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Fox’s MacCallum Fear Mongers About An Ebola Terrorist Attack

Posted by Ellen -7841.60pc on October 21, 2014 · Flag

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Fox News’ Martha MacCallum turned to a pre-9/11 national security exercise enacting a biological attack of small pox as a vehicle to scare viewers into thinking that an Ebola terrorist attack could be hitting the U.S. at any moment. 

MacCallum introduced the discussion by painting the following scenario for her viewers: “A terrorist, instead of being a suicide bomber and strapping a bomb to himself, allows himself to become sick with this disease and then moves in the population, intentionally trying to cough on things and sneeze on people and spread it… perhaps even several of these people.”

Instead of talking to a doctor or public health specialist, MacCallum consulted Republican speechwriter Marc Thiessen, who just published a column about the 2001 exercise that began with the inflammatory sentences: “The world is experiencing virulent outbreaks of Ebola and Islamist radicalism. What if the two threats converge into one?”

That was all the expertise needed for Fox News – and never mind that Thiessen has falsely accused President Obama of plagiarizing George W. Bush’s speech.

So what changes have been put in place since 9/11? MacCallum never got around to bringing it up. She was too busy giving Thiessen time to put forth his “nightmare scenario” that an infected terrorist could blow himself up in a crowded area “spreading infected tissue, turning it into a hot zone.”

Watch the fear mongering below, from last night's The Kelly File.

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Blue Turtle commented 2014-10-21 13:04:13 -0400 · Flag
I hope Jon Stewart takes this one on because it is about as stupid as anything I’ve heard about Ebola. Ebola is less contagious than the flu. So why would a terrorist spread Ebola when there are many more dangerously contagious things to terrorize with? The problem with Fox is that there is no logic only <b>profits produced through fear and hate- mongering.</b>
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Because you can never be too afraid in Fox News land.








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