Greta, a Coronavirus panelist on CNN. What could go wrong?

" . . . why not have this odious little scold give her two cents' worth? . . . ' . . .   All of this puts us in mind of the science fiction novel "IQ 83," by Arthur Herzog. In it, a manipulated virus escapes a lab and spreads like wildfire. But it doesn't make you cough, or bleed from every orifice, or make your appendages fall off at inconvenient times. It makes you stupid, permanently peeling away IQ points day by day until everyone will be too dumb to take care of themselves, let alone find a cure for the illness. 

"Thanks to CNN (and many others), we are increasingly of the opinion that such a virus may not be as fictional as we once hoped."   Stilton Jarlsberg

NY Post  "An upcoming CNN town hall on the coronavirus pandemic will feature 17-year-old Greta Thunberg alongside a panel of medical experts.

The program, “Coronavirus Facts and Fears,” also includes CNN broadcaster Sanjay Gupta, 50, former Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, 71, and former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Richard Besser, 60. CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, 52, will host alongside Gupta.
However, social media watchdogs are foaming at the mouth over the choice to place a teen climate activist on a panel with public health experts.
“What place does Greta Thunberg have in this town hall?” asks Twitter rabble-rouser Yashar Ali to his 618,000 followers. His rhetorical question was liked by more than 12,000 since this morning.
"Her name is a top trending term on Twitter, with some 30,000 mentions on the platform in just a few hours.
"In a follow-up tweet, Ali clarified his rhetorical tweet with an explanation: “I understand that but this is a panel of top health experts and administrators. A climate activist would be better suited on a different panel. She’s not a climate scientist. It’s a matter of placement.' ” . . .

Report: NYC Health Commissioner Rebuffed Call For 500,000 Police Masks: ‘I Don’t Give Two Rats’ A**** About Your Cops’

Daily Wire

"In late March, New York City’s health commissioner reportedly responded to an urgent NYPD request for 500,000 surgical masks by snapping. “I don’t give two rats’ asses about your cops,” according to The New York Post.

"Dr. Oxiris Barbot allegedly made that comment to NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan after saying she could only provide 50,000 masks, the Post reported. She reportedly stated, “I don’t give two rats’ asses about your cops. I need them for others.” The first NYPD officer to die from the coronavirus was NYPD detective Cedric Dixon, 48, who worked in the 32nd Precinct in Harlem, and died at the end of March.

"The Post reported, “The NYPD has recorded 5,490 cases of coronavirus among its 55,000 cops and civilian workers, with 41 deaths, according to figures released Wednesday evening.' ” . . .

Nearly 100 celebrities outspoken against Kavanaugh are silent on Biden, study finds

Fox News

BIDEN ACCUSER TARA READE TRASHES ALYSSA MILANO FOR DEFENDING CANDIDATE

"Many A-list Hollywood stars were big supporters of the #MeToo movement, speaking out against the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2018 after he faced accusations of sexual assault -- but a new study has found that nearly 100 celebrities who made their voices heard on Kavanaugh have been silent on Tara Reade's sexual-assault allegation against former Vice President Joe Biden -- or they've come to his defense.
"NewsBusters found 95 of the country's high-profile entertainers showed a drastic change in the way they treated Kavanaugh versus the way they treated Biden, the Democrats' presumptive presidential nominee.
"Names included in NewsBusters' report included Lady Gaga, Ellen DeGeneres and several Hollywood actresses associated with the Time's Up organization such as Jessica Chastain, Brie Larson, Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore, noting how none of them "have offered a word of support" to Reade.
" 'Alyssa Milano, a #MeToo activist who drew plenty of attention during Kavanaugh's confirmation as she attended the high-profile hearings on Capitol Hill, has been the most vocal about calling for "due process" for the former vice president, whom she had endorsed.
"Despite major backlash on social media, including from her former "Charmed" co-star Rose McGowan, Milano penned an op-ed trying to explain why she was still supporting Biden, describing herself as "living in the gray as a woman" and noting nuances in her shifted position.
"NewsBusters pointed out tweets made by Bette Midler and Debra Messing, who were outspoken supporters of Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford but have since given the cold shoulder to Biden's former Senate staffer." . . . More...

#MeToo: Then and Now, an Epic Farce   "The new #MeToo:" . . .

Democratic National Committee: We believe Joe Biden.
DMIC (Democrat Media Industrial Complex): Me too.
Hollywood (the head of the DMIC snake): Me too.
Democrat women: Me too.
Democrat men: Me too.

Obama and Biden: what did..? .when did...? All along

Ed Henry: Intelligence Sources Say John Brennan Deliberately Hid Evidence That Putin Favored Hillary, In Order to Make His Coup Frame-Job Stick

Catherine Herridge

@CBS_Herridge

· May 13

SCOOP @CBSNews obtains @RichardGrenell notification to congress declassified “unmasking list” Flynn between late 2016 and January 2017 - Read 3 pages provided by NSA here

NR: Biden Named in List of Obama Officials Who Requested to ‘Unmask’ Flynn

Trump: Biden’s “The Big Unmasker,” So How Can He Say He Didn’t Know Anything?

. . . "One might have thought that Stephanopoulos himself would address this issue, since Biden lied about it to his audience. At least from GMA’s Twitter feed, though, it doesn’t appear that the show even discussed the issue of the flurry of unmasking requests that came from Obama administration officials after the 2016 election, most of whom — like Biden — have no reason to peek under the hood of a counterintelligence operation."Reporters had better start asking questions about it, Rand Paul warned yesterday evening. “This is exactly what they they were accusing President Trump of,” Paul said at a press conference after the release of the unmasking-request list, “using government to go after a political opponent”: . . .

 Biden’s Rapid Response Director Attacks Catherine Herridge, Then Deletes His Tweet

Some stuck up for Herridge and said the attack was “beneath [the] integrity” of the Biden campaign. If so, this must have been really low. The “integrity” of Biden’s campaign in the past few weeks has mostly consisted of #BelieveWomen-feminists suddenly deciding they don’t believe Tara Reade.

In case you’re wondering about his apology to Herridge, there isn’t one, at least not so far. Bates has since put out another statement to CBS.

Obama knew, early and often

. . . We know Obama has hated Donald John Trump for at least 30 years. We know that in 1991, Obama wrote in a Harvard Law essay that Americans were too stupid to adopt socialism."He wrote, "(Americans have) a continuing normative commitment to the ideals of individual freedom and mobility, values that extend far beyond the issue of race in the American mind. The depth of this commitment may be summarily dismissed as the unfounded optimism of the average American — I may not be Donald Trump now, but just you wait; if I don't make it, my children will.""Normative is academic slang for stupid people who are patriotic, decent, and often Christian.

The only adversaries not afraid of Obama were America's enemies

Image by Will O'Toole

When it came to Flynn, it seems everyone on the Obama team wanted ‘in.’

And if you want something truly crazy, it turns out that Flynn’s name was not masked in the first place for either Obama or his top officials, making these unmaskings unnecessary. Nevertheless, numerous Obama officials freely violated Flynn’s civil rights, and the security apparatus let them. Heads should roll but probably won’t.

[Former White House spin doctor] Ben Rhodes melts down over Grenell's unmasking of Flynn's 'unmaskers'

Oh Wow: Devin Nunes Says That Criminal Referrals Are Coming. Not Just for the FBI/CIA Coupists.But for Mueller's Team of 13 Angry Democrats.
. . . "Let me point something out right now:
"The liberal media and their NeverTrump allies -- who are also the liberal media, so why bother making the distinction -- will point that we are now in very dangerous territory which legitmately may end the American Republic.
"Surely it will end the peaceful transfer of power, with one party knowing it might be criminally investigated and imprisoned if it loses an election or gives up power -- so of course no one will give up power.
"And that of course is why there are no stable, long-term democracies in most parts of the world. People caught on the fact that the moment they peaceably departed from the presidential palace they'd immediately be sent to the prisons or gallows, and so stopped peaceably departing the presidential palace.
"So yes, this is dangerous." . . .

Joe Biden: the proud choice of Democrat Nancy Pelosi

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Spits In Face Of Sexual Assault Victim With Announcement That She Has Officially Endorsed Biden

. . . “ 'Today, I am proud to endorse Joe Biden for President of the United States because he will be an extraordinary President. He knows how to get the job done,” she said.

“ 'And as we face coronavirus, Joe has been a voice of reason and resilience with a clear path to lead us out of this crisis,” the Speaker said.

“ 'For these and other reasons, I am proud to endorse Joe Biden for President, a leader who is the personification of hope and courage, values authenticity and integrity,” she said.

     'Really? What precisely is his plan? Has he announced a plan to do anything President Donald Trump has not done?

“ 'Together, we helped pass Obamacare and together we can not only bring this country back from the brink from this current crisis, but transform it,” she said.

  'She described Biden as “a leader with the humility to seek expertise and science, and the confidence to act upon it.' ” . . .

Absolutely brutal interview for Biden who then claims young people don’t get most of their news from the internet.... yikes

Study: Networks Bury Important Facts Corroborating Sex Assault Claim Against Biden

BREAKING: After Claiming He Knew “Nothing” About Plot to Target Flynn, Docs Reveal Joe Biden Unmasked General Flynn! 

 . . . Then-Vice President Joe Biden sought to unmask General Flynn on January 12, 2017 — the same day David Ignatius published his WaPo article about Flynn’s communications with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
"Recall, Joe Biden was in a January 5, 2017 secret Oval Office meeting discussing General Flynn’s phone calls with Russian Ambassador Kislyak with Obama, Yates, Comey, Rice and Brennan and 7 days later he sought to unmask Flynn.

What happened to professional journalism?

http://www.terrellaftermath.com/

VIDEO: CNN Spent Nearly Two Years Lapping Up Schiff’s Collusion Lies  "For nearly two years, CNN eagerly offered itself up as a platform for House Democrat Adam Schiff and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to claim there was “significant evidence” of collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia. But after the May 7 release of transcripts in which numerous top-level Obama officials admitted they’d seen no evidence of collusion, CNN should be embarrassed by their cozy relationship with Schiff and others who strung the liberal cable network along for 22 months." . . .

Since before 2017: CNN Lies, Media Corruption, And The Future of Journalism and News  . . . "Finally, we have James O’Keefe and Project Veritas with their American Pravda series exposing the corrupt media and how they lie. Like I said, it’s not much of a surprise they do things for ratings but pushing a fake narrative due to ratings, that’s completely different. That is instructing your entire network to stop reporting on other issues to cover another topic with no substance. What happens when there’s no substance? You have to make it up. I would encourage everyone to watch the first video here and the second here.
"This graph illustrates why this road we’re going down is troubling." . . .

Transgender MMA Fighter Breaks Skull of Her Female Opponent. Are we Becoming too Careful not to Offend any Group of People?

"Even if we’re trying to be politically correct, have equal rights and accept anyone as he wants us to accept him we should draw a line in some cases. According to many scientists Men and Women are inherently different and pretending that they’re equal is actually making some women pay a huge price for it."

USA Daily Update

. . . "Ashley McGuire, creator of Sex Scandal: "The Drive to Abolish Male and Female, stated: "Twenty years back if a man hit a lady so hard that he sent her to the medical clinic, he'd be in jail. Presently he can get paid for it."
"In the video underneath, McGuire clarifies that that sex is an individual decision that is extremely ANTI-WOMEN and ANTI-SCIENTIFIC.
" 'That is on the grounds that the people are a similar contention constantly drives ladies to be made a decision against a male standard.
"Or on the other hand, to put it another way, to be to a greater extent a lady, a lady must be increasingly similar to a man… .' "

. . . "Among many comments on this fight, there is a very interesting one:"
“I don’t understand the problem. I’m constantly told that men and women are equal and that gender is a social construct. I’m constantly shown “badass women” on TV and in movies that can beat up men easily. I’m told a woman can do anything a man can do. DOVE commercials show that girls can run, punch, and jump just as well as men. So…why shouldn’t men fight vs. women? Why segregate sports? If transgender people can use the bathroom which matches their gender identity, why can’t they choose the UFC gender class that matches their gender identity? You’re not a transphobic/sexist bigot, are you?” 

CBS reporter got the response her ‘question’ deserved

Jonathan F. Keiler  "The mainstream media’s latest heroine/victim is CBS reporter Weijia Jiang who got into a tussle with President Trump at his May 11 coronavirus briefing.  Jiang, of Chinese descent, asked Trump an argumentative question, got an argumentative response, and assumed that the response was personal based upon her race, rather than what she said.  The case is a microcosm of what’s wrong with the media, both in terms of pure bias, basic competence, and professionalism. "

. . . "Trump replied accordingly.  To the emotional but true accusation that people in America are still getting sick and dying, and the false implication that it’s his fault, he put the blame where it belongs, on China.  The epidemic began in China, probably at a Chinese bio-lab.  "The Chinese lied about and mishandled the outbreak, and ensured it spread worldwide by allowing international travel out of Wuhan after they knew it was spreading person-to-person. 

"Jiang got the response her statement deserved. That she happens to be of Chinese descent is utterly irrelevant.  That she is a lousy reporter who can’t seem to ask a clear, relevant, non-argumentative question, and is being held up as a paragon of virtue for it, is an indictment of the mainstream media. "   Full article

Much is discussed on Twitchy about this

Liberal Privilege In Two Tweets

Facts don’t matter because the “white privilege” craze is just a fashion statement. What opinions do I need to have to be fashionable? I’m so busy, I go to a lot of dinner parties. Could you fix me up with some opinions? Absolutely! You want to talk about “white privilege,” “racist cops” and “systemic racism” — using these phrases will get you wild applause.

Ann Coulter  "This week, we’ll look at two tweets that encapsulate everything that’s wrong with the “white privilege” narrative consuming our nation.
The Twitter account @nowthisnews posted a video of shutdown protesters yelling at police in California, Colorado and Michigan with the heading: “What would happen if protesters of color acted this way to police?”
Audra McDonald (@AudraEqualityMc) responded: “We’d all have been shot dead. Next question.”
"Unless Ms. McDonald is a time-traveler from 1965, I can’t imagine what she’s talking about. Was she at the Sharpeville Massacre?

"McDonald is an actress, and therefore I assume an idiot, but her profoundly ignorant tweet was enthusiastically endorsed by MSNBC talking heads and, at last count, had more than 16,000 “likes” and thousands of retweets.
"Are they talking about Ferguson, Missouri, where cops stood by during the 2014 riots and politely watched the city burn? In response to the police shooting of Michael Brown — a shooting that both the grand jury and Eric Holder’s Justice Department found was justified — mostly black protesters raged off and on for months, torching dozens of buildings, shooting at responding firemen, looting stores and throwing rocks at the police.
"And yet — miraculously! — no protesters were “shot dead.” No protesters were even arrested, unless they committed felonies in open view of the police.
"To the contrary, two policemen were shot by a black protester.
"It was the same thing at Black Lives Matter protests across the nation — in Baltimore, Oakland, Dallas, Baton Rouge and so on. Cops stood mutely, as water was dumped on them, their patrol cars were set on fire, rocks were hurled at them and protesters screamed obscenities in their faces. Their marching orders: Do nothing unless you see a crime being committed in front of you — and not always even then." . . .

Trump Furious After NBC ‘Apologizes’ For Chuck Todd’s Propaganda Edit Of Barr Interview

What remains is a smug cynicism reflected in the Todd segment, which NBC later shrugged off as “inadvertently and inaccurately” edited. The edit was made in obvious use to support Todd’s attack. It was in other words premeditated to fit Todd’s narrative. The fact is that some in the media would prefer to distort the facts (and, in the Flynn case, even embrace prosecutorial misconduct) if it advances what has become movement journalism.

I'd say "movement" is an apt term for MSNBC and CNN reporting. TD

Image by Timothy Bishop

Nation and State  "President Trump demanded on Sunday that NBC fire “Meet The Press” host Chuck Todd, after the network admitted to ‘inadvertently cutting short’ a sound byte from Attorney General William Barr regarding the DOJ’s decision to move to dismiss the Michael Flynn case.
"President Trump demanded on Sunday that NBC fire “Meet The Press” host Chuck Todd, after the network admitted to ‘inadvertently cutting short’ a sound byte from Attorney General William Barr regarding the DOJ’s decision to move to dismiss the Michael Flynn case." . . . 
"Trump Furious After NBC ‘Apologizes’ For Chuck Todd’s Propaganda Edit Of Barr Interview
President Trump demanded on Sunday that NBC fire “Meet The Press” host Chuck Todd, after the network admitted to ‘inadvertently cutting short’ a sound byte from Attorney General William Barr regarding the DOJ’s decision to move to dismiss the Michael Flynn case.
"Except, it wasn’t ‘inadvertently cutting short anything. It was clear propaganda.

In the original clip, CBS News’ Catherine Herridge asks Barr how history would judge the DOJ’s decision – to which Barr responds “Well, history is written by the winners, so it largely depends on who’s writing the history.

"Todd cuts the clip off there, and says that he was “struck by the cynicism of the answer — it’s a correct answer, but he’s the attorney general. He didn’t make the case that he was upholding the rule of law. He was almost admitting that, yeah, this was a political job.”

"In fact, that’s exactly what Barr said.

“ 'I think a fair history would say it was a good decision because it upheld the rule of law,” said the AG, adding “It upheld the standards of the Department of Justice, and it undid what was an injustice.”
"In other words, Todd literally stole Barr’s line about ‘upholding the rule of law’ and flipped it around in a case of blatant propaganda.

. . . As Jonathan Turley writes, such partisan advocacy and attacks are now celebrated in many circles as the coverage devolves into a modern form of yellow journalism. The bias has been positively stifling with unrelentingly negative spins and distorted analysis.  The only consistent element is the narrative from a media that seems uniformly on script in coverage.  What remains is a smug cynicism reflected in the Todd segment, which NBC later shrugged off as “inadvertently and inaccurately” edited.  The edit was made in obvious use to support Todd’s attack.  It was in other words premeditated to fit Todd’s narrative.  The fact is that some in the media would prefer to distort the facts (and, in the Flynn case, even embrace prosecutorial misconduct) if it advances what has become movement journalism.
"I have often criticized President Trump in columns and on my blog.  Yet, even raising such clear violations of journalistic values is treated as sacrilegious in today’s mainstream media.  There is an insatiable appetite for distorted legal analysis and a corresponding intolerance for any dissenting views.  The Todd segment was another hit job that misrepresented facts to feed the demand of echo journalism." . . .

That wasn't the only time Baghdad Todd hit the depths of propaganda:

Todd in his Megan Rapinoe "look at me" pose

Chuck Todd Suggests That Trump Voters 'Wanna Be Lied to' Because Noah's Ark or Something Dec, 2019   "On Sunday’s episode of NBC’s Meet the Press, host Chuck Todd plumbed new depths of journalist malpractice, essentially implying that people of faith can support President Trump because they grow up believing in fairy tales.
"After reading some bigoted nonsense that Todd says is “fascinating,” Todd piggybacks on the bigotry, saying that voters just “wanna be lied to” and are averse to being told “hard truths.”
"Making this an even more unholy convergence of all that is wrong with modern American journalism, Todd’s guests are the executive editors of The Washington Post and The New York Times, the two main architects and peddlers of the “Trump voters are unenlightened rubes from the icky parts of America” narrative.
"This condescension is the cancer that’s killing American journalism, and it’s metastasizing. Here is an example from the previous week’s episode of CNN’s Reliable Sources:" . . .

Samantha Power Implicated in Obama Unmasking Scandal

Mike LaChance
“she averaged more than one request for every working day in 2016”

"When Trump claimed months ago that his campaign was wiretapped by Obama, liberals in media scoffed. The very idea that Obama or anyone on his team would be part of anything so untoward was unthinkable.

"Then it was revealed that Susan Rice had unmasked members of Trump’s team, a fact that she previously lied about on national television. Now there is reason to believe Samantha Power, Obama’s ambassador to the UN, unmasked hundreds of people in the final months of the Obama administration.

"Catherine Herridge and Bret Baier of FOX News wrote the explosive report:

Samantha Power sought to unmask Americans on almost daily basis, sources say

Samantha Power, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, was ‘unmasking’ at such a rapid pace in the final months of the Obama administration that she averaged more than one request for every working day in 2016 – and even sought information in the days leading up to President Trump’s inauguration, multiple sources close to the matter told Fox News.

Two sources, who were not authorized to speak on the record, said the requests to identify Americans whose names surfaced in foreign intelligence reporting, known as unmasking, exceeded 260 last year. One source indicated this occurred in the final days of the Obama White House.

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