Column: Earth Day Dunking on Humans
On the fiftieth anniversary of “Earth Day” -- something of an ecological feast day -- journalistic, philanthropic, and religious leaders echoed the spirit of the original celebration: The human race is a cancer on the planet. In the sternly reinforced quiet of stay-at-home orders, this Team Earth reveled in how the world was such a better, cleaner, calmer place when most humans couldn’t commute…
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Hack CNN Doctor Equates China Cover-Up of Virus to Bogus Firing Claim
China hunted down doctors, journalists, scientists, and anyone trying to warn the world of the impending coronavirus pandemic. And in the early days, it seemed as though they put more resources into shutting people up than shutting down their virus. China’s actions had killed tens of thousands and crippled the global economy. But according to CNN hack Dr. Sanjay Gupta, that’s exactly what…
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Trump LEVELS Phil Rucker; ‘I’m the President and You’re Fake News’
Ahead of Thursday’s NFL Draft, there was a rhetorical pummeling at the White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing as the horribly biased Washington Post White House bureau chief Philip Rucker found himself flattened by President Trump as “total faker” after he insisted that it was “dangerous for you to” encourage people to go outside as the temperatures warm up despite the presence coronavirus.…
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CBS’s Paula Reid Ghoulishly Touts Body Bags Left Outside Trump Hotel
Possibly still raging from when her heated outburst during a coronavirus press briefing was shot down by President Trump last week, CBS White House correspondent Paula Reid flashed her hatred for the President during Thursday’s CBS Evening News. She kicked off the video portion of her report by boasting about how radical leftist protesters had left a pile of “empty body bags” outside the Trump…
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MSNBC Wrongly Claims US Corona Testing 'Far Behind Other Countries'
On Wednesday's Morning Joe on MSNBC, Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist spent more than five minutes ranting about President Donald Trump correctly stating that the U.S. has tested more people for COVID-19 than any other country in the world. Scarborough and Geist went so far as to wrongly insist that the per capita testing rate in the U.S. is "far, far behind other countries,"…
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Wallace Sees 'Silver Lining' to Deadly Virus — It's Hurting Trump
Even for the execrable Nicolle Wallace — Trump-hater extraordinaire and Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferer — this was truly grotesque. Sure, tens of thousands of Americans have died, and the economy is in shambles. But hey, there's a "silver lining" to all the death and misery: Trump's alleged "lies" and sins" are hurting him politically. As Wallace put it Thursday afternoon on her MSNBC show…
NYT Finally Pushes Back Against Chinese Communist Corona Propaganda
At long last, the New York Times performed a little pushback against the China Communist Party's coronavirus propaganda, which the Times itself has all too often swallowed whole. News columnist Li Yuan took a personal tone in Thursday’s “China Builds Culture of Hate With Selective Coverage of the Pandemic.”As a bonus, she highlighted how China has made Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show, a…
Every Crisis an Opportunity
This week, the price of oil futures collapsed catastrophically. In fact, the prices collapsed into negative territory in the near term. This bizarre situation, prompted by lack of consumer demand and lack of storage facility, led the irrepressible Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., to tweet: "You absolutely love to see it. This along with record low interest rates means it's the right time…
Benefits vs. Costs and COVID-19
One of the first lessons in an economics class is everything has a cost. That's in stark contrast to lessons in the political arena where politicians talk about free stuff. In our personal lives, decision-making involves weighing costs against benefits. Businessmen make the same calculation if they want to stay in business. It's an entirely different story for politicians running the government…
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Sick: CNN's Weir Touts Corona 'Buying Some Time' on Global Warming
The actual first cause and patient zero of coronavirus may be unknown, but CNN climate correspondent Bill Weir on Thursday's New Day had another hypothesis: climate denialism and industrialization. The cable journalist went even farther, offering an upside to the brutal and painful virus wreaking havoc on the world.
Eric Weinstein BLASTS Big Tech for Censoring Content, Protecting WHO
The man who coined the term “Intellectual Dark Web” blasted Big Tech executives for censoring content related to COVID-19 and warned: “Don’t even think about silencing responsible dissent.” Just “[p]ut it out of your mind,” Managing Director of Thiel Capital and host of The Portal Eric Weinstein warned in a tweet thread. “Stop fantasizing about being N Korean.” Weinstein’s remarks came in…
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Atlantic Writer Wails: Trump Is ‘Collaborating With the Virus'
In the latest obscene example of the media personally blaming President Trump for coronavirus deaths, on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Thursday, The Atlantic’s George Packer touted his latest article for the liberal magazine in which he claimed that America has become a “failed state” and even went so far as to accuse the President of “collaborating with the virus.”
Peak Snobbery at NPR: We're 'Very Good at Educating the Overeducated'
In 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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‘Big Fan’ Trevor Noah to Andrew Cuomo: Why Are You So Honest?
Daily Show host Trevor Noah on Wednesday devoted the entire show to an interview of Andrew Cuomo, fawning over the New York Governor and describing himself as a “big fan.” Noah, who regularly bashes Republicans, also wondered why Cuomo was just so darn honest: “I think everyone is a big fan of yours right now because more than ever during this pandemic, people have sought out leaders who…
