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Tue Oct 7, 2014, 07:03 PM Oct 2014

Tom DeLay self-appoints himself an ebola "expert."



DeLay: 'We Can't Believe' What The Government Is Telling Us About Ebola

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Tuesday, 10/7/2014 1:27 pm

Tom DeLay was a guest on Steve Malzberg's Newsmax radio program yesterday where he declared that Americans simply cannot trust President Obama or anyone in the government when it comes to handling the current Ebola crisis. DeLay asserted that the Obama administration "cannot seem to get beyond their liberal leanings" and take the steps necessary to keep the disease from entering the United States. "We can't believe everything they're telling us," DeLay said. "I've got so many questions about Ebola and how it's contracted." DeLay was not convinced that Ebola can only be contracted by contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person, pointing to the infection of NBC cameraman Ashoka Mukpo in Liberia to ask "was he touching people's bodily fluids, did he touch a doorknob?&quot Mukpo thinks he may have become infected after washing a car in which an Ebola patient had died.) "We know nothing," DeLay said, "so we can't believe what they're telling us and certainly we can't be confident that they're doing the right thing":

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/delay-we-cant-believe-what-government-telling-us-about-ebola#sthash.txcWYVa4.dpuf
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Tom DeLay self-appoints himself an ebola "expert." (Original Post) Archae Oct 2014 OP
Yeah considering he was such an expert on Terry Schiavo's condition! VanillaRhapsody Oct 2014 #1
It's true, he knows nothing shenmue Oct 2014 #2
So, the Gov that does too much, isn't doing enough?? rickford66 Oct 2014 #3
DeLay knows a great deal about slime and disease Gothmog Oct 2014 #4

Gothmog

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4. DeLay knows a great deal about slime and disease
Tue Oct 7, 2014, 08:27 PM
Oct 2014

DeLay may well qualify as an expert due to his intimate knowledge of slime

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