Posted on 04/18/2021 4:57:02 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
I missed this Saturday, but it’s something everyone in America should be required to watch. – Bill Maher is mainly just another leftist propagandist talking head on your TV screen, but every once in a while he strays from the prevailing Democrat/media narrative, engages his own brain and speaks actual logic and facts about some topic or another. Whenever that happens, it’s generally worth listening to.
Friday night, he went off on liberals and the rank disinformation they have bought into regarding COVID-19. He also excoriated the corrupt propaganda media for being guilty of systematically pounding that disinformation into the easily manipulated liberal hive mind in this country.
VDO.AI It’s truly epic stuff. Watch it:
Here’s a transcript for those of you who still like to read stuff:
And finally new rule, don’t spin me when it comes to my health. Over the past year, the COVID pandemic has prompted the medical establishment, the media, and the government to take a scared straight approach to getting the public to comply with their recommendations. Well, I’m from a different school. Give it to me straight doc, because in the long run that always works better than you can’t handle the truth.
Now I get it: doctors tell people lies because they don’t trust you to finish the antibiotics. And media, well, I think we all know if it bleeds, it leads. The more they can get you to stay inside and watch their panic porn, the higher the ratings.
Researchers at Dartmouth built a database recently monitoring the COVID coverage of the major news outlets across the world and found that while other countries mix the good news in with the bad, the U.S. national media reported almost 90% bad news. Even as things were getting better, the reporting remained negative.
And politicians, they lie because it’s their nature to cover their ass. They don’t get blamed if things goes badly and also to keep in practice.
But when all of our sources for medical information have an agenda to spin us, yeah, you wind up with a badly misinformed population, including on the left. Liberals often mock the Republican misinformation bubble, which of course is very real. Ask anyone who works at Hillary’s pizza parlor. And we do know conservatives have some loopy ideas about COVID like the third of Republicans who believe it couldn’t be spread by someone showing no symptoms.
But what about liberals? You know, the ‘high information by the science’ people. In a recent Gallup survey, Democrats did much worse than Republicans in getting the right answer to the fundamental question: what are the chances that someone who gets COVID will need to be hospitalized? The answer is between one and 5%. 41% of Democrats thought it was over 50%, another 28% put the chances at 20 to 49.
So almost 70% of Democrats are wildly off on this key question and also have a greatly exaggerated view of the danger of COVID too and the mortality rate among children. All of which explains why today, the states with the highest share of schools that are still closed are all blue states. So if the right wing media bubble has to own things like climate change denial, shouldn’t liberal media have to answer for how did your audience wind up believing such a bunch of crap about COVID?
A new report in the Atlantic says the media won’t stop putting pictures of the beach on stories about COVID even though it’s looking increasingly like the beach is the best place to avoid it. Sunlight is the best disinfectant and vitamin D is the key to a robust immune system. Texas lifted its COVID restrictions recently and their infection rates went down in part because of people getting outside to let the sun and wind do their thing.
But to many liberals, that can’t be right because Texas and beach loving Florida have Republican governors, but life is complicated. I’ve read that the governor of Florida reads. I know we like to think of Florida as only middle school teachers on bath salts having sex with their students in front of an alligator but apparently the governor is also a voracious consumer of the scientific literature. And maybe that’s why he protected his most vulnerable population – the elderly – way better than did the governor of New York.
Those are just facts. I know it’s irresponsible of me to say them.
Look, here’s what I’m saying, I don’t want politics mixed in with my medical decisions. And now that everything is politics, that’s all we do. If their side says COVID is nothing, our side has to say it’s everything.
Trump said it would go away like a miracle. And we said it was World War Z. Trump said we should ingest household disinfectants and we laughed as we should of course. And then it turned out 19% of America was literally drenching the fruit in Clorox. And now of course, we find out that all that paranoia about surfaces was bullshit anyway even though we spent hours and hours wiping our knobs with Lysol. And if you’ve ever wiped your knob with Lysol, I think you know.
Now go home and wash the mail. If you lie to people, even for a very good cause you lose their trust. I think a lot of people… Thank you. I think a lot of people died because of Trump’s incompetence. And I think a lot of people died because talking about obesity had become a third rail in America.
I know you’ve heard me pound this fried drumstick before, but since I last mentioned it, a stunning statistic was reported: 78% of those hospitalized, ventilated, or dead from COVID have been overweight. It is the key piece of the puzzle – by far the most pertinent factor – but you dare not speak its name. Imagine how many lives could have been saved if there had been some national campaign similar to Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” program with the urgency of the pandemic behind it, if the media and the doctors had made a point to keep saying, ‘but there’s something you can do.’
But we’ll never know because they never did. Because the last thing you want to do is say something insensitive. We would literally rather die. Instead, we were told to lock down. Unfortunately the killer was already in the house and her name is Little Debbie.
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That is great stuff right there. Naturally, liberals across social media responded not by taking a step back and engaging in just a moment of introspection, but by attacking Maher and impugning his personal integrity.
Because of course that is what they did: That inability – nay, abject refusal – to engage in just a little, tiny bit of introspection is how they became so dangerously ignorant collectively in the first place. It is not just what they do, it is literally who they are.
And that is perhaps the single main reason why our country sits on the edge today.
That is all.
Since when is maher, who is a flaming, criminal leftist who helped create the crumbling society we have, someone we listen to? I guess the only reason is even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Mike Obama’s “Let’s Move” campaign was ridiculed for being hypocritical. They ruined school lunches while letting Food Stamp recipients buy sugary products like soda and Little Debbie.
He’s still a piece of rancid fecal matter.
Just some questions.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
And they are all good ones to be asking.
I have several:
1) If you have any question as to whether the Alinsky Biden administration wants to extent the pandemic, just look at the ZERO reason they had to take down the J&J vaccine. Arguably the one that works the best against variants.WHY?
Our own government continues to expand its war against the People.
2) Why is the CDC not proomoting the use of Ivermectin as both prophylaxis and therapy, Its used by millions opf health care workers. That way we would have a free and open society , while beating this virus?
Dosages:
https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/FLCCC-I-MASK-Protocol-v4-2020-11-22.pdf
Source:
https://dir.indiamart.com/impcat/ivermectin.html
Dr. Pierre Kory charts:The science proving Ivermectin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VQcKdP7BQc
Bill Maher goes on one of these conservative sounding rants every now and then to create a mirage of balance.
He isn’t. His closing was anti-Trump and blaming Trump for the deaths.
During the election, he was the hateful, spiteful man that every progressive longs to be.
“... I think a lot of people died because of Trump’s incompetence...”
Really??
Progressives demand 100% compliance with their dogma. Maher has broken rank, at some personal risk. Give him credit for that.
“... I think a lot of people died because of Trump’s incompetence...”
They rarely say how. If they do, and you show how bad the connection is, they shut down.
They never, ever blame the CCP.
As much as I dislike Maher, he got some things correct. I am someone with long term health issues, auto-immune related. It has been very difficult to get facts from doctors. More concerned about covering their @___ than providing medical facts.
I think Maher is a slime ball. That said, he is by far the smartest guy in Leftist msm. He can argue a point logically, if he wants to. Hate to say it, but he is the other side of the coin of Ann Coulter. I used to really like her, but she is just like Maher (whom she used to date). They both are very smart and working the angles for $$$. JMHO.
” Trump said we should ingest household disinfectants and we laughed as we should of course. And then it turned out 19% of America was literally drenching the fruit in Clorox.”
Total partisan lie which ruins the rest of the piece.
Maher's right... Florida got it right. Maher's intellect keeps getting in the way of him being 'WOKE'... thank God for that...or in Maher's world - thank the people who taught him to read and think...
Doubt this will have any effect on his career and reputation.
Meanwhile, there are calls for Tucker Carlson to be silenced.
Trump never said this. “Trump said we should ingest household disinfectants and we laughed as we should of course.” Mahers is an A1 A-hole.
The man lies even as he brags about himself being a Truth Teller.
Maher is a snake is serpent’s clothing. I couldn’t give two shits less for his opinion on anything under the Sun, or above it.
Obesity tied to ChiCom Virus negative outcomes: Trump’s fault.
The Big Lie always kept alive. Can’t surrender that.
Mayer plays this game all the time.
And they ignorantly beat the disinfectant statements by Trump.
If memory serves, there had just been a novel device invented that shone an IR light into the lungs of folks on respirators. The IR light showed promise as a 'disinfectant' of COVID-ravaged lungs.
So Trump comes out for a news conference and while speaking extemporaneously mentioned this new treatment as a way to 'disinfect' people internally.
This became the 'Clorox' story. Much like the Charlottesville 'fine people' statement.
The media is like a high school cliche of mean girls. I knew some of these folks way back in college - their snobbish, 'I'm smarter than you' attitude hasn't changed with age.
Maher is just an opportunistic attention-grubbing whore.
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