Stephen Colbert discussed Donald Trump, Ebola and how “the plague has spread so far” during Thursday night’s episode of “The Colbert Report.”
Pointing to the two American health workers who were evacuated to the United States for emergency medical treatment at Emory University, Colbert was quick to note: “To add to the horror, Emory is in Atlanta so they probably had to fly Delta!”
The way in which Ebola is spread “through intimate contact with bodily secretions such as vomit, blood or feces” led Colbert to his next topic. “Speaking of vomit, blood and feces…Donald Trump.”
Colbert agreed with Trump’s logic that people have to suffer the consequences of their good deeds, as the real estate mogul posted on his Twitter account last week. “That’s why Mother Theresa’s tombstone reads ‘She had it coming.'”
After going further down the proverbial rabbit-hole of responses to Ebola, Colbert had one final message for Americans.
“It is clear that we only have one chance to stop this spreading panic. We must isolate the source of the outbreak: our imagination.”
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Uppity Xians deserve what they get…
Imagine suckin’ up to Jesus like that.!
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What is this obsession of equating a medical degree with political acumen? The last person in the class is called Dr. and in the case of politics if they can’t they either go to Fox News or run for Congress. M.D. or Dr. does not a “god” make.
I don’t have data, but I suspect there’s a goodly segment of society that regards these Good Samaritan deeds as the work of suckers.
Going way back to Katrina, members of fire and rescue depts from all over the US went to NO to help. One was a family friend who is an officer in a large US urban fire dept. He went with a group of colleagues, was there for several weeks.
When I mentioned this to a cousin who served on another fire dept, he told me that he and his colleagues regarded these volunteers as “suckers” – his words.
Not everyone is in a position to run off and help in these disasters – I certainly can’t – but to display such cynicism toward those who do is quite disturbing.
I think fox and their hate radio colleagues are strategically ginning up hard-heartedness as a last ditch effort to forestall progressive change in the country ~ progressive taxation, better funding for arts and sciences, better oversight of financial institutions, racial and sexual equality, etc. This is all part of the conservative propaganda machine.
I think its less ginning it up, and more just playing to what is already there. Remember the 2012 republican primary debates…these are some very heartless people.