Bush Mouthpiece SCHOOLED on ‘Morning Joe’ During Ebola Debate

During a conversation on the ongoing Ebola situation, former Bush?communications chief and?senior adviser for the John McCain presidential campaign, Nicolle Wallace, was shut down on ‘Morning Joe’ by former Obama adviser and financier Steve Rattner.

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While host Mika Brzezinski relied on answers provided by guest Dr. Emily Senay, Assistant Clinical Professor of Preventive Medicine at Mount Sinai for scientific information, Ms. Wallace was content to rely on her memory of a movie she saw some 20 years ago called ‘Outbreak’ starring Dustin Hoffman:

Ms. Wallace said, “I saw the movie ‘Outbreak’ nearly two decades ago and this is exactly how Ebola spread and became a very dramatic national catastrophe”

Examination of the movie actually differs from Ms. Wallace’s recollection as, in the movie, the disease is transported by a monkey accidentally arriving in the USA.

Ms. Wallace went onto tout the preparedness for a medical crisis of her previous employer and that is when fellow ‘Morning Joe’ guest Rattner took her to task:

Wallace: “In my White House, we had plans for bird flu”.
Rattner: “In your White House Katrina happened also”.

Without missing a beat the former communications chief went right into offense mode,

Wallace: “You wanna go there, that’s fine. ?The answer to the question ‘Who is in charge’ was answered a lot more easily than (White House Spokesperson) Josh Earnest answered it, after Katrina”.

And that’s when Rattner delivered the Coupe De Grace,

Rattner: “And he did a heck of a job Brownie”.

Wallace was ready to continue the comparison but also found time to wonder aloud how could anyone NOT see this coming since Hollywood had already made a film about it.

This is from a woman who worked for a White House that suffered the greatest attack on American soil in history and whose boss (President Bush) and his National Security Adviser, Condoleeza Rice, could NOT have imagined an attack like 9/11.

From Wikipedia, “Immediately following the attacks, President George W. Bush?stated that “nobody in our government at least, and I don’t the think the prior government, could envisage flying air planes into buildings” and National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice?claimed no-one “could have predicted that they would try to use an airplane as a missile”. An Air Force general called the attack “something we had never seen before, something we had never even thought of.”

Miss Wallace is also remembered as one of the two people who advised John McCain on his pick of Sarah Palin as his Vice Presidential Nominee in the 2008 Presidential race.