What Are We Trying to Accomplish With Coronavirus Policy?
As Americans debate how to reopen our society in the wake of COVID-19, we seem to be breaking down into three groups: first, those who believe the virus isn't particularly serious and desperately want to reopen everything as soon as possible (a small minority of Americans, by polling data); second, those who believe the virus is extraordinarily serious and want everything to remain closed as long…
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Flashback: VE Day -- What Unconditional Victory Looked Like
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These are dispiriting days, marked by confusion, fear and very real heartbreak, compounded by misinformation and severe partisanship. People are weary of cowering at home as their livelihoods evaporate, sick of panic and doomsaying and being told their liberty can be forfeited for an emergency that will go on indefinitely if allowed to. So maybe VE Day on May 8 should mean a little more to us…
Facebook Partners with Left to Make Viewers ‘MediaWise’
Facebook is partnering with Soros-funded Poynter’s “Mediawise” project and a progressive news outlet to teach youth how to process media. “ATTN:, the progressive social media-based news outlet aimed at millennials, is launching a video series on Facebook and Instagram, in partnership with Poynter's groundbreaking digital literacy project ‘MediaWise,’” Axios reported in its May 5 coverage. Axios…
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'View' Goes After McEnany for Calling Out Media Downplaying Virus
After new Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany torched the media during yesterday’s press briefing, the liberal hosts of The View spent their show Thursday acting offended and outraged on the press’s behalf, and tried to smear her as a liar and a hypocrite.
'Guns N' Roses' Singer Gets in Twitter Spat With Treasury Sec. Mnuchin
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Ever the temperamental type, Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose took out his anger with the Trump administration on Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin on Monday, May 6. The Rock ‘N Roll Hall of Famer appeared to be spoiling for a fight on social media, bashing Mnuchin seemingly from out of nowhere.
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Morning Joe Touts NYT Writer Warning of ‘Heavy Price for Freedom’
On Thursday, MSNBC’s Morning Joe eagerly touted the latest article from New York Times opinion writer at large Charlie Warzel, in which he warned that “America is Paying A Heavy Price for Freedom” amid the coronavirus pandemic. He compared those protesting against strict stay-at-home orders with gun rights supporters and accused them all of having “a very selfish, a very narrow definition of what…
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De Niro Hopes to Play 'President' Cuomo in Future Coronavirus Movie
Trump-obsessed actor Robert De Niro appeared on The Late Show Wednesday to do his usual overwrought complaining about the president with host Stephen Colbert. While ranting about how horrible Trump was, De Niro and Colbert gushed over how great it would be if New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was president, instead.
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Scarborough's Blazing Hypocrisy on Who Promoted Coronavirus Optimism
On Morning Joe, while facetiously claiming not to be a "repeater," Joe Scarborough continues the shtick he's been doing for weeks of endlessly quoting and requoting President Trump's optimistic statements about the epidemic from back in January and February. Even Mika Brzezinski seems clearly to have tired of Joe's act.
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Sick Seth Meyers Compares George W. Bush to Serial Killers
On the late Tuesday/early Wednesday Late Night show on NBC, host Seth Meyers demonstrated that he is so anti-Republican, he devoted an entire commentary to complaining about Democrats who laud former President George W. Bush as they fret over Donald Trump being President in the present. He even made a crude analogy likening praising Bush to praising serial killer Ted Bundy after Jeffrey Dahmer…
LeBron James Brings Obamas to His 'Virtual Commencement'
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NBA superstar LeBron James is bringing in the big progressive guns for his May 16 virtual graduation ceremony for the class of 2020 -- none other than the Obamas. The one-hour special -- "Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020" -- will celebrate high school seniors across the nation who are losing their commencements to COVID-19 social distancing. It will air on network…
Propaganda Politico? America ‘Not Number One,' Touts China 'Piling on'
It doesn’t take much effort for liberal journalists to sing the praises of China “outperforming” expectations while hammering America as “disastrously” faltering, especially in response to the coronavirus pandemic. A recent example of this came when David Wertime, the “Editorial Director for China” at Politico, posted an article entitled: “Not the World's Number One': Chinese Social Media Piles…
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Cuomo: Trump's Goal Is Not to Save Lives, But to Cheapen Value of Life
Sounding as though he was reading the talking points his Democratic governor brother handed to him, CNN host Chris “Fredo” Cuomo raged at President Trump during Wednesday’s PrimeTime, and suggested, “Increasingly, life seems to be getting pretty cheap in America.” And questioned if the Trump administration was still interested in saving lives. This from the guy who infected his family with the…
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MIC DROP: Kayleigh McEnany BURNS Media for Early Coronavirus Stories
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany ended Wednesday's press briefing with a bruising takedown of the liberal media after Reuters White House correspondent Jeff Mason wondered if she’d retract comments about the coronavirus from a February 25 Fox Business appearance. Instead of offer a mea culpa that wouldn’t assuage the liberal media’s disdain for her or anyone else in the administration…
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WATCH: Giridharadas Gets Triggered at ‘Freedom-Obsessed' Americans
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MSNBC commentator Anand Giridharadas attacked Americans’ obsession with freedom on Wednesday’s edition of Morning Joe, suggesting it blinded them to issues like the virus and “climate change.” Co-anchor Willie Geist asked: “What do we learn from this?” Giridharadas complained that “[t]here is a primordial American tradition going back to the founders of being freedom-obsessed — even though we’re…
