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Reporter asks Trump if 'Chinese food' is racist and accuses 'left-wing' media of siding with Beijing
Wash Examiner ^ | March 19 2020 | Mike Brest

Posted on 03/19/2020 11:41:59 AM PDT by rintintin

A reporter for One America News Network asked President Trump if he thought the term "Chinese food" was racist during a line of questioning centering on the president's use of the phrase "China virus" to describe the coronavirus.

Chanel Rion, OANN's White House correspondent, asked the question of the president during Thursday's White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing.

Rion, who spent part of her childhood living in South Korea, asked, "Do you consider the term 'Chinese food' racist because it's food that originates in China?"

"No," the president answered before she finished the question. "I don’t think it’s racist at all."

"On that note, major left-wing news media, even in this room, have teamed up with Chinese Communist Party narratives, and they are claiming that you are racist for making these claims about 'Chinese virus,'" she followed up. "Is it alarming that major media players, just to oppose you, are consistently siding with foreign state propaganda, Islamic radicals, and Latin gangs and cartels, and they work right here at the White House with direct access to you and your team?"

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: chinesefood; chinesevirus; racism
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1 posted on 03/19/2020 11:41:59 AM PDT by rintintin
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Watched her. It was great. Gave Trump an opening to slam the corrupt media.


2 posted on 03/19/2020 11:44:31 AM PDT by tom paine 2
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That’s a refreshing change. A reporter t-ing up softballs for the President to crush.

OAN is pro-America.


3 posted on 03/19/2020 11:44:32 AM PDT by Tenacious 1
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Score one for our side!!!! Way to go Chanel Rion,(OANN’s White House correspondent)... YOU made us proud today...


4 posted on 03/19/2020 11:45:05 AM PDT by GOPJ ( http://www.tinyurl.com/cvirusmap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfeZlKu8M7A)
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"Is it alarming that major media players, just to oppose you, are consistently siding with foreign state propaganda, Islamic radicals, and Latin gangs and cartels, and they work right here at the White House with direct access to you and your team?"

Love it.

5 posted on 03/19/2020 11:45:35 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: rintintin

Great question!

White House press corp needs more like her.


7 posted on 03/19/2020 11:46:35 AM PDT by JPJones (More Tariffs, less income tax.)
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8 posted on 03/19/2020 11:46:43 AM PDT by nascarnation
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Nice, bring back the Red Scare. Serves those chicom mouthpieces right.


9 posted on 03/19/2020 11:46:46 AM PDT by proust (Justice delayed is injustice.)
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From later in the article:

“Rion has made headlines this week for a report exploring claims that the virus may have been created in a laboratory in North Carolina. She cited Greg Rubini, whom she described in the report as “a citizen investigator and monitored source amongst a certain set in the D.C. intelligence community.” In a social media thread outlining his theory, Rubini suggested that Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, personally funded the production of the virus.”

That’s pretty wild. Makes me question Rion’s credibility.


10 posted on 03/19/2020 11:47:04 AM PDT by be-baw
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Too bad we couldn’t see the looks on the faces of the liberal ‘elite’ bimbos and pretentious men of the left-wing press when Chanel Rion asked the question... That would have been priceless.


11 posted on 03/19/2020 11:47:24 AM PDT by GOPJ ( http://www.tinyurl.com/cvirusmap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfeZlKu8M7A)
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Total win!


12 posted on 03/19/2020 11:48:16 AM PDT by GOPJ ( http://www.tinyurl.com/cvirusmap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfeZlKu8M7A)
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To: rintintin

I did notice that, about 3 weeks ago, our HyVee grocery changed the “Chinese” to “Asian” in the ready-to-eat food area.


13 posted on 03/19/2020 11:48:25 AM PDT by NEMDF
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To: tom paine 2

Did the notice the pained expression on the face of the reporter in front of her when she posed her question?


14 posted on 03/19/2020 11:48:28 AM PDT by FES0844
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To: rintintin

BREAKING: MSNBC announces that after Wednesday they will be asking their employees to LIE from home!


15 posted on 03/19/2020 11:48:44 AM PDT by MattMusson (Sometimes the wind blows too much)
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To: rintintin

Love Chanel.


16 posted on 03/19/2020 11:49:30 AM PDT by Captain Compassion (I'm just sayin')
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Well, that raises the issue of Seattle. Is Seattle actually still America when the state has rescinded American law and publishes irresponsible corona virus propaganda?


17 posted on 03/19/2020 11:50:03 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: rintintin

I guess such things as beef&broccoli, egg foo yung, and eggrolls, is now considered racist, by the leftist media.


18 posted on 03/19/2020 11:50:06 AM PDT by DallasBiff (Lautenberg The Forefather of "The Nanny State!")
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19 posted on 03/19/2020 11:50:17 AM PDT by nwrep
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Can’t get the vids to load.


20 posted on 03/19/2020 11:50:53 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Progressives" (elitist Communists) "Love you to death".)
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