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Hey, I know this is going to come as a huge surprise, but the people in conservative media going to extreme lengths to defend Trump on COVID-19 weren't so generous when it came to Obama and Ebola in 2014. My latest: https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/after-riding-ebola-fears-victory-2014-right-wing-media-are-playing-politics
When Obama-era CDC director Tom Frieden rejected calls for travel bans and said it'd cause unnecessary harm to the economy, watch what Laura Ingraham said.
"Is this a health care expert or is this someone who is in the Obama spin room trying to minimize the economic damage?"
"Is this a health care expert or is this someone who is in the Obama spin room trying to minimize the economic damage?"
Ingraham in 2014: Who cares about the economy? Lives are at stake!!!
Ingraham in 2020: Sorry we gotta sacrifice grandma for the good of the Dow.
Ingraham in 2020: Sorry we gotta sacrifice grandma for the good of the Dow.
This video comparing the reaction to Ebola and COVID-19 is from March, but holds up
Here's some of the 2014 Ebola coverage greatest hits: https://www.mediamatters.org/laura-ingraham/foxs-cdc-smear-campaign-calls-directors-resignation-compares-him-saddams
Previously, Ingraham had accused Obama of trying to infect Americans with Ebola because of... uh... redistribution of wealth? https://www.mediamatters.org/laura-ingraham/ingraham-suggests-obama-willing-expose-american-troops-ebola-atone-colonialism
Conservative media personalities got really upset that the Obama administration's Ebola plan was to address it at the source instead of just sitting back and waiting to see if it came here. https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/conservatives-find-way-attack-obama-fighting-ebola
I forgot that CNN invited the guy who wrote "Outbreak" on as an expert on Ebola https://www.mediamatters.org/cnn/cnn-turns-outbreak-fiction-writer-ebola-coverage
CNN didn't do a great job on Ebola, generally...
Me watching all the Fox Ebola coverage from 2014 while writing this piece:
