Tuesday, April 14, 2020

A CBS reporter screeches at Trump – but she’s wrong about her facts

Our previous story of yesterday continues:

Andrea Widburg  "CBS’s Paula Reid was on fire during Monday’s Presidential task force press conference about COVID-19. She started by demeaning Dr. Fauci by asking him a question that implied he’s either hostage to or a puppet of President Trump. That was just a warm-up. Later in the press conference, she started shrieking at President Trump that a video he had shown earlier in the press conference misrepresented his affirmative response to COVID-19 because it implied that he was on top of things in February.
"A visibly irritated Trump answered that, in fact, he had taken many steps during February to respond to COVID-19, but CBS's disrespectful little harridan wouldn’t let up. Aside from being a disgraceful way to talk to the leader of the most powerful nation on earth (if you don’t respect the man, at least respect the office), Reid was completely wrong in her assertion. In other words, she wasn’t a powerful woman taking on a tyrant, she was a shrill Karen being disrespectful to a President of the United States who’s been working hard to protect the American people: . . ."  More
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"For more about the Trump administrations’ proactive response to COVID-19 beginning in January, you can view a timeline here.
"This is not Reids’ first fake news moment when it comes to Trump. She was also one of the reporters who promoted the media’s claim that violence in Charlottesville was all about “white supremacists” attacking innocent people. An honest reporter would have acknowledged that it was a clash between combatants – white supremacists on one side; Black Lives Matter and Antifa on the other. You can see her here, the perfect Karen, attacking Trump for daring to say that there was ugliness on both sides, even as she worked hard to downplay Antifa's and BLM's role.
"Anti-Trumpers, of course, didn’t care about the facts nor about respect for the office. They simply liked seeing a shrieking leftist shrew hurling lies at the Republican President of the United States: . . .
Ms. Widberg has more: Fauci strongly rebuts media efforts to paint him as a Trump hostage  "Monday’s COVID-19 press conference will be memorable because President Trump used it to slap back at the media’s attempt to rewrite his timely and aggressive response to COVID-19, even as media types were on the airwaves saying it was nothing more than a flu."




Dr. Anthony Fauci: Contrary to media spin, Trump followed our virus mitigation recommendations   "[Monday's] Wuhan coronavirus press briefing was an amazing event.
"First, Anthony Fauci eviscerated claims in the media that Trump refused to follow mitigation recommendations soon enough.
"That claim was made after the media misleadingly cherrypicked a portion of a sentence from an interview Fauci did with Jake Tapper on Sunday. That created another frenzied news cycle about how Trump had blood on his hands.
"Fauci eviscerated that narrative: . . ."


The press responded as one might expect, calling Trump's video as a campaign commercial
To leftists, this commentary is infuriating. They attack it relentlessly, calling it divisive, crude, unpresidential, gross, etc. For conservatives, though, it’s refreshing and invigorating to see a president following the Confucian model of “rectification of names.” That is, Trump is improving the political world before our eyes by speaking the truth, avoiding euphemism, and making words correspond with reality.

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