Although the coronavirus is an extremely serious health issue affecting the entire world, and governments are working with the private sector to combat the virus and save lives, the liberal media in America are largely exploiting the pandemic to smear President Donald Trump as a “failure.”
Some news outlets are so blind in their hatred of Trump they have called on him to resign, described him as “pathological,” a “sociopath,” and gleefully discussed how the damage from the virus can help the Democrats in 2020.
The MRC is documenting and exposing this liberal media bias every day through its divisions: NewsBusters, MRC Business, MRC Latino, MRCTV, and CNSNews.com. The MRC, America’s Media Watchdog, is the only organization that is holding the leftist press accountable — a David fighting against a multibillion dollar liberal media Goliath.
The coronavirus is forcing events to change rapidly, day to day. But let’s look at some examples of how the leftist press is exploiting the pandemic to attack the president.
“The coronavirus is a serious health issue. Americans will rally together as a nation to defeat it and save lives. But the liberal media don’t see it that way. It’s political to them, a means they can use to tear down President Trump and cripple his chance of reelection. That is their only goal.”
L. BRENT BOZELL III
On March 9, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough railed that the White House was “not in touch with reality” and that the administration’s “stupidity” is “going to kill Americans.” Guest Al Sharpton agreed and complained that the president wearing a “USA” hat while briefing reporters was “as callous and immoral and as sick as one can be.”
Also on Morning Joe, the ever-hysterical Donny Deutsch screeched that Trump’s remarks on the virus were not reassuring but “one more instance of his sociopathic behavior.”
On MSNBC’s Deadline: White House, host Nicolle Wallace and Princeton Prof. Eddie Glaude were practically rooting for more Americans to die from the virus so it could be Trump’s “Katrina.”
[The pandemic] “could be the silver bullet that takes out this administration.”
Co-host Meghan McCain
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Wallace heartily agreed and claimed it revealed Trump’s “incompetence.” Both of them then rattled off instances of Americans dying in nursing homes and how this would hurt Trump politically.
Not surprisingly, neither Wallace nor Glaude mentioned the swine flu (H1N1) pandemic of 2009, in which 59 million Americans contracted the virus, 265,000 were hospitalized, and approximately 12,000 died.
The liberal media did not attack President Barack Obama over that national health crisis. They applauded him and protected him because he is a liberal Democrat.
On CNN, Jim Acosta whined that in his March 11 White House address to the nation, Trump dared to call coronavirus, which originated in Wuhan, China, a “foreign virus.”
“Why the president would go as far as to describe it as a foreign virus, that is something we’ll be asking questions about,” the doltish Acosta reported.
“It’s going to come across to a lot of Americans as smacking of xenophobia to use that kind of term in this speech.”
Apparently, CNN’s Acosta is not familiar with the Spanish flu, West Nile virus, German measles, or Ebola, which originated near the Ebola River in the Congo. (Other CNN reporters were comfortable using the words “Wuhan Virus” or “China’s Wuhan Virus.”)
On PBS, New York Times columnist and fake conservative David Brooks was angry, railing that “this is what happens when you elect a sociopath as president.” Brooks, of course, is not a medical doctor; he has a B.A. in history. PBS co-host Mark Shields, a longtime liberal, agreed with Brooks’ medical diagnosis, and added, “America First fails.”
On MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show, former Biden aide Ron Klain dubbed the situation “a failure of leadership by the president and task force.” On MSNBC Live, Washington Post columnist Brian Klaas claimed that Trump’s handling of coronavirus was like the Soviet’s handling of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor meltdown, i.e., Trump is trying to hide the truth from the public. New York Times fake-conservative Bret Stephens predictably agreed, adding that “this has been a truth-optional presidency from the beginning.”
The CBS Evening News, March 9, ran a clip of Trump shaking hands with some supporters and remarked that he was “publicly defying government recommendations on hygiene.” CBS also complained that Trump had not cancelled any of his rallies and only later in the segment noted that neither Joe Biden nor Bernie Sanders had stopped campaigning.
On ABC’s The View, Joy Behar enthusiastically predicted that the pandemic “could be the end of [Trump’s] whole” presidency, “he won’t get reelected because of this.” On a separate broadcast, Behar asked, “Don’t you think this is a good time for him to resign?” Co-host Meghan McCain, who despises Trump, said the pandemic “could be the silver bullet that takes out this administration.”
Brian Szoka, the president of TechFreedom, a major Googlefunded think tank, tweeted, “Serious question: could there possibly be any greater poetic justice in the universe than for Trump to die of the #CPACvirus?” Imagine if he had tweeted that about Barack Obama. Fortunately, given the outrage sparked by his tweet, Szoka was forced to resign.
Because Trump dared to note that — based on CDC data for 2017-18 — up to 45 million Americans contracted the regular flu and more than 12,000 died from it, CBS Late Show host Stephen Colbert railed that the president is an “idiot,” and added, “You’re a monster!”
In the same vein, author Stephen King tweeted, “Donald Trump: the man is an idiot. That’s who we have in charge during this crisis: an idiot.”
The coronavirus is a serious health issue. Americans will rally together as a nation to defeat it and save lives. But the liberal media don’t see it that way. It’s political to them, a means they can use to tear down President Trump and cripple his chance of reelection. That is their only goal.
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