MSNBC blames NRA for spread of Ebola
Joe Newby / Spokane Conservative Examiner
MSNBC, the cable outlet known here as the official network of insane liberal hate, struck again, blaming the National Rifle Association for the spread of Ebola while ignoring the thousands being allowed to enter the country from Ebola nations without additional screening. On Friday, Newsbusters reported that MSNBC host Krystal Ball and NBC correspondent Anne Thompson "shamelessly" politicized the Ebola crisis in an op-ed published Thursday on MSNBC.com.
According to the far-left wing fringe network, due to "Senate dysfunction and NRA opposition, we don't have a surgeon general right now....during a time when, we not only have Ebola arriving on our shores, but are also dealing with the mysterious Enterovirus, which is infecting and contributing to the deaths of children in the U.S." Apparently, Ball and Thompson are unaware that Democrats currently rule the Senate with an iron fist.
"In fact," the two liberals added, "we haven't had a surgeon general for more than a year now — even though the president nominated the eminently qualified Dr. Vivek Murthy back in November 2013."
But there's a reason Murthy's nomination has been delayed -- his controversial stand on the Second Amendment. But according to Ball and Thompson, the real reason has nothing to do with Murthy's views on guns, it has to do with fear of the NRA, an organization liberals decry as evil -- so evil, in fact, that one liberal Democrat actually prayed for God to kill every member of the organization with Ebola.
"The NRA wrote a strongly worded letter, Rand Paul put a hold on the nomination, and Red State Democrats begged Harry Reid to not force them to vote," the two NBC employees said. "It's funny that the strongly worded letters of ordinary citizens don't seem to have quite the same effect," they added, implying that the millions of Americans who are members of the NRA aren't "ordinary citizens."
Matthew Balan said Ball and Thompson "undercut" their argument somewhat when they wrote that "Tom Frieden, the head of the Center for Disease Control, has been filling in for part of the surgeon general's role" in the Ebola crisis. But, they added, "he has his own vital work to attend to as both head of the CDC and the U.S. Ambassador to the World Health Organization."
Naturally, neither Ball nor Thompson bothered to state the degree of Murthy's anti-gun radicalism.
For example, they failed to mention that according to the doctor, "society's preoccupation with firearms" comes from "fiery gun battles" on Saturday morning cartoons, the UK Daily Mail reported in March.
"Today, a typical elementary student wakes up on Saturday mornings to fiery gun battles, explosive scenes of terror and the violent decimation of the 'bad guy' – all this in a children's cartoon," Murthy said in 1994 at the ripe old age of 16. "With such destructive influence, society's preoccupation with firearms and brutal methods of conflict resolution is no surprise."
In short, Ball and Thompson wants the Senate to confirm a radical anti-gun zealot who formed his opinions from watching Saturday morning cartoons. Naturally, Senate Republicans weren't impressed.
"This nominee seems much more devoted to politics than to patients," Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wy., said. "I know there are a number of senators who are up for re-election who are probably not going to want to vote for somebody who is this committed to taking away our Second Amendment rights."
According to the far-left wing fringe network, due to "Senate dysfunction and NRA opposition, we don't have a surgeon general right now....during a time when, we not only have Ebola arriving on our shores, but are also dealing with the mysterious Enterovirus, which is infecting and contributing to the deaths of children in the U.S." Apparently, Ball and Thompson are unaware that Democrats currently rule the Senate with an iron fist.
"In fact," the two liberals added, "we haven't had a surgeon general for more than a year now — even though the president nominated the eminently qualified Dr. Vivek Murthy back in November 2013."
But there's a reason Murthy's nomination has been delayed -- his controversial stand on the Second Amendment. But according to Ball and Thompson, the real reason has nothing to do with Murthy's views on guns, it has to do with fear of the NRA, an organization liberals decry as evil -- so evil, in fact, that one liberal Democrat actually prayed for God to kill every member of the organization with Ebola.
"The NRA wrote a strongly worded letter, Rand Paul put a hold on the nomination, and Red State Democrats begged Harry Reid to not force them to vote," the two NBC employees said. "It's funny that the strongly worded letters of ordinary citizens don't seem to have quite the same effect," they added, implying that the millions of Americans who are members of the NRA aren't "ordinary citizens."
Matthew Balan said Ball and Thompson "undercut" their argument somewhat when they wrote that "Tom Frieden, the head of the Center for Disease Control, has been filling in for part of the surgeon general's role" in the Ebola crisis. But, they added, "he has his own vital work to attend to as both head of the CDC and the U.S. Ambassador to the World Health Organization."
Naturally, neither Ball nor Thompson bothered to state the degree of Murthy's anti-gun radicalism.
For example, they failed to mention that according to the doctor, "society's preoccupation with firearms" comes from "fiery gun battles" on Saturday morning cartoons, the UK Daily Mail reported in March.
"Today, a typical elementary student wakes up on Saturday mornings to fiery gun battles, explosive scenes of terror and the violent decimation of the 'bad guy' – all this in a children's cartoon," Murthy said in 1994 at the ripe old age of 16. "With such destructive influence, society's preoccupation with firearms and brutal methods of conflict resolution is no surprise."
In short, Ball and Thompson wants the Senate to confirm a radical anti-gun zealot who formed his opinions from watching Saturday morning cartoons. Naturally, Senate Republicans weren't impressed.
"This nominee seems much more devoted to politics than to patients," Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wy., said. "I know there are a number of senators who are up for re-election who are probably not going to want to vote for somebody who is this committed to taking away our Second Amendment rights."
I think the entire group at MSNBC should go to Liberia and report on the spread of Ebola. It could be the NRA is behind this; the only way to find out is for ALL of them (ESPECIALLY AL SHARPTON) to go over and ask the people who are dying of Ebola if they think a new Surgeon General could have stopped this plague.
ReplyDeleteThey should investigate how the NRA is involved! This is shocking!