take the cake:
“Is this the American military mission to assist in the fight against Ebola? Again if we are really serious about Ebola being a threat to the United States of America, we have to shut down our border because you never know who could come across–probably not people with Ebola, but who knows. We gotta be much tougher on who we allow to come into this country legally on planes…”
“The military is just another tool in his arsenal to level the playing field, right? I mean, in other words, Africa really deserves more of America’s money because we’re people of privilege. We’re people of great privilege, so we should do what we can, we the American taxpayers, to transfer wealth over to Africa. It’s his father’s rage against colonialism, as Dinesh D’Souza wrote about, and maybe this is a way to continue to atone for that… If a few American military personnel have to be exposed to the Ebola virus to carry out this redistribution of the privileged’s wealth, then so be it.”
She’s been very upset about this Ebola mission from the beginning. (She even pretended not to know what a virus was when he first announced it.) But then she’s pretty much in a state of permanent high dudgeon about showing any form of basic human decency toward the rest of the human race. (Even Americans had better either be Allen West or Ward and June Cleaver.) It’s pathological. Unfortunately, she happens to speak for a fair number of our fellow countrymen.
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