So, you know how President Obama declared a swine flu emergency? This is a move that makes it easier to deal with the spread of the disease by waiving some Medicare and Medicaid processing rules in order to speed up treatment.
What does it mean?
Oh, World Nuts, you are entertaining, except for the being real and having readers and thus being kind of frightening part.
The article beyond that headline confirms that yes, it’s the former, but goes on to point out that just because the president made did something totally ordinary that any president would probably have done does not mean he’s not planning the overthrow of American democracy!
"Obama just declared H1N1 a national emergency," wrote a WND reader in an e-mail, "Here we go with martial law."
An article by Kurt Nimmo of InfoWars took the worry a step further, wondering if the White House’s declaration engaged certain measures of the National Emergencies Act:
"In the weeks ahead," Nimmo writes, "we may witness a move toward martial law, forced vaccination and internment of those who refuse."
Also, the secret aliens who control Washington will fly out of Nancy Pelosi’s butt. And there will be a special episode of So You Think You Can Dance (And We Think You’ll Watch Anything, Suckers!) featuring paraplegics. (Wait… that actually sounds possible.)
However… as insane as WorldNet Daily is, they do make a valid point amidst all the nuttiness. (Yes, I really just said that.)
The news stories on the declaration were just awful; they said that the emergency declaration had been made, and it removed some roadblocks. What did it remove? What was the point? Not a peep.
In the face of shitty journalism, dutifully pasted off the AP wire by the “editors” at every around the country, one cannot blame readers for wondering, “What does this mean?” That was my first thought.
(Assuming it means that you’ll shortly be rounded up and placed in an internment camp where you’ll be subjected to H1N1 vaccines, gay porn, and adorable photos of the First Family is still insane, however.)
One might have thought that someone in that vast typing pool called “the US news media” someone might have, oh, looked up the details and included them before running the story. Sadly, no; there are other important journalistic duties at hand, like copying down tweets on breaking celebrity news stories so CNN can talk about them.
(Currently top non-sports story on the Houston Chronicle home page: “Why dogs hate Halloween,” a photo spread on dogs in costumes.)
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