You want frights with that?
by Ed Naha | April 29, 2009
The conventional Republican response to anything they can't logically respond to is, "9/11 changed everything." Well, apparently, that's true. For one thing, these post-attack times allow hordes of media mavens, conservative politicos and paranoid pundits to scream "Boo!" at us with alarming regularity.
Since there are no missing blondes for the MSM to focus on, right now, we have the swine flu - 2009's answer to avian flu, SARS, monkey pox, mad cow disease, mildly miffed cow disease, Ebola, West Nile virus and Limbaughtosis.
First, a big hat's off to the global health experts who are doing their best to quash this new bug before it reaches pandemic stages. Second, a big size nine between the slats to the MSM, especially its on-air members, for treating the swine flu with the same even-handedness Orson Welles did the Martian invasion in his "War of the Worlds" radiocast.
As of now, there are less than 100 confirmed cases in the states and two deaths are being investigated. This is bad news. However, since the population of the United States is over 303 million and 36,000 people die from regular influenza annually, there's really no reason for cable news' "the sky is falling" delivery system except for ratings.
The epicenter of the outbreak, Mexico, has suffered over 160 deaths during the last two weeks and is only now beginning to try to suss things out. Facing criticism for its fumbling of the buggy ball, Mexico has already begun to politicize the outbreak with Mexican Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordova suggesting that the flu started in the U.S. "I think it is very risky to say, or want to say, what the point of origin or dissemination of it is, given that there had already been cases reported in southern California and Texas," he said, not noting that these cases occurred two weeks after the first cases showed up South of the Border.
Apparently, Cordova doesn't realize that when it comes to politicizing disasters, no one can top the good old U.S. of A. Conservative cranks are already blaming the flu outbreak on the flood of illegal immigrants coming up from Mexico, apparently all carrying their pet pigs.
Michelle Malkin crossed her eyes further than usual, ranting, "I've blogged for years about the spread of contagious diseases from around the world into the US as a result of uncontrolled immigration." She then went back to her tea-bagging.
Michael Weenie, er, Savage fumed, "Now, I'm going to talk about the horrible, horrible story of illegal aliens bringing a deadly new flu strain into the United States of America. Make no mistake about it! Illegal aliens are the carriers of the new strain of human-swine avian flu from Mexico. Make no mistake about it!"
And the center of the outbreak must be Area 51.
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