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Saturday News Roundup: NBC News is a Dumpster Fire, and Don’t Think Seattle Can’t Happen to You
DB Daily Update ^ | David Blackmon

Posted on 07/11/2020 4:40:32 AM PDT by EyesOfTX

This is the current state of NBC News. – Dr. Joseph Fair is a virologist who also happens to be a “medical contributor” to NBC News. Across the months of May and June, Dr. Fair made numerous appearances on the “Today” show and other NBC/MSNBC platforms to give viewers all the gory details about his long and difficult struggle with what he claimed was a case of the Wuhan Virus, COVID-19.

The only problem is, he never had COVID-19.

From a report at the Daily Caller:

Fair suggested during an interview on the “Today” show May 14 that he may have gotten the virus through his eye during a flight. He conducted the interview while in a New Orleans hospital, the Washington Free Beacon reported.

NBC News originally told viewers about the negative tests, but abandoned that part of the narrative as the story continued, according to Steve Krakauer’s “Fourth Watch” newsletter. During a June 14 interview with Chuck Todd on “Meet the Press,” no one noted that Fair had already tested negative at least five times, according to Krakauer.

“In the end, NBC’s viewers were left with two very alarming – and false – impressions,” Krakauer wrote. “First, that an expert virologist can take every precaution but can still catch COVID-19 through his eyes. False. Second, that tests can be so untrustworthy that you can have multiple negative tests and still have coronavirus.”

NBC News has not yet updated its May 14 article claiming the virologist got “coronavirus despite being in good health and taking precautions.”

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Oh.

NBC News is a raging dumpster fire, but that just makes it equal to every other broadcast or cable news station outside of OANN and NewsMax.

Everything you see on any cable or broadcast network “news” program is most likely a lie. Every. Damn. Thing.

Something will be happening with Venezuela, and the U.S. will be heavily involved. – At least, that’s what President Donald Trump told an interviewer with the Spanish language channel Telemundo yesterday.

From a report at Breitbart:

Host Jose Diaz-Balart asked, “For you, Venezuela, is it Guaido, is it Maduro, is it U.S. intervention?”

Trump responded, “It’s freedom for their people. It’s freedom. Venezuela was a rich country 15 years ago, and it’s been destroyed by two people, but a system, a horrible system. … And something will happen with Venezuela. That’s all I can tell you. Something will be happening with Venezuela.”

Diaz-Balart then asked, “Through the United States?”

Trump responded, “We’ll be very much involved.”

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Just a reminder that Barack Obama considered Hugo Chavez, the first brutish socialist thug ruler of Venezuela, to be a role model, and that the socialist model currently being forced on helpless Joe Biden by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the model that turned that formerly 1st-world, wealthy nation into a 3rd world hell hole in the span of a decade.

It really doesn’t seem like something the U.S. should aspire to emulate, does it? Pay attention.

Be glad you don’t live in Seattle. – I almost started this segment by saying “pity the poor people in Seattle,” but hey, they’re the morons who elected the current Mayor, the evil Jenny Durkan, and a city council filled with radical thugs, so pity really isn’t justified, is it?

Ok, there are innocent, sensible people in that messed up town who didn’t support any of those thugs: You should expect to see a mass exodus of such people from that community in the very near future, as they flee a city that elected Democrats are making sure descends into outright chaos.

On Friday, a majority of the Seattle City Council agreed to support a proposition that would cut the police department’s budget by 50%. The plan would be to reallocate those funds to “other community needs.” It is not clear what those “other needs” are exactly, but presumably they would include lots of Unicorns and rainbows. Because these are Democrats we’re talking about here, after all.

Think about the insanity of this for a moment: Seattle is already such a lawless jurisdiction that members of the city council itself helped a group of Antifa/BLM Marxist thugs illegally seize a 6 square-block section of the Capitol Hill area – including a police precinct building – there for a solid month as the Mayor refused to allow the police department to intervene. It was only when those same Marxist thugs – again helped along by at least one member of the city council – broke into a gated neighborhood and staged an illegal protest action at the Mayor’s home that the despicable Ms. Durkan finally allowed the police to break up the illegal insurgency.

It is tempting for those of us living in distant parts of this giant country to look at the mass insanity taking place in Seattle, Minneapolis, New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, Atlanta and Portland and laugh with condescension about it all, but that is a dangerous reaction for us to take. This kind of stuff can hit very close to home very quickly.

In my home state of Texas, the Democrat morons running the city of Austin have now turned its downtown area into a homeless camp that is beginning to rival those seen in Los Angeles and San Francisco. In Houston, the Democrat Mayor there, Sylvester Turner, acted this week to cancel the Republican Party’s state convention that was to be held there, using COVID-19 as his excuse, a bare week before it was to happen. The GOP has sued, but has little hope of prevailing in time for the event to come off.

Don’t kid yourselves that the kind of nonsense you see happening in far-off states can’t happen in your state: It can, and it will very soon unless each and every one of you gets your butts up off your sofas and goes out and votes in November.

That is all.


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Humor; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: fakenews; mediabias; trump; trumpwinsagain

1 posted on 07/11/2020 4:40:32 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
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To: EyesOfTX
. In Houston, the Democrat Mayor there, Sylvester Turner, acted this week to cancel the Republican Party’s state convention that was to be held there, using COVID-19 as his excuse, a bare week before it was to happen. The GOP has sued, but has little hope of prevailing in time for the event to come off.

Same thing would have happened if Trump hadn't moved the GOP convention from North Carolina.
And what is Greg “The Cuck” Abbot doing about all this nonsense?

2 posted on 07/11/2020 4:50:43 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: EyesOfTX
On Friday, a majority of the Seattle City Council agreed to support a proposition that would cut the police department’s budget by 50%.

Any FReepers living in the Seattle area that can submit a proposal to cut the Seattle City Council's budget by 50%?

Or a current/former LEO?

3 posted on 07/11/2020 5:25:06 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: EyesOfTX

FYI: Comcast’s wholly-owned subsidiary, NBCUniversal News Group, has announced, through the office of its Group Chairman, Cesar Conde, that it will, henceforth, practice systemic racism in its Human Resource operations. It will seek to reduce the ‘white employee’ percentage down from current 74% to a 50-50% with “people of color”! The new Chairman, former head of Telemundo, spoke to the method for measuring movement to this goal; “... Starting with our next assessments in early 2021, we will add progress on diversity to the performance metrics of the leadership team.”


4 posted on 07/11/2020 5:36:59 AM PDT by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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To: SES1066

50-50? That’s affirmative action, in action.

More dramatic than the usual, “let’s make our staff ratios ‘look like America’, no matter how incompetent the people we have to accept.”


5 posted on 07/11/2020 5:43:41 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: SES1066

Time for talk and courts is over. Time to tak them out.


6 posted on 07/11/2020 5:48:06 AM PDT by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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To: EyesOfTX

How can one tell that a mediaist is lying?
1. Their lips are moving. (Old standard)
2. Their fingers are typing.


7 posted on 07/11/2020 6:02:33 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: EyesOfTX

All of those who lived in Chaz - you can have Gary, Indiana or Camden, NY or Chester, PA free of charge. Just move in and have fun.


8 posted on 07/11/2020 6:08:39 AM PDT by EC Washington
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To: EyesOfTX

“NBC News is a raging dumpster fire...” NBC can thank Noah Oppenheim and sidekick Andy Lack, for that. Lack can also be thanked for the mess at MSNBC. Just as CNN can thank Jeff Zucker for their dumpster fire mess.


9 posted on 07/11/2020 7:04:59 AM PDT by euram
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To: SES1066

Sheesh, I thought they had reached that already.
Look at what’s happened to the Today Show.
And on their nightly news, every “feel good” story just happens to be about a POC.


10 posted on 07/11/2020 7:26:18 AM PDT by GnuThere
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To: EyesOfTX

Seattle can only happen in jurisdictions where those in charge tell the police to “stand down”. Period.


11 posted on 07/11/2020 8:17:10 AM PDT by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

13% of the population gets 50% of the jobs-—

With ZERO percent of the skills.


12 posted on 07/11/2020 9:29:46 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: ridesthemiles

13% of the population gets 50% of the jobs-—

With ZERO percent of the skills.
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Some days I think we should let them try that, only make it 90%, with 10% going to an insecure & ever-shifting group of *allies*.

If this were done correctly, with the talented people of all hues secure in their own Galt Gulch, how long before the world would collapse from ineptitude?


13 posted on 07/11/2020 10:04:36 AM PDT by reformedliberal (Make yourself less available.)
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