Posted on 04/22/2020 11:31:21 AM PDT by Starman417
OK, maybe that's not fair. It took a bit of looking, but I was able to find a few articles where the MSM showed genuine sympathy for Americans whose lives have been upended by the The Kung Flu Virus and the Boogy-Wuhan Flu. First, we go to NBC:
If the government-mandated shutdown continues through this week – and there is no end in sight – Friday will mark the second paycheck missed by affected workers, whose household budgets have been completely upended.An estimated 800,000 employees have been caught in the political crossfire of the shutdown, now in its fifth week.
President Donald Trump’s proposal to reopen the country, which outraged immigration hard-liners on the left and was instantly rejected by Democrats, is headed for a vote this week in the House, where it will probably fail.
Next, The Washington Post shows its compassion with this heartbreaking personal story:
Donna Kelly dumped a pile of bills on a table at the office of the union that represents low-wage contractors, including janitors, security guards and cafeteria workers, locked out of their jobs by the shutdown.Kelly, 63, is one of them. For the past four years, she has worked as a security guard. She earns $15.72 an hour, barely enough to pay the rent on her subsidized apartment on Capitol Hill and meet the rest of her monthly expenses. Now she is facing the loss of her paycheck as the partial shutdown enters its third week — a scary prospect.
“We have one more check coming,” said Kelly, a shop steward for the Service Employees International Union. “For me, it’s not a full check. If I don’t work, my bills don’t get paid. The reality is frightening.”
ABC news found another sad angle to our difficult plight:
Lisa Gray was supposed to go on vacation with her family on Thursday, but now it's up in the air.
Her husband, Thomas, an employee affected by the shutdown. He won't be getting a paycheck for his work this week, directing aircraft in and out of Oakland International Airport.But that's not all. His family won't be able to go on vacation, either, since he's unable to receive paid time off for the duration of the shutdown.
"All scheduled paid leave and other paid time off, (including paid holiday time off), are canceled. As a result, Gray's family vacation may be upended.
"He did have to turn in his vacation week for next week because there’s no guarantee you’d get paid for vacation days," Lisa Gray told ABC News.
HAHAHAHAHHA!!! I'm kidding, of course! Yes, those links are real, and most of the stories you read are as well. These stories are all from the Acela media lamenting the plight of those long suffering, oppressed workers who support the federal government. Today's average Americans who don't live in a stronghold of Leftist extremism? Not so much. A month before Pelosi Antionette's brilliant "Let them eat chocolate ice cream!" gaffe, she was telling Americans her true feelings toward them - "I don't care!" Even my local small town paper, whose owner/editor in chief is a late stage Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferer, likend Texas' Lt. Governor Patrick suggestion that some older Americans might choose to go back to work is akin to Hitler's final solution. Sadly, I'm not exaggerating, but that could be a post of its own.
Another interesting note, some personal happenings have forced me to spend a lot of time on Facebook the last few days (I mostly left FB back in 2018, another topic for another day). In my purely informal and unprofessional of surveying attitudes in the media and individuals, I've noticed a common thread among the people who support our near total lockdown and not reopening the country until total ruin has been achieved. Every one of them has at least one paycheck coming into their household. And I don't see any of them publicly proclaiming and calling on others to donate their next two months of take home pay to households that haven't gotten paid in months and whose federal aid is being gleefully held up by Pelosi Antoinette.
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No
I wonder how long the media would continue their malignant behavior if people quit paying their Cable TV bills...
To be fair, the Ministry of Propaganda only hates Americans that want to keep the Republic crated by the Constitution.
To be fair, the Ministry of Propaganda only hates Americans that want to keep the Republic created by the Constitution.
I think they always did. Before cable & the internet we didn’t know. They were able to control thinking easier then.
I honestly never do, not in my long lifetime. They just used to root for the Soviet Union, then the Clinton’s, and now China.
NO.
Nope.
I would have to be over a hundred.
I am not quite that old.
That’s the right answer.
What a difference it was to break out of the ABCCBSNBCCNN alphabet chorusline jail. Fox in 1999 was an amazing contrast to the party line crap of the previous 35 years.
It was Vietnam and the ‘60s that turned the networks into a ComDem echo chamber.
A little. Charles Kuralt was about the end of it...
https://youtu.be/_01vRlpT6fg
“It was Vietnam and the ‘60s that turned the networks into a ComDem echo chamber.”
Critical point: 1969 - Tet offensive - Walter Cronkite.
Nope. Remember the NYT in the 1930s denied the massacres in Russian Georgia. Ayn Rand couldn’t find a publisher for her books because everyone told her that she was wrong, and that Russia was indeed a paradise.
Maybe pre-1930s? Maybe
They have hated America since before Vietnam.
I remember watching the daily bombing run counts and body counts shortly after Tet in ‘68.
I was 7.
I have known the hate of the Democrats since then.
not to nitpick...but it was 1968
in the wake of the Tet Offensive in late Jan, Feb, King Walter declared the war a “stalemate”
hell, the dems got us into that war.
They’ve always thought they’re better then the public & know better! Its only now that the public don’t know its place that the MSM hates the public.
Yeah
That broadcast
Watched it, wondered what was wrong with that guy
Whaddya mean, we can’t win?
Little did we know that was his goal
Before cable and the internet and the birth of what we call “mainstream media”, there were competing sources of info. Even small towns had two or more newspapers, each slanted a certain way (at the bare minimum, you had what amounted to a “Republican” and a “Democrat” newspaper). MSM has taken that competition away and, without competition, well, you know how that story plays out.
One of the women on MSNBC this morning (who’s usually a bimbo - on the 9AM slot) asked “Jeh” about Kerry being so supportive of China - and she wasn’t faking it. She sounded like an American - not an ‘elite’... Very weird.
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