Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Rand Paul Is Politicizing Ebola By Accurately Citing the CDC
Debbie Wasserman Schultz appeared on Fox News Sunday today and furthered the “Rand Paul got Ebola transmission wrong” canard. (H/t Colonel Haiku.) The video is at The Daily Caller; I initially embedded it, but it’s one of those annoying auto-start videos. At 8:41, Schultz says:
When you have Republican Senators like Rand Paul, who’s a doctor, who should know better, who are saying that you can be three feet from someone who has Ebola and actually get it, I mean, that’s an example of how Republicans are politicizing this.
As I showed in this post, Rand Paul simply repeated what the CDC says. It is a fact, beyond any rational dispute, that the CDC defines a “low-risk exposure” to include being within “three feet” of an Ebola patient for a “prolonged period of time.” To attack Rand Paul over this, when he is simply accurately citing the CDC, is the height of ignorance.
Unfortunately, host Chris Wallace didn’t seem to know this — or, if he did, he allowed this misinformation to go unchallenged. But, as Patterico readers, you know it — even if Sunday talk show hosts don’t.
Ding.
Patterico (d4f6b7) — 10/19/2014 @ 11:01 amWell, Debbie is a recognized expert. I do wish she would have orthodontia if she is going to do more TV.
Mike K (90dfdc) — 10/19/2014 @ 11:12 amDebbie Poodleman Shultz is employing the same War On The Facts tactics she pulled with Gov. Scott Walker now re: Obama’s tacit approval of Ebola in the USA .
She desperately needs a flea dip.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/19/2014 @ 11:15 amBrutally poignant, Mike K… that grille was tough to look at as I ate my Sunday breakfast.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/19/2014 @ 11:16 amThat’s Debbie. She’s not afraid of heights. Especially ones of stupidity.
jakee308 (d409c2) — 10/19/2014 @ 11:19 amDebbie, Barack Ebola assured us that you cannot get infected by being on a plane or bus with somebody who already has the disease. This is why the government is now contact tracing all those people who flew with that Dallas nurse who treated the Liberian dude who died, isn’t it? Can you splain that Debbie?
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 10/19/2014 @ 11:22 amThe broad has spent her entire adult life in political office of one sort or another, first as a staff aide and then (from the age of 26) as an elected office-holder herself. She even earned a post-baccalaureate certificate in ‘political campaigning’ at age 24. She has no vocation apart from that, unlike Rand Paul. You run into these types in the Democratic Party (upChuck Schumer and Herb Moses butt-buddy Barney Frank to name two).
What she knows is spin (and outright lying and bad hair).
Art Deco (ee8de5) — 10/19/2014 @ 12:09 pmschlitz reminds me of Phyllis Diller.
mg (31009b) — 10/19/2014 @ 12:21 pmIn looks only. Phyllis was far brighter.
America: where else can you be a no nothing ditz with no redeeming qualities or abilities and still rise to the level of your incompetency – AND BEYOND!!!!
What a country. Swimming against the Darwinian tide.
jakee308 (d409c2) — 10/19/2014 @ 12:22 pmChris Wallace needs better researchers who could have easily found Patterico’s post, especially since Rand Paul tweeted a link.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 10/19/2014 @ 12:24 pmI am sure that Wallace’s researchers have already flagged this site as “not truthy”.
felipe (40f0f0) — 10/19/2014 @ 12:32 pmWhat amazes me is that there aren’t more Democrats acutely embarrassed that their party is run by the likes of Debbie Wasserman Schultz. It’s like they WANT their brand to exude stupidity.
Kevin M (b357ee) — 10/19/2014 @ 1:18 pmDRJ-
How well did Wallace’s fact-checkers do in 2012 with Mitt?
Kevin M (b357ee) — 10/19/2014 @ 1:18 pmEven assuming that the media is unbiased (an absurd concept, but let it go for now), as a class TV talking heads are unusually stupid, and probably need special cross bracing in their skulls to keep the vacuum between their ears from collapsing their heads. Add the bias back in and what you get is a negative probability that Debbie “Wasserman-Positive” Schultz would get challenged on her mendacity.
C. S. P. Schofield (848299) — 10/19/2014 @ 1:24 pmI don’t know, Kevin M, but I try not to remember bad years like 2012.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 10/19/2014 @ 1:27 pmPatterico: Rand Paul simply repeated what the CDC says.
The CDC did not say ebola is “incredibly contagious.”
They just acted like it was – part of the time, and the rest of the time like it wasn’t. It wasn’t hard to notice the contradiction.
At least they didn’t recommend killing the dog, as was done in Spain.
Or did they, and Texas resisted?
Whose idea was it to kill the dog?
Sammy Finkelman (31cdef) — 10/19/2014 @ 1:32 pmHas anyone seen the pooch, Bo, lately?
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/19/2014 @ 3:22 pmIt was the dog of the nurse with ebola.
In Spain, they killed it – in Dallas Texas, they not only did not kill it, but they didn’t even put it into a kennel where it stay isolated, but made sure somebody would be with it, so the pooch would be happy, and the nurse would get back a dog as happy as when she left it.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/ebola-patient-nina-phams-dog-bentley-enters-testing-phase-n229681
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 10/20/2014 @ 10:16 amEbola export precautions in Liberia: (the transcript looks corrupted)
http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-transcript-october-12-2014-n224126
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 10/21/2014 @ 2:48 pmOpinion: Ebola: Should We Stop Panicking?
ON the CBBS Evening News, someone said you don’t get it from shaking hands or from sweat (from someone not showing symptoms) but the CDC does thes quarantines.
It’s contradictory, of course.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 10/21/2014 @ 4:43 pm