CNN Touts Push to Give Illegals $125M, Ignores Soros Involvement
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It appears some of the most liberal billionaires in the United States are joining forces with California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) to give pandemic relief funding to illegal immigrants. CNN seemed pleased to mention a list of groups involved in the effort, but the outlet strangely neglected to mention George Soros’s massive Open Society Foundations are also involved.
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Sick: NBC Pits Michigan Unemployed Against New York ER Nurse
Americans across the country were hurting and desperate to support their families as the coronavirus crisis had caused many states to shut down their economies to stop the spread. With protests breaking out in state capitals, NBC Nightly News made it clear the media elite didn’t care. Anchor Lester Holt even started the show by claiming the “drumbeat to reopen the economy is landing with a…
Trump Forms Tech Task Force to Help Chart Path Forward, Revive Economy
Coronavirus has created a U.S. market full of instability and uncertainty, but President Donald Trump is calling on industry leaders and experts to answer the call “to chart the path forward toward a future of unparalleled American prosperity.”
Trump announced the Great American Economic Revival Industry Groups on April 14, the same day he stated that “plans to reopen the country are close to…
Politico Spews Virus-Induced ‘Econ Meltdown’ Gives Dems New Hope in TX
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Liberal outlet Politico exploited the coronavirus-induced "economic meltdown" and translated it into a political tool to be used by Democrats against Republicans to win races in Texas. In an absurd story headlined, “Economic meltdown gives Democrats new hope in Texas,” Politico bleated that “The twin economic shock of the coronavirus pandemic and a collapsing oil market has upended the political…
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Scarborough: Mika Frets Trump's an Authoritarian—I Worry He's Nuts
President Trump: would-be dictator, or mental patient? Nice choice that Morning Joe offered us today! Scarborough opened the show by saying he and Mika "really differ" in their reactions to President Trump's statement yesterday that he had "total authority," superseding that of governors, to re-open the economy. Mika described the statement as "another step in his march toward authoritarianism."…
Eric Bolling NUKES Sally Kohn for Crackpot Economy Tweet
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Far-left commentator Sally Kohn somehow thinks state governments ordering nonessential businesses to close means they aren’t forcing businesses to lay off their workforces. Really. Sinclair’s Eric Bolling wrecked her on Twitter for it. Kohn bleated on Twitter that “I'm really tired of reading how business owners are ‘forced’ to layoff [sic] workers. No one made them do that. They *chose* to do…
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Scarborough Tells Rush Limbaugh: 'Go Bag Groceries' at Supermarket
For the crime of suggesting that the US economy can begin to reopen, Joe Scarborough tells Rush Limbaugh to "go bag groceries at your local Publix [supermarket.]" Rush is a senior citizen with Stage 4 lung cancer.
The 3 Big Questions Nobody Is Answering
This week, according to members of the federal government, and state and local governments, Americans have begun to flatten the curve in the novel coronavirus outbreak. The excitement was muted -- after all, trends can easily reverse -- but real. Americans have abided by recommendations and orders. They've left their jobs to stay at home; they've practiced social distancing; in many places, they'…
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MSNBC Hypes Attack on 'Right-Wing Clone' of Trump, Tucker Carlson
On his Fox News show of April 7th, Tucker Carlson noted that experts, including Dr. Zeke Emanuel [of the far-left Center for American Progress], are saying society cannot return to normal for at least 18 months. Carlson pointed out how wrong those same experts have been when it came to projecting hospitalization rates, needed numbers of ventilators, etc. On Morning Joe of April 8th, Emanuel…
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Tucker: Mika's Claim Trump Has Financial Stake in New Drug Is 'Crazy'
On his Fox News show, Tucker Carlson calls Mika Brzezinski's accusation that President Trump has a financial stake in hydroxychloroquine "the most reckless claim" he'd ever heard during a pandemic. Tucker went on to label Mika's claim "paranoid, and crazy, and stupid," adding, "to say something like that on your stupid television show is totally wrong."
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Alt History Series Slams 'Booming' Econ Under ‘Nazi-Loving President'
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As per usual, HBO’s alternate history series The Plot Against America is still taking scenes set in 1941 and turning them into a comment about 2020 politics. This week may have the most direct case yet with a jab against a “booming” economy in the United States.
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YIKES: Reporters Lob Questions Attacking Hope, Closing Grocery Stores
True to form in Sunday’s White House Coronavirus Task Force daily briefing, multiple White House reporters made complete fools of themselves, firing off snarky questions to President Trump taking issue with him showing hope amid this pandemic, the idea of anyone using hydroxychloroquine, and even wondering whether even grocery stories should be closed indefinitely.
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MSNBC's Velshi Frets Wealthy Taxed Too Little, Dismisses Charity Work
On Sunday's Velshi show, MSNBC host Ali Velshi joined left-wing activist Reverend William Barber in complaining that taxes on the wealthy aren't higher, and dismissed the benefits to society contributed by the wealthy. He also invoked Marie Antoinette against the Trump administration over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
Stop Pretending Pandemic Politics Are the New Norm
"There are no libertarians in a global pandemic." So goes the smug punchline of large-government advocates who point to the necessity of collective action in the face of an unprecedented global crisis. Without government, they say, we'd all be dead. Few libertarians would disagree. The hardcore libertarians at Reason magazine aren't spending their days fulminating over the evils of government-…
