CNN’s Chris Cuomo suffered a sort of existential crisis this week, confessing outright during a radio interview that he considers what he does for a living to be soul-crushing and devoid of any real meaning. Unfortunately, his moment of clarity lasted not 24 hours before he performed a full backtrack, claiming he never said the things he said about CNN, his job, and journalism.
This past weekend, amid the broad coronavirus shutdown, you nevertheless could buy your Mad Dog 20/20 at your liquor store. You could pick up your shiplap and wood stain at Home Depot. Dozens of people could congregate under one roof, as long as it was a Big Box store.
Just a year into the job, Whitmer’s tenure as governor has already been a categorical disaster. While campaigning, she promised to “fix the damn roads,” only to propose doing so, once in office, by tripling the gas tax…Now, Michigan has become a coronavirus hot spot, putting both Whitmer’s sheer incompetence and petty authoritarianism on full display.
Black people are being hit especially hard by the coronavirus. This has already prompted multiple commentators, and even Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez herself, to deem this microscopic pathogen a racist and even demand reparations for slavery as part of the next coronavirus relief package.
Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign may have just ended, but his movement lives on. The Democratic National Committee should be worried.
With President Trump at the helm, he is most often the focus of criticism in terms of how he is leading us through this storm. Even as members of the media preach solidarity during turmoil, some try to score cheap points by pitting red states against blue states. This is not helpful.
Reading the room of an increasingly unemployed and petrified nation, network news has decided to join forces with perhaps the only two other institutions more reviled than themselves: celebrities and the Beijing bootlickers at the World Health Organization.
Get ready for a round of strange new respect for President George W. Bush. The man who is held personally responsible for the state and local failures of Hurricane Katrina is enjoying some positive press this weekend following the publication of a report detailing his efforts as president to prepare the United States for a viral outbreak.
U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams one month ago told everyone in America to stop buying masks, claiming, “They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus.”
It seems impossible considering the federal government’s sluggish, incoherent, and unfocused handling of this crisis. But even the federal government has managed to get some things right. The same cannot be said for our self-important Fourth Estate. From the very beginning, corporate media got the story wrong, publishing article after article assuring readers that the virus was not as dangerous as it sounded.
With millions having lost their jobs as a result of the national shutdown aimed at mitigating the death toll of the coronavirus pandemic, Congress, in a rare moment of bipartisan unity, rushed to pass a $2.2 trillion relief package. Yet, the effort was delayed as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi attempted to exploit the process to realize a long list of completely irrelevant liberal policy goals.
This is a time for the president to be rising above the fray and to be calling for national unity. He should be focusing press briefings on informing the public about the response to the coronavirus. Which brings up another point: on Sunday, Trump fired off a series of tweets boasting about the great ratings for his press briefings. It is just absolutely bizarre for the president, in the midst of a pandemic that has already claimed thousands of lives, to be boasting about TV ratings for what should be informational public health briefings.
Clinton took what ought to be an apolitical national crisis and exploited it to attack Trump.
When the United States on Thursday overtook the rest of the world in reported cases of the coronavirus, it immediately drew international headlines. While technically true, this is a misleading metric because when those numbers are adjusted for population, the U.S. does not actually have close to the most cases.
The daily one-size-fits-all meetings dominated by Trump have been overshadowed by the typical banter between the president and reporters. This often drowns out important information.
Nancy Pelosi is not going to let this public health crisis go to waste. The house speaker is holding much-needed economic relief hostage to gain for Democrats something they have long yearned for: more federal control over state elections.
There is something macabre about the exultation of these activists and their millions of supporters of this crisis while thousands die, millions are isolated, and millions more are financially ruined amid a major recession. The environmentalists’ claim that “the answer in front of us” is a complete and indefinite lockdown of our everyday life.
Few entities have behaved worse during the COVID-19 pandemic than the World Health Organization, which has spent the entire crisis covering for the Chinese Communist Party.
Congressional Democrats appear poised to slide green energy giveaways into legislation designed to boost the economy while aiding people suffering from the coronavirus pandemic.
In due time, the coronavirus will pass, and life in the U.S. will return to normal. In due time, we will also return to the debate about central planning versus free enterprise, government control versus personal liberty, and America versus socialism. Let’s hope that the public will stand ready once again to convict the misguided ideology and its policy disasters.
The Trump administration’s speeded-up war on the coronavirus, 43 moves so far, is aimed at reaching the highest recovery rate possible and even matching that of South Korea. U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams today set the Asian nation as a model the administration is aiming for, versus the disaster unfolding in Italy.
Even during a pandemic, it’s supremely difficult to take the national media seriously as they niggle over something so small as how administration officials (doctors and health experts) perform for them during press briefings.
Never let a good crisis go to waste, right? That’s apparently the philosophy of socialist upstart Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The New York Democrat is one of many who’ve sadly decided to politicize the coronavirus crisis to push their political agenda. But even worse, the congresswoman is spreading disinformation to do it.
The truth is that China did absolutely everything wrong. One can only wonder what is motivating the Western journalists who pretend the contrary is true.