Clipboard Man

Overt the last month, the Ebola virus has surged to become a thing Americans worry about every day.  It's on the news, it's parodied on SNL, and it's always brought up in jokes by teenagers and college students.

It's been known until now that Ebola is contagious and can be caught by anyone who's around an infected patient. Hazmat suits seem to be the norm when dealing with Ebola patients as well as gloves.

But then on Thursday, this image surfaced on the internet......


.......and Americans went ballistic.  Who was this man not wearing a hazmat suit and carrying a clipboard walking so close to an Ebola infected patient?  Wouldn't he be infected with the disease too?  

And then probably the biggest question of all: Is the American media lying to us about Ebola? 

Now, the media has been known to lie to us before.  CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and countless others constantly fabricate the news stories to get their opinions out to viewers, especially with Fox News being a Republican channel and MSNBC being more Democratic. This twisting of the news has happened with lots of stories, even big ones like the killing of Osama Bin Laden in May 2011, and the Iraq conflict in the 1970's.  Can our nation trust any smiling man or woman on a camera who either converses with several of their peers at a roundtable or directly spits out their views at the viewer?  And yet I want to be one of those guys.  I hope I never have to lie to the camera, because I will refuse. 

It's going to be very interesting to see what happens once word gets out about who this dude is.  Either the story will die down or a firestorm of controversy will erupt, and I'm leaning towards the latter of the two. 

Before I go today, I would like to share an Ebola jokes I saw on Weekend Update recently.

"New York City's JFK Airport began screening passengers coming in from international flights for Ebola this week.  Because not even Ebola would want to go to LaGuardia"- Colin Jost

And lastly, since today's post mentions Africa, here's an SNL sketch for you to laugh at.  It parodies the commercials that ask you to send a certain amount that's usually not round to the the address on the screen because it will "help them live better".  You have to wait until the end of the sketch to laugh, because that's when it really comes. Enjoy! 






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