If you had one minute in the over-under on how long it would take for a member of the conservative entertainment complex to connect President Obama to the first case of Ebola diagnosed in the U.S., congratulations -- you win.

This afternoon, literally immediately following the CNN tweet announcing that the CDC had confirmed the Ebola diagnosis, 26-year-old Fox News contributor Katie Pavlich tweeted out this:

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Now if you don't know who Katie Pavlich is, that's precisely why she made sure she was the first to invoke the name of the Great Socialist Satan in the wake of today's Ebola announcement. She knew that, kind of like celebrity wedding pictures, the first one to get it out there is the one who gets all the free publicity. And Katie Pavlich is nothing if not a careerist who's acutely attuned to any and all opportunities for self-promotion.

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Pavlich is one of the interchangeable conservative Barbie dolls that stake out the couch-of-shame on Fox News's Outnumbered. She's an editor at Townhall.com, which is a reliable online dispensary for the relentless stream of horseshit that comes out of the mouths of people like Michelle Malkin and Hugh Hewitt. She wrote an entire book on the pretend Fast and Furious scandal and has a new book out called, amusingly, Assault and Flattery: The Truth About the Left and Their War on Women. In other words, there isn't a damn thing special about her. She's your average, by-the-numbers conservative entertainment troll. She knows how the game is played and she's playing it for all it's worth.

Pavlich knows that once she brings Obama into this, she gets attacked by sane people -- which just increases her street cred on the right -- and the crazies rally around her because she just threw them a bunch of red meat. It doesn't even matter that she went on to deny she was specifically blaming Obama for Ebola in the United States, because the goal was never anything more complicated than getting some quick mileage out of dragging the president into the storyline.

Something lousy happens, it can be pinned on Obama. That's the conservative narrative, no matter what. It's practically Pavlovian at this point.