Now that you have a little time to read, and refresh your zeal for the cause.
Under the headline ‘Chaos Rocks the White House on Virus’ Most Tragic Day‘ CNN unloads on the Trump administration’s purported disarray, while it buries lede that the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation has revised downward the number of expected dead from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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15 replies on “Chaos Rocks the White House: How CNN Buries the COVID-19 Good News”
I really like that portrait of the president that’s on the thumbnail! Good find, kudos to whoever was responsible!
What were the March influenza deaths in March 2019, and then in March 2020?
To paraphrase the immortal Gunnery Sgt. Thomas Highway, “The American people are looking for a few good journalists. Unfortunately you ain’t it”
Scott, Scott, Scott, i love ya, man, but you are going to give Bill a heart attack!
Madame, I blush.
Bill: Fabulous, fabulous arguments and logic! Ever since Donald Trump was elected President (even before), the disgusting MSM has been the slavering, pandering, mindless, and cowardly lemmings of the Democrats/Far Left to bring down his Administration by any and ALL means available.They have stopped at NOTHING with a scorched-Earth agenda and failed miserably every time. If the Left didn’t create this pandemic in the first place, they certainly are using it as a ‘Hail Mary’ pass to topple Pres. Trump. I, for one, am livid at this swamp that calls itself journalism, that has no curiosity, no loyalty to the American people, no love for our country, and who are investigatively brain-dead. Thank God we have a President who can shoulder this huge burden of sifting through the cacophony of ‘advice’ and has the moral courage to make hard decisions despite the attacks he knows he’ll get from the Left. Please keep up your great work!,
Beck showed the whole footage of that interchange and not the excerpt the media spewed… without context…
I assume that in these days of Zoom that even the White House press briefings are remote… why don’t you apply for a spot? At least you guys would ask for some substance and make them drop the nasty fluff… just a thought…
You have a point. The only time we’d want to be in the White House press room is when fewer members of the press were there.
Scott, but then you’d be right a home with the rest of the commentators and opinionists whose craft is to come up with the perfect loaded question. That’s what journalism has become.
If it were not for the internet, and also, the variety of NEWS channels that a person can choose, we would be “at the mercy” of NBC, CBS, and ABC, like it was years ago. Most people are lazy and do not take the time to research from all sides what IS reported. The lack of accountabilty within our government has filtered into just about every aspect of society these days, with the MSM being the worst, ie. they can say just about anything without suffering consequences! Bill’s ire is totally justified, as is his frustration. We need Trump more than ever, and Americans will recognize that fact in the next few months. His tenacity with keeping America strong, and returning to our vibrant economy will prevail! Also, keep up the excellent commentary….Bill, Scott, and Steve….thank you!
I need those perspectives!!
So true about the media. All they talk about is all the deaths and nothing said about those who survived. It’s shameful and needs to stop!
Oh, Scott. It was never like that. We were always getting the journalists’ biases and narrative. They were just better at hiding it because they were the gatekeepers of all information, so there was nothing to compare their narrative to.
Walter Cronkite calling Vietnam a “quagmire” is a prime example (but certainly not the only or oldest example).
I don’t think there was a time when humans weren’t, or when journalists were mere conduits of fact and truth, without taint of bias or opinion. However, there were at least nominal standards, and a process designed to clearly indicate when a segment was pure opinion or “analysis”. That’s what’s missing now. And I don’t say that as a criticism. Only the news network promo people seem to think they’re in the news business. The hosts clearly project that they’re social-influencer personalities.
Hindsight is always better than foresight BECAUSE hindsight is using information that foresight did not have and could not have. It is rather like choosing heads before the coin toss, tossing the coin, and finding that it lands tails. Then, based upon knowing the outcome, you complain that tails was not chosen.
You note that even your sister’s uncle’s brother said it was going to land tails. Neglecting the fact that there were many someones who guessed heads and many others who guessed tails. Before the event there were no experts about what was going to happen. After the event everyone is or can be an expert about what actually happened. However, none of them had the responsibility for making the best possible choice based upon inadequate information ABOUT THE FUTURE nor did they have to pay for the consequence of being wrong.
The expectation that the head executive must make a totally correct decision about the future that has not happened is a logical fallacy. All one can do is weigh the known factors against the guessed probabilities of future eventualities. Then make the best possible decision UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES.
What was known was the past behavior of the Chinese Government in similar situations along with the fact there are NO EXPERTS about future events. There are only educated guesses about the future. Models of the future are only educated guesses hidden behind the screen of a computer. Their results are only as good as the assumptions and data they are based upon. They are models only. They are not reality!
The fact is, only the future will have a say in which educated guess was the correct one. Trump had to make a decision and he made the best possible decision he could given the circumstances. It turned out to be a rather good one that could have been better if made a few weeks sooner. Nothing more can be expected.