Posted on 05/29/2020 5:49:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
On May 27, the American coronavirus death toll rose to six figures: 100,000 lives lost. That's a very sad number, made sadder when we ponder that the virus prevents loved ones from saying goodbye in person and makes any funeral an extremely small event.
America's largest national newspapers have all made dramatic front pages out of the number. The New York Times came first on Sunday, filling its entire front page and three more pages with names of the victims. USA Today followed on Wednesday with an entire front page in black and white and photos of the dead. The Washington Post waited until we reached the horrible number but still printed some stories on the front page.
In The Post, Marc Fisher brought the usual emotional language to the milestone. It "slipped by like so many other days in this dark spring, one more spin of the Earth, one more headline in a numbing cascade of grim news." It's hardly slipping by. They've made sure of that.
CNN promoted each and every one of these performative pages, which strongly enhanced the notion that this isn't just a number. It is a political strategy. Each of these newspapers and CNN haven't just reported on President Donald Trump; they've cast him as a dangerous man who should have been removed from office long before he had a chance to campaign for reelection.
It's the same strategy callously projected by Politico writer (and CNN analyst) Ryan Lizza, who asked White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany: "We're about to cross the 100,000 dead American milestone. ... on Election Day, what does the White House view as the number of dead Americans where you can say that you successfully defeated this pandemic? Is there a number?"
He didn't ask just once. He kept repeating it. The implied message: The White House should be too embarrassed to ever claim victory, to ever claim that it did something right; that the situation could have been worse; and that it listened to the experts and took action.
You can't merely grieve for the 100,000 in a vague way. This has to be trotted out as talking points, as Public Rationale No. 1 for removing Trump from office in November.
Lizza's reporter girlfriend, New York Magazine Washington correspondent Olivia Nuzzi, tried this tactic first, in a more baldly political way. A month ago, she asked Trump, "If an American president loses more Americans over the course of six weeks than died in the entirety of the Vietnam War, does he deserve to be reelected?"
CNN loves this line of attack questioning from this Sonny and Cher of smears. In April, Brian Stelter interviewed Nuzzi and Lizza as they sat in front of their fireplace. Stelter, referring to Nuzzi's question to Trump, merely asked her, "Why did you think it was important to ask?" Apparently, it's important to always imply to the public that Trump's incompetence killed tens of thousands of people. (Rep. Adam Schiff was even more blunt, suggesting a successful impeachment effort would have saved many lives.)
Lizza's response to Stelter looks even phonier now than it did then. He complained that right-wingers think these questions are "all somehow showboating, or not real journalism" and added with a straight face, "that's just wrong and has never been the case since I've been covering the White House." That's a lie. He then added to that lie with further showboating.
We can all lament this death toll, but some are clearly beating their breasts in the most opportunistic way imaginable. Doing so doesn't honor the victims. It merely exploits them.
Ghouls.
All the media parrotted the words “grim milestone.” I knew it would happen, and that they would blame it on Trump.
When it reached 3,000 they compared it to 9/11 and blamed Trump. Same with Vietnam war. Then the number with 5 zeros, as if it were any worse than 99,999 or 100,001. If an asteroid were on its way to destroy Earth, they would blame it on Trump.
So I get my impressions of what they think is important and what they want to impress on the sheep who watch them, and overall, over the last three days, it was as if they were doing a countdown to 100,000 COVID-19 deaths.
It was macabre. Every time I walked by, they had a banner at the bottom of the screen in big red capital bold letters "US APPROACHES 100,000 DEATHS FROM COVID-19". And that seemed to be for extended periods of time each day. (I assume they didn't have that up as a continual banner, but since I only saw television each time I left my office, that was the impression.
It reminded me of the Iran Hostage Crisis, where every single day, they would start out with a big banner with something like "IRAN HOSTAGE CRISIS: DAY 227" and the next day it would be "IRAN HOSTAGE CRISIS: DAY 228" and so on.
And when that banner wasn't up, it was wall to wall rioting and all about the death of the guy at the hands of police.
So that easily tells you what they want to push:
‘Ghouls.’
a number of these ghouls post on this website...
(and she has the television on all the time)
must be a female thing; I’m sitting in the living room, enjoying the quiet which is all too rare around here, my wife comes in, goes to sit down, and before her butt touches the chair the TV remote has already been clicked...
We’re about to cross the 100,000 dead American milestone
Which is equivalent to Last Years deaths that resulted from Influenza, the FLU!, in America
All of this could have been prevented if Xi had been upfront and honest with the world immediately upon finding out about it. And, all those folks who circumvented the China ban by coming through Europe and then into the Eastern Seaboard bringing the virus with them, well, they helped the most to kill Americans. Selfish individuals. They knew they were sick but did it anyway. It’s shameful. But hey, let’s blame trump who wanted to stop this but had his hands tied because of rules, laws and the constitution, and of course congress
We can do the innuendo
We can dance and sing
When its said and done we havent told you a thing
We all know that crap is king
Give us dirty laundry...
This puts me in a pickle.
I have generally zero respect for people who sit slack-jawed, eyes gaping at that crap on television all the time. It seems like the most empty-headed pursuit worthy only of people who have nothing better to do than have their empty skulls filled up by whatever the networks decide is important to pour into them.
And what they pour into those empty, willing skulls ranges from the malevolent Leftist news cycles to vacuous fare like “America Has Talent” or any number of sitcoms I think is antithetical to individual thought and sensible use of scarce time.
Now, my wife tells me she has the television on for background sound (I prefer silence over THAT) and I know she is smart and not a Leftist...but I have to square that round peg, given how I feel about people who watch television all the time like that.
It is a bit of a conflict to me I have to come to terms with. Whenever she turns the television on, unless she is watching a movie, I leave the room.
I know the author of that song is a Leftist Dweeb, but...I have always found that song to be hitting the nail squarely on the head.
Especially the verse:
We got the bubble-headed-bleach-blond
Who comes on at five
She can tell you ‘bout the plane crash with a gleam in her eye
It’s interesting when people die
Give us dirty laundry
The experts said that we might lose 2M Americans.
President Trump took action and got that number down to just over 100,000.
I call that pretty good.
Sadly a large portion of the dead where caused by the governors of the states
Uh, no. 24,000 to 60,000. This took me all of thirty seconds to find. Doesn't ANYONE on this forum actually check things??
There are NOT 100,000 dead by the Chinese virus. These numbers are padded. People dying of other things and may or not have the Wuhan flu are listed as kung flu deaths. It is very dishonest and an attempt to induce panic amongst weak minded people.
To demonstrate the point of the commentary, we need one of those YouTube video compilations showing media personalities across the country mouthing the exact same phrases.
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