On Tuesday, both networks demonstrated their role as sycophants for the Biden-Harris administration by gushing over Kamala Harris receiving her COVID vaccine, the nurse who was selected to administer it, and where Harris went to get it while downplaying her anti-vaccine position during the campaign (simply because of who's occupied the White House).
Before Harris received the vaccine, CNN touted the event as “a wonderful modeling exercise” and proved its woke credentials by harping on the fact that an immigrant administered it to her. In the moments after the vaccination, MSNBC could not stop gushing over how the “important and powerful” Harris.
CNN Newsroom fill in host Bianna Golodryga began the ogling by proclaiming that Harris receiving the vaccine “is a very significant moment for the black community” and was followed by senior Washington correspondent Joe Johns concurring because of the fact that African-Americans having low levels of trust in the vaccine.
However, Harris may hardly be the best representative for such a cause as she has stated that she would not take a vaccine produced under the Trump administration and she disproportionately imprisoned people of color for non-violent crimes as a prosecutor. However, CNN tends to conveniently forget her prosecutorial record.
Golodryga indulged in some wokeness by excitingly announcing the “big moment” of the nurse who administered the vaccine being an immigrant:
We should also tell our viewers that the nurse who will be administering that vaccine is Patricia Cummings. She has been a nurse for 15 years there at that hospital and she is from Guyana. She was born in Guyana and the daughter of two Guyanese immigrants to the United States, so a big moment there just from an immigrant community and perspective.
In the moments just before Harris received the vaccine, Golodryga once again fawned over the nurse:
And here we see the Vice President-Elect, Kamala Harris, and her husband Doug Emhoff. It looks like Kamala will be going first -- no surprise. As we mentioned earlier, the nurse who will be administering the vaccine is Patricia Cummings. She has been working at that hospital, at the United Medical Center, for 15 years. She was born in Guyana, the daughter of two Guyanese immigrants, so she will be administering the vaccine -- the vaccine to the Vice President-Elect.
As a woke leftist, she must be stunned that a black, female immigrant can succeed in the allegedly systemically racist America.
One of CNN’s favorite leftist medical hacks, CDC advisory committee on immunization practices member Dr. William Schaffner, declared that Harris receiving the vaccine would be a “wonderful modeling exercise”:
I think it's a -- a wonderful modeling exercise. Not only will it protect them, but it will send the message out across the country, this is for everyone. We want everyone to take advantage of this very important, safe, and effective preventative measure. That's absolutely wonderful. A national signal going out to all the diverse communities that we have in the United States, that this is a safe thing to do.
Over on MSNBC Live, host Craig Melvin could barely hide his enthusiasm: “And there you have it. Vice President-elect Kamala Harris receiving the first dose of that vaccine we're told and as she just confirmed there, she received the Moderna vaccination.”
A more-than-reliable Biden team flack, NBC correspondent Mike Memoli took Melvin’s lead and waxed poetic about the importance of Harris receiving the vaccine and going to a D.C. hospital that supports predominantly African-American Wards Seven and Eight:
that's why I think what the Vice President-Elect did today was also important. You know, you think back to Biden's selection of Kamala Harris as his running mate. What we saw on election night and in -- in some ways more powerfully today, something that we’ve talked about all along, which is that representation matters. It's one thing for Joe Biden as the President-Elect to get the vaccine and say he's confident in its efficacy. It’s another thing, especially given what the Vice-President-Elect herself acknowledged was mistrust among communities of color about this vaccine. To see her be willing to get it, to express her confidence in it, and to encourage all Americans but particularly communities of color to receive that vaccine today.
This is a concern on the part of the Biden team, not just that the vaccine will be distributed but that Americans who have the option to get the vaccine, will in fact get it. And so an important and powerful signal from Kamala Harris today, doing so in, you know, the District of -- of Columbia, very well the geography where she did this, Craig, in southeast in a hospital that’s in -- serves Wards Seven and Eight as well as neighboring P.G. County, a -- a community-based hospital there to -- to offer a -- a vote of confidence in that community as well for the importance of getting this vaccine, Craig.
The shameless Memoli also took a shot at the Trump administration’s handling of the rollout of the vaccine, despite that the media mocked him for guaranteeing that the vaccine would arrive this year, by criticizing the “slow pace of the vaccine.”
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Read the full December 29th transcripts here:
CNN Newsroom
12/29/20
10:43:21 AMBIANNA GOLODRYGA: And any moment now, as we mentioned, the Vice President- elect and her husband will receive their first dose of a vaccine. It comes exactly one week after the President-Elect received his first injection. Let's bring in our team, Joe Johns and Elizabeth Cohen and Dr. William Schaffner are here. Joe, let's begin with you. This is a very significant moment for the black community in particular.
JOE JOHNS (CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT): That's absolutely right. And one thing I think you have to say is this comes just about a week after Joe Biden got the vaccine himself. The whole idea of this is to reassure the public about the vaccine. And Kamala Harris, of course, speaks to a very particular demographic here. It's important because there's this Pew study out that says just about four in 10 African-Americans say they're going to go ahead and get the vaccine, which means there's a lot of skepticism out there in the African-American community. A huge problem, again, because, quite frankly, African-Americans are some of the people who are hardest hit by COVID-19. The hope is that Kamala Harris going ahead and getting this vaccine will essentially reassure people that it's okay to do so. And also I want to point out politically there's a real continuum there, if you think about it, simply because the Trump administration, including the Vice President, other figures like the Surgeon General who himself has been trying to get the black community on board, have already gotten their vaccines. One last point, the Surgeon General, Jerome Adams, has been really pushing hard on trying to reassure the African-American community in light of the years and years of concern about experimentation, like the Tuskegee syphilis study that went on for almost 40 years, that those times are gone, those times have changed and you need to get this vaccine for the safety of yourselves and your community. Back to you.
GOLODRYGA: And you also -- you also see how far Kamala Harris has gone herself too, because prior to the election, she had that interview with Dana Bash where she said she wouldn't trust a vaccine that came out from President Trump and his administration unless Dr. Fauci had signed off and approved of it as well. Clearly that has happened. Dr. Fauci was vaccinated last week as well, President-Elect Biden was vaccinated. Now, it's going to be a big step to see the Vice President-Elect vaccinated alongside with her husband. We should also tell our viewers that the nurse who will be administering that vaccine is Patricia Cummings. She has been a nurse for 15 years there at that hospital and she is from Guyana. She was born in Guyana and the daughter of two Guyanese immigrants to the United States, so a big moment there just from an immigrant community and perspective. If we can get to Dr. Schaffner, I want to ask you, what's going to happen once administered? Because the Vice President and the President have both received their first doses. What message does that send to the American people if you're going to have the President-Elect and the Vice President-Elect both vaccinated with their first dose?
WILLIAM SCHAFFNER (CDC ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON IMMUNIZATION PRACTICES): Well, Bianna, I think it's a -- a wonderful modeling exercise. Not only will it protect them, but it will send the message out across the country, this is for everyone. We want everyone to take advantage of this very important, safe, and effective preventative measure. That's absolutely wonderful. A national signal going out to all the diverse communities that we have in the United States, that this is a safe thing to do. When it's your turn, please line up, roll up your sleeve, get vaccinated.
GOLODRYGA: And -- and Elizabeth, this is the message that health experts -- Dr. Fauci included -- want out there. They want this spread throughout the country, throughout communities that may be skeptical, that this is a safe process and it really is the only way for us to get rid of this virus.
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10:58:14 AM
GOLODRYGA: And here we see the Vice President-Elect, Kamala Harris, and her husband Doug Emhoff. It looks like Kamala will be going first -- no surprise. As we mentioned earlier, the nurse who will be administering the vaccine is Patricia Cummings. She has been working at that hospital, at the United Medical Center, for 15 years. She was born in Guyana, the daughter of two Guyanese immigrants, so she will be administering the vaccine -- the vaccine to the Vice President-elect. And let's listen in, she will be receiving the Moderna vaccine.
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MSNBC Live with Craig Melvin
12/29/20
11:03:29 AMCRAIG MELVIN: And there you have it. Vice President-elect Kamala Harris receiving the first dose of that vaccine we're told and as she just confirmed there, she received the Moderna vaccination. Her husband Doug Emhoff will be receiving that vaccine, as well. He'll be receiving it off camera. But the Vice President-Elect with that needle in the arm becoming one of the now more than two million Americans to receive a first dose of the coronavirus vaccine. It comes a week after President-elect Biden received his shot. And let's drill into an important -- an important point here for just a second. So far, just 2.1 million Americans have been vaccinated. Operation Warp Speed's goal, if you'll recall, was close to ten times that by the end of this year, which is of course, now just two days away. In a few short hours, we expect to hear more from President-Elect Biden about the -- the state of this pandemic and the hard to avoid reality of this slow vaccine rollout in our country. Right now, we're also keeping a very close eye on Capitol Hill because in just under an hour, the Senate will be back in session. The House just voted with a two-thirds majority to pass a bill that would send those $2,000 stimulus checks to Americans. We just heard from Vice President-elect Harris. She was asked about that just a few moments ago. She called on her colleagues in the upper chamber to put it to the floor. Take it to the floor. Put it up for a vote. The big questions this -- this afternoon, this morning I should say of course, will Republicans in the Senate back that $2,000 bill? Will they even take it up for a vote? And if they do, when? Lots to cover on this Tuesday morning. Let's get right to it. A fantastic team on the ground as we follow all of these developments. Mike Memoli at his post in Wilmington, Delaware following the Biden- Harris transition. Monica Alba is in West Palm Beach, Florida. She is traveling with President Trump. Leigh Ann Caldwell on Capitol Hill where, once again, the Senate will be back in session. And I also want to bring in Dr. Lipi Roy. She is an internal medicine physician. She is also a MSNBC medical contributor. And Mr. Memoli, let’s start with you. Vice President-elect Harris just getting that -- that first vaccine dose ahead of President-elect Biden's planned remarks a few hours from now. Do we know at this point what we can expect to hear from the President-elect?
MIKE MEMOLI (NBC NEWS CORRESPONDENT): Well, I think we got a -- a little bit of a taste of it in what we heard from the Vice President-elect just now, which is as she put it, as Joe puts it as she put it, that there’s a difference between vaccinations and having vaccines and this is really a critical focus on the part of -- of the President-elect and what we expect to hear from him later today which is, yes, according to the CDC's data now, there is 11.4 million vaccines that are available, have been distributed throughout the country but only 2.1 million Americans have actually received those vaccines and Biden is going to very bluntly lay out what he sees as the dark winter still ahead of us terms of the COVID-19 pandemic, the impacts on Americans, the need to continue to do masking, social distancing, all of the best practices to try to avoid contracting the virus but also, criticizing administration for the slow pace of the vaccine. We know President Trump was so quick to celebrate the arrival of this vaccine but not seeing enough in the team’s -- the Biden team's view of that vaccine being distributed and that’s -- that's why I think what the Vice President-Elect did today was also important. You know, you think back to Biden's selection of Kamala Harris as his running mate. What we saw on election night and in -- in some ways more powerfully today, something that we’ve talked about all along, which is that representation matters. It's one thing for Joe Biden as the President-Elect to get the vaccine and say he's confident in its efficacy. It’s another thing, especially given what the Vice-President-Elect herself acknowledged was mistrust among communities of color about this vaccine. To see her be willing to get it, to express her confidence in it, and to encourage all Americans but particularly communities of color to receive that vaccine today. This is a concern on the part of the Biden team, not just that the vaccine will be distributed but that Americans who have the option to get the vaccine, will in fact get it. And so an important and powerful signal from Kamala Harris today, doing so in, you know, the District of -- of Columbia, very well the geography where she did this, Craig, in southeast in a hospital that’s in -- serves Wards Seven and Eight as well as neighboring P.G. County, a -- a community-based hospital there to -- to offer a -- a vote of confidence in that community as well for the importance of getting this vaccine, Craig.
MELVIN: Yeah, the symbolism there, striking indeed.
