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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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

https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1247585467643633664

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

The UK government’s new testing chief has admitted that none of the 3.5 million antibody tests ordered from China are fit for widespread use

Some U.S. media continue to carry water for the Chinese. They do it to try to discredit the Trump Administration. China is an authoritarian government and a direct competitor (enemy?) of the U.S.

Wisconsin Supreme Court overturns governor, orders Tuesday elections to proceed

 

Biden Now Says the China Travel Ban He Opposed Should Have Happened Sooner

Liberal media can’t stand the Coronavirus press briefings because President Trump is in command and does not suffer fools gladly. The president uses the technical experts to respond to technical questions. The President calls out individual reporters for poor and biased questions. Reporters in the room give the impression of pettiness. Reporters always portray the situation in a negative way and always ask questions designed to “get Trump”. Media credibility has fallen. Presidential credibility has risen. The President has some of the highest poll numbers of his presidency.

Liberal media has few options. They can’t pull away from the briefings, except for short periods when the President is talking, and then they have to come back. They can’t interpret and spin the President’s comments, because his comments are viewed by the public in real time and recorded. Liberal media are called out and ridiculed when their attempts to spin are too obvious. Liberal media have lost control of the narrative. Media frustration is highlighted in the following story:

Liberal Media Scream: Trump virus briefings ‘worse than’ Vietnam War lies

I have no sympathy for the media. They are bad at their jobs. They are obviously biased against the current administration. They obviously hate President Trump. They do everything they can to pull down Trump’s presidency. The liberal media are a pack of howling hyenas. The current professional class of journalists and media personalities are the worst in the history of our great country, in my opinion, even surpassing in poor performance the Civil War era press.

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OH BOY, IS AUNTIE MAXINE GONNA BE PISSED: A Democratic state representative from Detroit — who is also a woman of color — is crediting hydroxychloroquine and Republican President Donald Trump who touted the drug — for saving her in her battle with COVID.

“Whitsett said she was familiar with “the wonders” of hydroxychloroquine from an earlier bout with Lyme disease, but does not believe she would have thought to ask for it, or her doctor would have prescribed it, had Trump not been touting it as a possible treatment for COVID-19 […] “It has a lot to do with the president … bringing it up,” Whitsett said. “He is the only person who has the power to make it a priority.”

I can just imagine Maxine Waters saying she should have died like a “true sister” rather than acknowledge being helped by Bad Orange Cracker.

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