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n her debut article, NPR public editor Kelly McBride talked up broadening the NPR audience. She quoted NPR executive Christopher Turpin, who overshared the arrogance of their newsroom. “We are very good at educating the overeducated,” Turbin boasted. “How do we broaden the audience?” You know, to the dummies?

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That Putin would have preferred to deal with Obama-Lite is obvious to anybody with two brain cells to rub together.

No wonder the ‘news media’ missed it.

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A Karen is a person, usually a woman, who is never satisfied with the service she’s receiving and demands to talk to the manager. It doesn’t matter if Karen’s complaints are valid or not.

This is because Karen has been incentivized by cowardly corporate officers and government officials (but, I repeat myself) to get something she doesn’t deserve simply because they want her to shut up and not disturb everyone else.

It was one thing to indulge Karen her entitled behavior when she was getting a free order of fries or month of cable. It’s quite another when Karens become the State’s target audience for public policy.

Beto attacks Trump’s immigration order: ‘Who the f–k do you think is working on the farms?’  Well, not you.

Chinese envoy takes veiled swipe at Trump for politicizing coronavirus  No, that would be the DemLegHump Media.

Nets Decry Trump’s ‘Hardline’ Immigration Order as ‘Dog Whistle’ for Base  If you hear the ‘dog whistle’, then you’re the dog.

WashPost Assigns Trump ‘3 Pinocchios’ — and Then Shows He Told the Truth on the WHO

CNN Attacks Birx for Not Trashing Kemp, Trump for ‘Gaslighting,’ Immigration ‘Distraction’

VIDEO: Shameless Journalists Blame Trump for Coronavirus Death Toll

‘Total Fabrication’: CNN Trashes Trump Criticism of Harvard Bailout

Nancy Pelosi Claims Republicans Held Up Coronavirus Relief Package

Nancy Pelosi Asks Joe Scarborough: ‘What Does Vladimir Putin Have On President Trump?’  Pictures of him with two fridges full of ice cream?

Shills for Biden: MSNBC’s Wallace Touts Misleading Anti-Trump Ad as ‘All True’

Jerry Springer Says There’s “No Excuse” For Networks To Air Trump Virus Briefings

Joy Behar Slams Immigration Pause, Claims ‘Ban Immigrants’ Is Trump’s Answer To Every Problem Like ‘blame Trump’ is Joy Behar’s answer to every problem.

Michael Moore Slams Trump’s ‘Liberate’ Tweets, Says Real ‘Liberation Day’ in November 2020

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

If you pay people not to work, guess what? You get more people … not working.

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Whose turn is it to virtue-signal?

Originally, the group started out as an informational group and has since evolved into a divestment and environmental justice campaign.

Guess they weren’t getting enough attention.

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The UN Food and Agriculture Organization, anti-development banks, the Agency for International Development (USAID), NGO (non-government organization) pressure groups and other eco-imperialists are properly condemned for using their money, power, and control over trade and lending to keep millions of African, Asian and Latin American families from having access to reliable, affordable energy, pesticides and spatial insect repellants to prevent disease, and modern agricultural technologies.

Those outfits perpetuate poverty, disease, malnutrition and death. Yet the eco-manslaughter continues.

The Other McCain peeks behind the curtain.

That’s less than I would have predicted.

Think about this: You’re an upper-middle-class suburban white girl whose parents can afford the tuition at Oberlin, Stanford or Yale. Given your advantageous socioeconomic background, your success in life is almost guaranteed — or it would be, were it not for a curriculum that teaches you deranged nonsense, e.g., “gender is a social construct,” in a campus climate where becoming an “activist” is considered a smart career move. The path of progressive activism is unlikely to lead to personal happiness in life, because this sort of activism is all about grievance-mongering around claims of oppression.

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“Those still getting paid” would be, oh, let’s see, politicians, government employees, academics, people in the ‘news media’ — all of the panic-mongers.

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Reagan couldn’t have said it any better. I’m looking forward to the first video of a Phalanx CIWS shredding some Iranian gunboats.

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Don’t hold your breath.

UPDATE: ‘Leave The $$ For Those With The Greatest Need!’ DeVos Applauds Stanford For Surrendering Coronavirus Funds, Calls On Harvard To Follow

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Michigan Governor Whitmer awarded a COVID contact tracing contract to Dem consulting firm NGP Van. I guess awarding this contract in the midst of a public health emergency in no way violates HIPPA,

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Left-wing activists and elected officials have pushed for the mass release of inmates to prevent them from contracting coronavirus, which has spread throughout crowded corrections facilities. But the mass releases have been followed by a pattern of inmates getting re-arrested shortly after getting out of jail.

Amazing how that works. You’d almost think they were criminals or something.

ZMan cuts to the chase.

In a time of crisis, whether self-inflicted or naturally occurring, you learn a lot about people in how they react to the crisis. They say pressure reveals character, but in the context of something like this pandemic crackdown, pressure reveals your place in relation to the center of cosmopolitan globalism. Not in a physical sense, but in the economic and cultural sense of it. The closer you are to the center, the more enthusiastic you are for the mandatory shuttering of society.

It is one of those things that transcends politics, in that you see people who normally disagree sharing the same side now. The people involved in political media, for example, are all on-board with the crackdown. In fact, they think it should go on forever, as it gives them something to squabble about in a meaningless way. The people in the vast unproductive sector of the economy, like the media and politics, have no stake in the economy, so this is just another thing to fill their time.

Check it out. Watch the video.

This is really amazing.

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Thousands of Americans have died of the coronavirus. But ‘Gaza Firster’ Democrats don’t care.

Eight Senate Democrats, including Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren, dispatched a four-page letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, demanding to know what America was doing about the coronavirus.

Not in America. In Gaza.

According to the Senate letter, “as of March 24, the first two cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in the Gaza Strip.”

That’s two cases. Two. The United States has over 200,000 as of now.

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Had to! Just HAD TO!

UN climate change fund calls coronavirus an ‘opportunity’ to re-shape the world

How Is the Coronavirus Pandemic Affecting Climate Change?  Wired ‘Science’.

Guardian Notices City Beachside Homeowners are Wealthy Enough to Ignore Sea Level Rise

Finally! “North Pole soon to be ice free in summer” – Why did it take so long?  Humanity can’t do anything right.

Pandemic Moves Earth Day Events Online  Good enough for virtue-signaling.

Judge Napolitano Blasts ‘Deplorable’ Statement By New Jersey Governor: ‘There Is No Pandemic Exception To The Constitution’

Spaniards Face €2,000 Fine For “Disrespecting” A Police Officer During Lockdown

The “Science” of Caging a Compliant Majority

Tom Brady Booted From Closed Tampa Park

Bethany Mandel: CNN: King of the Gaslighters

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Is the ‘Hero of the Fascist Lockdown Lobby’

Facebook Censoring Anti-Lockdown Protesters. Donald Trump Jr. Calls It ‘Chilling & Disturbing’

Whither Our Nanny Police State? The Case of Dr. Jonathan Geach

Paris Police Fire Tear Gas As Minorities Riot Over “Racist” Lockdown Treatment

Idaho State Rep. Says Shutdown Orders ‘No Different Than Nazi Germany’

Dictators, Double Standards, and More

Anti-quarantine rally in Pennsylvania draws about 2,000 people in latest protest against coronavirus restrictions

Kimmel Trashes ‘Crazy Right-Wing’ Protesters ‘Fighting Hardest for the Things That Will Kill Them’

China Moves against Hong Kong ‘Never let a crisis go to waste.’

HART: The Politics of Pandemics — How Much Tyranny Is Enough?

The War on Homeschooling

AG Barr Says DOJ May Go After Governors Who Persist With Strict Lockdown Rules

Univision Smears Anti-Lockdown Protesters

Judge Won’t Suspend Ga. Handgun Carry Law During Virus Emergency

Zuck’d Again? State Governors Say Facebook Contacted Them About “Reopen America” Events  Let us welcome our new robot overlords.

Republican-Controlled Wisconsin Legislature Files Emergency Petition To Block Governor’s Stay-At-Home Order

California Extends Ex Parte “Red Flag” Gun Confiscation Orders

Facebook Removing Any Posts Quoting The First Amendment For ‘Encouraging Illegal Activity’

CBS’s Jiang Parrots Unnamed Dem Calling Trump ‘Insane and Criminal’

But Think of the Economy!, by Steve Sailer

Lockdown Good, Border Control Bad II

TOP 16: Journalists Coldly Claim Trump and GOP Want Thousands to Die

NBC News Links Trump to Death from Coronavirus Cocktail … Again

CNN’s Jim Acosta Exploits Oil Crash to Bleat GOTCHA to President Trump

Sciutto Deceptively Edits Trump to Proclaim Trump’s ‘Warming Up’ to Putin in Pandemic

Scarborough: Former Conservatives Now In ‘This Cult’ Of Trump That Can ‘Even Kill’ Seniors

MSNBC: Trump Backers Making China the ‘New Scary Non-White People’

‘Blatant Xenophobia’: Democrats, Critics Fume Over Trump’s Pending Immigration Ban

ABC Blasts Trump’s ‘Xenophobic’ Immigration Order  Think of it as national social distancing.

Rosie O’Donnell: Americans Will ‘Take Out’ Trump In a 2020 ‘Landslide’

U.S. Reports Largest One-Day Increase In Cases Of Trump Derangement Syndrome  Babylon Bee.

Ayanna Pressley Accuses Trump Of ‘War Crimes’ Over Coronavirus Response

Media Currently Freaking Out That Trump Will Impose Temporary Suspension of Immigration

Mitchell Hails ‘Predictably Wonderful’ Albright Trashing Trump

One Liberal Late Night Host to Another: Mocking ‘Comical Cast’ in White House

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Bartholet, also faculty director of Harvard Law School’s Child Advocacy Program, says that “homeschooling violates children’s right to a meaningful education and their right to be protected from potential child abuse,” and that parents have “authoritarian control over their children.”

Unbelievable.

UPDATE: Trump Tells Harvard To Give Back Its Coronavirus Relief Money

Sounds about right.

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You won’t believe it. The newest liberal idea for funding coronavirus relief, as explained in the New York Times this morning, is—wait for it now!—a wealth tax on the rich! Since we’re not supposed to be touching our faces right now, you’re not allowed to smack your forehead and exclaim, “Why didn’t I think of that!? Why is it that liberals have all of the best new old ideas?”

I have an idea: Let’s tax the Chinese. They are more to blame than “the rich”.

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Cheatsheet reports Celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck has joined fellow renowned chefs Thomas Keller, Daniel Boulud, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, and Dominique Crenn to form BIG, (Business Interruption Group), a new national legal, political, and communications campaign launched in partnership with an industry-savvy insurance attorney.

I predict that both sides will come to Washington with their hands out, and the taxpayers will wind up holding the bag.

Conrad Lord Black.

It is almost unbelievable that the Democrats have allowed themselves to be so completely out-maneuvered by President Trump in the coronavirus and economic crises. They are all calling for an indefinite protraction of the economic hemorrhage, with unemployment increasing by hundreds of thousands every day, even as the incidence of the virus declines.

John Hinderaker at Powerline has some thoughts.

Why is President Trump doing this? I assume he legitimately believes that some people arriving from foreign countries are carrying the Wuhan virus, and in the absence of easy, universal screening, we should keep them out while the alleged crisis continues. Beyond that, is he trying to make a point with liberals? Maybe he wants to illustrate how easily a purported crisis can be used to advance a political agenda. Liberals have made no secret of their desire to do this, openly touting the epidemic as an opportunity to achieve longstanding political goals. Maybe Trump wants to remind them that using an epidemic for political purposes can be a two-way street. Or maybe he just enjoys watching their heads explode, I don’t know.

I think a big part of it is just to demonstrate to proglodytes that sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. It also underlines the existence of media bias when they scream and rant about Trump doing stuff that they would coo was ‘presidential’ if Obama — or, God help us, Biden — did them.

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Here’s hoping.

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Saturday’s article, written by columnist Ginia Bellafante, paints the picture of a New Yorker named Joe Joyce, who “was skeptical about the virus,” took a cruise, and then died from coronavirus. Bellafante blamed Fox News and Hannity for Joyce’s death because the New Yorker reportedly watched the network.

Ace of Spades blows the whistle.

Some of you may disagree with the mandate to wear masks proactively, when you don’t have the disease.

What about when you are diagnosed with it and know you are now a vector for a highly contagious, often deadly disease?

What about if you’re part of the industry mass-shaming Americans for failing to abide by social distancing rules you ignore yourselves?

I once worked in a data warehouse team with a guy who spent his spare time and money skydiving. He would spend his vacations in Colorado at a civilian HALO training facility.

I once pointed out that if he joined the Army he would be able to do this every day at government expense and get paid for it. But he just laughed.

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Even patients without respiratory complaints had Covid pneumonia. The patient stabbed in the shoulder, whom we X-rayed because we worried he had a collapsed lung, actually had Covid pneumonia. In patients on whom we did CT scans because they were injured in falls, we coincidentally found Covid pneumonia. Elderly patients who had passed out for unknown reasons and a number of diabetic patients were found to have it.

And here is what really surprised us: These patients did not report any sensation of breathing problems, even though their chest X-rays showed diffuse pneumonia and their oxygen was below normal. How could this be?

We are just beginning to recognize that Covid pneumonia initially causes a form of oxygen deprivation we call “silent hypoxia” — “silent” because of its insidious, hard-to-detect nature.

Steve Sailer: Buy a Pulse Oximeter

In the NYT, an expert on intubation explains the new view among New York emergency room doctors on what is killing so many people: silent hypoxia. Those with pneumonia caused by the coronavirus don’t have enough oxygen in their blood, but they aren’t short of breath until they’ve had pneumonia for several days, so they don’t go to the emergency room until they’ve already suffered severe lung damage.

But if you get to the hospital when pneumonia first sets in, they can probably get you through it without a ventilator.

Fortunately, there’s a simple and reasonably cheap device you can buy right now to detect if you are running out of oxygen and get treatment when treatment can do the most good.

Audacious Epigone does some sociology.

An April 8 article in the New York Times breathlessly revealed that the coronavirus is killing blacks and Latinos in New York City at twice the rate of whites. This fits in with the Times thesis that race has been the most important issue influencing American politics and society since 1619. This allows the Times and other liberal commentators to bash right wingers, who “everyone knows” are racists.

But the issue with coronavirus, as with so much else in America, isn’t really about race; it’s about class. The middle class is winning, which isn’t surprising since most policy decisions today are made by middle-class bureaucrats and managers. Meanwhile, the working class is losing, which is sad because it actually forms the majority of people. If there is a right-left divide in the battle between middle-class elites and working-class victims, then the left is firmly on the side of the elites while Trump has brought working-class whites, at least, to the right side.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #406

9 Well-Intentioned Efforts That Actually Aren’t Environmentally Friendly

Is fungus the answer to climate change? Student who grew a mushroom canoe says yes.

Among the ‘climate monsters’ that afflict California, Megadrought is the most reliable

Climate Change – Ebb and Flow of the Tide – Part 3 of 3

Defenders of the Faith

Sierra Club Hammers Trump’s EPA For Trying To Help Out Plants Struggling With Compliance Due To Coronavirus

NBC Fears ‘Environmental Benefits’ of Pandemic ‘May Not Last’

Miami Herald Columnist Says Crowded Beaches Will ‘Thin The Ranks’ Of Trump And DeSantis Supporters  Because we all know that college-age party animals are so pro-Trump and pro-Republican.

Beware The Russian Disinformation Trope

Meacham: Trump ‘Coddles’ His Fact-Challenged ‘Base at a Dangerous Level’

Trump shocks in time of crisis with his standard approach  CNN.

The scapegoater-in-chief is at it again — and again   TheHill

Trump’s approval rally has disappeared  CNN. (They hope they hope they hope….)

Piers Morgan says his friend President Trump is ‘failing the American people’  Yeah, that’s a ‘friend’.

DNC ‘War Room’ Uses 23 Tweets from Journalists to Rip Trump Briefing

Trump Trashes CBS’s Jiang, ‘Pathetic’ Jeremy Diamond of ‘Fake News’ CNN in Sunday Briefing

Here’s How Outlets Wrote Up — Or Ignored — The Report Of Russian Disinformation In Steele Dossier

Forget it, Chris

MSNBC’s Donny Deutsch: Coronavirus Will Be ‘Moron’ Trump’s ‘Waterloo’

Government Accountability Office To Investigate Trump Administration’s Pandemic Response

Soros Democracy PAC Gives $1,000,000 to NARAL Group Behind Disgusting Anti-Trump Abortion Attack Ad

John Oliver: Trump Has Access To COVID-19 ‘Experts’ But Is ‘Getting Advice’ From Fox News  That’s not what the experts like Dr. Fauci say.

‘How the Media Completely Blew the Trump Ventilator Story’

‘Doing The Same Thing’: Scarborough Compares Trump To Communist China

About Trump’s “liberate” tweets

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That would seem like a good idea.

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Race pimps of a feather flock together.

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Governors are heading for a clash with their own citizens and local officials as they weigh how and when to reopen the country’s economy amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The Other McCain points and laughs.

Watching MSNBC today (so you don’t have to) and it’s amazing how laser-focused they are on the blame-Trump narrative of COVID-19. The MSNBC viewer is given the impression, for example, that Joe Biden was presciently warning about this Chinese disease in January, when what is being quoted is not what Biden himself said, but campaign statements issued on the candidate’s behalf. Likewise, Joe Scarborough passes over as inconsequential the fact that Nancy Pelosi, who now presumes to lecture the president about “science,” was in January and February leading an impeachment effort in Congress that might have distracted the president from keeping up with the latest developments in the pandemic.

Read it. And watch the video.

The French virologist Luc Montagnier headed the team at the Pasteur Institute in Paris that discovered HIV in 1983. In 2008 Professor Montagnier was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in recognition of his work.

In the video below Professor Montagnier discusses his conclusion that the COVID-19 virus is a product of genetic manipulation in a laboratory. He says there is no other plausible explanation for the HIV gene sequences that have been inserted into the RNA of the virus.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you an Enemy of the Crust.

PBS’s Judy Woodruff to Pence: ‘How Many Lives Were Lost’ Because of Trump’s ‘Delay’?

Trump is playing with fire  CNN.

WashPost Sports Goes All Out in Brutal Attack on ‘Flimflam Man in Oval Office’

‘The President Gets An F’: Pelosi Criticizes Trump On Distributing National Testing, Backs Comments Where She Called Him A ‘Poor Leader’

NBC Sports Blogger: NFL Star Who Tweeted Trump Risks ‘Very Real Backlash’  Yeah, we all look to football players for intellectual leadership.

Critics Slam Trump For Claiming China Should Face “Consequences” If It “Knowingly” Unleashed The Coronavirus

ABC Invites Pelosi to Spread Her Doomsday Fears of Trump’s Leadership

NBC News Reporter: Trump Is ‘Leader Of Resistance Against His Own Policies’

“Trump = Death” – Pro-Immigration Protesters Dump Body-Bags Outside Trump’s NYC Hotel

New Yorker Snob on MSNBC: Trump’s White Male ‘Lower-Educated’ Base Just Too Dumb

Will the Coronavirus succeed where Russiagate and Ukrainegate failed?

Political Pandemic: Chuck Todd Whines Trump Not Taking Hit in the Polls

Guardian: Covid-19 is President Trump’s Fault for Failing to Protect Endangered Species in China

Imprisoned Michael Cohen Writing Tell-All Book About Trump  More accurately, a lie-all book about Trump.

Can religiosity predict cultural climate beliefs?

New York Times Often Sends Jeremy Peters to Wage War on Conservative Media ‘Propaganda’

Detroit Police Issue 736 Citations, Shutdown Dozens Of Parties During Lockdown

Sweden Is Right – The Economy Should Be Left Open

WHO Advisory Committee Member Retweets (Then Deletes) Michael Moore Clip Endorsing Anti-Trump Violence

Government: Ain’t It Grand! Authoritarian And Incompetent

Sooner Or Later, Americans Will Have To Choose Between Freedom & A Micro-Chipped Vaccine

NYC Has Formed A Coronavirus Anti-Discrimination Response Team

MSNBC Guest Calls Anti-Lockdown Protesters The ‘Fox News Nazi Death Cult Rump’ Of The GOP

New York Assemblyman Sounds Off On Gov. Cuomo Over Extended Closures

“Just Snap A Photo” – De Blasio Explains How To Snitch On Fellow New Yorkers Breaking Social Distancing Rules

Judge Blocks Kansas From Limiting Attendance At Religious Services

Cuomo hires firm with close ties to CCP to develop reopening plan

Dan Crenshaw Schools Maher on Dems Opposing China Travel Ban

NY Times: ‘Far-Right’ Conservatives in Michigan Protest as Blacks Suffer Virus

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Here’s the truly crazy part. There have been just under a thousand deaths in California. Bending the curve didn’t save them, nor was it supposed to save them. Instead, it was supposed to have delayed the hospitalizations and deaths so they hit over weeks rather than days. We don’t know, and may never know, the extent of that delay if any.

We do know that most of the deaths are among the group you might call “at death’s door”.

So in California, we’ve thrown at least two million people out of work in order to delay, but not prevent, the deaths of a thousand or so people, most of whom had other serious illnesses.

Am I the only person who thinks that making two million people jobless, merely to delay but not prevent a thousand deaths, is a bad deal for society?

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It is a rare glimpse inside the Chinese laboratory at the centre of mounting inter-national suspicion about the Covid-19 pandemic – and will do nothing to dispel fears that it was caused by a catastrophic leak which has been covered up by Beijing.

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Prof Valsa Koshy, an expert in maths education at Brunel University, said: “Importing maths teaching from Far Eastern countries means there has been an emphasis on children needing to master the basic facts and traditional skills such as times tables. This used to be laughed at as too old fashioned.”

My, what a surprise.

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Want to know how you can tell when the lockdown became a new great depression? It’s when the media starts experiencing large layoffs. Glenn Reynolds has a roundup of media layoffs currently under way that makes for the feel good story of the week for sure.

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The mendacity and mediocrity of our major news media have seldom been on display more clearly than during the COVID-19 crisis. While the media pretend to be “objective” and are now clearly on the side of the Democrats’ narrative that Trump was negligent and slow in responding to the virus, there is plenty of evidence of the media downplaying the threat of the virus and criticizing Trump’s early moves, especially his China travel ban, which the media decried as “xenophobic.” And then there is the media’s lack of interest in the Tara Reade allegation about Joe Biden, which is so blatant that even Alexandria Ocasio Cortez gets it.

Homework assignment: Identify which ones are Democrats. You’ll be surprised.

MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace: Trump Tweeting ‘Like a Punk’ While People Are Dying

Friedman: Virus Is Reminder Electing Mentally Ill Trump Was ‘Most Reckless Thing’ in History

Argumentum ad Trumpum

MSNBC’s Jeremy Bash Urges Trump To Stop ‘Scapegoating’ China with ‘Xenophobic’ Talk

MSNBC Leaves Briefing to Cue Pelosi to Spew Trump ‘Hoax’ Lie, Claim Trump ‘Cost Lives’

Williams Wails: Trump Stoking ‘Populist Prairie Fire’ Against Dem Governors

NY Times Now Whining Trump Won’t Play Dictator: ‘Ceding…National Leadership’ on Virus

CNN’s Bernstein Worries, Trump Tweets Inciting Insurrection  Bernstein would fit right in a Biden administration.