“CONGRATULATIONS, ESTEEMED COLLEAGUES: YOU DID IT.” People trust the media less than Trump on COVID. Here’s why.

On Wednesday, audio of President Trump talking to Bob Woodward leaked, on which the President said he purposely downplayed the virus, so as to not cause a panic. Journalists from several outlets sprung into action, again blissfully ignoring their own track record of downplaying the pandemic. In February, the New York Times published ‘Who says it’s not safe to travel to China?’. In January, BuzzFeed wrote, ‘Don’t worry about the coronavirus. Worry about the flu.’ The Washington Post published, in their health section of all places, ‘Get a grippe, America. The flu is a much bigger threat than coronavirus, for now.’ The Associated Press wrote in February, ‘Is the new virus more deadly than the flu? Not exactly.’ The Daily Beast ran ‘The virus killing US kids isn’t the one dominating the headlines.’  Vox even deleted tweets and amended a story which downplayed the virus. When White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany brought this all up to members of the press, they sneered at her with all the condescension of the cool kids welcoming a new girl to class.

Flashback: MSM: Riots COVID Safe, Trump Rallies Are Hot Zones. Just NBC the gaslighting!

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VICTORIA TAFT: Bob Woodward’s Own Reaction Shows His Big Trump Virus ‘Scoop’ Is Total Nonsense. And It Gets Worse…

SHOCKER: New Reporting Shows Kenosha Riots Hit Minority Communities Hardest: Callous disregard of property rights creates long-term instability that scares away business investment and reduces economic opportunity.

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SAYING THE QUIET PART OUT LOUD: (With Audio) LA County Health Director Says That Schools will stay Closed Till ‘After The Election.’

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BARACK OBAMA’S LATEST REASON TO VOTE FOR JOE BIDEN IS ACTUALLY A REASON TO VOTE TRUMP.

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QUESTION ASKED: Do Black Livelihoods Matter? Kenosha Riots Ravaged the Black Community.

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And yes, “settle for Biden” is a thing, allegedly by “a grassroots group of former Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders supporters.”

NY TIMES EDITOR AFTER BLAMING SARAH PALIN FOR INCITEMENT IN THE TUCSON SHOOTING: ‘The right is coming after us.’

Ross Douthat sent an email telling Bennet he was wrong and Bennet promised to look at it again in the morning. Another editor sent an email to Williamson asking who was responsible for the line about political incitement and Sarah Palin. Williamson, who apparently hadn’t noticed how much Bennet had revised her draft on this point said that had been in the draft all along.

Then, sometime shortly before midnight, Bennet sent an email to Williamson: “Are you up? The right is coming after us…” He must not have slept much that night because the following morning he had sent an email to his team at 5:08 am: “Hey guys — We’re taking a lot of criticism for saying that the attack on Giffords was in any way connected to incitement.… I don’t know what the truth is here, but we may have relied too heavily on our early editorials and other early coverage of that attack. If so, I’m very sorry for my own failure on this yesterday. … I’d like to get to the bottom of this as quickly as possible this morning and correct the piece if needed.”

So if you’re following this closely, Bennet went from not knowing what was true in the early afternoon, to knowing in the evening that Palin was responsible as he rewrote the editorial, and then back to not knowing the following morning. The Times’ lawyers want to say that this proves it was all a mistake, i.e. he didn’t know he was wrong. But how can that be so if he stated he didn’t know the truth before the rewrite? Once he’d admitted that, wasn’t it his responsibility to research the connection before stating categorically that it existed? But Bennet claimed in his deposition that he never looked at any of the links provided to him, including the one Williamson had buried in her draft.

Read the whole thing, which is a classic example of what W. Joseph Campbell would call a media-created myth that refuses to die. Perhaps only a victory by Palin in her defamation suit will finish this lie off. As John Sexton writes above, because Palin is a public figure, victory “won’t be easy but the judge in the case did agree it’s not impossible because the Times’ work, in particular that of now-former editor James Bennet on this piece was spectacularly awful.”

GIVING TRUMP THE PEACE PRIZE MIGHT RESTORE NOBEL’S CREDIBILITY: It’s no guarantee but Issues & Insights thinks doing so is the only hope for rescuing the once-revered award from the far-left fever swamp.

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