Greatest, latest parlor game: watching liberals pretzel-ize logic in arguing against a travel ban on people from Ebola-affected countries. We've noted a few examples here, here and here.
But as absurd as those arguments were, they might all have to take a back seat to the completely counter-logical contortion offered up by Chris Matthews on this evening's Hardball. Matthews suggested that a travel ban wouldn't work since Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian who infected two people before dying of Ebola, lied to get into the US. Can't Chris see that his argument runs headlong into logic? It is precisely because people will lie to get into the US that the only real solution is a ban on visas for people from Ebola-affected countries. Hello?
CHRIS MATTHEWS: People are reasonably concerned about a rush of immigrants. Any country would be. A rush of unregulated immigration. If there's a law it's a law. But how do they connect that with a few people, or this one person that came in the country that they know of from West Africa, who lied to get here, so all these other things won't keep them out anyway, probably?
