Posted on 03/18/2020 8:20:49 PM PDT by Rummyfan
On Wednesday, President Trump and members of his crisis response team were questioned four times during a press briefing on the White House’s plans to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, which originated in China, about whether it is racist to call the disease the “Chinese virus.”
Four times.
ABC News’s Cecilia Vega was the first to bring up the matter of problematic terminology.
“Why do you keep calling this the ‘Chinese virus’?” the White House correspondent asked. “There are reports of dozens of incidents of bias against Chinese Americans in this country. Your own aide, Secretary Azar, says he does not use this term. He says, ‘Ethnicity does not cause the virus.’ Why do you keep using this?”
The president responded, “Because it comes from China.”
“People say it’s racist,” Vega continued.
Trump answered, “It’s not racist at all. No. Not at all. It comes from China. That’s why.”
“And no concerns about Chinese Americans in this country?” asked Vega. She then turned her attention to members of the president’s crisis response team and asked, “And to the aides behind you, are you comfortable with this term?”
The effort to drive a wedge between the chief executive and the Secretary of Health and Human Services failed, and you'd think that's the end of it. But no.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Gotcha questions.
F you!
How this nation has changed since then!
Well, if they’re Americans, they’re not Chinese.
They object to calling it the Wuhan virus also, which is a place, not a race.
we were totally outraged while watching those bullshit questions today ...
from now on, when President Trump gets asked questions like that, he should respond:
“Our country is in a national emergency condition right now, and questions like that are a waste of time and are in no way helpful to the American people ... from now on, I will answer only questions that contribute to informing the American public how they should best deal with this situation, and anyone who asks me an irrelevant question will not be called upon again during the next week.”
Is using the term Chinese Food racist? Just askin’?
Is “Spanish flu” racist?
I’m a former VN journalist/researcher.My father-in-law fought on Iwo Jima (3 Purple Hearts), my son and son-in-law fought in Iraq (3rd ID and 4th Marine Division respectively).
Listening to and reading the wimpy, cowardly, anti-Trump douchebag journalists at the press conference (including Jim Acosta at any time), reminds me that our liberal/leftist younger reporters, many of whom are millennial fools, aren’t worth “spit”. If they disappeared tomorrow nobody would miss them.
In contrast to these little shits, I’m reading an after battle report dated June 12, 1945, from the Commanding Officer of the USS Vestal to the Chief of the Bureau of Ships re the “USS Newcomb (DD586) - Repairs to Battle Damage in the case of” (battle damage during the period May 2 - June 12, 1945).
I’m going to let the report speak for “The Greatest Generation”, including those who died during those days listed above, and let you, the reader, compare their heroism to the cowardice of our millennial cowards of today including those in the White House Press Corp.
“Selected quotes/statements”
“All personnel stayed at their guns until blown over the side or forced to leave their stations by fires”.
“Below are listed lessons I have learned in witnessing seventy-five Japanese suicide attacks, twenty of which were hits”.
April 6, 1945 attack: Newcomb hit by 4 suicide planes:
8. (a) Every man killed in action as found at his battle station as follows: lists 15 names.
Names of the missing in action are listed below with battle station at which they were serving during the engagement - 20 names listed. Five more names of MIAs were added April 14, 1945.
Many were killed by planes crashing into their gun positions, often blowing the guns themselves overboard, along with their crews.
* “Gunnery Department: Knapp, David Jr., 800 52 48, S1c, remained on his director station #44 and assisted in keeping his gun firing until it was blown over the side. He is missing in action.” (
“Carter, Iverson A., 807 29 11, GM3c, as 20 mm gunner on midships battery remained on his gun after the first suicide crash and was firing at the time of second crash. He is missing in action”.
“Terisavage, John C., 642 16 37, GM3c, as loader on 40 mm gun #44 remained on his station and kept gun in action until it was blown over the side. He is missing in action.”
* Medical Dept.: “Lt. J.J. McNeil, MC, USNR, after rescuing several severely injured men and take them to a place of safety was in charge of caring for all casualties, performing his surgical work on the wardroom table.”
* Rescue and Life Saving: “Luarino, Rosario (n), 601 44 67, F1c, who was in the water gave his life jacket to Lipariti, Frank A., 814 16 35, S1c, who had lost his own and was drowning. Latter is missing.”
* Forward Fire Fighting Party: “Tacey, Richard C., 600 96 38, MM1c(T), as a member of the #1 repair party, was killed in fighting fires as he attempted to reach some engineering personnel trapped by the flames.”
I hate our media whores, our academic traitors, our corrupt, anti-American politicians, and the useless millenials and spoiled bastards of the left.
They will never compare to those men I have listed above. They just haven’t got what it takes to be a “hero”. Instead they are “zeros” and my hatred is reserved eternally for these current “journalists” who couldn’t hold a candle to my fellow journalists from Isaac Don Levine (Pulitzer Prize winner), J.R. Del Vecchio, USMC award winning combat photographer, Vietnam (PH) and personal friend; Joe Galloway who fought at the Ia Drang Valley; Don Kirk, Henry Brashear, Dennis Duncanson, Jim Parsons, etc. (VN journalists), and combat veterans Lt. Col. Vince Tocci and Jim Lorfano, Korea/VN and DDI/Pentagon.
I curse our mainstream media and will until the day I die.
MadMax, Bao Chi, SVN/Cambodia, Fall, 1970
4 L8R
Female reporters are always the most mean spirited.
Is LYME DISEASE “racist” against people from CT? Though many of them do deserve a butt whupping for foisting Da Nang Dick Blumenthal on us in the Senate, but I digress.
So many racist diseases ...
Norovirus: Norwalk, Ohio
Lyme Disease: Lyme, CT
Ebola: Ebola River, Zaire
Hanta Virus: Hanta River, So. Korea
African Sleeping Sickness
... (the list could be hundreds)
and the most racist of all:
Black Death
hypocrites:
TWEET: MRCTV
Liberal media pundits want you to think referring to the coronavirus as the “Wuhan” or “Chinese” virus is racist.
Here’s just a few of the times the liberal media did just that.
VIDEO: 2m07s
12 Mar 2020
FROM REPLIES:
Sean Baldwin: Viruses are named after the area they’re from. CHART
12 Mar 2020
Veteran for Trump: Here is CNN’s Jim Acosta using these “Wuhan” word, but it’s ok when CNN uses the word, but anyone else it’s racist…TWEET JIM ACOSTA
12 Mar 2020
Carlos Torres: Facts:
West Nile Virus
Guinea Worm
Ebola
Zika Virus
Rock Mountain Fever
Even Lyme Disease
ALL are named after a geographic location—cities, forests, rivers, countries
So why is the media all of a sudden outraged over “The China Virus”
Spanish flu
- Lyme disease from Lyme, CT
12 Mar 2020
https://twitter.com/mrctv/status/1238186498433966081/video/1
China has invested heavily into our dying media....keeping them afloat. Now, China demands they defend the communists from responsibility.
Spanish Flu, West Nile, etc. are all named for their origin point.
Wuhan Virus is the same.
If this originated in the US, it would be labelled as such and the US would be expected to help pay for the global costs of medical care.
He should have instructed security to take her press pass right then and there and have her removed for stupidity
Keep giving this answer!
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