While the "NASCAR cooties" epidemic was sweeping the blogosphere last week, apparently nobody on Capitol Hill thought to ask about the real risks of contagious diseases like Hepatitis B.
Leave it to the wizard of Poca, W.Va., Don Surber:
Democratic congressional staffers got hepatitis shots before attending a NASCAR race in North Carolina. Hepatitis is more common in DC than in North Carolina.Homeland security reporter Audrey Hudson updates with the news that no Democratic staffers died from cooties during their Saturday visit to North Carolina.
Federal figures show there were 3.5 hepatitis cases per 100,000 people in Washington, DC, in 2005 — and only 2.9 per 100,000 in North Carolina in 2005.
The real tragedy at Charlotte? Jeff Gordon won the race.
Finally, from Hot Air -- which provides readers the headline, "NASCAR fans brave the Cootie 500" -- comes this video report from Fox News:
-- Robert Stacy McCain, assistant national editor, The Washington Times
Comments (9)
How bigoted is this? I bet we wil not read one word about this in the liberal, every day, media.
I rather be bitten by a Nascar fan that a rabid liberal.
Posted by Mark Murray | October 14, 2007 11:10 PM
The Blue Collar Tour guys are going to get a lot mileage out of this one.
Posted by Larry Stone | October 15, 2007 3:58 AM
"3.5 hepatitis cases per 100,000." This is why I carry antibiotic liquid with me everywhere I go in DC. I think of the Metro as a gigantic petri dish. It's suppose to be clean, but it shares that rarified aroma one finds in a locker room.
Posted by TW | October 15, 2007 9:44 AM
It figures a bunch of whimpy DC left wing political hacks would even think about getting immunized before attending a NASCAR race. They live in a dream world anyway. When is America going to wake up and see just how goofy these left wing clowns are and send them packing? Personally, they make me sick, and last time I looked, there isn't yet a vaccine against liberalism/progressive/marxism, other than the voting booth! Don't forget that about November!
Posted by Courteous Wolf | October 15, 2007 10:27 AM
Please, please, please watch something other than Fox News. Just for a day, seriously. Humor the 80+ percent of the country that understands what's actually going on in America.
Posted by Begging | October 15, 2007 12:21 PM
I wonder what the drive-by media would have said if a congressman had suggested the same shots be taken when attending a protest by illegal aliens. No doubt the congressman would have been accused of racism, xenophobia, of hate speech. Yet, we are far more likely to contract serious diseases being with a large number of illegal aliens due to the startling number of them being carriers of these diseases.
Posted by Sheba | October 15, 2007 5:14 PM
Re:"Please, please, please watch something other than Fox News. Just for a day, seriously. Humor the 80+ percent of the country that understands what's actually going on in America.
Posted by Begging"
I think it is you who must not know what is going on in America. For the whole of the nation only about 35 million people watch TV on any given night. Of these, most probably only 20 million watch news programs. Could you please explain how you get that 80% who know whats going on in America?
Posted by Anonymous | October 15, 2007 5:54 PM
This is a prime example of how the States in the NE have no idea about the rest of this country.
Posted by fcsanders | October 16, 2007 7:57 AM
This just shows you how out-of-touch Democrats in Washington are about the rest of the country. They live in their own liberal bubble, treating the middle part of America (the area between the East and West Coasts) as if it were a foreign, backward, Third-World country. In fact, they think so little of these "flyover states" that they believe that you need shots in order to visit them, just to be sure that you're not "infected" by any possible conservatism. How do they expect to win any elections when they seem to go out of their way to insult 50% of the American population?
Posted by Libertyship46 | October 17, 2007 10:46 AM