SHOCKER: Gallup Poll Shows That No One Thinks the Media Is Doing a Good Job During the Pandemic.

GOVS GONE WILD! Naughty Dems Keep Breaking Their Own Lockdown Rules.

WELL, MSNBC: ‘Fact-Based Truth’: MSNBC Demonized Ron DeSantis; Where’s the Apology?

So, according to Mike Barnicle, the “experts” were agreed that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was doing the exact opposite of what was needed to fight the coronavirus pandemic. Barnicle specifically contrasted Florida’s governor to the governors of Massachusetts, New York, California, Illinois and Michigan, where “fact-based truth” allegedly prevailed.

Well, where are we now, more than two months later? How did Barnicle’s “expert” opinion fare? Here are the per-capita coronavirus death rates (deaths per million residents) for these states:

New York ………………………. 1,519
Massachusetts ………………… 950
Michigan ………………………… 534
Illinois ……………………………. 400
Florida …………………………… 108
California ……………………….. 100

So, Florida’s death rate has been 93% lower than New York, 89% lower than Massachusetts, 80% lower than Michigan, 73% lower than Illinois. The only state named by Barnicle that has done better than Florida in terms of its COVID-19 death rate is California. Given that Barnicle is such a proponent of “fact-based truth,” doesn’t it seem to you that the viewers of MSNBC deserve an explanation of why he got this so wrong?

Keep in mind that on March 23, when Barnicle was busy smearing Ron DeSantis and the MSNBC chyron declared that Florida’s coronavirus cases had passed the 1,000 mark, Massachusetts had only 777 known cases. Two weeks later, however, the situation had reversed, with Massachusetts reporting 15,202 cases on April 7, when Florida had 14,707 cases. Now? Massachusetts has 94,220 cases and 6,547 deaths, compared to 52,634 cases and 2,320 deaths in Florida — almost twice as many cases, and nearly three times as many deaths, despite the fact that Florida’s population (21.5 million) is more than three times larger than the population of Massachusetts (6.9 million).

You’re not judged according to results. You’re judged according to where you’re situated in the narrative.

REPUBLICANS POUNCE! Twitter faces conservative backlash for fact-checking Trump’s tweets for the first time. “Twitter slapped a label on the president’s tweets about mail-in ballots.”

Reminder: Twitter’s Trump ‘Fact Check’ Does Not Disclose Company Partnered with Groups Pushing Mail-In Ballots.

THINK OF HIGHER EDUCATION AS PART OF THE DEMOCRATS’ POLITICAL APPARAT AND YOU WON’T GO FAR WRONG: University of Minnesota unconstitutionally showers student money on left-wing groups: lawsuit.

ONCE-MIGHTY “NATION-STATE” STRUGGLES: The Price of a Virus Lockdown: Economic ‘Free Fall’ in California.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Don’t Bother Learning to Code: Ruthless outsourcing will be the death of the American Dream. “The Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman characterized the H-1B visa as a government subsidy program. . . . Socialism for the rich.”

THE GREAT REOPENING: Water parks, food court dining areas added to Texas’ latest wave of reopenings.

NEW TWIST ON AN OLD BUM RAP AGAINST BELIEVERS: Glenn Stanton, writing for The Federalist, gets some giggles, thanks to Harvard’s Steven Pinker, who probably should stay in his own lane.

STANDING UP FOR CIVIL RIGHTS:

But how long before Trump is accused of playing politics because Minneapolis is a blue city with a lefty Democratic mayor?

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, COLLUSION-COVERUP EDITION: Colleges stonewall feds on China records: The Department of Education says colleges are blocking attempts to obtain documents pertaining to foreign gifts. Among the countries from which the colleges have received money are China, Russia, and Iran.

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KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Can Joe Biden Survive a Battle With…Joe Biden? “That Biden is the Democrats’ presumptive nominee is truly remarkable when you think about it. He’s all but abandoned his native tongue. He had one mediocre debate performance while the rest ranged from awful to disastrous. He’s off-script more than Robin Williams during his peak cocaine years on Mork and Mindy, yet everyone over on that side keeps giving him a pass.”

WHAT TASKS DOES XI HAVE FOR CHINA’S MILITARY?: Question asked.

On May 26, Chinese President Xi Jinping told senior officers the Peoples Liberation Army and Peoples Armed Police Force increase “preparedness for armed combat” as well as other military tasks.

It is a chilling thought, but Xi may have several “tasks” in mind, for both the PLA and the PAP.

Possible answers follow. But some answers are hard fact breaking news: Hong Kong and India. “In the last six weeks, Indian media have reported that Indian and Chinese soldiers have clashed along what is called The Line of Actual Control threading through the Himalayas.” Read the entire essay.

HIGHER EDUCATION UPDATE: Movement Builds To Suspend U.S. News Rankings During COVID-19 Pandemic.

HOGS AND EAGLES OVERHEAD: A pair of A-10 Thunderbolt IIs and a pair of F-15 Eagles based in Idaho participate in a flyover honoring the state’s citizens and essential workers who keep “Idaho running” during the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo taken May 15, 2020.

QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: Why Does CNN Let Cuomo Interview His Brother? CNN Is Picking Ratings Over Ethics.

Note that this is in the Atlantic, which isn’t opposed to tossing its own ethics aside to goose its Website’s stat counter.

THE NATURAL CONSEQUENCE OF COMMITTING YOURSELF TO DECIDE ON WHAT’S TRUE:

WAS IT OVER WHEN THE GERMANS LANDED AT PEARL HARBOR? Biden Confuses D-Day With Pearl Harbor.

A TREMENDOUS RESPONSE, THAT TURNED OUT TO BE LARGELY UNNECESSARY: Pence: 167,000% surge in tests, 663M masks, and 110,000 ventilators ‘ready this fall.’ The “ventilator gap” turns out to have been about as important as the “missile gap.”

Related: CDC’s Latest ‘Best Estimate’ of COVID Death Rate Is 13 Times Lower Than Initial WHO Claim.

IT’S COME TO THIS: Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg knocks Twitter for fact-checking Trump, says private companies shouldn’t be ‘the arbiter of truth.’

OF COURSE HE DOES: Mitt Romney Defends ‘Friend’ Scarborough From Trump Attacks.