Sunday, April 19, 2020

Media Unjustly Attack Trump on Coronavirus

One story looks at MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough who claims “everybody saw this coming in early January” (National Review). 

From Byron York: Certainly a non-partisan commission will ask what Rep. Schiff was doing on this issue in January/February as chair of House Intelligence Committee and member of Gang of Eight (Twitter).  

Shocking it took this long for someone to recall, but Trump addressed the coronavirus in his state of the union, which Nancy Pelosi tore up, call it “a manifesto of mistruths” (Daily Wire).  

From a story on the media v the public:  It’s a gap that’s only growing, reflected in the incredulous and disgusted tweets of major media figures when they come across the president’s polling numbers. In fact, the true polarization in American life is not between Republican and Democratic voters, but between the American electorate and its representatives in government and in the media, who exist in a radically polarizing feedback loop that has disconnected them from the American people like two moons orbiting each other that have lost the centripetal pull to the planet they once circled (Forward). 

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