Thanks Eric. Some days it seems the gaslighting continues. I appreciate you correcting the record.
The truth about the pandemic is that everyone wanted, no needed, the administration to succeed. Many looked with despair at other countries' success at limiting spread, and therefore deaths, and just wanted to do as well. But the lies continued and Trump sabotaged everything he could. Case in point-Dr. Atlas.
I watch the progress in the last 50 days and think, wow, what if the spread had been limited at the start. What is there was competency? Compassion? What if ...
(Note that the URL refers to his address as a "stimulus speech" - how they want to frame it.)
The 'best' they could come up with was 1) taking issue with Biden talking about months of lies and pandemic denial from Trump, 2) critiquing how to add up the death toll from the pandemic versus wars, and 3) claiming Biden was being misleading about the number of vaccines Trump supposedly ordered.
For four long years we had a firehose of lies from the Trump administration that were downplayed and minimized by The NY Times and others. As usual, they are trying to overcompensate for their failures now. This is the real media 'liberal bias.'
I am flabbergasted by these reports of Trump bequeathing his star COVID program to the Biden administration. This is worse than fake equivalence because it requires inventing not only the equivalence but also the entire other side.
The harm Trump did during a national health crisis can not be overstated. He alone is responsible for thousands of Americans losing their lives due to his lies, bravado and ignorance. The fact that drug companies rushed to create a vaccine has nothing to do with his “leadership.” He turned everything he touched to $h1t.
This is the same press that continues to put out articles on why Andrew Cuomo should step down as Governor of NY because of sexual harassment allegations. We heard crickets for over four years when 22 women accused Trump of more egregious acts. I'm not defending Cuomo and if he's found guilty he needs to step down. But the double standard the press has for Republicans vs. Democrats is plainly obvious. In the case of Covid vaccine rollout, the NY Times article is absolutely laughable. Just after the Biden Administration took office, the big story was the Trump administration left nothing, no vaccine rollout plan. With the public's attention span as short as it is, I guess the press is trying to get away with saying that Trump had things in place? It's ridiculous. The mainstream media will continue this kissing Republicans ass charade as long as they can get away with it. Soon they will be interviewing Trump himself and how great he was from inside his prison cell.
This is why you don't listen to both sides "arguments" any longer. One side is clearly right here: Biden made this happen. The NYT has made it their full-time job to still cover Trump. They are one step away from moving to Mar A Lago. and crediting him with curing leprosy in India.
Biden could say the sky was blue, and the NY Times would come out with an article saying that statement was misleading. That the sky was in fact light blue with a touch of gray.
I'm not knowledgeable enough to know the truth of the matter, but in my opinion the news media refuses to acknowledge that they got hoodwinked by Trump as well. Not in any macro sense of the word - the years long pointing out of Trump's buffoonery was like a nonstop parade. I mean that the news media didn't seem to en masse understand that with Trump there is no substance except an incessant need to feed his ego. The media was never ready for a President who quite literally didn't care about the US or quite frankly any human except himself. They didn't understand that the same man who would boast about how he was the greatest sex a woman had would also tell outrageous fairy tales about Covid just to make himself seem like a big man. That's all Trump is - a small person inside a PR facade of gigantism. The media is embarrassed and trying to cover their tracks post facto.
The Trump vaccine rollout was a fraud. The Biden appointee who took over said there was no plan in place other than "let the states handle it." And then, as noted, the WH lobbied Congress to deny the funding the states needed to get people vaccinated. That's what happens when an incompetent ego maniac who politicizes everything allows his equally incompetent son-in-law to run a shadow task force on a deadly pandemic.
I just read the article. It’s ridiculous. No one who has paid any attention thinks the Trump administration did nothing about vaccines because he has been given credit for Operation Warp Speed but the facts in the article prove that if Biden hadn’t taken over we would be nowhere close to the number of vaccinations we have now and more people would be dying. But why ruin a chance to prove you are fulfilling you promise to be as aggressive in reporting on Biden and you were on Trump. On the bright side the top “Readers’ Pick” comments are brutal, as they should be. I particularly liked the one that starts “Both sides, both sides, both sides.Please, can we drop the ridiculous pretense? “
Those former Trump staffers who say Biden is following their playbook are every bit as aggressively stupid as Trump is. They were picked for their refusal to know anything or learn anything. Their playbook was sitting around and occasionally calling someone to say “Hey man, make more vaccine.” They don’t even know what they don’t know, and they don’t know what Biden is doing.
The reason presidents get the deference they get is because they are surrounded by a huge structure of knowledge and they are presumed to be listening to it. Trump could not have made it any clearer that he wasn’t interested in listening to anything or anyone. He was the host of The Apprentice in the WH and he was determined to remain that way. And the press still gave him that deference. They don’t even know why.
Thanks Eric. Some days it seems the gaslighting continues. I appreciate you correcting the record.
The truth about the pandemic is that everyone wanted, no needed, the administration to succeed. Many looked with despair at other countries' success at limiting spread, and therefore deaths, and just wanted to do as well. But the lies continued and Trump sabotaged everything he could. Case in point-Dr. Atlas.
I watch the progress in the last 50 days and think, wow, what if the spread had been limited at the start. What is there was competency? Compassion? What if ...
No, I'm not having the rewrite of 2020.
The NY Times ran a 'fact check' on Biden's speech that was an exercise in finding something - anything to criticize.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/11/us/biden-stimulus-speech-fact-check.html
(Note that the URL refers to his address as a "stimulus speech" - how they want to frame it.)
The 'best' they could come up with was 1) taking issue with Biden talking about months of lies and pandemic denial from Trump, 2) critiquing how to add up the death toll from the pandemic versus wars, and 3) claiming Biden was being misleading about the number of vaccines Trump supposedly ordered.
For four long years we had a firehose of lies from the Trump administration that were downplayed and minimized by The NY Times and others. As usual, they are trying to overcompensate for their failures now. This is the real media 'liberal bias.'
I am flabbergasted by these reports of Trump bequeathing his star COVID program to the Biden administration. This is worse than fake equivalence because it requires inventing not only the equivalence but also the entire other side.
The harm Trump did during a national health crisis can not be overstated. He alone is responsible for thousands of Americans losing their lives due to his lies, bravado and ignorance. The fact that drug companies rushed to create a vaccine has nothing to do with his “leadership.” He turned everything he touched to $h1t.
This is the same press that continues to put out articles on why Andrew Cuomo should step down as Governor of NY because of sexual harassment allegations. We heard crickets for over four years when 22 women accused Trump of more egregious acts. I'm not defending Cuomo and if he's found guilty he needs to step down. But the double standard the press has for Republicans vs. Democrats is plainly obvious. In the case of Covid vaccine rollout, the NY Times article is absolutely laughable. Just after the Biden Administration took office, the big story was the Trump administration left nothing, no vaccine rollout plan. With the public's attention span as short as it is, I guess the press is trying to get away with saying that Trump had things in place? It's ridiculous. The mainstream media will continue this kissing Republicans ass charade as long as they can get away with it. Soon they will be interviewing Trump himself and how great he was from inside his prison cell.
This is why you don't listen to both sides "arguments" any longer. One side is clearly right here: Biden made this happen. The NYT has made it their full-time job to still cover Trump. They are one step away from moving to Mar A Lago. and crediting him with curing leprosy in India.
Biden could say the sky was blue, and the NY Times would come out with an article saying that statement was misleading. That the sky was in fact light blue with a touch of gray.
I'm not knowledgeable enough to know the truth of the matter, but in my opinion the news media refuses to acknowledge that they got hoodwinked by Trump as well. Not in any macro sense of the word - the years long pointing out of Trump's buffoonery was like a nonstop parade. I mean that the news media didn't seem to en masse understand that with Trump there is no substance except an incessant need to feed his ego. The media was never ready for a President who quite literally didn't care about the US or quite frankly any human except himself. They didn't understand that the same man who would boast about how he was the greatest sex a woman had would also tell outrageous fairy tales about Covid just to make himself seem like a big man. That's all Trump is - a small person inside a PR facade of gigantism. The media is embarrassed and trying to cover their tracks post facto.
The Trump vaccine rollout was a fraud. The Biden appointee who took over said there was no plan in place other than "let the states handle it." And then, as noted, the WH lobbied Congress to deny the funding the states needed to get people vaccinated. That's what happens when an incompetent ego maniac who politicizes everything allows his equally incompetent son-in-law to run a shadow task force on a deadly pandemic.
I guess The Times has been taken over by Russians? Only way I can explain it.
The Biden administration needs to remind everyone, at every opportunity, that they've been the ones helping the American public.
That will be hard, since the media never gives Democrats a camera or a microphone.
I'm not a Twitter user, but here are two hashtags that need to be out there:
#BidenVaccine
and when the recovery starts:
#BidenBoom
I just read the article. It’s ridiculous. No one who has paid any attention thinks the Trump administration did nothing about vaccines because he has been given credit for Operation Warp Speed but the facts in the article prove that if Biden hadn’t taken over we would be nowhere close to the number of vaccinations we have now and more people would be dying. But why ruin a chance to prove you are fulfilling you promise to be as aggressive in reporting on Biden and you were on Trump. On the bright side the top “Readers’ Pick” comments are brutal, as they should be. I particularly liked the one that starts “Both sides, both sides, both sides.Please, can we drop the ridiculous pretense? “
Those former Trump staffers who say Biden is following their playbook are every bit as aggressively stupid as Trump is. They were picked for their refusal to know anything or learn anything. Their playbook was sitting around and occasionally calling someone to say “Hey man, make more vaccine.” They don’t even know what they don’t know, and they don’t know what Biden is doing.
The reason presidents get the deference they get is because they are surrounded by a huge structure of knowledge and they are presumed to be listening to it. Trump could not have made it any clearer that he wasn’t interested in listening to anything or anyone. He was the host of The Apprentice in the WH and he was determined to remain that way. And the press still gave him that deference. They don’t even know why.
I sent a letter to the editor that won't be published because it all but calls The Times's Washington political staff the brothel workers they are.
This makes me so angry. We do NOT need fodder coming out of the established press that will help Rump run again. Why? Why????
I posted about this last night and I find myself wondering: did Rupert Murdoch buy the New York Times???