Posted on 03/10/2020 7:35:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The press has a lot to answer for in its coverage of the coronavirus -- stoking fear, claiming chaos that isn't there, and blaming President Trump, whose reponse to the pandemic has been exemplary.
Here's one, from the U.S. edition of the Daily Mail:
President Donald Trump has not been tested for the novel coronavirus, the White House revealed in a statement late Monday, even though he has been in contact with a slew of politicians who have gone under self-quarantine.
The president refused to answer repeated questions on whether he had been tested or not for the virus during a press conference earlier on Monday.
Vice President Mike Pence said he hadn't been tested and wasn't sure if Trump had been, but promised to give an answer to that question later in the evening.
'The President has not received COVID-19 testing because he has neither had prolonged close contact with any known confirmed COVID-19 patients, nor does he have any symptoms,' White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said in a statement.
Ryan Saavedra of the Daily Wire reports that they actually claimed he 'stormed out' of the room, describing what really happened:
This is total bullshit
He was asked as he was walking out of the room
No one "stormed" out of the room https://t.co/QpuQOLmHmh — Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) March 9, 2020
Helps to have some witnesses in the room. Assuming Saavedra is right, what a dishonest bit of sensationalism in such "journalism." And apparently, the Daily Mail has changed the wording since the the criticism.
Whether it was from a desire for clicks, leftist bias, or just having nothing to report and making things up, it's not an honest characterization
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
And freeper friends are posting his drivel and hype every day 24 7.
Current posts on main page about coronavirus: 4
Hysteria level: Trending down, slowly.
Don’t believe anything you read and half of what you see and you’ll do just fine.
We need a good laugh from time to time.
I watched it live...the DUmbass SCREAMED the question at him as he walked out of the room. DNC-media are lying low-life losers.
Remember PRAVDA, Russia’s longtime but now obsolete media mafia? It died in 1996. The American corporate media is following pell mell in its footsteps.
The Russian people stopped believing anything that was printed or broadcast by the fake news organ of the dying communist government.
A majority of American’s no longer trust what they read in the newspaper and watch on the broadcast networks because it’s clearly liberal, DNC propaganda.
Everyday the impeach themselves with their frothing at the mouth reporting.
Yes.....the bull market might be getting a little long in the tooth, but the Fed and the Treasury have a lot of unused bullets.
The media is going to die on this hill especially if they anoint Biden and his mistress Hillary Clinton. Watch for it. Buy your corn pop now.....
Though I would not blame Trump for storming out of a room filled with these idiots. I suspect most of you wouldn’t.
I think the hysteria will trend down faster once we know that the SARS-CoV-2 virus now going around isn’t the original version that caused so much mayhem in Wuhan. The current version has effects more akin to a bad common cold, and scientists from several biotech firms have figured out that shutting down certain RNA replication sequences essentially neutralizes the virus. We could see vaccine trials start as early as late April 2020.
I watched the presser, I would never have the patience to not slug a handful of the RUDE reporters.
The Daily Mail hates the US and Trump with all they have. Read it for a week and you will agree
Also note Trump beatthem badly in court. LOL
What they are obviously trying to do, is bait President Trump into getting tested.
Then, they will accuse him of ‘privilege’ - pulling rank, selfishly using his office to get himself tested, when so many under privileged poor need the tests more than he does.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.