The press as part of the resistance

OAN flap demonstrates some flaming White House press corps hypocrisy  "The press has been publishing negative stories about One America News correspondent Chanel Rion for quite some time now. She's young, she's conservative, she was homeschooled, she's bright, she's not perfect (any more than they are -- she occasionally gets stories wrong or follows the wrong rabbit holes) and she certainly isn't part of their 'in' crowd. A CNN denizen calls this competitor network "a fringe outlet." Another CNN denizen claims that Rion promotes 'conspiracy theories' which sounds kind of funny coming from the network that spent years promoting the Russia collusion conspiracy. Worst of all, she's liked by President Trump." . . .

Sucking CNN: Anti-Trump Network Fails to Get One Show to Crack Top 20 in First Quarter Ratings

While The Media Plays Politics…A Truthful Timeline of Trump’s Coronavirus Response Emerges  "While the media plays politics to try and use the coronavirus crisis to harm President Trump, one social media hero posted a great timeline of everything the president has done since the beginning of the crisis.
"It’s something that sheds light on the incredible job the president and his team have done. it also pushes back on the constant drumbeat of the media narrative that the president didn’t act soon enough to stop the spread of the coronavirus." . . .

ABC’s Pitts to Pence: Do You ‘Talk to God’ About Those Who Died Because You Acted Late? . . . "So here we had a journalist ask the Vice President if he prays to the Lord with a heart of repentance for having been responsible for dead Americans. Surely, Chuck Todd would be proud of that question." . . .

Coronavirus Consequences Coming into View

Conrad Black
Democrats seeking electoral advantage from this crisis are in an untenable position.  Even in suboptimal circumstances, it is hard to see where any case can be made for mismanagement by the administration.

"The new Democratic pre-electoral chorus is already audibly arising like a Wagnerian finale from the largely hidden choir. President Trump, they intone, bungled this and must be investigated for his incompetence which is costing countless American lives. Because of his negligence and stupidity, the country must be shut down for months to ensure an economic disaster entirely attributable (unsurprisingly) to the contemptible ineptitude of the Bad Orange Man.

Stelter, CNN

"CNN’s Brian Stelter, one of the battle-scarred, grizzled, veterans of the Long March of media Trump-haters, choreographically synchronized with the Washington Post, New York Times, and MSNBC, has already kicked off this new campaign, on the air and on the internet. He has gathered together the usual sampling of Trumpophobic media group-thinkers, and followed Saul Alinsky’s first rule, accusing the enemy of precisely what he and his comrades are doing. Stelter has gone forth to battle with the same grim earnest that he brought to the previous unsuccessful crusades for the Trump-Russia election rigging fable and the impeachment fantasy.
"The pro-Trump media, outnumbered but victorious, will indeed have the effrontery to defend the president and join with the 60 percent of Americans who think that he has generally led well in this struggle against the coronavirus, despite an overly optimistic launch.
"For so long Stelter has uttered the old stock phrases “walls are closing in,” and “the drip, drip, drip,” and the almost daily “bombshell” of each new damaging allegation (that evaporated overnight), that he could be operating on autocue as he storms out of the firehall again, tearing through the pandemic-deserted streets to assault the president on a completely spurious charge one more time. No one can deny the vigor and imperishability of the hate and vitriol that propels the president’s media enemies again and again, no matter how often they are mowed down by the facts." . . .

Lucianne

‘Here We Go Again’—Donald Trump Trashes Nancy Pelosi Coronavirus ‘Witch Hunt’
. . . "Democrats announced Thursday that they would create a new select committee to investigate President Trump’s response efforts and his $2 trillion economic relief package."

Pelosi and Schumer, get out of the President's way and let him run the country

*Amid the confusion, fear, and uncertainty surrounding the outbreak of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic in the United States, one thing is obvious: this country is astonishingly fortunate to have Donald Trump as our president.

Unhinged: Pelosi Claims She Knew About Coronavirus Threat, Defends Prioritizing Impeachment…
"Is that why she dozed off while Trump addressed coronavirus during the SOTU?"

So then the N.O. mayor should blame Pelosi instead?

"You may recall that the most dangerous place on earth, Bob Dole wisely observed, is between Chuck Schumer and the TV cameras".
“If you spent less time on your ridiculous impeachment hoax … and instead focused on helping the people of New York, then New York would not have been so completely unprepared …. You have been missing in action, except when it comes to the “press.”

But the left never gives up:
Pelosi Forms Committee to Investigate Trump Handling of Coronavirus Pandemic
"Committee focus supposed to be on spending of stimulus funds, but has broad enough scope and subpoena power to turn into another impeachment-style fiasco in the middle of a national crisis."

*President Trump Stands Tall

Amid the confusion, fear, and uncertainty surrounding the outbreak of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic in the United States, one thing is obvious: this country is astonishingly fortunate to have Donald Trump as our president. . . .

. . . In stark contrast, national Democrats and national liberal media figures look small.  Chuck Todd of NBC tried to toss poor Joe Biden a softball by asking him if "Trump has blood on his hands for his initial slowness to react to the crisis."  Once he understood the question, even Biden wouldn't agree with Todd.  But rather than acting like a statesman — an American statesman — and publicly supporting the president, Biden has instead either been silent (offering nothing constructive or supportive) or made 8th grade–style snarky criticism from the safety of his unaccountable sidelines.  Biden has confirmed his smallness. . . 

The bottom line of all this: The greatest worry of most journalists and other Democrats is not the virus, it is that Trump might win reelection
We must place our country into the hands of those who love this nation, not those who are the choice of Bett Midler, Maxine Waters, AOC, Rashida Tlaib, Bill Maher, Mazie Hirono, Nancy Pelosi, Megan Rapinoe and most of the US Women's soccer team, Stephen Colbert, anyone now at CNN and MSNBC, Alyssa Milano, Headhunter Griffin, Robert DeNiro and, well... you can name many others, can't you?  The Tunnel Dweller

Trump Acts While Democrats Act Out

The American Spectator
COVID-19 has exposed the grotesque cynicism to which their party has succumbed.

"Numerous news outlets noted on Wednesday that COVID-19 has now killed more Americans than the 9/11 attacks and reported the grim White House revelation that it could end up killing as many as 50 times the number of our fellow citizens than we lost in those acts of terrorism. Very little commentary, however, was devoted to the difference between the Democratic response to the current crisis compared to their reaction to that national emergency. Then, the Democratic Senate majority stood with the Republican House majority at the Capitol and sang “God Bless America.” Even then-Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) said the following about President Bush:

I know that the most important thing now — having been at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue for eight years — is for us to be united, united behind our president and our government, sending a very clear message that this is something that transcends any political consideration or partisanship.

"Now, for the Democrats, the potential deaths of more than 100,000 Americans and the destruction of our national economy no longer “transcend” political considerations or partisanship. Last Sunday morning, for example, the current Democratic Speaker of the House took to the talking-head circuit to make the bizarre claim that President Trump’s management of the coronavirus pandemic is comparable to the negligence of the Roman Emperor Nero, who is supposed to have played a lyre and sung in his palace while watching the city go up in flames." . . .

Chuck Schumer just got a reminder never to pick a fight with Trump

Americans voted for Trump in part because they didn’t want a repeat of the Bush years. As Evan Sayet wrote a long time ago, Trump is a winner because “He fights.”  Kudos to President Trump for a successful ground-and-pound against a type of man we all know: the schoolyard bully, someone everyone agrees needs to be beaten and beaten soundly.

Ms. Widberg's column posted in its entirety with pictures added by TD: 

Der Schumerglower

Andrea Widburg  "On Thursday, Sen. Chuck Schumer wrote a letter to President Trump, accusing him of failing in his leadership, thereby creating a void that “left America with an ugly spectacle in which States and cities are literally fending for themselves, often in conflict and competition with each other….” (California’s Governor, Gavin Newsom, by the way, would disagree.) Schumer further insisted that the only way to solve this alleged leadership failure would be for Trump to hand his responsibilities to a military officer who would then take over the country through the Defense Production Act.

"Schumer’s attack on President Trump was not only a lie from start to finish, it represented an unadulterated will to power. If this were 1942 and Schumer thought that rooting for the Nazis would win him the White House, that’s what he’d do.

"For Trump, the counterpuncher, Schumer’s vile accusations on Senate letterhead required a knockout blow and Trump’s responsive letter to Schumer is that blow. The opening line sets the tone: “Thank you for your Democrat public relations letter and incorrect sound bites, which are wrong in every way.”

"Following that first blow, Trump proceeded to pummel Schumer. In his terse response, Trump reminded Schumer of the following:

1. President Trump had long ago assigned oversight of the federal COVID-19 response to Vice President Pence, adding, “By almost all accounts, he has done a spectacular job.”
2. President Trump has already been using the Defense Production Act to buy “billions of dollars’ worth of equipment, medical supplies, ventilators, and other related items.” Importantly, because of the power of the DPA, the administration hasn’t had to use it. Instead, the threat is enough to make businesses fall in line.
3. “A ‘senior military office’ is in charge of purchasing, distributing, etc. His name is Rear Admiral John Polowczyk. He is working 24 hours a day, and is highly respected by everyone. If you remember, my team gave you this information, but for public relations purposes, you choose it ignore it.”
4. The federal government has gotten all sorts of emergency supplies to New York. The problem with New York is that it was “very late in its fight against the virus.” Further, under our federal system, the states, not the federal government, are the front line. “Unfortunately,” writes Trump, “your state needed far more of a back-up than most others.”

"Having disposed of Schumer’s dishonest narrative, Trump wound up for the knockout blow: If Schumer and his party hadn’t been so focused on impeachment, and had instead focused on New York, the state would have been better prepared for the virus. “No wonder,” the President added, “AOC and others are thinking about running against you in the primary. If they did, they would likely win.”

"That may have been the knockout blow, but the President isn’t above kicking someone as malevolent and useless as Schumer, even when the latter is down. Trump added that others in New York – notably Cuomo and DeBlasio – have been trying to be useful, while Schumer has been useless. He also reminded Schumer that Schumer's open dislike for Cuomo shouldn’t prevent him from working for the people of his state.

"In closing, Trump said that, despite having known Schumer for a long time, until he became president, he “never knew how bad a Senator you are for the state of New York.” 
And then, with a last kick at Schumer’s inert body, Trump offered a snide, disdainful sign-off: “If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call. Or, in the alternative, call Rear Admiral Polowczyk.”

"That, my friends, is how you respond to a letter that is entirely composed of ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision, mixed in with dollops of malice, lies, and a raw hunger for unearned power.

"Schumer, of course, did what all bullies do when someone calls them on their efforts to intimidate: He cried foul. Having started the fight, and then lost, he instantly whined that he was “appalled” and clucked that Trump should “just stop the pettiness.”

Donkey Hotey

"The usual handwringers (here’s an example), sided with Schumer, saying that Trump’s conduct was unpresidential. The handwringers are wrong.

"None of us have forgotten that Bush responded with gracious, dignified silence to the calumnies that Democrats hurled against him. Unfortunately, Bush’s silence gained him nothing and, indeed, lost him political ground by allowing lies to stand unchallenged.

"Americans voted for Trump in part because they didn’t want a repeat of the Bush years. As Evan Sayet wrote a long time ago, Trump is a winner because “He fights.”

"Kudos to President Trump for a successful ground-and-pound against a type of man we all know: the schoolyard bully, someone everyone agrees needs to be beaten and beaten soundly."