Bill Maher Wants Obama To Take Ebola’s Name and Kick Its Ass

President Obama continues to resist demands for an Ebola travel ban from affected West African nations, even as those demands have become a tripartisan chorus that includes Republicans, Democrats, and independent cranks like Bill Maher. At a House hearing on the Ebola crisis Thursday, lawmakers from both parties voiced support for a travel ban, but for a textbook example of just how powerful the stupid surrounding Ebola can be, even the otherwise reasonable Bill Maher is expelling Derpbola contagions all over the place.

In an interview with The Daily Beast, Maher starts out with the same reasonable concerns I talked about yesterday, that rare middle space between crapping and napping. Maher says he’s “not panicking,” but correctly points out that the response to the few cases we’ve had in the U.S. has not matched the expectations we’ve been given. “First it was: ‘It’s not going to get here.’ And then it got here. Then: ‘It’s not going to spread out from the one guy,’ and then it spread out from that one guy,” he said.

So far, so good, but then he brings the derp hard and fast:

Where’s the kick-ass-and-take-names mentality that we need with Ebola right now? I’ve really had it with all this “voluntary Ebola” response. Where’s the mandatory quarantine? Do we really need to have people flying in-and-out of Liberia to take care of the crisis, specifically?

Set aside that kicking ass is one of the surest ways to get some Ebola on you, what the fuck does that even mean? This is a microscopic organism, we can’t beat it up or bomb it, and yes, we actually do need people flying in and out of Liberia to fight the disease. How’s this for a recruiting poster? “Liberia: Come for the Ebola outbreak, stay for the foreseeable future to make panicky white people feel slightly better.”

Later in the interview, Maher even says that this outbreak could tarnish Obama’s entire legacy…READ MORE

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