“Yes, Ebola has come to the United States, but, for better or worse, President Obama actually didn’t have anything to do with it. Still, the conservative impulse is to somehow link a highly infectious virus with politics and blame Obama for refusing to shut down the borders to the United States. Um, could you be serious?

Still, we do have sympathy. Often when something scary or inexplicable happens, we seek to place blame somewhere so that we won’t have to tolerate the feeling of existential meaninglessness. Like, for instance, why we have religion.”* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more here from Joanna Rothkopf / Salon:
http://www.salon.com/2014/10/01/why_should_we_believe_you_the_worst_politicizations_of_the_ebola_crisis/

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Ebola in the US, Secret Service Director, Obama Drones & Netanyahu – The Young Turks 10/1/2014 News & Politics
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