We Don't Even Know What All Diseases They Have

Where the white women at? Via.

“Our schools cannot handle this influx, we don’t even know what all diseases they have. Our health care systems can’t withstand this influx.”-Louie Gohmert

It's Louie Gohmert week (month/year/decade/century) here at Keep Talking, Wingnuts, so I'm just going to have to amplify, again, Gohmert's disgustingly wrong and old "diseased immigrants" meme.

Via LOLGOP, we have more evidence that today's' wingnuts are just recycling old bullshit. Maybe they're lazy. Or maybe they like to stick with what they think are tried and true strategies for fueling xenophobia. Whatever their pitiful excuse is, their current fact-less tirades are so insulting to the kids fleeing violence in countries the US has funded right wing death squads in that I really do hope they keep talking.

Consider:

Dr. Elizabeth Lee Vliet, a Fox News commentator and former director of the ultra-conservative political group Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, writes in the McAllen Monitor that measles is among the “diseases the United States had controlled or virtually eradicated” that are “carried across the border by this tsunami of illegals.”

Fact check: UNICEF reports that 93 percent of kids in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador are vaccinated against measles. That’s better than American kids (92 percent).

Furthermore, it’s absurd to claim that the U.S. has eradicated measles while Central America has not. In fact, measles outbreaks have resurged in some American cities. By contrast, according to the World Health Organization, neither Guatemala nor Honduras has had a reported case of measles since 1990.

From the 1896 Edition of the Rams Horn. 

And from Fox News contributor Marc Siegel (author of "False Alarm: Profiting from the Epidemic of Fear"--I shit you not):

...unaccompanied minors “are a likely source” of the mosquito-borne dengue fever spreading to Texas. Siegel ignores two key public health points: First, legal immigrants and travelers are a much larger group than undocumented folks, and just as likely to carry dengue. (I don’t know about y’all, but I’ve never been screened for dengue fever at the Texas-Mexico border.)  Second, mosquitoes can fly.

America is a lot more brown than it was when Eisenhower authorized Operation Wetback, so picking on brown people (or worse) isn't going to be as effective for getting people to vote for you as it used to be. But I'd have to review of a few of my history books to find a time when the xenophobes in America openly denigrated children. This kind of behavior probably won't stop many Jeb Bush Republicans from voting for a Louie Gohmert when given the chance. The question is, how many Democrats will get off their asses in a mid term and vote against one?

Maybe The Bush Baggage Was Lost by "East, West, South and North Somewhat" Airlines?

Crooks and Liars notes that Jeb Bush doesn't think there's any "Bush baggage."

Fox News host Chris Wallace pointed out to Bush on Sunday that his brother, George W. Bush, had been "somewhat unpopular" when he left office in 2009. 

"Do you think there is any Bush baggage?" Wallace wondered. "Do you think that would be a problem?" 

"No," the former Florida governor replied. "I don't think there's any Bush baggage at all. I love my brother, I'm proud of his accomplishments, I love my dad, I am proud to be a Bush." 

First, I'd really love to see a list of what Jeb thinks his brother's accomplishments are, but expecting Chris Wallace to ask him to name a few is like expecting a pilot fish to ask its shark to add little variety to its diet.

And second, I can see the bad-lip reading of this now... "I'm proud to be a Douche."

They're Too Lazy to Get a New Dog Whistle

The usually savvy Steve Benen wants the GOP to drop the whole "Obama is lazy thing."

Steve, you're the best, but I want to keep these guys talking. If these guys didn't talk, no one would ever know about the slobbery lips blowing a spit-filled, centuries old dog-whistle. The latest fat white guy to give the rusty/slimy/drippy old thing a wheezing blow bothered to leave Sinecure Inc's lushest country clubs because he was upset that someone would dare suggest that Ann Romney used her money to make her life easier.

Obama's the one who never worked a day in his life. He never earned a penny that wasn't public money. How many fund-raisers does he attend every week? How often does he play basketball and golf? I wish I had that kind of time. He's lazy, but the media won't report that. 

First things first. Fox "News" CEO Roger "I Won the Election for my cousin George W Bush" Ailes is a Bullshitter in the Philosophical sense of the word.

...bullshitters seek to convey a certain impression of themselves without being concerned about whether anything at all is true. They quietly change the rules governing their end of the conversation so that claims about truth and falsity are irrelevant. Frankfurt concludes that although bullshit can take many innocent forms, excessive indulgence in it can eventually undermine the practitioner's capacity to tell the truth in a way that lying does not. Liars at least acknowledge that it matters what is true. By virtue of this, Frankfurt writes, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

Aisles should ask his cousin W, who thought all kinds of things qualified as hard work, about how hard fundraising is. Ask any politician about their schedule, and the amount of time they have to spend raising money. Roger and his buddies made sure that politicians would have to obsess over the one thing that destroys democracy faster than anything else. As Willard Romney himself liked to misquote: politics ain't bean bags. Of course, you could always forgo the fundraising and finance your own campaign, which is really putting your money where your mouth is, but I digress.

Steve goes on to cover the rest of the obvious points nicely. No, Roger, The President actually did work in the private sector. And who are you to suggest that public sector workers don't work? Go tell the families of all the public sector workers who died doing their jobs how lazy their loved ones were, you fat puke. Actually, Steve was nicer than that, bless his heart.

But please, Roggie Baby, don't let the fact that I'm mean to you shut you up. You've got a whole media empire at your disposal, so please, keep talking, wingnut.