Comments on: Hot Air Audio: Sara Carter on the case of the TB traveler Update: Congressional investigation?

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » TB traveler update: 8 hours may be more than enough time to contract the disease

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:00:32 +0000

[...] swerved into some of this territory during my audio interview with Sara Carter last week, when I asked whether the tuberculosis-afflicted Mexican national who entered the US at [...]

By: BKennedy

BKennedy — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 04:23:54 +0000

The Race Card on October 19, 2007 at 5:09 PM

I would agree with you, were it not for the fact liberals make a huge deal about the “progress” the sexual revolution has brought them, when in fact those who are the most sexually attractive are people who have rejected their abortion/birth control/sexual experimentation platform.

So I adjust my statement:

Sara Carter: Proof that conservatives are smarter AND hotter AND free of all venerial disease.

By: 24K lady

24K lady — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:58:54 +0000

Jed58 @8:01 – when checking into any hotel/motel/bedn’breakfast – throw back the sheets and check for previous occupancy. Amazing what you’ll see on initial inspection. Check out the bath too for various hair specimens and other jewels. After dinner and a couple of drinks it’s too late. Travel fatigue and a nice dinner wills out any unpleasant objects in your bed or bath.

By: 24K lady

24K lady — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:51:08 +0000

Pilgrims, take heart. The mother and chief coordinator of open borders, the honorable Ms. Pelosi, has taxpayer funded private aircraft singled out for her use. Do they have to go through airport security like the rest of us, or hang around terminals for endless hours? Either way, it’s doubtful she lays awake worrying about TB or any other disease you and I are exposed daily. Those that are elected don’t worry about it, those that elected them and travel have every reason to be concerned.

Many people around the globe remove their shoes when entering their homes. I’ve had a picture in my head for some years of walking through an area where someone has spit or coughed up phlem and tracking it through to my kitchen where an hour later I’m walking barefoot and preparing food. My shoes are removed at the door and carried to a shoerack that gets regular spraying. Now, if I could work up the nerve to require the same of my guests without making them think I’m a nutcase is the challenge.

By: The Race Card

The Race Card — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:09:30 +0000

Forgive me Father, for dangling my preposition.

By: The Race Card

The Race Card — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:09:04 +0000

Sara Carter, proving once again conservatives are both smarter AND hotter.

BKennedy on October 18, 2007 at 6:12 PM

Even though I totally agree with this statement about conservative women, and have made many similar comments in the past, I have a problem with it.

Of course conservative women are hotter: Peggy Noonan v Molly Ivins (RIP); Karen Hanretty v Katrina vanden Heuvel; Dana Perrino v Arian Huffington; Michelle Malkin vs Rachel Maddow; MKH v Medea Benjamin; the entire Clair Boothe Luce board v every female at NPR and so on. This list could go on, but it should stop – right here, right now.

These women are professionals, even the liberals. We do a serious disservice to them and our respective causes to constantly burden them with the added consideration of ‘beauty.’ It’s just not fair. I heard Larry King call Dennis Kucinich “a great little guy” or something and thought it was inappropriate. What if every female commented on how gray a man’s hair was or how fat someone was? It would get old really quick.

Sara Carter is a journalist. I have worked as a journalist, which in many ways makes me an even harsher critic than many of my right-leaning brethren. But my experience as a journalist also heightened and refined my expectations of professional journalists.

Sara Carter demonstrates what it means to be a responsible adult; she does her job well and apparently places a premium on integrity. Those traits are not and should never be exclusive to conservatives, Republicans or any one group. Those are American ideals.

I make no assumptions about her politics, because as a journalist, she should not give me cause to. Rather her research and reporting should arm me with accurate, timely and relevant information.

She does a great job of that. Why spoil it with politics?

I’m sure I will still have the same crude, nude and slippery thoughts that I always do. But I’m thinking it would be overall more respectful of those women with whom I am so impressed to honor them for their work and not what they’re workin with.

By: Michelle Malkin » Fake terror exercise interrupted by, um,real fake terror alert

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:54:40 +0000

[...] Anyway, I’m glad to see this sort of preparation taking place–especially training for biological outbreaks or attacks, as in TOPOFF 3 and Dark Winter. But I also have to wonder whether we’re learning anything from them at all. [...]

By: Blog-o-Fascists

Blog-o-Fascists — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:15:03 +0000

Behind the TB-carrying frequent flier story…

michellemalkin.com

Sara Carter of the WashTimes chats with Hot Air’s Bryan Preston about the TB-carrying frequent flier from Mexico who crossed the border and racked up flying time with impunity. […] Read the rest »URL: michellemalki…

By: Michelle Malkin » Behind the TB-carrying frequent flier story

Michelle Malkin » Behind the TB-carrying frequent flier story — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:02:17 +0000

[...] Carter of the WashTimes chats with Hot Air’s Bryan Preston about the TB-carrying frequent flier from Mexico who [...]

By: BKennedy

BKennedy — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:05:00 +0000

How come there are more pictures of randi rhodes around here then Sara Carter?

peacenprosperity on October 19, 2007 at 7:46 AM

Perhaps Beta Males are less intimidated by Beta Females.

By: peacenprosperity

peacenprosperity — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:46:13 +0000

How come there are more pictures of randi rhodes around here then Sara Carter?

By: Ali-Bubba

Ali-Bubba — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:42:01 +0000

somehow, this, too, will be America’s fault.

Liberals will blame Republicans, just like they blame Republicans for everything.

Classic example: Randi Rhodes falls down? Republicans did it!

All the evil in the world can be explained to a liberal’s satisfcation by blaming it on Republicans or Zionists. But I repeat myself …

By: jed58

jed58 — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:01:12 +0000

Wast just earlier today checking into a hotel here in AZ. (many illegals) and was greeted with a sign on my room door informing me an employee who cleaned my room was found to have TB and they wanted me to know. I am know in another hotel

By: madmonkphotog

madmonkphotog — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:50:09 +0000

oh, but let the spin begin. these illegal aliens will now be cast as leaving their countries to come to America for better health care. forget the fact they bring diseases. forget the fact that Mexican TV constantly shows deformities of people in villages almost on a nightly basis. forget the fact that diseased people are illegally picking fruits, vegetables, handling meat, an so on.

somehow, this, too, will be America’s fault.

i see Geraldo on the horizon.

By: BKennedy

BKennedy — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:12:21 +0000

Sara Carter, proving once again conservatives are both smarter AND hotter.

By: tgillian

tgillian — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:44:46 +0000

Typhoid? TB? Scurvy?

“I’ll have to get back to you on that, Senator,” said Mike Chertoff.

By: Babs

Babs — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:44:16 +0000

One of the ways to contract MDR-TB is to be diagnosed with a regular strain of TB, be put on medication and then stop taking the medication. The remaining TB bacteria grow immune to the regular TB medication and “morph” into a resistant strain of TB.
When I lived in SoCal 10 years ago this was a topic of conversation because illegals would start medication in the states, return to Mexico (or somewhere else) for an extended time without medication, and then come back to the U.S. Voila, MDR-TB.
I got in a rather heated debate with a couple of “anti-innoculation” gals on another site that thought that ANY testing for disease should be up to the parents for children to enter public school. This included, in their minds, a TB tine test…
There is a reason why we have a public health department. Unfortunately, it seems to be lost on a lot of people as we live in such an affluent society… until some kid with TB is sitting next to yours in a classroom.
Just recently I was “crammed” into coach with strangers sitting on all sides… I closed my eyes and tried not to breath too much.

By: PRCalDude

PRCalDude — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:34:48 +0000

Read the rest. As I said in the interview, of all the things that Congress is investigating right now, this strikes me as one thing that they actually ought to be investigating.

Of course. They don’t want their house servants giving them a disease!

By: JunkYardBlog

JunkYardBlog — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:31:06 +0000

Wash Times Dynamic Duo On The TB Traveler…

I’ll let Audrey Hudson and Sara Carter tell the story themselves of the transnational plague-vector, and how DHS ignored him: Hot Air has more, including stirrings of a Congressional investigation. (Link fixed). I don’t know what’s juicier: the fail…

By: conservnut

conservnut — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:25:50 +0000

Although the methods were archaic, we were much better at this 100 years ago. People coming into the country that seemed sick were quarantined until determined to be safe to release into society.

Perhaps Homeland Security should look into the methods used at Ellis Island. Of course we shot border crossers in those days too.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:15:37 +0000

abinitioadinfinitum on October 18, 2007 at 5:14 PM

Now that’s funny!

By: abinitioadinfinitum

abinitioadinfinitum — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:14:47 +0000

They revoked his travel documents. We don’t have any worry that he might cross the border.

By: Bob's Kid

Bob's Kid — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:04:55 +0000

TB or not TB, that is the question.

You are SO going to hell for that.

/then why am I laughing so hard?

By: Hening

Hening — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:02:19 +0000

TB or not TB, that is the question.

By: fred5678

fred5678 — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:54:59 +0000

Sara Carter is GREAT!

Now at Wash. Times, she has her well-deserved national audience. She was a real pioneer on the issue of illegal immigration – digging hard for her stories.

I have linked to her columns at
http://www.dailybulletin.com/beyondborders/#

for a long time via my modest effort:
http://www.jmi.com/immigrationmarches/

Go Sara!!