IS IT JUST ME, OR HAS THE MEDIA’S TONE SHIFTED IN THE LAST FEW DAYS? NBC News: Biden is leading Trump in 2020 polls. But expect Election Day to be a repeat of 2016. Biden and his campaign are making mistakes that will ensure little of this matters. And the polls are almost certainly wrong again.
Archive for 2020
November 1, 2020
SADLY, FAUCI’S A PUTZ. HE SCREWED UP HIV RESPONSE BUT GOT GOOD PRESS AND HE’S RUNNING THE SAME PLAYBOOK ON COVID-19. Dr. Fauci’s restaurant-owning cousin wishes he would ease up on lockdowns. “In the beginning, I thought he was fabulous, but then a few times he flip-flopped on different things. He had us all locked down at a tremendous rate,”
#JOURNALISM: The Atlantic Retracts Controversial Story About WASPs: The Author ‘Deceived’ Us. Ruth Shalit’s sin is that she writes about other people the way mainstream journos write about deplorables.
IS IT JUST ME, OR IS THERE A TONE-SHIFT IN THE PRESS?
OPEN THREAD: Discuss your post-election plans.
UPDATE: From the comments:
Flashback: “I’d rather have a sister in a whorehouse than a brother in the FBI.”
TOO MANY PEOPLE ARE USED TO LIVING WITHOUT CONSEQUENCES:
Not that long ago, trifling with important institutions was understood as dangerous for society.
UPDATE: Ric Grenell slays:
LIFE IN THE BLUE ZONES: New York sinkhole: Man’s horror over fall into rat-infested chasm. “Rats have long been prevalent in New York. Rodent experts say more rats have been coming out of hiding to find food during the coronavirus pandemic.”
TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE! REDUX: Watch Joe Biden confuse the Philadelphia Eagles and the Delaware Blue Hens.
WELL, ISN’T THAT CONFIDENCE-INSPIRING?
As I’ve said, America would be in a better place if we could trust the press to be honest interlocutors, but we’re not in that place, we’re in this place.
TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE! Biden stumbles through another campaign speech: “America is dead because of COVID-19.”
Or as America’s Newspaper of Record reported in May: Biden Campaign Hires Interpreter To Translate His Speeches Into English.
In retrospect, Biden should have taken the Bee’s advice.
PEOPLE CAN JUST TAKE A PILL. WHY DON’T THEY JUST DO THAT? Add vitamin D to bread and milk to help fight Covid, urge scientists.
At dinner the other night, our waitress mentioned she’d been feeling fatigued and run-down, and it turned out her vitamin D level was 8. (30 is the low threshold of “normal,” I’m at 60, which is where my doc likes me to be). She’s supplementing now, she said, and a good thing.
Related: People who suffer the most severe Covid symptoms are more likely to be deficient in vitamin D – how to boost your intake. Food and sun are nice, but most people will need a supplement to get to the desirable level.
CHINA IMPRESSED BY MICHIGAN GOVERNOR’S TOTALITARIAN POLICIES: Michigan Bars, Restaurants Will Require Customer’s Names And Phone Numbers Starting Monday.
UPDATE: “Remember when that tech millionaire did a Biden ad about how Trump is killing his nightclub?”, Jim Treacher asks.
(Updated and bumped; classical reference in headline.)
20 MINUTES INTO THE FUTURE: Control of the Senate May Hinge on Georgia Runoff in January.
NONSENSE, WHEN TRUMP MENTIONED THIS ALL THE BEST PEOPLE INFORMED US THAT THE PRESIDENT HAS NO SUCH AUTHORITY:
HOWIE CARR: After Trump, the Lefty Deluge.
Nothing lasts forever, but I’m still praying for another four-year reprieve for America. Can we restore ourselves as a nation of laws rather than of men? Can we keep the mobs at bay for a few more years?
John Adams once wrote of the new republic: “Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
Are we still a moral and religious people? I asked that question four years ago, and I repeat it this morning.
We’ll know the answer soon enough. If the answer is no, apres Trump, le deluge.
Read the whole thing.
DON’T GET COCKY: Wow! Massive Crowd for Trump Rally In Pennsylvania Floors Even Democrats.
THE CRISIS CONTINUES TODAY: Could you repeat that? Fixing the ‘replication crisis’ in biomedical research has become top priority.
MOSTLY PEACEFUL RIOTS: Leftist Agitators Target Conservative Groups in D.C. for Post-Election ‘Protests.’
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A MUCH BIGGER BLOG: The shame of the press.
FIRING THE COPY EDITORS WAS A MISTAKE: This Bloomberg story talks about “delegates,” but delegates are what you compete for in party nominations. “Electors” — as in the “Electoral College,” maybe Bloomberg has heard of that somewhere? — are what you seek in a general election.
Also, how can Ohio be tied if Biden is ahead by double digits and has everything locked up, as we’ve been told for weeks by Nate Silver and the rest?
