In Hearing, GOP Chairman Issa Misnames African Country, Repeatedly Mispronounces ‘Ebola’
Congress is out of session, of course, but yesterday House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa hastily called his committee into session in order to fan public hysteria about Ebola after a physician in New York was found to have contracted the disease while tending patients in Africa. In his opening statement, however, Issa mistakenly referred to the African nation of Guinea as Guiana, a country in South America, and then repeatedly mispronounced “Ebola” so that it rhymed with “e coli.”
Here’s a rough transcript of the highlights of Issa’s statement:
