{"id":21005,"date":"2014-10-09T17:38:50","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T00:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=21005"},"modified":"2014-10-19T12:50:47","modified_gmt":"2014-10-19T19:50:47","slug":"ebolophobia-fox-news-psycho-analyst-infects-america-with-irrational-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=21005","title":{"rendered":"Ebolophobia: Fox News &#8220;Psycho&#8221; Analyst Infects America With Irrational Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Be afraid America. President Obama&#8217;s <em>&#8220;reticence to put America first&#8221;<\/em> is making it impossible to contain the <em>&#8220;psychological virus&#8221;<\/em> of fear that is spreading across the nation due to an outbreak of the Ebola virus that has already claimed as many as one life within our borders. That&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/2014\/10\/09\/ebola-outbreak-why-obama-is-allowing-ebolaphobia-to-spread\/\" target=\"_blank\">warning<\/a> issued by Fox News <em>&#8220;psycho&#8221;<\/em> analyst <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?tag=keith-ablow\" target=\"_blank\">Keith Ablow<\/a>, who is calling the epidemic of fear <em>&#8220;Ebolophobia.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/FoxNews\/keith-ablow2.jpg\" alt=\"Keith Ablow\" width=\"500\" height=\"325\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11332\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ablow is best known for his astute diagnoses of prior public health threats like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10823\">Obama Virus<\/a>, which Ablow alleged would result in America&#8217;s children succumbing to <em>&#8220;the subtle, chronic, steady erosion of their belief in themselves.&#8221;<\/em> He prescribed the following preventative measure:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;So it is time to immunize our sons and daughters against the president\u2019s psychologically toxic rhetoric, which has the capacity to destroy the self-esteem of a generation of young people.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In response to the potential of unnecessary Ebola-related anxiety, Ablow suggests taking steps that only appear to be absurdly paranoid to those who aren&#8217;t gifted with his unique strain of dementia. He notes that <em>&#8220;fears of a deadly epidemic in the United States are bound to accelerate,&#8221;<\/em> even as he warns about <em>&#8220;worries that dogs and other animals could transmit Ebola.&#8221;<\/em> Now that may seem like a peculiar way of mitigating unwarranted fear, but then you would have to be a pseudo-professional like Ablow to understand its efficacy.<\/p>\n<p>Ablow&#8217;s first proposal for treating Ebolophobia is to implement a travel ban on countries that currently have a problem with the virus. Never mind that public health experts agree that this would be counterproductive and could even exacerbate the problem by prohibiting the flow of medical personnel and materials to areas that need it most. And it would be unlikely to prevent infected persons from entering the country because anyone originating travel from, say Liberia, could easily fly to Rome and continue on to the U.S. from there. What&#8217;s more, the U.S. is now an Ebola-infected country. Does that mean that Ablow would advocate an international ban on travel by Americans?<\/p>\n<p>As an indication of just how serious the threat of Ebola paired with the Obama Virus is, Ablow offers his diagnosis of the President&#8217;s mental state, which Ablow surmised via the classic <em>&#8220;Puhlit Outta Myass&#8221;<\/em> protocols that enable alleged doctors to arrive at conclusions about a subject despite never having examined, or even met them. Ablow says that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I think [Obama] sees himself as a citizen of the world and sees Americans as having infected others with our deadly economic policies for a long time, thereby inflicting untold suffering on developing nations. To now lead the way to America insulating itself from a scourge sweeping the very countries he seems to think we have preyed upon could, of course, strike him (if only unconsciously) as profoundly unfair.<\/p>\n<p>I believe the president may literally believe we should suffer along with less fortunate nations.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, Ablow thinks that the uncaring socialist Obama is willing to infect every American with a deadly disease because of his hatred for the virus of Capitalism. Ablow literally believes that the President&#8217;s anti-Americanism is leading him to deliberately launch a pandemic. Furthermore, Ablow advises that the correct response should be <em>&#8220;a medical-military one that replicates fighting a war.&#8221;<\/em> Because who isn&#8217;t for more wars? Here is the rest of his prescription:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;The borders should be sealed to travelers who have visited nations affected by Ebola in the last 30 days.&#8221;<br \/>\n<em>Of course, that would include travelers who have visited the United States.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The surgeon general and a special assistant surgeon general for Ebola defense should be dispensing daily information about public health initiatives and medical research initiatives being undertaken to contain and combat the illness.&#8221;<br \/>\n<em>He may want to talk to the Republicans who have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/blog\/178888\/why-nra-blocking-obamas-surgeon-general-nominee#\" target=\"_blank\">blocked the appointment<\/a> of Obama&#8217;s Surgeon General nominee for eleven months due to their fear of the NRA.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;A special national fundraising drive should be launched to pour money into virology labs to jumpstart research into an Ebola cure and a vaccine.&#8221;<br \/>\n<em>Because it certainly isn&#8217;t the government&#8217;s job to protect the welfare of the nation. That would just be more socialism. So let&#8217;s make financially strapped citizens fork over more cash or die.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ablow closes by conflating the Ebola issue with the fight against terrorism in the Middle East. He blasts Obama as <em>&#8220;a president who seems to see America as having no particular manifest destiny&#8221;<\/em> which Ablow says <em>&#8220;may be seen in the spread of ISIS abroad.&#8221;<\/em> See? They&#8217;re exactly the same thing. Maybe Ablow would support a special national fundraising drive to eradicate ISIS. After that we could implement a travel ban on anyone who has been exposed to ObamaCare. And why not direct our public health institutions to develop a cure for Benghazi?<\/p>\n<p>Ablow is right about one thing. There is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=20823\" target=\"_blank\">epidemic of irrational fear<\/a>. And its source is the miscreants and misinformers that populate the Fox News Channel. They spend the bulk of their days deliberately frightening their dimwitted viewers with fabricated nonsense and unfiltered hostility toward fellow Americans who happen to have different opinions. Ablow is just another cog in the Fear Factory of Fox News, whose transparent intention is to spread distrust and division. Fortunately, there is a way to prevent infection by this virus of hate and ignorance. Turn off Fox News. Now, if only we could quarantine those already infected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be afraid America. President Obama&#8217;s &#8220;reticence to put America first&#8221; is making it impossible to contain the &#8220;psychological virus&#8221; of fear that is spreading across the nation due to an outbreak of the Ebola virus that has already claimed as many as one life within our borders. That&#8217;s the warning issued by Fox News &#8220;psycho&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Ebolophobia: Fox News \"Psycho\" Analyst Infects America With Irrational Fear","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1110,33,760],"class_list":["post-21005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-ebola","tag-fox-news","tag-keith-ablow"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/keith-ablow2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-5sN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22008,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=22008","url_meta":{"origin":21005,"position":0},"title":"Remember Ebola? 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