As I opined previously, the left is reveling in the misery of the country as long as it visits harm on Donald Trump. It’s not bad enough that foreign sources are fomenting more panic than exists presently by disseminating disinformation– and they are.
Trump administration officials say a foreign disinformation campaign is trying to spread fear amid the coronavirus pandemic, with false rumors of a nationwide quarantine and more.
A senior administration official told Fox News on Monday that it is imperative to ensure the information about the novel coronavirus is coming from verified outlets.
“There is an ongoing effort to spread disinformation and cause undue panic,” the official told Fox News, specifically referring to the rumors of a nationwide quarantine. “There is no national quarantine for the United States.”
The official added: “It’s important we remain vigilant in ensuring our information is coming from verified sources.”
It is almost certainly coming from the same source as the virus- China.
China also has been shopping around the assertion that the Chinese Wuhan Virus came from the US military.
A spokesman for the Chinese government on Thursday promoted a conspiracy theory that the coronavirus was brought to the city of Wuhan by the U.S. military.
“It might be US Army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan,” said Zhao Lijian, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman, Business Insider reported.
The comment, an alternate explanation Beijing is pushing amid global criticism of the country’s failure to mitigate the virus, comes as the Chinese government has increasingly disputed widespread international reporting that the virus was first detected in Wuhan.
The conspiracy theory, which has recently gained steam in China, instead suggests the virus was brought to the country in 2019 by U.S. athletes participating in the Military World Games that were held in Wuhan.
The left wing media has been lapping all this propaganda up and siding with China it to amplify fear in the US.
New: There are active discussions within the Trump administration to encourage a possible “curfew” across the nation in which non-essential businesses would have to close by a certain time each night. – @CNN reporting
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) March 16, 2020
You will remember how after calling the the virus the Wuhan virus it suddenly became racist once the Chinese government ordered it so:
Well, that was just the beginning of it.
DNC Chair Tom Perez questioned the religious faith of Trump supporters
“I think the challenge that I see among a lot of people that go to Donald Trump rallies, and then they will go to church on Sunday, and I’m not … I don’t know what faith they are worshiping.”
Adam Schiff, seething as he watches the case against Michael Flynn collapse and Trump’s potential pardon looming, lashed out at Trump with another falsehood
“Mr. President, keep your focus on the current crisis. The delay in testing and your failure to lead are already costing us dearly. Your attacks on the independence of the justice system and rewarding of cronies who lied for you can wait. Incompetence kills.”
The left wing media has repeatedly accused Trump of dissolving the Pandemic Response Team. False.
In reality, the pandemic expert — Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer — left the National Security Council (NSC) voluntarily after then-National Security Advisor John Bolton was appointed.
Bolton disbanded the unit that Ziemer was supervising as part of an effort to downsize the bloated NSC staff. The purpose of the unit, which had overseen the global fight against Ebola, had largely been fulfilled.
It is true that Ziemer and his unit have not yet been replaced.
The Trump administration has indeed proposed cuts to the CDC, but they have not been passed by Congress.
Trump has not “defunded” the agency, and Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar has said that the new proposed budget would, in fact, prioritize the fight against coronavirus.
Adds Tim Morrison:
Total garbage. I ran this team for a year and we worked on NSPM 14 (https://t.co/47ZCsvlSoL) and flu(https://t.co/bUVdE3IdgQ) and Ebola (https://t.co/8QsAV5bEyY). https://t.co/vkFb9Dkygg
— Tim_Morrison (@Tim_Morrison) March 13, 2020
Trump did not reject testing by the World Health Organization
BREAKING: @JoeBiden lies about @realDonaldTrump rejecting World Health Organization's coronavirus testing. Around 2:04 mark. https://t.co/R3TIsxkU8g U.S. and WHO were both developing the testing parallel to each other. WHO was not ahead of U.S. AND had the U.S. accepted 1/
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) March 16, 2020
2/2 WHO coronavirus testing we would have been DELAYED because if the U.S. had "gone to the other test, we would've kind of gone back to zero with the FDA in terms of the emergency use authorization." END.
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) March 16, 2020
Rep. James Clyburn whipped out the Hitler card
Rep. James Clyburn, the top-ranking African American in American politics, told “Axios on HBO” that President Trump is a racist who hired white supremacists, warning America “could very well go the way of Germany in the 1930s.”
Jennifer Rubin gleefully predicted (hoped?) that more Republicans would die of Corona than democrats
So, I hate to put it this way, but there will be less Democrat deaths because there will be less mass gatherings, there will be less opportunities for people to congregate and share this horrible disease. So it is really a very short-sighted strategy.
Mara Gay of the NY Times tweeted this today:
Trump told governors this morning they are on their own:
“Respirators, ventilators, all of the equipment — try getting it yourselves,” Mr. Trump told the governors during the conference call, a recording of which was shared with The New York Times. https://t.co/K0sont7MBc— Mara Gay (@MaraGay) March 16, 2020
Naturally, that was a partial quote and misrepresentation. The complete quote was
“We will be backing you, but try getting it yourselves. Point of sales, much better, much more direct if you can get it yourself.”
You might remember Mara Gay. She was one of the two idiots (the other being Brian Williams) who proved that they each failed basic math
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OtgfxBcZv8
But no one is more disgusting, slimy and scummy than Lawrence O’Donnell.
Of all the vile, disgusting things the liberal media has said & done since @realDonaldTrump got elected, I don’t think anything is as disgraceful & appalling as this by @Lawrence O’Donnell. Lawrence, u have absolutely no integrity for stooping to this. Thank God I left the left. pic.twitter.com/RQN1ygVZO7
— Brandon Straka (@BrandonStraka) March 13, 2020
As far as democrats and the left wing media go, there is joy in Coronaville. There is celebration in misery.
So do yourself a favor. A lot of things are going to be closed for the rest of the month. Add the left wing media to that list.
And follow the CDC recommended guidelines.
DrJohn has been a health care professional for more than 30 years. In addition to clinical practice he has done extensive research and has published widely with over 70 original articles and abstracts in the peer-reviewed literature. DrJohn is well known in his field and has lectured on every continent except for Antarctica. He has been married to the same wonderful lady for over 30 years and has three kids- two sons, both of whom are attorneys and one daughter on her way into the field of education.
DrJohn was brought up with the concept that one can do well if one is prepared to work hard but nothing in life is guaranteed.
Except for liberals being foolish.
We see the severe side effects of an overdose of CIA controlled media on our resident trolls.
The media is real mad at us not only did we rebel and not vote for Hillary but we will double down and vote for Trump again, perhaps if they delay the democrat primaries till the millions of tests on the Kung flu come in.
Social distancing is easy for the insufferable left, the rallys for Joe would be uneffected as gatherings of 10 people or less are allowed.
The governor of NY cant set up his own ICUs in closed schools he wants to suck up all the Federal resources he can, even before they are needed.
Trumps team is also suppose to be their personal shopper.
I quit watching the news years ago all you get is their usial leftists lies and half truths as well as the liberal media bias
I wrote this on another forum. I’m sure I’ve argued most of this before so it’s likely redundant.
“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
—-George Orwell
“Stick with us. Don’t believe the crap you see from these people, the fake news. … What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening.”
—-Donald J. Trump
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
—-Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, vol. I, ch. X
Oppressing the media has always been in the best interest of the most powerful. Hitler mastered it by controlling radio broadcasting. Trump is now doing it with the assistance of Fox News, Facebook, rabid right web-blogs, and his glazed over zombie cultists who help him repeat and sell his lies.
It’s important to know that it’s the job of the media to report dirt on politicians. That’s what they do. That’s what they should do. If people in power say things or do things that are questionable, we the people have a right to know. It actually creates a balance.
Hitler wanted them silenced. Trump wants them silenced. If we allow this to happen, we become the blind sheep. We simply feed out of their hands. We’ve actually conceded our own thought process ability.
A final thought on the Media. Trump has been brutal of the New York Times, CNN, Washington Post and many others that don’t bow to him- or, report his inaccuracies and disinformation.. The NYT for example, has global credibility for their investigation reporting.. Since 1851, they’ve won 127 Pulitzer Prizes. This “fake news” mantra came about with Trump who repeated it and repeated it and repeated it over and over and over. The arguments of NYT, CNN, etc are fairly new and has gained traction in the last 3 years- promoted by Trump. So my question is, why would the WAPO, CNN, NYT etc, jeopardize their years of business growth and worldwide influence and lower themselves to tabloid level or “fake news” by going after a man who will be in office from 4 to 8 years? That doesn’t make sense.
@Ronald J. Ward: Fake news (also known as junk news, pseudo-news, or hoax news) is a form of news consisting of deliberate disinformation or hoaxes spread via traditional news media (print and broadcast)
Seems when the President does something they put it out in the worst light possible. He was bashed for stopping travel from China. Now the EU seems to be following suit.
They for 3 years have been lying about Russian collusion. Intentionally lying now about a National emergency when lives are most certainly on the line.
We really dont care about awards and prizes won by these fools because they are awarded by fools. Like oscars and tonys the pulitzer has become a way to congratulate those in the club. The last President got one of those Pulitzers for winning an election …big deal.
Trump is doing a great job handling this issue, everyone must do their part. I can get real information without the toxic twist.
It is you who wants the Orwellian world of total government control.
Enjoy what that means to be socialist by going shopping for toilet paper, lysol and clorox wipes.
The tissue mills that have kept the stores fully stocked have not shut down but the media has caused a run on TP with fear mongering.
TP is not a china product. Wisconsin, Oregon ,Georgia.
Disinfectant wipes just looked mine were made in Sheboygan Wisc.
Your precious liars have caused panic.
Went shopping yesterday and the only unusual thing I saw was a woman has a job spraying the cart handles.
I got everything on my list except the chicken on sale was sold out. I didnt need TP but looked and yes all gone every roll.
Im sure there will be good sales on TP later this spring as people will have to much of it.
Can drives will prosper.
@kitt:
The problem here is that Trump cultist abetting his media takeover have gone full blown batshit crazy and have distanced themselves from reality on every front.
You make a great deal of claims which I could pick apart and debunk but that’s become tiring and useless. But it also reflects the reality that you will not only never find a possible fault in your god and that you will protect any diseased madness and lunacy he puts out, but you will without thought or evidence, blame any and all fallout of his actions on his/your opponent.
You’ve become blind, mindless, obedient sheep and you don’t even know it. You’ve rejected the evidence of your eyes and ears.
@Ronald J. Ward:
You seem to be unaware of the fact that all three of these news “outlets” are nothing more than mouthpieces for the DNC and has been for a long time. It is not a recent phenomenon.
Actually, no. Trump has simply put false reporting on the front burner.
It is clear you know little of the history of journalism. Walter Duranty, a NYTimes reporter, won a Pulitizer Prize for his reporting on Stalinist Russia. While reporting that Russia was a modern day utopia, he failed to report on the starvation and the millions of people dying from it. It was bantered about to remove the Pulitizer he received for that reporting, but alas, he kept it. His articles were a complete lie about Russian. And ask yourself, why did the NYTs hide the Holocaust when the owner, editors and journalists were fully aware of the killing of millions of Jews, Poles, et al? The WashPost was no better. And CNN has been caught in so many “misreports” that it is no longer able to count them.
Most “journalists” subscribe to the Walter Lippmann form of journalism; not simply reporting news as it actually is (just the facts, m’am) but feel they have a responsibility to sway public opinion. I call it the Walter School of Journalism; Walter Duranty, Walter Lippmann and Walter Cronkite. A clear example of the false reporting was the Twitter comment by a NYTs reporter yesterday who only partially quoted President Trump in order to give the opinion to her readers that Trump was leaving state governors to handle the coronavirus “on their own” without federal help.
So my advise to you? Take everything you read in the named outlets with a grain of salt. Maybe two grains.
Had Carlos Slim, once the richest man in Mexico, bailed out the NYTs, we would not have had to deal with its lies now.
@retire05:
Here’s a question for you. Do you know what that white stuff in chicken shit is? Don’t look it up, I’ll tell you. It’s the same damn thing as that black stuff is-it’s chicken shit. You make a poor attempt of trying to pick the white stuff out and pretending it isn’t chicken shit.
You may have a questionable arguable point or two but for the most part, it’s
just more Trump butt sucking while totally ignoring the main point’
Trump has attacked any body, and entity, and any news outlet that has said the slightest against him, true or false. His propaganda machine has worked to protect him from any scrutiny by lying to Americans that you cannot believe these reports-they are fake, an enemy of the people. This was the strategy of Hitler, Stalin, and people of power and greed thought history.
You are part of that propaganda machine.
On another note, looks like Trump now wants an almost $trillon slush fund which you guys balked about in 2008. Gonna be interesting.
Let us remember that Clyburn LIED about being spit on and called racial epithets on the Capital steps during the passing of the disastrous Obamacare. He endorses Biden. That’s about all that has to be said about THAT.
On the one hand, people like Gay want the central government to do and control EVERYTHING while at the same time bitching about how they don’t release ability to fabricate test kits and perform testing wherever a state wants. I wish liberals were smart enough to figure out WHAT they want… besides just wanting to BITCH. They LOVE a socialist, complete, all controlling, massive central government… until they need something and can’t get it because of failure or bureaucracy.
@retire05:
It’s not just Trump and Republicans that think they are thoroughly biased. If you read their Facebook posts, the people who comment accuse them of being biased towards Biden and pushing his candidacy… and I doubt those are “Trump cultists”. The next real clue on life AJ gets will be his first.
I wouldn’t waste the salt; they say gargling with salt water can keep the virus out of your throat and ease symptoms, so salt is too valuable to waste sanitizing left wing media lies. We would empty the oceans trying. It’s enough that people like Greg and AJ and corrupt institutions like NYT, WaPo, CNN, MSNBC, et al have destroyed their credibility and have PROVEN beyond any possible doubt that they will not provide any useful information for anyone… so don’t bother.
It is SIGNIFICANT that all the criticism of Trump’s reaction to this crisis have been based on lies. No, he doesn’t take it lightly. No, he hasn’t said the virus is a hoax. No, he didn’t defund and disband CDC. No, he didn’t tell states needing equipment, “GFY, you’re on your own.” No, he has not rejected science. No, he is NOT lying. If Democrats didn’t lie, they wouldn’t be able to speak.
During the debate, Biden claimed the USA (Trump) refused to take Covid19 test kits from the UN’s WHO.
Turned out to be a lie.
The UN tests were only for use in research, not to test on humans.
Also, WHO never offered them to the US and the US never refused to take them.
But Biden’s lie went all over.
Meanwhile three Trump officials explained the truth during their daily briefing.
How well has the media spread that?
Pres Trump is waiting for Biden’s apology.
LOL.
@Nan G:
On 3/9.2020, Trump Tweeted:
On 3/17/2020, Trump stated:
As you say, “Turned out to be a lie”. Of course the main difference is that the Biden lie (actually rating “partly false” by fact-checkers) is a campaigning issue of integrity. Trump’s lie is a matter of life and death and economic ruin.
Sounds to me like this lying stack of incompetent crap needs to give all Americans an apology and take his sorry thieving ass out of the People’s House and return to the low rent scum from which he came.
@Ronald J. Ward:
One of the reasons Trump got elected was to combat the Leftist propaganda machine, made up of countless media outlets, educational institutions, and entertainment.
To pretend the Right is the perpetrator of the “propaganda problem” is a very weak attempt to obscure you and your party’s tactics by accusing the right of doing what you yourself are being caught doing.
This article is about the power of the media to perpetrate lies so they can get the hapless votes of people like you, who don’t think.
Yes, that is what you and your party are doing. That entire quote is the modus operandi of the current Left, and they’re desperate to stop Trump since he’s dismantling their hold on information.
Without the Left’s vast disinformation complex, they’d never get anyone to vote for them. They know this.
You know this.
Haha…kinda reminds me of the Dems impeachment failure, where they tried to repeat a lie in the face of completely exonerating evidence.
You are truly a wretched loser to revel in this current crisis.
And what did your senile candidate say? He’d do the same thing that Trump is already doing.
Nice damage control, dunce. It’s over. You and your party use Nazi-like propaganda because you can’t run on truth.
@Ronald J. Ward:
The Dem debate was just two days ago.
Lying about whether the US was getting tests that could benefit the public or not was inexcusable.
Also, had Obama holdovers in State not disobeyed direct orders lots of Covid19 carriers would not have spread all over the country.
Seems Dems almost want an overwhelming of our healthcare system.
Easier to try to convince voters to go “medicare for all” as the gov’t healthcare is misnomered.
@Ronald J. Ward: You don’t have much of a brain, do you? I guess you don’t even know what a pandemic is. Nothing at all in Trump’s statements contradictory. If stupid people cannot understand his meaning, that is not his fault.
So, if you believe (wrongly) that Trump lied, that’s BAD. But when a numbskulled Democrat idiot lies, that’s just them doing what they do. Got it. Duly noted.
@Nan G: Not “almost”… desperately NEED. If we had their health care system, we would be looking like Italy.
@Nathan Blue:
A classic example.
Trump was guilty. He admitted it, his defense admitted it, and even his so-called senate jurors admitted it.
It is you who is repeating a lie and you know it.
You know it.
@Nathan Blue: @Nan G:
I see either and/or both of you gave Trump a pass on lying about his knowledge or lack of on the virus.
I understand. It doesn’t matter.
@Deplorable Me:
Oh, AJ/Ward has a brain. But it has been programmed to blather the kind of crap he does. You see, you can give he/she/it (AJ/Ward) all the facts but his/her/it’s only response will be “Hate Trump.”
And to say that it is fine for Joe Biden to lie because “it’s a campaigning issue” is bullsh!t. Many Americans believe what Biden says, no matter how mentally incompetent he has proven himself to be. But then, the Obama administration spent 8 years trying to cover for dimwitted Biden.
I’m beginning to think AJ/Ward and Comrade Greggie belong to the same CPUSA chapter.
@Ronald J. Ward:
You DO know we are adults and have a reasonably thorough knowledge of current events… right? Are your posts some sort of version of “Babylon Bee”?
@Ronald J. Ward: So, let’s see: Nearly everyone in the country is unified in combating this virus. Trump is working with airlines, businesses…just met with Walgreens, CVS, and Walmart…the local and state goverments are all working the federal government. We have a plan, and everyone is executing it…except…
…expect Congressional and Senate Democrats, and their media…bent on making hay of this with false allegations of “lying” as you so stupidly have swallowed like a single mom in need of cash.
Understand, this is going to cost you and your party so much if you continue to spread lies and disinformation. This isn’t the silver bullet you prayed to the flying spaghetti monster for.
I implore you to turn back before you party becomes even more of shell than it already it.
No one is going to forgive this bullshit.
I don’t give Trump a “pass” on anything. If he makes a mistake, I don’t suddenly think idiots like you get to yank him from office…especially considering the horrible candidates you’re fielding.
Can you do better?
No. No you can’t.
@Nathan Blue:
Says who? Where are you getting this? If anything, Senate and House Dems are bending over backwards to save their sorry asses.
You say a lot of ridiculous things without anything to back it up. But I guess that’s just what a trump licker does.
@Ronald J. Ward:
OH
MY
GOD.
Did I actually just read that from that?
@Ronald J. Ward: Yeah, try to back out of it now. You and your party need to join the rest of us and stop dividing the nation.
Senate and Congressional Democrats have accused Trump of no doing enough, or “botching” things. The media has amplified that, still promoting the “hoax hoax”.
You know this. You’ve repeated it many times.
Says you.
You know you and your party have gone too far, now look like the assholes they are, and the American people are going to demand a heavy price for cowardice displayed in the face of a real emergency.
@Nathan Blue:
@Ronald J. Ward:
@Nathan Blue:
So now I’m a Congressman or Senator? Do I still have my job with Soros?
You guys are becoming more unhinged by the minute.
@Ronald J. Ward: *laughing*
Yeah, save face if you can, little guy. You’re going to need it.
@Ronald J. Ward: Its really the media that has become unhinged and driving Trumps virus team to believe they are communicating with utter morons. I saw one today get exhausted of saying the same things over and over and over to the morons go full retard and say not to share a fork. I come out of a family of 8 and we all had out own flatware at dinner, never once did I hear please pass the fork.
They are ravenous to make just 1 of them say that Trump is screwing up and refusing to take the advice of his experts. The same damn questions worded differently hoping for a different answer so the can scream confusion.
So rather than see short clips cut off as soon as they hear how well the admin is responding to requests. I look elsewhere for information.
@Deplorable Me: Yuuup…that seems to be all the Dems can do…
@Nathan Blue:
But that statement is simply based on your say so. No evidence, no credence, no nothing. Just another illogical statement coming from a howl-at-the-moon trump cheerleader.
You’re the same guy who says I’m an elected official. You’re the same guy that said:
You’re a nut. A total unhinged nut.
Overreaction, or proactive steps to prevent a disaster?
March 17, 2020 – Puerto Rico: Inside a Coronavirus Lockdown
@Ronald J. Ward: @Ronald J. Ward: Geggie, is that you, got tired of being the class clown so you changed your name?
My suggestion is to just ignore this Russian/Chicom Troll.
@Ronald J. Ward:
A very compelling argument you make…in lieu of making an actual argument.
If only that were true, bub. You know it’s not. That the media and Dems have been using coronavirus as a tool against Trump is common knowledge, both easy to read in the media.
Here’s an “opinion” article disguised in the Atlantic as “ideas”. It ran as the second top story on google news for 3 days straight:
This is but a taste of what’s been blasted to the public.
Truly part of the Left’s propaganda machine that gets them millions of votes they shouldn’t have.
Never said you were an elected official. You’re probably a paid troll, or just another douche who thinks they are “combating” the Right when they are actually trying to silence free speech and free thought…like a Nazi.
Cute that you’re taking notes on me, weirdo….and also it’s fun to push the “Obama” buttons on trolls like you.
I do believe Obama was a cardboard cutout, set on top of the plans of many other hands. That’s actually more of a truth than a “theory”. The reason Trump is being attacked is all the new world order deals that went down during 2008 to 2016 are being dissolved.
But I know I write a bit too cogently for such an “unhinged” thinker, so you go back to bed and dream of more dead Americans and Biden winning the election.
@kitt: The Left-media is finally just reporting the news today…
…smart move, on their part.
Ron/AJ reminds me of China saying that the US released the coronavirus…from a wet market of filth deep inside China…
lol
@Boris Badenov:
This might be turning into Sock Puppet City, Boris, but I use only one name. Give my regards to Natasha.
@Greg: I’d say proactive. We’re going to learn a lot on how to respond to this stuff in the future, so as hard as this is, it’s going to pay off when the next pandemic strikes…
Isolation works, so Trump’s 15-day plan is a good thing. It’s going to be up to individuals to make good choices, however. We still need food, and we need to make sure everyone keeps their job.
@Nathan Blue: The media is like a herd of Wards, FFS you stupid cows wash your germ ridden hands I would have lost it on these raging retards long ago.
I have not watched the M.S. Media for years and i don’t miss it at all