During an exchange Monday on the country’s response to Ebola, MSNBC personality and “Morning Joe” regular Donny Deutsch may have unwittingly provided fodder to Fox News.
Citing a recent piece by former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, Deutsçh expressed annoyance at the hysteria over the outbreak.
“I don’t know if you guys feel this. Robert Reich wrote a piece that touched on this that we’re kind of a nation of cowards now. Every time I run into somebody who’s on north shore of Long Island — ‘I’m afraid of Ebola’ — it’s just, shut up. You know, are you not getting, yes, this is something that’s serious. Just stop it. Stop it.”
The show’s host Joe Scarborough said that the widespread fear is a byproduct of a lack of trust in leaders.
“I also think they’re cowards,” Deutsch said.
Deutsch’s words brought back memories of Attorney General Eric Holder’s remarks in 2009, which set off outrage among Republicans and conservatives.
“Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial, we have always been and we — I believe continue to be in too many ways essentially a nation of cowards,” Holder said during an event celebrating Black History Month.
Deutsch’s comments come around the 7:25 mark:
We’re a nation of 24/7 news media hype machine looking for the next “crisis” so they can sell tampons and SUVs to the masses. The sheep who watch that crap are not smarter than the rest of us.
Donny is right…the hysteria is looney tunes at its finest. I also find it amusing that the rightie cowards who blast our government all the time now are looking to that same government to “save them” even though they have denied proper funding to these same agencies. What a bunch of hypocrites.
This made me laugh…I remember this crowd saying the financial collapse was due to the greed express “by all of us”.
It is worth remembering the word “us”, to a Manhattan media darling, only refers to other Manhattan media darlings or, perhaps, only other members of the Mourning Joe brain trust.
Meanwhile, in the echo chamber:
We are exactly a nation of cowards. Or, at the very least, a nation with a very large population of cowards. People who live in constant fear of anything and everything, and a media that is more than willing to feed that paranoid fear at every turn because that means higher rating and higher ratings means more money. Terrorism, ebola, overreaching government, minorities, gay people, feminists, armed gangs, and the list goes on. “Better buy a few more guns, better stock up on some canned goods, be a scared little sheep that does exactly as we say.”
It would be nice if more people called out this idiocy.