Mary Matalin Slams Tavis Smiley On Ebola: ‘Our CDC Now Stands For Cannot Do Containment’

Video cross-posted here at NewsBusters. On Sunday, October 19, a panel on ABC’s This Week engaged in a highly contentious debate over the Obama administration’s handing of the Ebola crisis. Conservative Mary Matalin condemned PBS host Tavis Smiley for criticizing those who are calling for a travel ban on Ebola stricken nations. The former George W. Bush official mocked Smiley’s opposition to a travel ban and argued that “the African leaders who have contained to five countries have done it on the basis of containment. Our CDC now stands for cannot do containment. The reason the president gets blamed for everything, Tavis, because he's responsible for it.”