[PJ] During the Coronavirus Task Force briefing on Monday, Dr. Fauci sought to clarify those comments, and make it clear that despite the way the media was spinning it, the first time he and Dr. Birx recommended "shutting down" the country to mitigate the spread of the virus Trump listened.
But the most stunning moment came when CBS White House correspondent Paula Reid asked him, "Are you doing this voluntarily?" as if to imply he'd been forced to make this clarification for the president's benefit.
"Everything I do is voluntary," he replied, clearly insulted by the question. "Please... don’t even imply that."
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Leftest Lawyer turned journalist. No surprises here.
The Orange Man is using these feckless twits as 25m pop-up targets and they don't even realize it. Day after day they voluntarily make themselves public arses and the Orange Man loves it.
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This Paula Reid sounded like a complete jack ass at the presser yesterday. She definitely sounded like one of those raving babbling leftists. She was pathetic.
If you ever watch The CBS Evening News, which I don't recommend, anchor lady Nora Roberts will come on all breathless about the latest "bombshell" (her favorite word) that conclusively proves they have finally gotten the bad, bad Orange Man. She will then call upon Paula Reid at the White House to fill us in on all the details and Reid comes on with this silly smirk to show that she truly enjoys dishing the dirt. Problem is, they haven't really gotten him yet. The bombshells always turn out to be duds.
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Don't forget the CCP's ☭🇨🇳☭ illegal use of globally banned ozone-depleting chemicals which prevents the ozone layer from healing. 🌏🔥https://t.co/Jg5cXF9TeO
"China has imposed restrictions on the publication of academic research on the origins of the novel coronavirus, according to a central government directive and online notices published by 2 Chinese universities, that have since been removed from the web" https://t.co/MuikVUcjcw
— Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer (@jeangene_vilmer) April 14, 2020
Chinese regime censors research on #CCPVirus origin; #Wuhan volunteer threatened after speaking out about #outbreak
[instapundit] In a column headlined, “The Times Took 19 Days to Report an Accusation Against Biden. Here’s Why,” former BuzzFeed editor Ben Smith asks Baquet:
I want to ask about some edits that were made after publication, the deletion of the second half of the sentence: “The Times found no pattern of sexual misconduct by Mr. Biden, beyond the hugs, kisses and touching that women previously said made them uncomfortable.” Why did you do that?
Baquet replied:
Even though a lot of us, including me, had looked at it before the story went into the paper, I think that the campaign thought that the phrasing was awkward and made it look like there were other instances in which he had been accused of sexual misconduct. And that’s not what the sentence was intended to say.
I’m pretty sure the 2020 Trump campaign won’t have the same veto power on Times articles.
It’s always nice to see major legacy media figures drop the mask of objectivity, usually inadvertently. Baquet’s admission today is reminiscent of CBS’s Scott Pelley’s 2017 interview with blogger and prolific tweeter Mike Cernovich, where to paraphrase Breitbart.com’s Ezra Dulis, Pelley lost a fight rigged in his favor:
See Instapundit's story at title link for Pelley story.
Baquet failed to muster a coherent response beyond noting that the standard for reporting on such allegations is “very subjective.” He explained that the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings in 2018, which included testimony from a woman, Christine Blasey Ford, who accused him of sexually assaulting her in high school, constituted a “hot story” that required a “different news judgement.”
Kavanaugh vehemently denied Ford’s allegation, and the Times did not interview anyone who recalled Ford telling them about the alleged incident at the time. Baquet, in the interview with Smith, cited the importance of “contemporaneous” conversations in determining the credibility and newsworthiness of sexual assault allegations. Like he said, the standard is “very subjective.”
Baquet also defended the Times‘s decision to immediately publish Julie Swetnick’s allegations against Kavanaugh. Swetnick, a client of former attorney and convicted felon Michael Avenatti, accused Kavanaugh of gang rape at frat parties. She turned out to be about as credible as her attorney. But the Times chose not to spend two weeks investigating her claims, Baquet said, because Kavanaugh “was already in a public forum in a large way” and had become “the biggest political story in the country.” Apparently the same can not be said of Joe Biden or the 2020 presidential election.
As Matt Whitlock of the National Republican Senatorial Committee tweets, Baquet’s admission today “should be a major media scandal, but many of the major media watch dogs have ignored it entirely because it didn’t happen on Fox News.”
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I think that the campaign thought that the phrasing was awkward and made it look like there were other instances in which he had been accused of sexual misconduct.
So he's letting Biden's campaign vet articles and language?
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"...required a 'different news judgment.'”
Nice! I like that. No need to use words like lies, bullshit, tall takes, disinformation, defamation... these are news judgments. And we know that judgments must be tailored for their political ramifications.
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he's letting Biden's campaign vet articles and language?
Absolutely. The language is unambiguous. This a repeat of 2016 -- look up "Glenn Simpson" + "hack that I am"
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Baquet failed to muster a coherent response beyond noting that the standard for reporting on such allegations is “very subjective.”
Wrong. News organizations are supposed to be objective, not subjective. Party propaganda outlets, however, by their very nature have different standards.
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Considering the low trust in the MSM now, this may be a moot point. They only preach to the choir now.
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Now all those beardo weirdo Che wanna bes and angry college girls in their guillotine t-shirts talking revolution and riots at the dem convention will have to put up or shut up. Now we will see who's just so much empty talk.
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Many will stay home in November, helping Trump (again)
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Nancy's amateurish stunts show a certain discipline.
Brennan's fulminations are always on message.
They're deranged but each is monomaniacally focused.
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The key point for the election is that the young lefties don't vote. Typically only 25%, max 35% in the best of times/periods of greatest enthusiasm.
Add to that their disappointment over being told to vote for Plugz and you get massive underperformance by this crucial Dem cohort this fall.
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I still think Bernie is a believer. But I also believe he found out how lucrative it is to run for president and is cashing in as much as he can. Best way to do that is when you lose, support the establishment.
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I don't think I'd have the tires to give the 'Biden is a much better person than I am' speech without anything short of South African Sign Language Guy beside me.
The wailing and the gnashing of teeth is music to my ears. The true believers in socialism got fucked over again by their idol. After he did it back in 2016 too.
The democrats have closed their party to the far left and are totally under control of the corporate neoliberal wing. Not so different from the establishment GOP.
Some right wingers started a rumor on twitter that Bernie was refunding his campaign contributors since he won't be needing it. Of course, there are NO REFUNDS.
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I think of South African Sign Language Guy every time I see someone signing next to someone at a podium. Unfair to actual professionals, for sure, but I can't help myself.
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AOC is hoping to slip into the Bernie role. She's young and doesn't have his baggage.
[BREITBART] Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020... could select a vice-presidential running mate who identifies as a woman, speculated Moe Vela, former senior adviser to the former vice president and founder of the Vela Group. He offered his remarks on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel Pollak. Pollak recalled the Biden campaign’s characterization of “transgender equality” as “the civil rights issue of our time.”
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The argument could be made that Fauxcahontas might help to bring some of the Boinie Bros back into the fold. The argument could also be made that she'd drag the campaign down like a millstone tied to Biden's neck. Personally, I think that might be fun to watch, especially when she gets to debate Pence.
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With the Obama endorsement today I think the Wookie is back on the menu so, this might be a hint at that
[BREITBART] Governor Ralph Coonman Northam ...Governor of Virginia, another Dem Great White Hope. He has a fondness for wearing blackface. He won election by calling his Publican opponent Ed Gillespie a racist, but then, don't they all?... (D) signed legislation Friday creating universal background checks in Virginia and limiting law-abiding Virginians to one handgun purchase per month.
Northam’s office announced his signature on Senate Bill 70 / House Bill 2, creating the universal checks and thereby outlawing private gun sales.
He signed Senate Bill 69 / House Bill 812 resurrecting Virginia’s "one-handgun-a-month rule to help curtail stockpiling of firearms and trafficking."
Northam used a tweet to refer to these gun controls as "commonsense gun safety measures," but he did not mention that they would not have prevented the May 31, 2019 Virginia Beach shooting that he used as an impetus for gun control.
He also signed other controls into law, including requirements that gun owners report stolen firearms within 48 hours of the theft or face "civil penalty." This puts the onus for a gun theft on the gun owner, rather than the individual who stole the firearm.
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Time for West Virginia to grow by quite a few counties. Leave those bastards in Richmond and the DC area that live off the government teat to play liberal stupid games and win stupid prizes.
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I have two words for you Gov. In Sane.
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Explain her dictatorial overreach. Perfect Dem
[Red State] The people of Michigan aren’t happy with Governor Gretchen Whitmer, who has flubbed the coronavirus response at almost every turn thanks to her need to put politics before people. Because of that, a petition formed online requesting signatures for a recall election, and it’s shot into the stratosphere.
The page was started three weeks ago and, as of this writing, the Change.org page has hit nearly 154,000 signatures and it hasn’t stopped yet.
"Her failure’s during the COVID-19 Corona Virus is causing more Michiganders to get sick," wrote John Powell, who started the petition. "Closing and banning various nonessential businesses and activities while leaving others open. Further promoting the pandemic. She has lied since day one with her #Fixthedamnroads which she has failed to do anything in this regard. The response to #PFAS was negligence and completely removing funding for #PureMichigan clearly shows her lack of anything positive for the State of Michigan."
The comments don’t get any kinder, with signers of the petition accusing Whitmer of harming Michiganders and looking out for her own political career.
"Her priorities are no longer the residents of Michigan but her possible position as V.P. for Biden," wrote Patricia Duncan.
"Her first response in each and every challenge is to direct blame rather than take command," wrote George Fillar.
"Her draconian restrictions on our personal freedom go too far. Also, her childish handling of the state budget," wrote Richard Olejniczak.
Commenters question the need for various restrictions that even involve work in their own homes such as planting gardens or doing home improvements. They also can’t seem to wrap their head around why various home improvement or textile stores are closed but liquor stores aren’t.
"She needs to stop telling people they can’t paint or plant flowers?? Are we supposed to sit at home and be depressed?? I mean... What happened to the land of the Free?? People can practice Social distancing and stay safe still," wrote Linda Blackerby.
As my colleague Nick Arama wrote, the Orwellian lockdown that Whitmer has foisted on Michiganders has been far overreaching:
As we previously reported, Whitmer banned travel between residences with few exceptions such as helping out an elderly family member.
So you’re allowed to drive to a park or out of state, just not to any other cottage or residence. The idea sounds arbitrary but it was about trying to prevent those from the more likely infected areas from spreading it to other areas of the state not as infected.
Another thing people are finding arbitrary is what the state has chosen to ban them from buying.
You’re apparently not allowed to buy infant car seats.
You’re definitely not allowed to buy seeds from a store and all nurseries and garden centers have been closed. Michigan resident Terressa Carson was furious that she couldn’t buy seeds to plant her peas, broccoli, cauliflower, and carrots — food that she and her family will eat all winter. Carson said those were "essential" services to her family.
Whitmer seems to have alienated Michiganders with arbitrary restrictions that make no sense. Once this pandemic is over, I expect Whitmer is going to have a rough time with any elections down the road...if she makes it that far.
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Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats is a category? I missed that!
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She is an absolute mental case. Much success on the recall petition!
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Change.org petitions are just a way of gleaning email addresses, no effect other than to make you feel good, at least until you start getting all those SWJ begs for cash. If MI has a recall mechanism, wake me up when it starts up.
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She seems like an ideal running mate for Plugz.
Imagine these two loons on stage at the same time.
Picture it: this maundering, grinning and incoherent hair-sniffing Mad Hatter, hovering around and rubbing up against and groping his googley-eyed, big-breasted madwoman running mate.
And every squeeze by Plugz elicits yet another absurd diktat from his loony Queen of Hearts. "Sentence first, then verdict, then trial by jury of pack of cards!"
She could also be a product of those, sometimes seen in government/military, where they think they get extra credit by increasing standards to make them look like they are really "tough" when all it does is increase burdens, administrative or otherwise, on people.
[BREITBART] Pope Francis ...Argentine liberation theologist, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He was elected pope in 2013. Rather than setting up shop in Avignon, where he belongs, the first Jesuit Pope chose to reside in the Domus Sanctae Marthae guesthouse instead of the papal apartments. He is big on climate change, against consumerism, and in favor of throwing a blanket over homosexual activity within the clergy. He's not real sure about the Resurrection, about Christ's divinity, and a few other things that would have gotten him burned at the stake a few hundred years ago, but he's hot for a certain South American Earth Mother Goddess... has proposed a basic "universal wage" as a remedy for the economic hardships day laborers face during the "unbearable" coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... lockdowns.
In a Spanish-language letter to popular movements and community organizations, the pope underscored the difficult situation of many without regular, steady employment who are feeling the economic pinch of the lockdowns.
"I know that you have been excluded from the benefits of globalization," the pope wrote in his April 12 letter. "You don’t have access to those superficial pleasures that anesthetize so many consciences. Despite this, you always have to suffer their ill effects."
"The evils that afflict everyone hit you twice. Many of you live day-to-day without any legal guarantees to protect you," Francis said. "Street vendors, recyclers, carnival workers, small farmers, builders, seamstresses, caregivers of different types. As informal, independent or under-the-table workers you don’t have a stable wage to get you through this moment ... and the lockdowns become unbearable."
"Maybe the time has come to think about a universal wage that recognizes and dignifies the noble and irreplaceable tasks you perform, capable of guaranteeing and bringing to life this human and Christian slogan: no worker without rights," he said.
"My hope is that governments understand that technocratic paradigms (whether state-centered or market-driven) are not enough to address this crisis or the other great problems affecting humankind," the pope wrote. Now more than ever, persons, communities and peoples must be put at the center, united to heal, to care and to share.”
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How do idiots like him tie their shoes in the morning, much less reach exalted positions in life? I don't care whether he is or isn't Catholic, he's a fucking idiot.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[instapundit] In a column headlined, “The Times Took 19 Days to Report an Accusation Against Biden. Here’s Why,” former BuzzFeed editor Ben Smith asks Baquet: 
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] 
...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020...
...Governor of Virginia, another Dem Great White Hope. He has a fondness for wearing blackface. He won election by calling his Publican opponent Ed Gillespie a racist, but then, don't they all?...
...Argentine liberation theologist, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He was elected pope in 2013. Rather than setting up shop in Avignon, where he belongs, the first Jesuit Pope chose to reside in the Domus Sanctae Marthae guesthouse instead of the papal apartments. He is big on climate change, against consumerism, and in favor of throwing a blanket over homosexual activity within the clergy. He's not real sure about the Resurrection, about Christ's divinity, and a few other things that would have gotten him burned at the stake a few hundred years ago, but he's hot for a certain South American Earth Mother Goddess...
