WHEN IS A CORONAVIRUS DEATH ACTUALLY A CORONAVIRUS DEATH? Good question, raised by Julie Kelly of American Greatness. The answers are about as clear as a gallon of Mississippi River mud flats water.
Archive for 2020
April 7, 2020
I GUESS HER CRONIES AREN’T RUNNING THINGS THERE ANYMORE: State Department refuses to back Hillary Clinton attempt to avoid deposition.
HE’S LOSING IT: Joe Biden Produces a Word Salad So Bad That It’ll Make You Question Everything. “We cannot let this, we’ve never allowed any crisis from the Civil War straight through to the pandemic of 17, all the way around, 16, we have never, never let our democracy sakes second fiddle, way they, we can both have a democracy and … correct the public health.”
Sooth.
A LOSS FOR THE MACHINE: Wisconsin Supreme Court overturns governor, orders Tuesday elections to proceed.
WORLD ENDS TONIGHT, WOMEN AND MINORITIES HARDEST HIT: “Pandemic Could Jeopardize Law Firm Diversity Efforts.”
BUREAUCRACY KILLS: They Want to Make Masks in America, But Regulators Can’t Let Them.
One of my former students, now a very successful entrepreneur, brought a planeload of masks into the country for distribution in Knoxville and remarked that he can see why there’s a shortage, because getting permission to bring them into the USA was like pulling teeth.
GOVERNMENT TRANSPARENCY DEEMED ‘NON-ESSENTIAL’ BY CHICAGO: Don’t bother submitting Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to the local authorities in The Windy City. Mayor Lori Lightfoot claimed not to know this automated response is now going to all FOIA requests: “Freedom of Information Act responses have been deemed a non-essential city operation and are being temporarily suspended until further notice,” according to Governing.
GIVING IN THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUS: China forces Italy to buy same coronavirus supplies it had donated to Beijing a few weeks ago.
DEMOCRATS WANT BALLOT HARVESTING BECAUSE IT FACILITATES FRAUD: Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers postpones statewide election until June 9, GOP leaders promise to challenge the order.
THE GHOST OF WALTER DURANTY SMILES: In Which the New York Times Morphs Into a Total Propaganda Tool for China’s Communist Government.
ACT OF JOURNALISM COMMITTED ON CAPITOL HILL: Which of these presidents disbanded the National Security Council’s anti-pandemic section, Donald Trump, Barack Obama or George W. Bush? How about all three of them!
Credit Roll Call’s Rachel Oswald with doing the research, interviewing key players, asking them pointed questions, and then presenting the results in a straightforward, no-nonsense fashion. Here’s the summary paragraph:
“But a variety of longtime experts in disaster response who spoke to CQ Roll Call warn that the country risks missing some of the lessons from what is the largest public health crisis in a century if opprobrium is heaped solely at Trump’s feet. Rather, they say, there is blame to be shared, going back decades through multiple presidencies and on both sides of the political aisle.”
Other than a perfunctory paean to Pelosi’s pandemic commission near the end, Oswald keeps it balanced and informative. It’s called “journalism” and the nation needs a huge revival of it. I just hope Oswald’s career doesn’t suffer for having done this excellent piece.
Compare Oswald’s work with this Establishment agit-prop from The Washington Post, pushing the Trump-pushing-risky-drug and Trump-White House-divisions-widen narratives.
LIKE SO MANY OF HIS COLLEAGUES, HE’S NOT ACTUALLY VERY GOOD AT HIS JOB: CNN’s Jim Acosta: Great at Making a Scene, Not So Great at Actual Reporting. This is pretty funny.
April 6, 2020
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OH, DARN, CHINA IS PISSED: China outraged after Brazil minister suggests Covid-19 is part of ‘plan for world domination.’
WE ARE LED BY THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST.
TO BE FAIR, IT WAS A SAFE BET, STATISTICALLY: FACT CHECK: Trump Asked a Reporter If She Was Working For China… She Is.
HARSH BUT FAIR:
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