Posted on 03/10/2020 8:22:37 AM PDT by sickoflibs
Imagine reacting to the coronavirus outbreak by hoping that the situation gets horrific enough to bring about the downfall of the Trump administration. Ever since the coronavirus outbreak hit the news cycle, progressive media has been using it as a political cudgel to slam the Trump administration while whipping the public into a frenzy.
But last Friday, MSNBC aired a segment in which host Nicole Wallace and Princeton professor Eddie Glaude attempted to paint the outbreak as President Trump’s “Hurricane Katrina.” But even worse, they seemed to hope that the deaths that result from the disease would lead to the president’s defeat in November.
“We talked about the business community finally not kind of sticking with Donald Trump,” Glaude said. “But this may be, and you know Nicole, I should mention this with a little trepidation, but this may be Donald Trump’s Katrina.”
Wallace jumped in, recalling how Hurricane Katrina impacted the Bush administration:
“Yeah…Let’s just lean into that for a minute. Katrina was the moment when all the things that felt incompetent about the Bush presidency, the appoint of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court. The botched attempt to pass Social Security privatization, I mean I lived it, I can go through the whole list, were realized.”
The exchange continued, excitedly discussing how the coronavirus outbreak could hurt President Trump politically. “If there was any moment that would shake that 40%, the folks who would allow him to shoot someone down someone on fifth – if there’s any a moment, its this one,” Glaude gushed. “Because it’s old people its babies, its friends, its young people, its grandparents. It’s your Nana.”
Wallace recalled her tenure as White House Communications director under the Bush administration, explaining that deaths of those infected with the coronavirus could create the same type of “moment” as the deaths of the victims of Hurricane Katrina. “We gave them a proof point that we were indeed, incompetent. And also, people died. I mean this has the makings structurally of the same kind of moment,” she reasoned. Glaude agreed, concluding that, “This is an event that could take down a presidency.”
Wallace and Gaude were not the only ones in left-wing media hoping that the virus would lead to the president’s ouster. On an airing of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” host Chuck Todd had a similar conversation with Washington Post contributor Matt Bai. “Matt, you and I were talking about it before the break. What the Iran hostage crisis was to the final year of Carter’s presidency, not his fault but it’s a test in real-time. This is what this seems to be for Trump,” Todd said.
Bai built on Todd’s comparison, theorizing that if the situation goes “badly,” it could bring about a Democratic victory in November:
“There is even – There is a certain capacity for chaos in American voters. They don’t like chaos, they don’t like uncertainty, the markets don’t like it, the voters don’t like it, we don’t like it in our daily lives. I’m frankly surprised that the exhaustion from that chaos has been as slow in coming as it has in the American public, but this does hold the potential if it goes badly to become a kind of Jimmy Carter-like scenario where the public just says, ‘can’t wake up with this anxiety every day. We’ve got to have some kind of leadership.’”
You know how the saying goes: “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” The corporate press seems to be taking this maxim to heart in its coverage of the coronavirus. Instead of giving the facts, the Fourth Estate is instead using it to sow as much fear as possible while attacking the president. It seems that every day, progressive journalists show that the wellbeing of the American public is not their concern; they are focused on pushing a political agenda, and they have shown that they are willing to use thousands of tragic deaths to do so.
“Go ahead, Democrats: openly wish that people will die so that Trump can be brought down. Do it. I dare you.”
They won’t be able to stop themselves.
MSNBC et all are God’s creations to allow employment of folks who are so very stupid that they cannot even be politicians.
Really, how many of us have encountered folks in our everyday lives who could demonstrate such a lack of knowledge of all things civilized?
Thankfully their birth related disease cannot be spread by air lest we be permanently sentenced to wearing libmasks.
Add this to the long list of “We’ve got Trump this time. No, really we mean it this time.”
The Democrat Party is the "party" of hate, violence, death, and evil. This is becoming more and more obvious to more and more people.
The Democrat Party has championed every evil from slavery, the ku klux klan, and the Cherokee Trail of Tears to illegal immigration, voter fraud, infanticide, "impeachment," and coup d'état.
Just when you think the Democrat Party could not sink any lower, it does.
This is what sparked the hatred toward Donald Trump and fueled the determination of the Democrat Party to destroy him:
And how many people have died from this media pushed, fake pandemic you ask?
4,072 Deaths!
Sad to see FReepers who usually question our lying fake news, post the bull sh*t they have been reporting!
Hey Nicole, let’s talk about Ebola and jerkwad Obama’s response. THOUSANDS died.
I wonder when they will start germ-wiping the microphones at broadcast studios, including MSNBC. I’m sure we will be the last to know, though.
Exactly.
The collective IQ on FreeRepublic is not as high as I would have hoped but it is an election year and we get a lot of poseurs every cycle.
One thing that doesn’t happen when these folks come out of the woodwork, when you suddenly see a bunch of posters active, is the donations kick up, which is an indicator of what types of people they are.
My tolerance is zero.
(sick of libs) Your name really covers the topic.
The only difference: In the past they tried harder to conceal from the public their fervent desires for major national disasters to damage America, causing huge loss of life, "for the greater benefit" of unseating GOP Presidents.
Just before our forces moved in to topple Saddam, a Brit journalist hanging out with other MSM in the Cairo Hilton, reported without naming names that major US MSMers were stressing out, frantic with worry that Dubya's invasion would NOT result in a huge loss of American military lives, a scenario they were counting on to sink him in Nov'04 and reverse the results of the "stolen" 2000 election.
CNN gets $12 a year from you, MSNBC much less than that.
Think that will get their attention?
CNN earns over a billion dollars a year without selling ad #1, just from carriage fees.
Maybe so but they’re reaching out to an audience and if that audience is gone then ...??
In other words, she’d rather see a lot of people get sick and die than have Trump re-elected. Nice folks, these leftists.
Spring has sprung in NE OK...
I’m beginning to wonder if McCain was simply a puppet being manipulated by Democrat Infiltrators.
He was certainly dumb enough to fall for it.
List of McCain’s support group:
Wallace
Schmitt
Reid
Linda
I’m beginning to wonder if McCain was simply a puppet being manipulated by Democrat Infiltrators.
He was certainly dumb enough to fall for it.
List of McCain’s support group:
Wallace
Schmitt
Reid
Linda
One of the lies was comparing Corona to the Iranian hostage crisis, when they said ‘it wasn’t Carter’s fault’. That is a clear revisionist history, when it absolutely was his fault. His cowardice in Iran allowed the Soviets to spit in his face and invade Afghanistan while Carter stopped the Olympic games. Had he shown strength in Iran, real strength, it would have stopped Russia, the Mujahadeen, then no Osama Bin Ladin, and no 9/11. Carter was always blaming America, listening to those foolish leftist professors saying how America was hegemonizing the world. Then the world saw what happens when America doesn’t act - and we are still suffering from the repercussions.
Nicole. May an infected liberal cough in your morning cereal.
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