Posted on 03/17/2020 8:32:00 AM PDT by bitt
With much of the country now under quarantine, the nation desperately needs reliable information about the coronavirus. Unfortunately, politics has infected much of the mainstream media’s coverage of the threat. Rather than taking their obligation to inform the public seriously, prestige outlets use each new development as a cudgel with which to beat President Trump.
On the heels of the president’s announcement of a sweeping travel ban from other countries and declaration of emergency, a Sunday CNN chyron read: “Trump on Coronavirus: From ‘Hoax’ to National Emergency.”
The trouble is that Trump never called the coronavirus a “hoax” — this is an inaccurate and misleading distortion of what he has said, created and propagated by major media. And CNN won’t stop repeating it.
On Feb. 28, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank tweeted out, “Remember this moment: Trump, in South Carolina, just called the coronavirus a ‘hoax.’ ” The tweet has since been “liked” more than 162,000 times. Milbank subsequently wrote a column repeating the claim.
But anyone watching Trump’s rally in the Palmetto State that day knows this wasn’t what Trump said. “Trump said that when he used the word ‘hoax,’ he was referring to Democrats finding fault with his administration’s response to coronavirus, not the virus itself,” noted FactCheck.org, which generally leans left. Milbank was forced to update his column, noting “Trump said Saturday the ‘hoax’ referred to [was] Democrats’ pinning blame for the virus” on him.
Milbank’s misleading tweet is still up, however, shamelessly uncorrected.
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It’s all about them.
It didn’t take long after 9/11 for the Democrats to blame Bush for the attacks. Why should we be shocked that when a Republican president is in office when a crisis occurs the Democrats shamelessly continue their political attacks? This is operating procedure for them!
Never let a crisis go to waste.
True and this time we got Trump in the WH, not Caliph Baraq.
America used to come together in times of trouble. Now the media are determined to drive us apart...
China labels Nobel Prize winner ‘evil’ after he correctly says that China’s dictatorship is responsible for causing the coronavirus pandemic
https://t.co/pmeyJZnlPp—; Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) March 17, 2020
china concerns me right now..
For 150,000,000 folks, at least, in this country the “spell” is broken. Traditional(Liberal) Media and its influence is rapidly vanishing.
Dana Milbank doesn’t register as a pimple on the ass of Harvey Weinstein to anyone.
CNN knows they're lying... hatred has rotted out their little brains. Disgusting network...
The corrupt media needs to be severely punished.
Wrap it in newspaper and pack it in a sturdy cardboard carton. ;^)
The MSM has literally embraced treason. They should thank whatever god they pray to that Abraham Lincoln is not POTUS; he would either shut them down or deport them! {:^/
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