Posted on 04/16/2020 2:55:30 PM PDT by Kaslin
President Trump provided facts and context to reporters in the White House briefing room Monday. Mainstream news networks could not bring themselves to look.
The media is anxiously rewriting history to blame the president for a pandemic borne out of a communist regime’s coverup. “He could have seen what was coming,” the New York Times now claims, in a report that argues the economy should have been closed back in February.
Back when Nancy Pelosi said, “come to Chinatown”? When the New York Times called travel restrictions and quarantines “draconian”? When the Times attacked President Trump, during a pandemic, for being a “germophobe” who “frequently uses hand sanitizer”? Turns out it was Democrats and the media who lacked foresight.
“Some Experts Worry as a Germ-Phobic Trump Confronts a Growing Epidemic,” the Times wrote on Feb. 10. The Times used Joe Biden adviser Ron Klain to criticize President Trump for having the “wrong instincts,” falsely accusing the president of being “anti-science, anti-expert,” and “xenophobic.”
In actuality, it is the media’s instincts – to reflexively oppose anything the president says or does – that has left them constantly proven wrong. As a result, they are the only institution during the pandemic with underwater approval.
First it was President Trump’s travel restrictions on Jan. 31. The Washington Post immediately turned to former Obama officials to challenge the president. Ali Khan, an Obama CDC official, said it was the wrong move: “There should be no reason to put undue burdens on people around travel.”
In late January, NBC News was more concerned about “xenophobia” than the virus itself, claiming travel restrictions are “race-based” measures. Time declared “xenophobia” a “pre-existing condition.” Joe Biden cried “hysterical xenophobia.”
CNN said “it could backfire.” Politico claimed the quarantine and travel ban “could stoke racial discrimination,” citing complaints from Democrats and the World Health Organization, which had just spread Chinese disinformation that there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission of the virus. The WHO said travel bans would increase “fear and stigma, with little public health benefit."
The same day the New York Times worried about the president’s hand sanitizer use, they reported the real “risks” posed by the virus were “reviving stigma for China.” China has “made great strides in public health,” the Times said, before quoting communist party officials who claimed China had “been unfairly singled out,” and a victim of “an overreaction by the United States.”
The Democrat and media rewrite: a “race-based” “xenophobic” “draconian” “overreaction” for “no reason” is now “insufficient” and a “halting response.”
The travel restrictions on China, and later Europe, did save lives. But that is not all the president did. While senators were stuck spinning fidget spinners during a pointless Democrat impeachment, the CDC was giving special emergency authorization to develop coronavirus tests. The Trump administration was engaging the private sector like no other. Project Airbridge has delivered half a million N95 masks, 370 million gloves, 25 million surgical masks, and nearly 5 million gowns to the front lines. Governors across the board, of both parties, have praised the administration’s response.
Rather than report on this fairly, with a level-head, the media keeps looking for their next outrage. If the travel ban was not racist, the name of the virus would be. That would not work, since the media spent weeks calling it the “Chinese virus,” too.
The media seized on President Trump’s comment that the virus “hopefully becomes weaker” in warmer weather. Six weeks later research showed “warm, humid weather could slow” the coronavirus. When President Trump expressed doubt in the WHO’s 3.4 percent projected mortality rate, the media decried his opinion as “misinformation.” Newer research dropped it to 0.66 percent, and Dr. Fauci and CDC Director Robert Redfield note that due to asymptomatic cases the rate “may be considerably less than 1 percent.” “Personally,” President Trump had said weeks earlier, “I think the number is way under 1 percent.”
“Some Experts Worry as a Germ-Phobic Trump Confronts a Growing Epidemic,” the Times wrote on Feb. 10. The Times used Joe Biden adviser Ron Klain to criticize President Trump for having the “wrong instincts,” falsely accusing the president of being “anti-science, anti-expert,” and “xenophobic.”
In actuality, it is the media’s instincts – to reflexively oppose anything the president says or does – that has left them constantly proven wrong. As a result, they are the only institution during the pandemic with underwater approval.
First it was President Trump’s travel restrictions on Jan. 31. The Washington Post immediately turned to former Obama officials to challenge the president. Ali Khan, an Obama CDC official, said it was the wrong move: “There should be no reason to put undue burdens on people around travel.”
In late January, NBC News was more concerned about “xenophobia” than the virus itself, claiming travel restrictions are “race-based” measures. Time declared “xenophobia” a “pre-existing condition.” Joe Biden cried “hysterical xenophobia.”
CNN said “it could backfire.” Politico claimed the quarantine and travel ban “could stoke racial discrimination,” citing complaints from Democrats and the World Health Organization, which had just spread Chinese disinformation that there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission of the virus. The WHO said travel bans would increase “fear and stigma, with little public health benefit."
The same day the New York Times worried about the president’s hand sanitizer use, they reported the real “risks” posed by the virus were “reviving stigma for China.” China has “made great strides in public health,” the Times said, before quoting communist party officials who claimed China had “been unfairly singled out,” and a victim of “an overreaction by the United States.”
The Democrat and media rewrite: a “race-based” “xenophobic” “draconian” “overreaction” for “no reason” is now “insufficient” and a “halting response.”
The travel restrictions on China, and later Europe, did save lives. But that is not all the president did. While senators were stuck spinning fidget spinners during a pointless Democrat impeachment, the CDC was giving special emergency authorization to develop coronavirus tests. The Trump administration was engaging the private sector like no other. Project Airbridge has delivered half a million N95 masks, 370 million gloves, 25 million surgical masks, and nearly 5 million gowns to the front lines. Governors across the board, of both parties, have praised the administration’s response.
Rather than report on this fairly, with a level-head, the media keeps looking for their next outrage. If the travel ban was not racist, the name of the virus would be. That would not work, since the media spent weeks calling it the “Chinese virus,” too.
The media seized on President Trump’s comment that the virus “hopefully becomes weaker” in warmer weather. Six weeks later research showed “warm, humid weather could slow” the coronavirus. When President Trump expressed doubt in the WHO’s 3.4 percent projected mortality rate, the media decried his opinion as “misinformation.” Newer research dropped it to 0.66 percent, and Dr. Fauci and CDC Director Robert Redfield note that due to asymptomatic cases the rate “may be considerably less than 1 percent.” “Personally,” President Trump had said weeks earlier, “I think the number is way under 1 percent.”
Trump Derangement Syndrome #TDS may be our biggest obstacle to beating. COVID-19.
Media bias:
ABC owned by Disney has a park and sells most of their movies in China.
NBC owned by Comcast who owns Universal. Universal is building their largest theme park in China. They sell most of their movies to China.
CBS is owned by Viacom. They sell most of their movies in China.
CNN sells their network in China. One of few American networks to do so. And they let China censor their news.
NYT and WSJ both sell papers in China. Their Chinese version is censored.
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