Dr. Vivek Murthy won't be the Surgeon General. MSNBC
It's time again for another installment of my series of articles dissecting horrible anti-gun articles. In this case it's a clear propaganda piece from MSNBC, of course, that somehow blames the NRA for the Ebola outbreak in Texas. Yep, you did read that right. That pain you feel in your forehead is your brain exploding because it does not make any sense whatsoever.
I'll summarize for those who don't want to read the click-bait. According to MSNBC's Krystal Ball and Anne Thompson, the NRA, a gun rights group, is directly responsible for an outbreak deadly disease, Ebola. Why? Because we don't have a Surgeon General right now. Ok... Still not seeing the connection? That's ok, nobody else does either.
It is true that Obama's man, Dr Vivek Murphy was rejected by Congress and for good reason. He's an anti-gun radical that makes even Democrats nervous. Indeed even the MSNBC article said that many Democrats opposed his nomination. Of course any gun control nominee, for a post that has almost nothing to do with guns, would have been opposed but Murthy is an extremist among extremists. According to the NRA, a admittedly biased source, Murthy was in favor of quite a few restrictions that go beyond "normal" gun control. In addition to gun buy backs, licensing, banning of certain firearms and magazine restrictions, Murthy called for biased studies to be preformed in favor of gun control, using government money to fund studies with pre-determined outcomes. Most disturbingly of all, Murthy wants to remove the rule that prevents doctors from recording if their patients own guns.
People need to be able to trust their doctors. If you can't be honest with your doctor about your health then there is no point in going to one. If you have to worry about your political beliefs being recorded and criticized by your doctor, why would you even go? We wouldn't tolerate what Murthy proposed if it was for any other of our bill of rights. If I needed to talk to my doctor about how writing this blog is stressing me out, how could I trust him if he then puts that information in a huge database about people who express their 1st amendment rights? It's the same thing with the 2nd amendment.
That was totally unacceptable to the NRA and pretty much any pro-gun member of Congress, Republican or Democrat. Regardless of your feelings on gun control, the reality of the situation is that such an outspoken advocate for gun control was never going to be confirmed. If he was then everyone who doesn't have a 100% secure senate seat and voted for him would most likely be voted out of office. That's not because of the NRA. That's because gun control is deeply unpopular among the American electorate, and this goes way beyond what most other gun control advocates have pushed for. Obama knew that going in and did it anyways. It is what he does. He doesn't work with congress to put forth a candidate that is acceptable. Congress has a bad track record too, but it's very convenient for MSNBC to ignore Obama's role.
So doesn't Obama deserve some of the blame here too? Not according to MSNBC. In their mind it is 100% the fault of the NRA, and the so called "cowards" in Congress for not rubber stamping the presidents man. In their eye the only thing that matters is that Obama gets his way and if things go belly up in the mean time then it's everyone else's fault. It's the NRA's fault that there is no Surgeon general and every Senator that doesn't vote for him is a gutless coward who won't do what our dear leader asks. Because the NRA are big meanies who represent "those people" that don't mater to Obama and the political left. That's the level of dialogue we have reached in this country. There is no debate now, just attacks and misinformation.
Of course the lack of a Surgeon General has almost nothing to do with the spread of Ebola to the United States. Not only are the Surgeon General's duties being handled by the director of the CDC, Tom Freiden, having one wouldn't have done anything anyways. President Obama, and Congress for that matter, were never willing to do what was necessary to stop the virus in its tracks. Nobody was going to deploy troops to West Africa when there was still a chance to contain the virus last spring. Nobody was going to (or will for that matter) ban non essential travel to and from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guiana. It just wasn't going to happen for economic and political reasons. Because for some reason the left thinks that screening people for Ebola and not letting them into our country is "racist". If you have been reading my blog regularly you already know that for months I was saying that an Ebola outbreak here was pretty much inevitable. Because nobody was willing to do what was necessary. The NRA had nothing to do with it. The Surgeon General takes his orders from President Obama and it's clear that he wasn't going to prevent this from happening. Whatever role he would have played would have been irrelevant. It was inevitable.
So where does that leave us? Clickbait. That's all this "report" from MSNBC is. It is deliberately outrageous so that the people that agree with it get a warm feeling inside while people like me that disagree with it seethe with anger. Either way the article gets shared and both sides get more entrenched. And MSNBC gets money and the Obama administration gets brownie points from the left.
Both sides are known to do this these days, and I'll admit to doing a bit of it myself. But at the very least you have to pretend to show both sides of an issue. Ignoring Obama's role in this is deliberately misleading and elevates this from mere clickbait to actual propaganda. But what do you expect from MSNBC?
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