http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/21/1338183/-George-Will-thinks-Ebola-could-be-airborne-because-he-is-misinformed?detail=email
Appearing yesterday on Fox News Sunday, Will explained to his incredulous co-panelists that Ebola is actually far easier to transmit than the authorities are letting on:
"The problem is, the original assumption was that with great certitude, if not certainty, was that you need to have direct contact, meaning with bodily fluids with someone, because it's not airborne. There are now doctors who are saying, we're not so sure that it can't be in some instances transmitted by airborne …
In fact, there are doctors who are saying that in a sneeze or some cough, some of the airborne particles can be infectious?"
Neera Tanden, appearing on the panel, asked, “I'm sorry, who are the doctors saying this? I mean, we have — I mean, this is what I think is really important, that facts about this disease do not lead to panic. So far, every expert that I've seen has said—” At which point, Will, goaded by the appeal to scientific authority, interjected, “Every expert that you've seen. Here we go again.”
this is tantamount to the proverbial laying down with dogs and getting fles, he pals around the right wing and republicans who only speak their own language devoid of truth so when he wakes on Sunday and heads to the Fox lair he carry's with him all the hyperbole and misleading information from that week.
Several things here: First, you do not get invite George Will on television and then be "incredulous," or in any other way surprised, when he starts going on like Grandpa Simpson about all the various things that collect inside his head. That's what he's there for.
Second, never rile George Will by pointing out that for every supposed "expert" he digs up via his apparent wanderings through think tank hallways and conspiracy theory websites (but I repeat myself), you can name twenty or fifty that have more credibly concluded the opposite. George Will is of the opinion that so long as he can find one lunatic saying a thing, that thing is just as valid as your irritating experts. (This is why he makes such a terrible baseball commentator.
He is forever insisting that sure, perhaps one team scored twelve runs and the other team zero, but the losing team's bunt in the third inning was almost so well-executed that it would be outlandish to say they lost merely because the scoreboard says so. Teach the controversy, umpires. Unskew the third-base line.)
Third, it turns out that he was indeed misrepresenting the single expert opinion he clung to. No, those experts did not say that Ebola was not "airborne." They were just pointing out that you probably didn't want an Ebola patient to sneeze in your mouth, because duh.
this to is easily defined it's republican 101 page 2 of the playbook when you get that deer in the headlights feeling divert the discussion find a point not relevant that could be agreeable with your misinformation there will always be at least one lunatic with credentials that will speak their language.
btw he's losing carriers of his column for the same kind of rhetoric he is using now publications don't want to be associated with right wing garbage. now you see why he's become a regular on Sunday with Chris Wallace.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/06/19/backlash-against-george-wills-offensive-rape-co/199797
