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https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1250013815812603906.html

1/ And @nytimes continues to slide further into fiction this morning with this gem: the US needs “foreign doctors” because hospitals “are scrambling to address a shortage of medical professionals... (and keep) a full supply of health care workers.”

2/ Meanwhile, back on planet Earth, hospitals are desperately laying off employees because they’re so empty:





4/ But I can only keep asking: What are @nytimes @washingtonpost etc doing? Why are they going to such lengths to keep driving unfounded - and at this point actively counterfactual - narratives for as long as possible?

I agree. Trump tells it like it is regarding the chinese and other countries taking advantage of the US.
But with trumps 99% bullshit bullhorn going on 24/7, people have come to not believe whatever he says, and thus miss out on the bits of truth that do come out.

Patrick says

Trump will at least tell the truth about China's devastation of American manufacturing.

https://spectator.us/mainstream-media-take-tara-reade-seriously/

The Times’s handling of the Reade accusation stands in stark contrast to how the newspaper covered allegations of sexual misconduct against then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in 2018. ...

The media’s deference to Democrats over their accusers on issues of sexual assault and misconduct has played out numerous times over the past few years. ...

t’s perhaps an even bigger slap in the face to share an accusation and discover that the so-called arbiters of truth in the media are covering for their politician of choice...

The NY Times is not a newspaper. It is just a propaganda platform for Democrats/globalists/racists who hate white people.

Y says

trumps 99% bullshit bullhorn going on 24/7

Got an example of said bullshit?

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You want people to feel sorry for you ?

Onvacation says

Y says

trumps 99% bullshit bullhorn going on 24/7

Got an example of said bullshit?

Lol, yes, the reality is the media's bullshit horn going on 24/7 about Trump.

Just directly watch Trump's press conferences and then compare it to what the press says about them.

HEYYOU says

richwicks & Patrick,

Fuck Dems & Reps.
I'm an Independent.

Let's see:
- repetitive mindless bashing of Reps/Cons
- glee for violence
- void of logic or coherency
- occasional bashing of Dems, just as mindless
- antisemitic
- full of vile, heart attack waiting to happen.

Sounds like far left to me.

Patrick says

Why are they going to such lengths to keep driving unfounded - and at this point actively counterfactual - narratives for as long as possible?

Thanks for posting this. Backs up my real world narrative that hospital staff are LOSING their jobs. Not even in demand in most places. There's nowhere near enough sick patients without kids breaking bones playing sports, car accidents, shootings, etc. I wouldn't be shocked if there are hospitals that go under/BK during a fucking PANDEMIC! AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!

Onvacation says

Got an example of said bullshit?

MSM lies, Trump bullshits as a good used car salesman which he is. When he talks about "being the best" or "build a wall" or whatever, that is bullshit usually. There is an interesting book about this topic:

On Bullshit is a 1986 essay, reprinted as a 2005 book, by philosopher Harry G. Frankfurt which presents a theory of bullshit that defines the concept and analyzes the applications of bullshit in the context of communication. Frankfurt determines that bullshit is speech intended to persuade without regard for truth. The liar cares about the truth and attempts to hide it; the bullshitter doesn't care if what they say is true or false, but rather only cares whether their listener is persuaded.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit

I'd say that we expect politicians to be sleazy scumbags, but what is somewhat not expected is that media are even worse sleazy scumbags.

rd6B says

I'd say that we expect politicians to be sleazy scumbags, but what is somewhat not expected is that media are even worse sleazy scumbags.

Lol, yes. Trump is no saint, but the media is far worse. They make Trump look like a paragon of virtue by comparison.

It drives the media crazy that they have lost the power to control presidents by threatening to print bad things about them. They've used all their ammo and just look bitter and foolish now.

Booger says

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(WHY WAS THIS LABELED PERSONAL ?)

That is weird. We all know that it's a terrible misrepresentation. They couldn't find a graphic of people lined up at grocery stores, becasue it isn't actually happening, so they used a random photo of people lined up at a grocery store, from a totally different situation.

THats some seriously unethical journalism right there. Even worse than when what's his name pretended the water was as deep where he was standing (actually kneeling) as it was elsewhere within a few hundred yards.

Patrick says

They make Trump look like a paragon of virtue by comparison.

Hahaha. TDS.



Some of us still know what being truly unethical means.

Patrick says

It drives the media crazy that they have lost the power to control presidents by threatening to print bad things about them. They've used all their ammo and just look bitter and foolish now.

The Media right now is the point in the Chuck Norris Movie when the Bad Guy begins throwing his pistol at Chuck's face because he's out of ammo and he's about to get taken down.

NoCoupForYou says

CNN exists only as a propaganda tool now, not as an actual source of journalism.

WookieMan says

Patrick says

Why are they going to such lengths to keep driving unfounded - and at this point actively counterfactual - narratives for as long as possible?

Thanks for posting this. Backs up my real world narrative that hospital staff are LOSING their jobs. Not even in demand in most places. There's nowhere near enough sick patients without kids breaking bones playing sports, car accidents, shootings, etc. I wouldn't be shocked if there are hospitals that go under/BK during a fucking PANDEMIC! AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!

This is happening, I know it first hand. Hospitals in SF are starting to furlough workers because their census is too low. Meaning there are not enough patients to justify the staffing they had been running with prior to Covid pandemic. In addition the spike in Covid patients never arrived.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/exclusive-images-boy-used-youngest-coronavirus-victim-uk-portugal-belgium-photo-2017-boy-ireland/

The image is of Conor Wilmot, a 13 year old Irish boy who died in 2017. Conor’s pictures are being used in reports about the identity and nationality of the youngest Muslim COVID-19 victim in the UK, Portugal and Belgium.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/vdare-founder-files-5-million-lawsuit-new-york-times-libel-article-smearing-rep-steve-king/

Anti-immigration website VDARE’s founder Peter Brimelow has filed a $5 million lawsuit against the New York Times for libel over an article in which they referred to the website founder as an “open white nationalist” in an effort to slime Rep. Steve King.

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Turns out we were something like the 38th country to stop flights from China. BFD.

marcus says

Turns out we were something like the 38th country to stop flights from China. BFD.

Flights are still coming and going. There's just no demand for people to travel right now. Just check flight aware and you'll see flights coming in from China. Mostly goods, but a few passenger flights. Trump just stopped non-essential travel incoming to the US. If he was the first or last it really doesn't matter either. This virus has been so politicized for no reason it's making people look like tards because it's basically harmless outside of nursing homes.

https://spectator.us/new-york-times-world-health-organization/

Donald Trump announced this week he intends to halt funding for the World Health Organization over the group’s suspicious relationship with China. Doubtless you’ll be shocked to hear that the establishment media quickly fell in line to defend one of its favorite globalist institutions, regardless of its actual effectiveness. The New York Times, fresh off picking apart the woman who has accused Joe Biden of sexual assault, scraped together an article defending the WHO’s response to the coronavirus outbreak in a stunning display of revisionist history.

‘The World Health Organization, always cautious, acted more forcefully and faster than many national governments’, declared the Times‘s standfirst, which prompted Cockburn to spit out his double-roast espresso. ‘While it made mistakes, there is little evidence that the WHO is responsible for the disasters that have unfolded in Europe and then the United States.’

The article offers a textbook case of missing the forest for the trees. The Times repeatedly allows supporters of the WHO to make excuses for its litany of failures during the early outbreak, such as failing to label COVID-19 a global health crisis and infamously tweeting on January 14 that the virus could not be spread through human-to-human transmission. WHO advocates admit that the organization was too trusting of China, but don’t mention that the WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus accused Trump of potentially creating ‘more bodybags’ after the president criticized China for lying about its number of cases and deaths as well as allowing people to travel outside of the country after it became clear the outbreak was not contained. Tedros has also praised China’s ‘transparency’. If the WHO was duped by China, wouldn’t they acknowledge that Trump was calling the CCP out for spreading misinformation? Alas, it appears not. And the Times doesn’t even bother to consider why.

To: textsitefeedback@npr.org
Subject: NPR article on glowing squid

https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=820707276

Why does this article not mention migrant workers, racism, or sexism? Surely there must be some way to work those in. Maybe the squid are racist? They come in varying colors after all.

Please, be more consistent. NPR has a nearly 100% record of including these issues in all of its reporting. With just a little more effort, it could be 100%.

Patrick

Patrick why bother, I gave up on NPR 100% when Trump got elected.
They were the only thing I listened to in the car. They have always been Liberal bias, and I didn't listen to them to hear the choir preach to me.
I used to listen to them, because by following NPR, no matter how creepy, gay, or in the gutter they went. They were the bellwether for legislation that Democrats in Washington was going to push next. One month NPR is gushing over 8 year old drag queens, and middle age Liberal Men's right to exploit them and groom them for that lifestyle.
The next month some Fucked up Gay Commie Congress fucker, is pushing their right to do so, while labeling who ever is repulsed by it, a White Nationalist, which literally means Hitler.

It was painful to listen to, but it was necessary for my own sanity, so that I knew where this stupid shit coming out of Washington is coming from. AOC types aren't that criminally dynamic, this shit was coming from tax funded Pros, a partisan political think tank posing as a Tax funded Radio station.

But through out the 2016 election cycle, they changed the only thing they reported was misinformation on Trump and his supporters.
They drove me away from listening to NPR to listening to WOID, Brian Mudd, Rush Limbaugh, and Hanity.
Now I know why Liberals hate them so much, they are the only ones telling the truth on Talk Radio.

marcus says

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Turns out we were something like the 38th country to stop flights from China. BFD.

So what are you saying? That there are 37 countries with leadership more xenophobic and anti-Chinese racist than Trump?

https://therightscoop.com/dan-crenshaw-decimates-wapos-jennifer-rubin-for-anti-trump-coronavirus-hit-piece/

Dan Crenshaw schooled Washington Post opinion columnist Jennifer Rubin today after she wrote a hit piece against Trump entitled “Trump’s inaction has a staggering toll” ...

STOP. REWRITING. HISTORY.

Instead of attempting to spin the public into a hateful, frightened frenzy, let’s try reporting some facts with the correct context. ...

On March 3rd, the day after you claim Trump should have shut our economy down, this is how the WHO downplayed the virus:

“COVID-19 spreads less efficiently than flu, transmission does not appear to be driven by people who are not sick” ...

Would the America public really have accepted millions of jobs destroyed for a virus that had infected just 102 people by March 2? Especially considering Italy would not lock down until March 10th, Spain on March 14th, and the UK on March 23?

A bit of context is in order here. ...

Not sure where the magic COVID-19 testing switch is. The truth is that long-standing regulations - in place for decades - prevented us from doing so.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/23/dan-crenshaw/did-fda-regulations-slow-testing-coronavirus/

First, you argue that we should have shut down the economy weeks before we did. Then, you argue that the shut down, resulting job loss, and economic devastation are his fault too.

Which is it? You can’t have it both ways. ...


Your analysis makes it seem like our government deliberately decided not to buy more PPE. The truth is there was a global production shortage when China began stopping exports, and demand soared. This is still happening. ...

When it’s all said and done, this bad-faith analysis isn’t fact-based and lacks important context. Hating Trump is not an excuse for lazy argumentation and emotional reasoning.

Now, more than ever, we need critical thinking and productive deliberation.

OK, Crenshaw for president after Trump finishes his second term.

Excellent videos from Crenshaw:

https://therightscoop.com/watch-dan-crenshaw-releases-fantastic-video-debunking-the-lefts-covid-19-narrative/

https://thefederalist.com/2020/04/17/what-the-msm-wont-tell-you-about-democrats-voter-suppression-in-the-wisconsin-election/

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher criticized media coverage of the coronavirus by stating that “nonstop gloom and doom … gives Trump the chance to play the optimist, and optimists tend to win American elections.” ...

He added, “Everyone knows Corona is no walk in the park. Because you literally can’t walk in the park. But at some point, the daily drumbeat of depression and terror veers into panic porn.” And “you don’t have to put hot sauce on a jalapeno.”

Maher concluded, “We need the news to calm down and treat us like adults. Trump calls you fake news, don’t make him be right.”

Too late. Trump is right, the news is fake.

BIG IF TRUE.

Let's see if he's right.

(cross posted from another thread because it's a classic example of media spin to make any good news about Trump look bad)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/hydroxychloroquine-and-other-autoimmune-drugs-dont-fully-protect-against-coronavirus-early-data-suggest-11587222001 (paywall!)

Hydroxychloroquine and Other Autoimmune Drugs Don’t Fully Protect Against Coronavirus, Early Data Suggest

Dozens of people taking hydroxychloroquine and other treatments for chronic rheumatologic diseases have become infected with Covid-19, according to an analysis of emerging data that is a sign the drugs may not protect people from the new coronavirus.

More than five dozen people with chronic ailments like lupus and rheumatoid arthritis were taking medications such as hydroxychloroquine before being diagnosed with the coronavirus, according to data compiled by the Global Rheumatology Alliance, a coalition of rheumatologists,...

Damn, is that some impressive negative spin or what? Doesn't "Fully" protect.

So that means it does protect to some degree. Why isn't that the title?

Doesn't "Fully" protect.

Neither does a vaccine "fully" protect. In fact, a flu vaccine is only about 1/3 effective. So I guess the author of "Hydroxychloroquine and Other Autoimmune Drugs Don’t Fully Protect Against Coronavirus, Early Data Suggest" would condemn vaccines as well.

HeadSet says

Doesn't "Fully" protect.

Neither does a vaccine "fully" protect. In fact, a flu vaccine is only about 1/3 effective. So I guess the author of "Hydroxychloroquine and Other Autoimmune Drugs Don’t Fully Protect Against Coronavirus, Early Data Suggest" would condemn vaccines as well.

Bingo!!! This isn't going away as a virus. It will probably be with us for decades regardless of a vaccine. A good amount of people pass because of the flu, HAVE been vaccinated. We're at the death count of the average flu roughly right now WITHOUT a vaccine that wouldl likely be 30-40% effective. There's no silver bullet here, it's a god damn virus... nature and all that (maybe manufactured).

We're at the point in this where people are asking a POTUS to stop a fucking hurricane(s) as a weather event. I hope people are seeing how retarded they sound.... The people all negative on this are asking the equivalent of asking one human to stop a hurricane and pretend like that is even possible. Stupidity has no bounds at this point. Open. The. Fuck. UP.

Apparently the new talking point is that the protestors should become victims of Darwinism. If this were Ebola, they might have a point. A biology teacher (yes a high school bio teacher) that I used to work with posted a meme that says:

"If you don't want to quarantine, that's ok" -Charles Darwin

Now...this is stupid on many levels. Given that the fatality rate among people below age 20 is essentially zero...this has nothing to do with survival. I endanger myself more commuting to work everyday in New Jersey down Rt 78 where I've been run off the road at 80 mph. The fatality rate doesn't rise much going all the way up to age 60. And...given that we are finding a ton of evidence of how many people are asymptomatic....those fatality rates are dramatically decreasing. Young people protesting has nothing to do with Darwinism and this is a classic example of a left leaning high school biology teacher not being able to even apply a simple concept that they are paid to teach. The only thing Darwin would say is that this virus does take out the weak and unhealthy.

Darwin might argue that we allow this to run through the population as quickly as possible to establish herd immunity prior to it mutating.



These types of messages should be targeted a few people....overweight people, people with heart disease, blood pressure, or diabetes. And elderly.

This virus is not super deadly. The only reason I am in support of this temporary lockdown is because the virus is rapidly transmissive and it runs through us very fast and reaches those that are susceptible. That being said...our current course is completely unsustainable economically and we will basically have the summer (where transmission is likely to decrease) to get our asses in gear. People will have to resume work with masks on. Susceptible population will have to shelter in place. Social distancing should still be practiced. And once we can vaccinate this (which I believe will be by the winter), this is just going to be another virus on the list.

People keep saying "this is not like the flu". All indicators are, it is no more deadly. They can't put together that the flu would do the same thing if we didn't have any immunity or vaccinations. They might be more correct in saying that the effect on society and danger exceeds that of the flu right now.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/03/30/twitter-removes-jair-bolsonaros-tweets-about-chinese-virus/

Twitter took down two tweets from Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, citing its policy against misinformation related to the Chinese coronavirus, despite refusing to take down misinformation from Chinese officials about the virus last week.

The deleted videos consist of videos of Bolsonaro discussing the Chinese virus with Brazilian citizens, emphasizing the need to balance concern about the pandemic with economic reality. ...

Responding to a request for comment, a Twitter spokeswoman cited the platform’s new rules against misinformation, which Breitbart News reported on earlier this month. According to the spokeswoman, the rules cover content that “could be against public health information provided by official sources and could put people at greater risk of transmitting COVID-19.”

However, as Breitbart News reported last week, Twitter has not clamped down on misinformation about the virus posted by Chinese officials, even after U.S. lawmakers have brought it to their attention.

Great example of a Chinese Propaganda piece:

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/western-relations-with-china-after-covid19-by-chris-patten-2020-04

Handwave away China concerns as long term, auxiliary concerns, but blame Trump.