4430 Loc: Little Egypt ** Southern Illinory

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Liberal Media Showboats with 100,000 Dead
By Tim Graham | May 29, 2020 | 9:45am EDT



On May 27, the American death toll from c****av***s sunk into the six figures: 100,000 lives lost. That’s a very sad number, made sadder when we ponder that the v***s prevents loved ones from saying goodbye in person, and makes any funeral an extremely small event.

The nation’s largest national newspapers have all made dramatic front pages out of the number. The New York Times came first on Sunday, filling their entire front page and three more pages with names of the victims. USA Today followed on Wednesday with an entire front page in black, with photos of the dead. The Washington Post waited until the horrible number was true, but still printed some actual news stories on the front page.

In the Post, Marc Fisher brought the usual emotional language to the milestone. It “slipped by like so many other days in this dark spring, one more spin of the Earth, one more headline in a numbing cascade of grim news.”

It’s hardly “slipping by.” They’ve made sure of that.

CNN promoted each and every one of these performative pages, which strongly enhanced the notion that this wasn’t just a number. It was a political strategy. Each of these newspapers and CNN haven’t just reported on President Trump, but have cast him as a dangerous man who should be removed from office long before he had a chance to campaign for re-e******n.

It’s the same strategy callously projected by Politico writer (and CNN analyst) Ryan Lizza, who asked White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany: “We’re about to cross the 100,000 dead American [sic] milestone…on E******n Day, what does the White House view as the number of dead Americans where you can say that you successfully defeated this p******c? Is there a number?”

He didn’t ask this once. He kept repeating it. The implied message: the White House should be too embarrassed to ever claim victory, to ever claim it did something right, that it could have been worse, that they listened to the experts and took action.

You can’t merely grieve in a vague way for the 100,000. They have to be trotted out as talking points, as Public Rationale Number One for removing Trump from office in November.

Lizza’s reporter girlfriend Olivia Nuzzi tried this tactic first, in a more baldly political way, asking Trump directly a month earlier: “If an American president loses more Americans over the course of six weeks than died in the entirety of the Vietnam war, does he deserve to be re-elected?”

CNN loves this line of attack questioning from this Sonny and Cher of smears. In April, Brian Stelter interviewed Nuzzi and Lizza, sitting in front of their fireplace, and only wondered “why was that question important to ask?” Apparently, it’s important to always imply to the public that Trump’s incompetence k**led tens of thousands of people. (Adam Schiff was even blunter, suggesting a successful impeachment effort would have saved many lives.)

Lizza’s answer to Stelter looks even phonier now than it did then. He complained the right-wingers think these questions are “all somehow showboating, or not real journalism. And that’s just wrong, and that’s never been the case since I’ve been covering the White House.”

With a straight face, he claimed it’s “never been the case” that reporters have showboated in the briefing room or the Rose Garden. That’s a lie, and then he added to that lie with further showboating.

We can all lament this death toll, but some clearly are beating their breasts in the most opportunistic way imaginable. It doesn’t honor the victims. It merely exploits them.

Tim Graham is the executive editor of NewsBusters and the director of media analysis for the Media Research Center.

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Lonewolf

And thanks to trump that number will continue to grow pure incompentenc

bilordinary Loc: SW Washington

incompentenc

Seth

That's a variety of tenc that's essentially incompent, and is indigenous to the basement dwellings of adults living in mom's house.

Liberty Tree

The more die the happier you are. Truly despicable.

TrueAmerican

I keep telling you guys to just ignore the liberal l*****t morons on this site as you will never make them see the error of their ways. Once an i***t always an i***t (speaking of the morons of course) !!!!!!

Liberty Tree

Because of the way statistics have been changed and manipulated we actually do not know what the real numbers are.

RRRoger

"The media are hard at work weaving a web of confusion, misinformation, and conspiracy surrounding the C****-** p******c."
The MSM hype has done more damage to this country than the W***n Flu.

What ever he said, she said, they heard somewhere is considered fact
and the t***h is considered "H**e Speech".

RRRoger

That does not include all Democrats, especially those smart enough to "walk away".

Seth

One of my favorite columnists is the New York Post's Michael Goodwin, and he is a registered Democrat who v**es his conscience rather than his party.

Of course, he's old school, a conservative Democrat who rightly defends President Trump's policies and condemns cheap career Democrat politicians like Andrew Cuomo and Bill "Mayor Putz" DeBlasio, as well as the other anal cavities and their political agendas that have d**gged the Democratic Party to the far left.

4430 Loc: Little Egypt ** Southern Illinory

Good Point !

bilordinary Loc: SW Washington

That ain't all they've been juggling.

Seth

The MSM's been getting a good juggling back lately, though, now that Trump's unleashed awesome Kayleigh McEnany on them.

Peewee Loc: San Antonio, TX

If it grows dipstick, it will be because of A****a and B*M. You are really dense or mentally challenged. Did you do LSD in your younger days? Your brain is fried.

Smedley_buzkill

How can anyone misspell that many words with spell check and auto correct? Oh, I know. He would use them but he can't spell them, either.