It's 'pigs flying' time for CNN viewers and New York Times readers: Both outlets must have given their audiences palpitations with their respective takes on Amy Coney Barrett and the Wuhan virus

If you thought 2020 could not get any weirder, you were wrong. This week, two of the most radical, Trump-hating media outlets in America acted out of character, so much so that I glanced outside my window, expecting to see pigs flying by. On Monday, the New York Times published an optimistic article saying the Wuhan virus is coming to an end. It even praised one of the Trump administration's initiatives. And then, if that wasn't crazy enough, on Tuesday, the CNN talking heads went out of their way to praise Amy Coney Barrett. Sometimes, weird is good.

Let's start with the New York Times piece, "A Dose of Optimism, as the Pandemic Rages On." The first thing to know about it is that the body of the piece is more optimistic than the title would suggest. The second thing to know about it is that the author, Donald G. McNeil, Jr., a staff writer who covers science and health, takes all of the obligatory potshots at Trump. But hidden behind the carping and sniping are weird moments of genuine optimism and praise, if not for Trump, then for his policies.

To appreciate how peculiar this article is, you have to remember that the left, especially its media mouthpieces, has been working overtime to instill extreme fear into Americans. It's succeeded, too, especially with Democrats:

This is an amazing chart. Gallup. pic.twitter.com/GI8DpHOKgU— 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘑. 𝘋𝘶𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘥 (@StevenJDuffield)

October 10, 2020

The left's original goal wasn't hard to guess: tank the economy, go to easy-to-cheat mail-in voting, and make people fearful enough that they'll embrace change, with "change" coming in the form of a human fossil who's spent 47 years in the federal government.

>>Current projections on mail-in voting are that up to 1 million mailed-in ballots could be rejected. <<

I’m starting to think they realize that their low information voters that are easily swayed to their side are also low skilled. They probably can’t read very well and will mung up their ballots and the NYT glitterati will get exactly the opposite result of what they expect. These LIV dummies won’t vote or if they do, the ballots will get trashed! HA HA.

I have talked to some Democrat friends and that chart is spot on. The leaders may well be a cynical bunch doing this for political power but they have their rank and file scared to death. Those people really think they will die if they get Rona and for the most part have been hiding in their homes since March. It’s not working on Republicans since from long experience we’ve learned not to believe a damn thing from Democrat “scientists” who are thoroughly politicized, but it is working on their own base.

“I have talked to some Democrat friends and that chart is spot on.”

Fear is contagious, cheap, and easy to use motivator.
Especially for the intellectually lazy; those people that don’t know what they don’t know, and most importantly, don’t want to know what they don’t know.
Self righteous, frequently wrong, but never in doubt.

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