Background:
Oklahoma Republican James Inhofe Takes A Know Nothing Approach To Climate Change (& Facts!) 

Democalypse 2014 - South by South Mess: Malady on 34th Street
When a doctor returning from West Africa is diagnosed with Ebola in New York City, the media and government fail to handle the situation gracefully. (8:28):

Moment of Zen - Catching Ebola
Dr. Natalie Azar explains the conditions required to successfully transmit Ebola on MSNBC's "The Daily Rundown." (0:18)

Fox News, Bill O Reilly & Rush Limbaugh (see links to past posts, below) - not to mention the rest of the media using fear to gain some viewers - have been scaring the pants off people using non-scientific facts about Ebola. It's like how they handle Climate Change, i.e. 'I am not a scientist' which means that they lack the ability to comprehend science no matter how many scientists try & explain it to them. John Oliver demonstrates:

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Climate Change Debate

Normally a test is to determine something...

Rachel Maddow: Student tests negative for Ebola, quarantined anyway
Ryan Boyko, a Yale student quarantined by order of the state of Connecticut despite having tested negative for Ebola and having no symptoms of the disease, talks with Rachel Maddow about inconsistent and irrational Ebola quarantine rules in the U.S.

Chris Hayes: Christie and Cuomo face quarantine backlash
After Governors Andrew Cuomo and Chris Christie impose a mandatory quarantine derided by the medical community as well as its first victim, the Governors shift positions.

Rachel Maddow: Rachel Maddow Fear-driven governors make Ebola policy mess
Rachel Maddow describes the confusion over Ebola quarantine policy for people returning to the US from countries crisis with Ebola as state governors abandon science-based recommendations and scramble to appease irrational public fears.

I have been posting on Bill O Reilly's talking points on another blog and they show that the steady fear mongering of Bill O Reilly was a factor in the Ebola fear reaching epic proportions;

Rush Limbaugh Mistakes & Smears On Czars - Past & Present

BILL O'REILLY & A BUNCH OF HIS ALLIES IN THE MEDIA DO AN EBOLA FEAR MONGERING CAMPAIGN 

COMMENTARY ON BILL THE LIAR'S "WHY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS NOT PROTECTING AMERICA - OCT. 13, 2014"

COMMENTARY ON BILL'S "THE EBOLA FACTOR" - OCT. 16, 2014

COMMENTARY ON BILL'S OCT 15 TALKING POINTS & BASIC EBOLA CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES OUTLINED FOR TEXAS HOSPITALS 

COMMENTARY ON BILL THE LIAR'S "LATEST ON THE EBOLA DEBACLE" FROM OCT 14, 2014


Video Showing How Obvious Bill O Reilly's Fear Mongering On Ebola Was:
Watch Stephen Colbert Make Fun Of Bill O Reilly's Ebola Fear Mogering By Acting Like Him IN A Satirical Manner...

Some more proof that the GOP has become the Anti Science Party &/Or Pro Hysteria Party

Article: Scientists have sold their souls – and basic research – to business A devil's bargain struck by scientists with government has led to the downgrading of basic research

You’d never know we were Ebola free
As Dr. Craig Spencer is sent home from the hospital, today is officially “Victory from Ebola Day” in the U.S. But according to the media, you’d never know.

The media’s ‘totally rational’ response to Ebola
With the number of Ebola cases in the U.S. back at zero, Chris Hayes takes a look back at the media coverage.

Textbook tearing crosses line for even reddest voters
Rachel Maddow reports that the school board that voted to tear out pages from the honors biology textbook to remove mentions of abortion has lost its tea party majority, leaving the censorship plan in question. ArizonaHonorsBiology.com remains, just in case.

Background:
Information/Press 5 - Learning To Find GOP Plants & The Fake Anti-Obama Echo Chamber

Theory: Joe Scarborough, Chuck Todd & Andrea Mitchell are GOP (NeoCon) plants in MSNBC to help them sway public opinion and win elections. 

This particular short article contains EXACTLY what is wrong with Joe's attitude. Since it includes a Daily Show video that makes a great introduction to the show Morning Joe for newbies, I thought I would post this article in full...

Salon:Attention, Joe Scarborough: “Morning Joe” is also a punch line on the “Daily Show” - The "Morning Joe" host dismissed CNN as a "punch line," but his own show doesn't fare much better on Comedy Central

“Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough is confident that his morning news program on MSNBC will continue “covering hard news” despite a recent report that the network’s ratings are slipping, and that, for the second consecutive month, CNN’s “New Day” has beat “Morning Joe” in viewership. Scarborough dismissed CNN, telling the New York Times that the network has become a mockery thanks to the “Daily Show”:

“CNN has made itself a punch line on the ‘Daily Show’ for its phony breaking-news headlines and breathless coverage of random ocean debris,” Joe Scarborough, the anchor of “Morning Joe,” said. “ ‘Morning Joe’ topped CNN in the first quarter by covering hard news, just as we have for the past five years. We will do the same in the future and won’t be distracted by ‘X-Files’ cable news programming.”

While this may be true, Scarborough must have forgotten that “Morning Joe” is also a long-running punch line on “The Daily Show.” It was only a month ago when Samantha Bee performed a 6-minute, one-woman scene devoted to the program, describing “Morning Joe” as a “family” that puts its own agenda ahead of anything else.

“My ‘Morning Joe’ family may fight and bicker and star-fuck like nobody’s business,” Bee said, “but when the chips are down for one of our powerful friends, we pull together to attack anyone who questions them. Because that’s what morning news shows do.”

The Daily Show Video: 

Daily Show Summary (Watch Joe Scarborough echo Fox News talking points): Cover-Up in the Air - What Would Reagan Do?  

Democalypse 2016 - Willary or Won'tary
Hillary Clinton returns to Iowa for the first time since her 2008 presidential campaign, but the media begins to tire of her enigmatic hints about running in 2016. (8:18)

The Daily Show - Ron Paul & the Top Tier
Even when the media does remember Ron Paul, it's only to reassure themselves that there's no need to remember Ron Paul. (4:20): 

Hack List No. 8: MSNBC
Believe it or not, the liberal answer to Fox actually makes for worse TV

MSNBC, we’re told all the time, is the liberal Fox News. That’s reductive and stupid. It isn’t. MSNBC isn’t the liberal Fox News for two very important reasons: It usually demonstrates a greater respect for the truth than Fox News, and it’s not as good as Fox News. It’s not as good at being liberal as Fox is at being conservative. Fox is rigidly ideologically consistent, with its “straight news” programs echoing the same talking points and pushing the same slanted stories as its opinion shows. While there’s no doubt that MSNBC is more unapologetically liberal than it used to be, it’s still all over the place, with a conservative anchoring its flagship morning show, objective Beltway “straight news” proponents like Chuck Todd and Andrea Mitchell dominating in the daytime, and weekends full of … prison shows. But more important, it’s not as good as Fox at being compelling TV, which is why millions more people watch Fox every day. (There are demographic reasons for Fox’s advantage, too, but it’s still a huge number.)


Chuck Todd “disqualifies” Grimes: A candidate’s minor stumble gets caught up in the narrative
If an awkward remark about Obama is "disqualifying" for Grimes, what about McConnell's absurd lies about Obamacare?

MSNBC selectively remembers the Iraq War
Updated: Morning Joe and Luke Russert leave out some important context. Like how much MSNBC pushed for war

Related Blog Post: Phil Donahue on His 2003 Firing from MSNBC, When Liberal Network Couldn’t Tolerate Antiwar Voices

Video On Truths About The Iraq War: "Why We Did It" - The Invasion of Iraq 

Mika Brzezinski’s erotic dance
A new photograph in Vanity Fair offers yet another example of the "pornification" of political culture

“Morning Joe” wonders if the Secret Service hired a woman because it’s “good for the brand”
Members of the MSNBC panel suggested Julia Pierson was hired simply to meet a quota, not because of her résumé 

How not to defend yourself against the “chauvinism” charge, starring Morning Joe
Today, Joe Scarborough yelled at Mika Brzezinski until she apologized for getting annoyed with his snide sexism 

Moment of Zen - Don't Interrupt
"Morning Joe" co-host Mika Brzezinski finishes her thought. (0:18)

Joe Scarborough blasts Hillary Clinton: “She’s a robot … while people are getting their heads carved off”
The "Morning Joe" host and former GOP congressman says Clinton's phoniness is what Americans hate about politics 

Cancel “Meet the Press”: Why this icon of Beltway insiderism has to go
"Meet the Press" and the rest of the Sunday shows are slowly fading into irrelevance, and they're beyond fixing

Joe Scarborough’s police apologism: Being arrested was the reporters’ own fault
The "Morning Joe" host takes reporters arrested in Ferguson to task for doing their jobs

Unintentionally hilarious “Morning Joe” graphic identifies Bill Kristol as harbinger of doom
The good people at MSNBC looked into the future, and what they saw was Kristoldämmerung

Must-see morning clip
Joe Scarborough asks, "Why are liberals still so angry on the Twitter?" 

Must-see morning clip: Obama talks debt cuts on “Morning Joe”
In a pre-recorded interview the president says he "stole" healthcare ideas from Romney

Related posts:

Brief Overview Of Our History In The Middle East & Our Engagement With ISIS

The Koch Brothers Seem To Be Buying The Keystone XL Pipeline With Their Supporters Using Lies As Their Primary Marketing Tactic!

Phil Donahue on His 2003 Firing from MSNBC, When Liberal Network Couldn't Tolerate Antiwar Voices

So Wrong for So Long: Greg Mitchell on How the Press, the Pundits — and the President — Failed on Iraq

.. AND the obvious deceit on the part of MSNBC by pretending Joe is a "conservative" continues to this day...

Background;

Article 1  Section 8

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;

To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian Tribes;

To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;

The Daily Show - The unpopularity of Congress leaves both Democratic and Republican candidates retreating from their parties' stances in the hopes of successful midterm election bids. (7:46):

AT 4:30: Republicans have sent the last 6 years breaking up Government and now they can run on the anger generated by breaking our Government. 

This seems to be the GOP Republicans primary strategy (after fear mongering towards colored folk), i.e. to sell their country and fellow countrymen/women by accepting bribes in a variety of forms to destroy the American Constitution & the American Economy by not fulfilling their Constitutional Obligations as per Article 1 Section 8 and counting, rightly it seems, that the American People are just too dumb to figure out who really is to blame. Occasionally one is caught accidentally but there has been no all encompassing investigation with lie detectors to figure out who is lying.

The above image is from here... "The Senate Banking Committee quizzes JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon on the efficacy of Dodd-Frank and measures he would take to prevent future catastrophic bank losses"... 

OIL -SEX SCANDAL: Notice in the comedy segment below, a big scandal coincides with a report about oil drilling issues by the department where the scandal originates, i.e. Interior Department's 'minerals management service',still ...the GOP is not fazed in the slightest (it never is, no matter what crimes it commits... it is, afterall, the war party!) 

Some news reports of extreme corruption in the Department of the Interior;

Sex For Oil Scandal At Interior Department (CBS/ AP) Government officials handling billions of dollars in oil royalties engaged in illicit sex with employees of energy companies they were dealing with and received numerous gifts from them, federal investigators said Wednesday. The allegations of bad behavior involve 13 government employees in Denver and Washington, reports CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson. Those accused are workers who sell U.S. mineral rights to oil companies. Such sales are one of the government's biggest sources of revenue besides taxes. But the Inspector General for the Interior Department says they rigged contracts, and engaged in illegal moonlighting, drugs, sex and gift-taking from oil company representatives, according to three reports released Wednesday. The reports revealed startling allegations including that an employee attended a so-called "treasure hunt" in the desert with all expenses paid by an oil producer, and that a former supervisor - who bought cocaine from a colleague then boosted her performance award - had sex with subordinates, and steered government contracts to an outside business where he also worked, Attkisson reports.

Days Before Scandal, Interior Got Ethics Award Oh, the irony. Just before the Department of Interior's inspector general released reports that laid bare the oil-and-sex scandal in the department's oil royalties office this week, Interior won an annual award from the federal Office of Government Ethics, The Post's Mary Pat Flaherty and Derek Kravitz report. The inspector general said Wednesday that federal officials in the Mineral Management Service's royalty-in-kind program allegedly were plied with alcohol and expensive gifts from industry representatives, and in some cases had sex and did drugs with them. The Denver-area office takes in roughly $4 billion each year in oil and natural gas reserves from companies drilling on federal and Indian land and offshore.

Billions Missing From U.S. Indian Trust Fund  In his testimony before Congress, John Echohawk, director of Native American Rights Fund, called it "yet another serious and continuing breach in a long history of dishonorable treatment of Indian tribes and individual Indians by the United States government." Arizona Senator John McCain, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, bluntly called it "theft from Indian people." These men were describing the single largest and longest-lasting financial scandal in history involving the federal government of the United States. With no other recourse left at their disposal, NARF, along with other attorneys, filed a class action lawsuit in federal district court on June 10 on behalf of more than 300,000 American Indians. The suit charges Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt, Assistant Interior Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs Ada Deer and Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin with illegal conduct in regard to the management of Indian money held in trust accounts and managed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. If the lawsuit's claims are correct, and there's an overwhelming body of evidence that suggests they are, then the federal government has lost, misappropriated or, in some cases, stolen billions of dollars from some of its poorest citizens.

Previous posts on this general topic;

Once Again Congress Is Successful In Protecting It's Shady Insider Trading Deals

Washington D.C., TARP & Homeowners Nonsense Explained In 3 Videos & 1 Image

The Financial Crisis Explained In 3 Videos (Only one is over 7 minutes)

4 Videos Under 7 Minutes Illustrating Congress In Full 

The Case for Indicting the Murdochs for Treason (*as per The US Constitution) 

Case for Indicting The GOP for Treason for The "Paul Ryan Plan" (*As Per The US Constitution)

Breaking Down Society & Social Structures Leads To Anarchy AND Violence 

Q. Why Are Dems Attacking Obama? Ans. Because of "the base"... and the base believes what it is told through the Anti-Obama Echo Chamber the GOP have "implanted" throughout the media.


Basically, rather than face the GOP on truth the Dems have chosen not not to...

In other words, we have two distinct categories the politics of our two parties can be lumped into...


"THE DEMOCRATS ARE COWARDS"

Example;

On Topic - Political Parties - The Democratic Party: Stephen knows that when someone misbehaves, it's natural to assume that person is a Democrat. 

"THE GOP ARE BULLIES"

Example;

It must be tough for Republicans to love America so much but hate almost three-quarters of the people living in it. (08:54) 

AT 4:30: Republicans have sent the last 6 years breaking up Government and now they can run on the anger generated by breaking our Government. This ploy is not more evident than with Mitch McConnel...

In other words, oppose Democrats at all costs even destroying the economy is necessary...

Armadebtdon 2011 - Men of a Certain Rage - Republicans abdicate the "doing s**t" part of debt ceiling responsibility to Obama, but retain the "complaining about the guy doing s**t" part for themselves. (3:29):

1. "I would advocate that we pass legislation giving the president the authority to REQUEST of us an increase in the debt ceiling that would take us past the end of his term" - "that [legislation] would be subject to disapproval. That resolution of disapproval, if passed, would then go to the president, he could sign it or he could veto it." - McConnell - Theme: Passing legislation to 'disapprove it later.

2. "The reason default is no better idea today than when Newt Gengrich tried it in 1995, is it destroys your brand [i.e. America's credit rating] and would give the president the opportunity to blame Republicans for bad economy" - Defaulting was seriously tried by Newt in 1995.

3. "Look, he owns the economy. He's been in office almost 3 years now and we refuse to let him entice us into co-ownership of a bad economy" McConnel - The co-ownership is referring to the United states economy. 

Important Republican Party Position: McConnel admits that making sure Obama is a one term President is his primary political goal. This means that the worse the economy is the better chances are that Obama will be a one term president.

From:

The GOP's/FoxNews's Primary Goal Is To Do Anything To Win Elections INCLUDING Destroying The Economy If Necessary!

Mitch McConnel tries to distance a popular State affiliate of ObamaCare - i.e. ALL STATE HEALTH WEBSITES EXIST BECAUSE OF THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT AKA OBAMACARE - from the very policy that it is there to help promote! ACTUALLY saying he will remove ObamaCare so all they will have is a website. Now, that's mean!

Tributes To Past Meanness...

1. Here's a tribute to a few Republican senators who find comfort and advantage in invoking the heroes of 9/11 but refuse to give them health care.

2. Republicans Block 9/11 Health Care Bill: Republican senators refuse to vote on the 9/11 health care bill until wealthy Americans receive an engraved notification that their taxes won't go up.

3. The Daily Show: National Legislators' Unearned Vacation - Despite a growing list of unresolved crises, Congress spends the final hours before summer recess deciding to sue President Barack Obama. (5:53):

Bills NOT passed by the do-nothing Congress:

Border Bill (To protect our borders against people entering from 'terrorist connected countries')

A highway funding bill (Our infrastructure is crumbling)

Emergency Unemployement Insurance 

Student Loan Relief

Comprehensive Immigration Reform

Summary; Congress is not following Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution i.e. they are not doing their job in outright defiance of their role outline in the Constitution!


What did Congress do this year?

Answer:

They are suing the President over his "Selective implementation of the affordable care act"! Something which is blatant hypocrisy as Bush did the same thing.

Video For Ron Paulians: PIERS MORGAN TONIGHT: Ron Paul - Healthcare (March 26, 2012)

Notes: 1 - 1:30 This individual mandate thing has been around for 30 years - longer than most Ron Paul followers have been alive! (i.e. this is a slow process NOT something for kids to be arguing about... you don't know what your comfortable lives would be like without an individual mandate. Maybe like Somalia!), 2 - 4:30 America is a little different we don't have socialized medicine we have corporate medicine (i.e. Ron Paulians should note that you can't truthfully call Obama a "crony-socialist" you CAN call him a "crony capitalist" - But, of course, Mitt is much much much worse!), 3 - 5:55 If the people are accepting it THEN ITS FINE, talking about the individual mandate is only appropriate for a republican primary. , 4 - 6:35 Bush set up a prescription plan and the Republicans didn't say jack!

Keep in mind that the Individual Mandate has been around for a long time (it's to help equalize things as per the Bill Of Rights). Even in Ron Paul's Presidential Plan there was no attempt to START with cutting anything connected to the Individual Mandate because of the 'problem of dependency' i.e. The individual mandate is what all social programs to help people are based on... removing it is like pulling out the entire foundation of medicare or social security on which many people depend to survive - GOP policies are aimed at LITERALLY killing American Citizens (the poor ones - a sort of survival of the fittest which Bill O Reilly calls "life is not fair"). 

Arguing against the Individual Mandate would be even more hypocrisy... which is why a conservative judge endorsed it...