Washington Post January 2020: POTUS “Hyping” COVID Panic – September 2020: POTUS “Downplayed” COVID Panic…

Conservative Treehouse ^ | September 9, 2020 | Sundance

[CheshireTheCat]

After watching political narrative engineering for years, this attempt was predictable. The reason why CTH maintains a “pinned thread” on the White House COVID-19 response from January and February of 2020 is specifically because we knew the narrative engineers would attempt to weaponize the politics of the virus later in the election year.

We knew the narrative engineers would flip the script. Today they did exactly that. After watching political narrative engineering for years, this attempt was predictable. The reason why CTH maintains a “pinned thread” on the White House COVID-19 response from January and February of 2020 is specifically because we knew the narrative engineers would attempt to weaponize the politics of the virus later in the election year.

We knew the narrative engineers would flip the script. Today they did exactly that...Within hours of President Trump’s decision to restrict travel from China on Jan. 31, top Democrats and media figures immediately derided the move as unnecessary and xenophobic.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden led the way, quickly attacking what he called Trump’s “record of hysteria, xenophobia and fear-mongering” after the travel restrictions were announced. A Jan. 31 article in The New York Times quoted epidemiologist Dr. Michael Osterholm as saying that Trump’s decision to restrict travel from China was “more of an emotional or political reaction.”

In March, another Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, conspicuously insisted at a Fox News town hall that he wouldn’t consider closing the U.S. border to prevent the spread of coronavirus, before condemning what he called the president’s xenophobia. The overwhelming narrative was that President Trump’s proactive measures were fear-mongering and intended to produce panic...

[CheshireTheCat]

There are some really good campaign ads and memes that can be made juxtaposing the media's contradictory positions.

[Pikachu_Dad]

So what do we do about it ?!?

[hawkaw]

Great post

[aimhigh]

There are some really good campaign ads and memes that can be made juxtaposing the media's contradictory positions.

Absolutely, and quickly!

[BitWielder1]

I predicted this. Here is my post from 4/19/2020:

Trump acted too soon and too late, did too much and too little, underestimated and overestimated the dangers.
Now when we have fewer deaths than feared, was his measures effective or unnecessary?
Nanzi would NEVER admit that Trump may have been right about anything. Dems are all nasty, horrible backseat drivers.

[BuckeyeGOP]

Great post and devastating to the current media narrative. That meme with the newspaper headlines needs to be plastered all over social media.