Fifth Circuit Reinstates Texas Order Making Abortion “Non-Essential” In Pandemic

My vote for Trump was worth it, if for no other reason than this.

“…Chris Cuomo is currently infected with the Wuhan virus. CNN brought on Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a neurosurgeon, to “read” Cuomo’s X-rays. He attempted to do just that, pointing to supposed evidence of the virus on live TV…”

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This is officially the Democratic Nominee for President of the United States

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— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) April 8, 2020

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Amazing Dems spend so much energy on so many things but were ultimately unable to come up with a candidate who can speak a single complete and coherent sentence. I have nothing against this man, he seems very nice, but he is clearly firing on few or possibly no cylinders.

— Seán Ono Lennon (@seanonolennon) April 8, 2020

Seriously how lucky are we that this is the kind of soundbites we get from our leader…unlike some other countries. #speakingmoistly 😂 pic.twitter.com/rtdXLY1I9h

— Bee 🇨🇦 🦋🐮🐜 (@Country_bee) April 8, 2020

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Caught Hyping Fake News Again, CBS ‘Clarifies’ Story of Crying Nurse Who Claims She Quit Due to Lack of Masks

CBS News Again Airs Italy Hospital Footage in U.S. Coronavirus Segment

These are just two stories of media malfeasance, and just for CBS. I read a story this morning from NBC about Trump plans to withhold funding from the WHO. The story was unreadable after the first paragraph which included statements of fact mixed with editorial critical of Trump. I get the feeling that the media is composed primarily of recent graduates from journalism school trained that their primary function as journalists is to advocate for the correct politics. They seem to think that their readers are too stupid to understand their sloppy writing and lazy reporting. They are wrong.

Tucker Carlson:

"Ask yourself, is Joe Biden ready to lead this country? Could he find his car in a three-tiered parking garage? Could he navigate a salad bar? And by the way, what exactly is his position on the Coronavirus pandemic? Those are the mysteries Democrats now face." pic.twitter.com/8jYaRdPRms

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) April 9, 2020

Victor Davis Hanson:

“…Reporters do not wish to transmit knowledge to the public that might aid in confronting the virus. They do not even wish to clarify murky statements from public officials to ensure Americans know exactly what the government wants them to do.

Instead, journalists during White House briefings fixate on two agendas.

One is to goad the president into saying something sloppy, by repeatedly suggesting that in reacting to the virus, he was in error, that he is cruel and heartless, or that he is dangerous. That gotcha obsession explains why the media can call Trump a xenophobe and racist for issuing a travel ban against China—contrary to the earlier advice of WHO, the Centers for Disease Control, the media, and the entire Democratic Party hierarchy—then silently support it. It explains why they then use doctored Chinese data and propaganda from the Chinese Communist Party to convince Americans that China—a nation that lied about the origins, spread, and nature of the virus—is admirably doing a better job in containing the virus than is their own country. Even the media cannot keep straight their own anti-Trump gymnastics.

If evidence convinces Trump to let the public know that hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin are efficacious in treating patients infected with coronavirus, then reporters will seek to persuade Americans that such off-label uses have no utility and are dangerous—even if they have to stoop to find some nut who drank fish-tank cleaner, clearly marked unfit for human consumption, to argue that a nonpotable chloroquine derivative cleaning agent provides proof of “Dr.” Trump’s deadly ignorance.

But the White House press obsesses over a second agenda, too. It must always prove that previously respected figures like Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx, once embraced by the liberal media in their pre-Trump days, either are in revolt against their doltish boss or brain-washed into obsequious enslavement to the president. Often the media advances both antithetical scenarios near simultaneously.

The third rail for the media is that Fauci and Birx are empirical and sound mostly politically disinterested. They seek to provide Trump with scientific data about the virus to balance his incoming streams of financial, economic, military, and cultural information.

When Trump accepts their advice over objections from other advisors with competing national concerns, the two feel it was for the good of the country. When he demurs, they press their arguments as advocates of public health. And when they rarely lose an argument the two concede the president has to balance dozens of existential concerns.

In other words, it would be hard, for anyone other than the current press corps, on Monday to paint Fauci and Birx as frustrated scientists at the mercy of a moron who refuses to listen to science, while on Tuesday writing off both as Trump toadies who have joined the forces of darkness.

But that is currently the schizophrenic state of the American media. The only constant is that whatever Trump advocated, they are against, even if lives are at stake. And whatever Trump policy seems to be working for the good of the country, they either deny or ignore it…”

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Patricia McCarthy:

“…As the therapeutic efficacy of hydroxychloroquine becomes more and more provable, the left gets more and more hysterical.  They have bet the farm on COVID-19 as a means of preventing President Trump’s re-election and then this old malaria drug appears on the scene.  The first trial came from China and no one should take their word for it but a doctor there realized that every patient with lupus, even if sick, was negative for the disease.  Then a French doctor, Dr. Didier Raoult, a world-famous microbiologist, tested the theory with more than a thousand patients and found it 100% effective, especially when combined with zithromax.  More than six thousand doctors around the world are using it to combat the disease with tremendous life-saving results.  Many of those doctors are using the drug as a prophylactic and it is keeping them from getting the virus as they care for sick patients.  Dr. Mehmet Oz has been amassing information about it and explaining it to the public on his television program.  On Tuesday, he introduced Los Angeles lupus specialist Dr. Daniel Wallace, who has the largest number of patients with lupus in the nation who also swears by the drug and for its safety.  But this is all bad news for the left, especially those in the media who prostitute themselves each and every day to damage the president and so are spending every waking moment on the air trying to scare people about its use, all because it was Trump who introduced it as a possible cure.  They believe it is their job to tell us how and what to think and they want us to think Trump is responsible not just for the virus, but for pushing a dangerous drug as well.  But it works.  Ask Karen Whitsett, a Democratic Michigan State representative. It saved her life and she has thanked the president for mentioning it, stating she would not have known about it otherwise.  She better watch her back now of course; she is very likely a target of the left-media now.  Inexplicably, New York’s Gov. Andrew Cuomo is still banning it outside of a hospital when, if widely distributed, it may well keep people out of the hospital….

…Bill Bennett and Seth Leibsohn list some basic numbers in their column at RCP: “In any given month in America, we lose about 54,000 Americans to heart disease; 50,000 to cancer; 14,000 to asthma, bronchitis, and emphysema; 12,000 to stroke; 10,000 to Alzheimer’s; 7,000 to diabetes; 5,600 to drug overdoses; and 4,700 to influenza and pneumonia. Since February, in America, coronavirus: 9,500…Those deaths give us over 157,000 deaths a month.” No one will be seeing those numbers on CNN or MSNBC anytime soon. Revealing that 157k people die in this country every month would spoil their faux hysteria…”

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— Camping Expedition (@Camping123456) April 7, 2020

A female lawmaker is pushing a bill that would bar transgender women from competing on women’s sports teams at Louisiana schools

KAREN TOWNSEND:

“…White House press briefings have become a time for some reporters to have their fifteen minutes of fame. Reporters no longer try to disguise their own personal political opinions in the name of professional journalism. Few reporters are able to participate without looking like they are more concerned about a gotcha question against the president, his administration, or even the press secretary herself or himself. A prime example of this behavior is CNN’s White House correspondent Jim Acosta. He’s even written a book about covering Trump though the president is not even finished with his first term. He’s not the only one to do that, he’s just the most obvious example.

During the Great Hunkering Down period of the coronavirus pandemic, President Trump and his coronavirus task force have been giving daily press briefings. He’s been so good at it that his approval ratings are up and his harshest critics in cable news, CNN and MSNBC, decided to stop carrying them in their entirety. Imagine that – cable news networks so unhinged about a president that they don’t bother to cover press briefings concerning a pandemic. It is as though they cheer for failure just to be able to say Trump couldn’t handle the crisis. Those networks are only too happy to do puff piece interviews with the likely Democrat nominee Joe Biden, though…”

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"Our ethical concerns require us to cut away from the coronavirus task force briefing to bring you one of our anchors interviewing his brother the governor"

— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) April 7, 2020

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So he has to drum up a controversy to get himself back in the limelight.

A roundup on what China is lying about today

A good discussion of the communist Chinese goverment’s actions relating to Coronavirus at  Lawrence Person’s BattleSwarm Blog. Worth clicking over.

Hank Berrien:

“…The coronavirus COVID-19 that originated in China may be the last straw that finally has triggered American companies to exit China. In the Global manufacturing consulting firm Kearney’s seventh annual Reshoring Index released on Tuesday, co-author Patrick Van den Bossche writes:

Three decades ago, U.S. producers began manufacturing and sourcing in China for one reason: costs. The trade war brought a second dimension more fully into the equation―risk―as tariffs and the threat of disrupted China imports prompted companies to weigh surety of supply more fully alongside costs. COVID-19 brings a third dimension more fully into the mix­, and arguably to the fore: resilience―the ability to foresee and adapt to unforeseen systemic shocks.

As Kenneth Rapoza writes in Forbes,the Kearnsey report revealed a “dramatic reversal” because domestic U.S. manufacturing in 2019 outdid 14 Asian exporters tracked in the study. Rapoza notes succinctly, “Manufacturing imports from China were the hardest hit.”

Rapoza opines that other nations in southeast Asia and Mexico may become primary target spots for American companies. He adds, “The new SARS coronavirus has literally closed the economies of the Western world and created a public relations nightmare for China.”

The Kearney report states that companies “will be compelled to go much further in rethinking their sourcing strategies, (and) their entire supply chains.”…”

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CBS News Goes Full Fake but Accurate With Correction on Viral Crying Nurse Video

This is a remarkable story of lazy journalism in the age of Trump.

The media in this country is populated by worthless nitwits.

Trump Breaks CNN, Smokes Out Pro-Beijing Reporter in One Press Conference