Posted on 10/20/2021 4:50:37 AM PDT by Kaslin
When the sad news broke that Gen. Colin Powell had died of complications from COVID-19, much of the coverage was reverent of his decades of public service and his status as the first black national security adviser, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and secretary of state.
Colleagues such as former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer tweeted warmly about Powell's upbeat demeanor: "Always laughing, always happy, always kind." The leftists on Twitter brought out the usual "war criminal" goon talk, complaining about his testimony from intelligence sources that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
The most annoying part of Powell remembrances was the media Democrats dragging the Republican Party into it. At CNN.com, Chris Cillizza quickly wrote a piece, "The Colin Powell Republican no longer exists in the Republican Party." This neatly fits the constant CNN narrative that the GOP is now a den of extremists. Cillizza wrote, "in an acknowledgment of how far the party had moved away from his views, Powell no longer considered himself a Republican," noting he said this to CNN's Fareed Zakaria in January.
In 2008, Powell endorsed Barack Obama over Republican maverick John McCain, a fellow Vietnam veteran. Cillizza didn't try to explain why Powell would do that as a "moderate Republican." Powell then endorsed Obama over moderate Mitt Romney, and then endorsed the Democrat against Donald Trump twice. At that point, he should be considered a Democrat. But each and every time, the liberal media treated this endorsement as an immensely valuable possession.
NBC's Andrea Mitchell tried to claim Powell turned to Obama because the GOP was filled with racial resentment, booing a speech at the 2000 Republican convention where he talked up "affirmative action." But we found a video of the speech. All you see is wild cheering for Powell.
Within an hour of the news of Powell's death breaking, NPR "Morning Edition" anchor Steve Inskeep remembered with Mara Liasson how Powell's endorsements were treated as "big media moments," with people "hanging on his every word" for the Obama endorsement. "It seemed like a big moment at the time."
Liasson said maybe it was a no-brainer that the first black secretary of state would back the first black president. But it was "a kind of establishment, good-housekeeping seal of approval." That's what the liberal media loved about it. Obama had next to no experience, no military service, and seemed exotic and global (which they loved). Powell made him more plausibly mainstream and American.
Like Cillizza, Inskeep tried to pretend Powell should still be considered a Republican after 2008, just like the "Republican" Trump haters who populate CNN and MSNBC. He asked Liasson, "How did Colin Powell for, really, the last decade or so represent a particular wing of the Republican Party? I guess we could say an internationalist wing, a national security wing." Liasson agreed. It was "a wing of the Republican Party that believed that America stood for an idea, for values that were defined as a nation not by blood and soil or ethnicity, but by the values that we represent," as opposed to "Trumpism."
This pretends that today's conservatives and Republicans don't believe in traditional American values in foreign policy, like the promotion of an American way -- just in some form of badly disguised racism and xenophobia.
The Democrats in our media would never let a Democrat endorse a Republican in four presidential cycles and keep suggesting he or she was a Democrat, or represented an admirable fraction of Democrats. But Powell's endorsements always allowed them to troll the Republicans.
How does that relate to this thread ?
"Who's that hovering around the buffet schmoozing with the celebs? Hey, General Powell and Lindsay Graham! Where'd all the shrimp go?"
“How long have you practiced medicine?
Would an MD’s care to set this person straight?”
You should type less and research more, the FACTS I posted are out there, get off your lazy ass and look for them.
Those shots exacerbate cancers.
He didn’t even vote for the two biggest RINOs that ever RINOed.
If you are looking for good news it is hard to find in Utopia now.
The information I have come across says that people who get the vaxx then die from something else that the shot weakens their immune system to fight the other issues.
He died of cancer with Covid present...regardless of how his death is counted.
You can be killed in a car accident and if you test positive the cause of death will be Covid.
I’ll bet every one of these sacks of crap hagiographers was calling Powell “literally Hitler” during the bush years. TDS is all powerful.
Bird Flu
Swine Flu
Covid19 Flu
Later in the video, Coleman referred to claims made by Geert Vanden Bossche, an independent consultant who previously worked in vaccine development. Vanden Bossche claimed in an open letter on Twitter, addressed to the World Health Organization, that mass vaccination against COVID-19 would lead to more severe disease. This Health Feedback review demonstrated why Vanden Bossche’s claim is misleading and unsupported by scientific evidence.
Coleman claimed that vaccines promote the generation of specific antibodies that compete with NK cells, which he called “the body’s natural defenses”. He asserted that this would render NK cells ineffective.
But Coleman’s claim isn’t consistent with what we know of NK cells. NK cells, or natural killer cells, are a type of white blood cell that recognize virus-infected cells without relying on antibodies, and thus can respond to a viral infection faster than other types of immune cells, since the body can take days to weeks to produce antibodies.
However, even though NK cells can generate an immune response in the absence of antibodies, there are also mechanisms by which antibodies promote NK cell action, known as antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity[6]. This antibody-mediated activation causes NK cells to eliminate cells that have been infected by a pathogen. This demonstrates that antibodies don’t render NK cells ineffective, as Coleman claimed. Rather, they assist NK cells in fighting infection. Coleman offered no evidence showing otherwise.
The role of NK cells in fighting COVID-19 is unclear at the moment, although researchers detected elevated levels of activated NK cells in patients with severe COVID-19[7]. Overall, Coleman’s claim that antibodies induced by vaccination interfere with NK cell function is unsupported by scientific evidence, since this effect has not been detected in vaccinated persons.
Do you have something coherent to say?
Otherwise...
Covid 19 was invented for the explicit purpose of making mail in balloting feasible on a national scale.
It succeeded.
None of the numbers add up, and they know it.
It's all been a scam and America is riled up and ready to get jumpin' ugly.
Covid 19 is just an identifier for a flu ... or all the stories about death by another cause while having "Covid 19" would not be an issue .... but it is.
Colin Powell died of cancer, it's just that his last breaths were miserable because he also had the flu ... which was probably caught in the hospital.
It doesn't matter that they use the word vaccine .... because a vaccine is a dead or weakened cell of the target virus.
NONE of the "vaccines" have any covid IN them ... just a concoction of I hope so and I think so MRNA to turn the man white ...... er.
Here’s more on the vaccine problem.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4006125/posts
I think this proves my point, vaccines are reducing people immune system
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