Posted on 04/23/2020 9:13:46 AM PDT by jazusamo
At Wednesday's coronavirus task force briefing, President Trump sparred with ABC's Jonathan Karl over ventilators. For weeks Karl and other White House reporters have been demanding to know how the government was going to be able to supply all the ventilators our hospitals need for the overwhelming influx of coronavirus patients. Now, when they've exceeded those expectations and we have a surplus of ventilators, Trump observed that the media has gone silent.
"We're now supplying ventilators all over the world because no other country could have done what we did, and you should say that's a great story," Trump instructed the press corps. "Instead, you say Trump was slow - slow, we were so fast. Plus we put the ban on so much earlier when Nancy Pelosi as an example - you don't say this. When she's having her rally in San Francisco in Chinatown in San Francisco nobody wants to say that."
He's right. On February 24, Speaker Pelosi was still encouraging people to come out to Chinatown.
Trump hammered the point home that no matter what he does, the media refuses to give him or his task force credit.
"So if we gave 350 [million people] a test ten times, the fake news media would say, where's the eleventh time?" Trump said. "He didn't do his job. Trump didn't do his job. Because you have a lot of bad reporting out there."
Karl shouted, "that's not true!" a few times.
"You're one of the leaders of the bad reporting," Trump replied.
Trump later suggested that the media is actually "unhappy" that they have extra ventilators because they "never mention it."
A surplus of ventilators is something we should all celebrate.
. @foxandfriends We now have many Ventilators to spare. Thank you to all! https://twitter.com/mike_pence/status/1253123932280041473
I can’t wait for Trump’s next video.
He is one step from where he has to go when this is beaten. He has to use every dem and media reaction to anything he did and say “ See they were hoping I would fail. Beating me was more important to them than beating covid.”
What is it about dudes named Jonathan?
I’ve studied onomastics since I was a teenager and I can only conclude that there seems to be a karma about certain names.
It does appear to me that the male population of Jonathans has a larger-than-normal proportion of wimps and flakes.
Conversely, I was rather floored to read that “Karen” is being used as a generic term for whiny, bitchy middle-aged females, often divorced single mothers.
Now, I certainly know the type. But I’ve always thought the name Karen to be perfectly innocuous.
But think hard on Jonathan. Immediately, the name of another media stooge, Jonathan Chait, leaps to mind.
There are many others, but I prefer not to dwell too much upon such low-life people.
I would appreciate any thoughts from other FReepers on this Jonathan business.
Jonny Karl - Xi’s boi at ABXi “news”.
Bkmrk.
He should fake them out a couple of times with Woody Woodpecker or a Three Stooges short.
Now that there is a keeper! Thanks.
You are correct
“Karl has been on the verge of an aneurysm ever since Trump ran that video.”
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Wish he’d hurry up and have it already. I’m sick and tired of his rude and disrespectful behavior. He should be sent to the back of the class and not allowed to ask questions ever.
The reporters at the pressers should NEVER be put on camera nor should they have a microphone. Let them text their questions to an account set up specifically for that purpose.
The President or whomever the question is addressed to can read the question, credit the reporter by name and give his/her answer.
Refuse to give them the attention they are so desperate for.
Who was the woman reporter that was screaming yesterday and Trump says, "You weren't called on."
Quite rude
This whole issue of ventilators is overblown.
Fox News is reporting that:
“The study also revealed that the overwhelming majority of patients who were on ventilators eventually died, and those who did more often had diabetes.”
“Data gathered from 2,634 patients who either died or were discharged from the hospital showed that 12 percent of them were placed on ventilators and of those who were, 88 percent of them died.”
In other words, these ventilators are not nearly as effective in preserving lives as the media implies.
Goes back to what somebody said on FR earlier, the camera should NEVER show the questioners.
Who are the both you are referring to?
never mind...I see what you’re saying..
The media are both, corrupt and stupid.
The media!
They’re both, and a whole lot worse.
I don’t know but he said it toward the general area where the CBS Chinese reporter was sitting.
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