Democrat senators, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), on Saturday threatened that “nothing is off the table” if Republicans hold a vote on a new Supreme Court Justice before the election.
CNN’s senior congressional correspondent Manu Raju reported that Schumer told Democrats on a call: “Let me be clear: if Leader McConnell and Senate Republicans move forward with this, then nothing is off the table for next year. Nothing is off the table.”
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Twenty minutes later, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) made the same threat, tweeting, “If Republicans recklessly &amp; reprehensibly force a SCOTUS vote before the election—nothing is off the table.”
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If Republicans recklessly &amp; reprehensibly force a SCOTUS vote before the election—nothing is off the table.
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The threat leaves open the possibility of packing the Supreme Court, an idea many Democratic presidential candidates said they were at least open to. Left-wing media outlets have also published numerous articles suggesting that’s exactly how Democrats should respond if Republicans install a new Supreme Court Justice to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died Friday evening. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, however, previously said he was not open to court packing.
The fact that Democrats and their media supporters are so open to court packing shows they only care about the judicial body if it is on their side, tweeted National Review editor Rich Lowry.
“That the Left has taken up court-packing so readily shows how it never really took the court seriously as a court—instead it has thought of it primarily as a quasi-legislative body useful to the extent it enshrines its policy goals,” Lowry tweeted Saturday night.
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That the Left has taken up court-packing so readily shows how it never really took the court seriously as a court—instead it has thought of it primarily as a quasi-legislative body useful to the extent it enshrines its policy goals
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Democrats are still sore over Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) 2016 refusal to hold a vote on then-President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland. McConnell argued at the time that since the 2016 election would install a new president &#8212; either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump &#8212; the “American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice,” adding that “this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.”
At the time, Democrats controlled the White House and Republicans controlled the Senate following multiple elections where Democrats lost majorities during Obama’s terms. In 2020, Republicans control the White House and the Senate, making the two situations distinct. Obama exercised his right to nominate a new Supreme Court Justice, and Republicans in the Senate exercised their right not to hold a vote. Obama had no right to get his nominee appointed just because he was nominated.
In 2016, when Obama nominated a left-leaning judge, Ginsburg herself argued the Senate should hold a vote on the nominee, saying: “There&#8217;s nothing in the Constitution that says the president stops being president in his last year.” She also said during this same interview that “Eight is not a good number,” referring to the remaining number of Supreme Court justices.
Following Ginsburg’s death, McConnell released a statement explaining the differences between the two years.
“In the last midterm election before Justice Scalia’s death in 2016, Americans elected a Republican Senate majority because we pledged to check and balance the last days of a lame-duck president’s second term. We kept our promise. Since the 1880s, no Senate has confirmed an opposite party president’s Supreme Court nominee in a presidential election year,” McConnell said.
“By contrast, Americans reelected our majority in 2016 and expanded it in 2018 because we pledged to work with President Trump and support his agenda, particularly his outstanding appointments to the federal judiciary. Once again, we will keep our promises,” McConnell added. “President Trump’s nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate.”
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The Associated Press has accused President Donald Trump of appealing to white voters and downplaying the legacy of slavery in the United States during his Constitution Day speech at the National Archives on Thursday.
Under the headline “Trump downplays legacy of slavery in appeal to white voters,” AP <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200918220526/https://apnews.com/afdfa0b3454d5a7fdf544158ee1f5e1f">reported</a> that the president’s speech Thursday amounted to “a defense of white culture and a denunciation of Democrats, the media and others who he accused of trying to indoctrinate school children and shame their parents’ ‘whiteness.’”
Furthermore, AP reported:
<blockquote>He also argued that America’s founding “set in motion the unstoppable chain of events that abolished slavery, secured civil rights, defeated communism and fascism and built the most fair, equal and prosperous nation in human history.” But he did not mention the 246 years of slavery in America, including the 89 years it was allowed to continue after the colonies declared independence from England. Nor did the president acknowledge the ongoing fight against racial injustice and police brutality, which has prompted months of protests this year.</blockquote>
AP did not, however, report that Trump decried the effects of teaching minority children about Critical Race Theory  — an ideology that operates under a distinctly different definition of racism and contends that racism is a permanent feature of American society — as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-rips-into-critical-race-theory-says-teaching-it-to-kids-a-form-of-child-abuse">especially harmful and a form of child abuse</a>.
“This is offensive and outrageous to Americans of every ethnicity,” said Trump of a recent incident at the Smithsonian, which released a digital pamphlet calling “hard work” and “individualism” racially white concepts. He added: “It is especially harmful to children of minority backgrounds who should be uplifted, not disparaged. Teaching this horrible doctrine is a form of child abuse in the truest sense of those words.”
The Associated Press also reported that Trump “cracked down on anti-racism training sessions in the federal government.” What the Trump administration actually did was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trump-bans-federal-money-from-funding-far-left-anti-american-critical-race-theory">prohibit trainings that teach Critical Race Theory</a>, white privilege, that America is inherently racist or evil, or that “any race or ethnicity is inherently racist or evil.”
The reporting echoes the newswire’s coverage of Trump’s Mount Rushmore Speech, in which the president defended American values and principles. At the time, The Associated Press, The Washington Post, and The New York Times all characterized Trump’s speech as divisive, with the Post and the Times both referring to it as “dark.”
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As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-at-mount-rushmore-left-wing-cultural-revolution-is-designed-to-overthrow-the-american-revolution">The Daily Wire</a> reported at the time, Trump’s speech featured, in part, an unapologetic defense of the presidents carved into Mount Rushmore, describing them as “American giants” whose “deeds unleashed the greatest leap in human advancement the world has ever known.”
Trump also called on Americans during the Rushmore speech to defend America from those who seek to destroy the country’s values, describing it as time “to speak up loudly and strongly and powerfully, and defend the integrity of our country.”
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We’re told by feminists and members of the elite media that we are not to comment on what women politicians are wearing because that would be sexist. Yet this past week, the mainstream media fawned over Democratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ Timberland boots, even though some outlets previously ripped First Lady Melania Trump for wearing the same brand.
On Wednesday, multiple media outlets covered Harris’ choice to wear Timberland boots while visiting areas affected by the California wildfires. The most bootlicking (pun intended) of which came from Yahoo!Finance writer Brian Sozzi, whose headline read: “Kamala Harris may have made Timberland boots cool again.”
The opening paragraph of the article read: “And with one boss like [sic] move, vice presidential hopeful and California Senator Kamala Harris may have brought V.F. Corp.-owned Timberland a long overdue sales boost this fall/winter season.”
Marie Clair similarly applauded Harris’ fashion choice with a headline reading, “Kamala Harris Wears Her Timberlands, Gets Sh*t Done.”
The Yahoo! article is especially egregious since the same outlet ripped Melania Trump for wearing Timberland boots while visiting Puerto Rico with President Donald Trump after the island was hit by Hurricane Maria. “Melania Trump mocked for wearing Timberland Boots: ‘This is not a modelling show,’” read Yahoo!’s headline in October 2017.
In December 2018, Yahoo! and other outlets again chastised Melania for wearing Timberland boots while visiting U.S. troops in Iraq. At that time, the Yahoo! headline read: “Melania Trump mocked for Timberland boots in Iraq,” again citing random Twitter accounts with small followings to make it appear as though Melania was roundly derided.
This isn’t even the first time the media fawned over Harris’ shoe choice. Earlier this month, The Washington Post ran an article headlined: “Kamala D. Harris goes viral – for her shoe choice,” praising the California Senator’s frequent wearing of Chuck Taylor All-Stars on the campaign trail. On Monday, Buzzfeed also drooled over Harris’ shoes with an article titled: “People Are Low-Key Loving That Kamala Harris Has Worn Converse Sneakers For Much Of Her Campaign.”
As podcast host and political commentator Stephen Miller <a href="https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1306461220548096001?s=11">pointed out</a> on Twitter, the media’s treatment of the Democratic candidate is far different than its treatment of Republican women. While Harris was still running for president, CBS News political reporter Caitlin Huey-Burns tweeted about an instance at a fashion boutique where CNN national political reporter Maeve Reston jokingly picked out a garish sequin jacket for the Senator to try on. Huey-Burns tweeted a video of the laugh-filled stunt, even though she and the reporters involved are supposed to be straight-news journalists and not opinion writers, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/reporters-pause-political-journalism-to-pick-out-clothing-for-kamala-harris-on-campaign-trail">pointed out</a> at the time.
The media has struggled with whether to cover what female politicians wear, with outlets like Vox calling such coverage “sexist” (when it comes to Democrat fashion choices) while The Atlantic insisted it was “not sexist.” As expected, the sexist/not-sexist line is drawn along party lines, where it is okay to mock Republicans but sexist to mock Democrats.
After Harris was announced as the VP candidate, The Washington Post ran an article about “How sexism is going to make Kamala Harris’ life harder,” completely ignoring how the outlet covered former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin when she was the Republican VP choice in 2008.
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Media commentators and other wastes of the precious gift of human life are saying that a new bombshell book about Donald Trump could mark a tipping point when the walls start closing in on the beginning of the end of a crucial period at the crossroads of a juncture of a defining moment when push comes to shove in the crunch of an emergency that could be the tipping point of the beginning of the end of the flashpoint when the walls start closing in on the defining event of the Trump administration.
The new bombshell of a book is entitled &#8220;Bombshell: How the Trump Administration Reached a Tipping Point When the Walls Closed in on the Beginning of the End.”
According to anonymous sources, excerpts have been leaked to the press by anonymous sources who confirm that the anonymous sources reporting on the anonymous sources are, in fact, anonymous which, coincidentally, is the name of the author of &#8220;Bombshell: How the Trump Administration Reached a Tipping Point When the Walls Closed in on the Beginning of the End,&#8221; which anonymous sources say could be a bombshell that marks the tipping point when the walls closed in on the beginning of the end of the Trump administration.
Anonymous sources who have read the excerpts of &#8220;Bombshell&#8221; by Anonymous have told anonymous sources that they contain stunning revelations about the Trump Administration, which could mark a crucial juncture of a defining event when those stunning revelations come to light and are revealed to be truly stunning.
The New York Times, a former newspaper, declared the book&#8217;s stunning revelations to be a stunning bombshell and denounced Trump in what was either a front page news story or an editorial on the op-ed page, depending on which way you’re holding the paper. The paper declared that this could definitely be the beginning of the end of the beginning of the end of the beginning.
President Trump could not be reached for comment because he was busy bringing peace to the Middle East.
More satire from Andrew Klavan: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-insists-on-giving-speech-in-cornfield-because-he-says-the-audience-there-is-all-ears-satire">Biden Insists On Giving Speech In Cornfield Because He Says The Audience There Is All Ears </a>
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“Republicans pounce!” In a variety of forms, this simple phrase has been part of the biased media’s lexicon for years. As described by Noah Rothman in 2015, “The story is never the story; for political reporters and editors alike, the Republican reaction to the story is the preferred prism through which to view events Democrats find… discomforting.” The pattern is as follows. If a Republican does something “bad,” the story is that the Republican did something “bad.” When a Democrat does something “bad,” the story is that Republicans “pounced,” drawing focus away from the actions Democrats would rather obscure.
There are so many examples that “Republicans pounce” has become a Leftist cliché. “Ocasio-Cortez Team Flubs a Green New Deal Summary, and Republicans Pounce” is one wonderful <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/11/climate/green-new-deal-faq.html">example</a>. The phrase is so hilariously overused that Tucker Carlson <a href="https://insider.foxnews.com/2019/02/19/republicans-pounce-tucker-carlson-takes-medias-favorite-word-describe-gop">joked</a> in 2019 that “the symbol of the Republican party might have to be switched from an elephant to a tiger” due to its apparent propensity for pouncing.
Unfortunately, this clear strategy of redirecting the misbehavior of the Left by focusing on the mischaracterized critical reaction of the Right has now crossed a line.
Our society’s open sexualization of children has been at the forefront of multiple arenas of political debate, with several branches of the American Right opposing this growing and impactful cultural change. Some fights involve actual legislation, such as California’s decision to effectively <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/haworth-false-equality-new-california-law-places-more-children-at-risk">weaken</a> protections for vulnerable youth under the absurd banner of “achieving equality.” Other fights involve the “culture war,” such as the <a href="https://youtu.be/77pWTBMbszU">widespread condemnation</a> of “Cuties,” a French movie distributed by Netflix which depicts an 11-year old girl joining a “<a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/cuties-cancel-netflix-controversy-explained_ca_5f5ba5cac5b67602f604a4c4">twerking dance crew</a>.”
Describing the “backlash” to &#8220;Cuties,&#8221; The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/09/11/cuties-netflix-cancel-movie/">reported</a>, “Conservative commentators circulated a clip of Amy and the &#8216;Cuties&#8217; performing in their spandex outfits, while others pounced on parental guidance noting that there is a scene in which one girl’s underwear is exposed,” and Axios <a href="https://twitter.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1305611325494697997?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1305611325494697997%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fopinion%2Fthe-obamas-and-susan-rice-are-silent-on-netflixs-cuties">tweeted</a>, “GOP politicians are jumpstarting a Netflix boycott in response to the film &#8216;Cuties&#8217;&#8230;Their stance is linked to a child sex trafficking conspiracy theory central to the QAnon movement.”
Yet again, the story is not Netflix’s choice to distribute content which could arguably be classed as child pornography, but the Republican reaction to Netflix’s choice to distribute content which could arguably be classed as child pornography.
Beyond the moral depravity required to use “Republicans pounce” for stories involving obvious ethical questions, the Left are now partnering this strategy with a clear effort to delegitimize such criticism by predefining any such reaction as inherently conspiratorial.
This combined effort was exemplified by Melissa Ryan, a “writer, organizer, and digital strategist” who boasts on her <a href="https://twitter.com/MelissaRyan">Twitter profile</a> that she organizes “to combat disinformation and extremism.” When Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard criticized Netflix for distributing what she identified as child pornography and pointed out that this would “help fuel the child sex trafficking trade,” Ryan delegitimized the argument against “Cuties” as “going QAnon.” Perhaps Ryan should consider “organizing” against herself?
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Tulsi going QAnon is the least surprising thing to happen in 2020. <a href="https://t.co/9ZriBWrYJH">https://t.co/9ZriBWrYJH</a>
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Again, the story is not the story. The reaction is the story. Not only that, the mischaracterized reaction is the story.
To link any mainstream conservative (or even non-conservative) criticism of a movie which arguably glorifies the sexualization of prepubescent girls with a fringe conspiracy theory is to discredit the debate entirely, providing us with yet another one of the Left’s favorite binary choices: you must either celebrate the sexualization of children or submit to ideological self flagellation and accept the label of “conspiracy theorist.”
When you see “Republicans pounce” in a headline or report, it is a sign that the leftist media are attempting to dilute the underlying story. The fact that they would use this previously amusing strategy to distract from the abuse of children has crossed a line. The fact that others are claiming that the mere utterance of protest is proof of allegiance with a conspiracy theory pushes that line beyond our reach.
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Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh underscored the historic Middle East peace deal President Donald Trump signed at the White House on Tuesday and emphasized that the media will not come anywhere close to providing the coverage it deserves.
&#8220;So a big signing ceremony at the White House in mere moments for the peace deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain,&#8221; Limbaugh told his listeners. &#8220;And we mentioned the significance of this a couple of times. The real significance of this is that the Palestinians have sort of been rendered irrelevant in the whole deal. In the past, it was the Palestinians which were the focus, the focal point. They could stop anything from happening, and they did.&#8221;
Limbaugh noted that peace deals within the Middle East have always been an unreachable feat for U.S. presidents &#8212; until Trump.
&#8220;My whole life this has been a major political initiative that every new president tackles,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Every new president, my entire life, every new president, every new term has made Middle East peace an objective.&#8221;
George W. Bush, George H. W. Bush, both tried for peace deals, Limbaugh continued. &#8220;Barack Obama is the only president who didn’t care about Middle East peace from the Israeli perspective. But Reagan. Jimmy Carter. I think about all of these presidents and their attempts to come up with the ultimate peace in the ultimate part of the world where there is ultimate strife, the Middle East.&#8221;
&#8220;And who does it? Donald Trump,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;Donald Trump, Mr. Bull in the china shop, Mr. Stupid, Mr. Dummkopf, Mr. Outsider, Mr. Illegitimate, Mister &#8216;he stole the election working with the Russians&#8217; has come along and achieved something every American president since the 1950s has been attempting to achieve,&#8221; the conservative host bellowed.
Limbaugh noted that Trump was able to achieve what he&#8217;s done thus far by &#8220;leaving the Palestinians out of the process&#8221; at the beginning. &#8220;This would be like trying to establish civil rights relations while ignoring Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. And this is exactly what Trump did,&#8221; he analogized.
&#8220;And, lo and behold, it worked,&#8221; Limbaugh said. &#8220;We now have peace in the Middle East, and it’s just beginning. United Arab Emirates, Bahrain. You watch. The Saudis are gonna be signatories to this deal before long. Other Arab nations in the Middle East are going to come along with this. Jordan I expect will sign onto this at some point, King Abdullah there.&#8221;
&#8220;This is truly historic, and it is I don’t think going to get anywhere near the proper weight and coverage that this event deserves,&#8221; the host asserted.
Later in the show, Limbaugh added, &#8220;Here in less than four years Donald Trump has fixed a massive world problem. It’s literally stunning. And it will not be properly reported. It will not be given its due respect by the media and by the Washington establishment.&#8221;
The host was seemingly quickly proven correct. As highlighted by David Reaboi, CNN decided to focus one of their chyrons on the lack of &#8220;social distancing&#8221; at the signing, instead of the historic deal.
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Media outlets are again fearmongering over COVID-19—this time as it relates to schools reopening across the country.
The Washington Post on Thursday <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/09/10/coronavirus-teacher-deaths-fall/">reported</a> that at least six teachers have died since school began again, with most states implementing some kind of hybrid education system where students would spend a couple days a week in class and the rest remote learning from home. The Hill took the Post’s report a step further with the more frightening headline: “Teachers in at least five states have died with coronavirus since fall semester started.” The <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/news/515906-teachers-in-at-least-five-states-have-died-with-coronavirus-since-fall-semester">report</a> acknowledges that six teachers died across those five states, but waits to explain that it “is unknown whether these teachers became infected at school.”
Looking into the specific cases, however, suggests the teachers did not contract the virus while at their respective schools. This does not lessen the tragedy of their deaths—however, the media should not use their deaths to scare others unnecessarily.
Tom Slade, 53, was a beloved history teacher at Vancleave High School in Mississippi, who inspired students into majoring in history themselves. The Biloxi Sun Herald <a href="https://www.sunherald.com/news/local/education/article245560640.html">reported</a> that Slade tested positive for COVID-19 on August 24, before school started, and that his sister said he had been exposed to the virus at a gathering outside of school. It doesn’t appear as though he returned to the school after testing positive.
Nacoma James, 42, was an assistant high school football coach and teacher at Lafayette Middle School in Mississippi. Mississippi Today <a href="https://mississippitoday.org/2020/08/06/mississippi-teachers-death-during-first-week-of-school-stokes-covid-19-outbreak-fears/">reported</a> that district Superintendent Adam Pugh said James didn’t have contact with students or teachers after the school year resumed, as he did not return to the classroom.
“No one has told me officially that he had COVID, but I do know he was self-quarantining this week,” Pugh told the outlet. “Last Thursday would’ve been the last contact he had with any students, at summer workouts for the (high school) football team. I’m not exactly sure what symptoms he had, but he wasn’t around students or teachers this week.”
Demetria “Demi” Bannister, 28, was a teacher at Windsor Elementary School. The last time she was at the school was August 28 as part of a teacher workday prior to school starting again, The State <a href="https://www.thestate.com/news/coronavirus/article245598785.html">reported</a>. It is unclear where she contracted the virus.
Theresa Horn, 62, was a special education teacher at Tahlequah Public Schools in Oklahoma, who died of a heart attack after she tested positive for COVID-19, KTUL <a href="https://ktul.com/news/local/tahlequah-moves-to-distance-learning-for-2-days-after-teacher-suddenly-dies">reported</a>. It’s not even clear that COVID-19 caused her heart attack. Classes at the school were being taught virtually, so she had no contact with students. It is also unclear when she contracted the virus. The Des Moines Register <a href="https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2020/09/02/coronavirus-iowa-des-moines-school-teacher-dies-covid-19-ruby-van-meter/5690572002/">reported</a> that another special education teacher died the week before virtual classes began in Iowa.
The only one of these cases that may show a teacher contracting the virus after school began came from Missouri, where special education teacher AshLee DeMarinis died after she began showing symptoms four days after school began.
The real concern from these cases comes from whether the teachers would have passed the virus on to students or others had they returned to campus after contracting it themselves, but that issue was ignored in favor of the fearmongering approach taken by media outlets.
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Media Reports Number Of Teachers Died Of Coronavirus Since Schools Reopened. No Evidence They Contracted It While At School.

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Media outlets are again fearmongering over COVID-19—this time as it relates to schools reopening across the country. The Washington Post on Thursday

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Fox News host Tucker Carlson released a bombshell tape on Wednesday night that showed CNN host Chris Cuomo coaching then-Trump attorney Michael Cohen on how to answer questions during interviews on CNN.
&#8220;Zucker and Cuomo &#8230; are frauds, just like the channel they work for,&#8221; Carlson began. &#8220;Despite its name, CNN is not a cable news network, it is a slickly produced propaganda loop. Every topic CNN covers has been chosen for its political effect. Every word its anchors speak has been curated to manipulate you. Nothing winds up on CNN by accident.&#8221;
&#8220;The whole thing is a scripted drama written for the benefit of the Democratic Party,&#8221; Carlson continued. &#8220;That’s not an overstatement; tonight we have proof. This is a conversation that took place in 2018 between CNN anchor Chris Cuomo and his friend, the disgraced felon lawyer Michael Cohen. The two spoke in person. Cohen wanted Cuomo to prepare him for an interview he’d been asked to do on CNN. As Michael Cohen put it, he wanted &#8216;Guidance, as a friend more than anything.'&#8221;
&#8220;Michael Cohen was worried about doing the interview because he knew he’d get questions about the payments he made to Stormy Daniels. He wanted Chris Cuomo to tell him what to say,&#8221; Carlson continued. &#8220;Now on TV, Cuomo might’ve launched into a lecture about how it’s wrong to send money to strippers, but in private, he skipped that lecture.&#8221;
“‘You will be asked that,’ Chris Cuomo told Michael Cohen, and you can say, &#8216;I did it for him, for Donald Trump. My relationship has always been for him. I&#8217;ve always said I don’t speak for the campaign, I speak for him as his attorney,'&#8221; Carlson continued. &#8220;Cuomo went on to elaborate, &#8216;And to the question of motive,’ he told Cohen, ‘the response would have to be, you can speculate as to why you think I did it all day long, but the only answer is my answer, and I just told you why I did it. You don’t get to speculate because if you can’t prove that I got paid back by Trump or the campaign, it is slander and defamation for you to say that I did.'&#8221;
Carlson said that Cuomo had deployed the “time-tested” defense of “the obviously guilty,” which is to threaten those who are asking questions.
“Then he gamed out what would happen next when Cohen went on his own channel,” Carlson continued.
“I think the way this conversation goes is almost exactly the way we’re having it right now, which is where I say, ‘this looks shady’ and you say, ‘it looks shady to you because you’re coming in with a specific intention,’” Carlson read from the script of what Cuomo told Cohen. “Again, Cuomo advised Cohen to attack the anchor.”
“Chris Cuomo began acting out both sides of the exchange—he acted out the news anchor’s question and then he acted Cohen’s scripted response to that question,” Carlson continued. “The conversation devolved into a kind of one-man play with Chris Cuomo as the performer and Michael Cohen as the audience.”
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Tucker Carlson Releases Bombshell Tape Of Cuomo Coaching Cohen On How To Answer Interview Questions

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The media continues to show selective outrage over gatherings when it comes to social distancing and face masks.
The latest example comes from ABC News 4, which <a href="https://abcnews4.com/news/local/hundreds-of-usc-students-at-midlands-tlc-sports-bar-with-no-masks">posted</a> video originally tweeted by the University of South Carolina’s student-run television station SGTV News 4 that shows hundreds of young people gathered at a sports bar. The outlet shamed the students who went to the bar for “not practicing any COVID-19 safety guidelines.”
The student-run network said students choose the bar in question because it doesn’t have strict coronavirus guidelines.
&#8220;Happened to come from one of our reporters. She felt very uncomfortable, she and her friend were the only ones wearing masks. They had no idea that there were going to be this many people there. And then when she saw just how many people were there, she thought this is probably going to be newsworthy,&#8221; Ward Jolles, SGTV’s news director, told WACH FOX News.
The article appears on ABC News 4, but appears to be from WACH FOX News.
More from the article:
<blockquote>According to Richland County Sheriff&#8217;s Department, their deputies showed up to shut the bar down but the crowd had already dispersed.
Sheriff Lott was told by citizens who saw the videos online so he sent deputies to the scene around 11:30 p.m., according to deputies.
The crowd had dispersed by the time they arrived.
&#8220;This is not representative of USC. There are a lot of people out there who do like to go out and party and aren&#8217;t taking this seriously, but I think the general consensus from the population is that most people hate to see this,&#8221; said Jolles.</blockquote>
Deputies told the outlet that black patrol cars can be seen in the video around 10 p.m. because they were responding to a call about a burglary. The deputies also said they were consulting with other agencies to see if the club should be held responsible for violating coronavirus guidelines.
USC released a statement in response to the video:
<blockquote>It’s disappointing to see videos like these, and while we don’t know which of the attendees were our students, we can assume many likely were. We continue to strongly urge all of our students to follow public health guidelines to keep our entire community safe: wear face coverings, socially distance and avoid large in-person gatherings like the ones depicted in the video. Many other students are doing the right thing to keep themselves and others safe, and should be commended for it. Finally, while our ability to control off-campus student behavior is limited, we depend on strong partnerships with both the City of Columbia and Richland County to take swift action to prevent dangerous activity.</blockquote>
ABC reposted the article and posted it on social media. A quick search finds no articles from the outlet or ABC News national making similar remarks about those protesting and rioting in response to the May 25 officer-involved death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
On July 1, however, ABC News did publish an Associated Press story claiming there was “little evidence that protests spread coronavirus in US,” despite the fact that the protesters are in close quarters, many not wearing masks, and shouting.
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Patrons At A Sports Bar Shamed Over Lack Of Social Distancing By Media Running Cover For Racial Protests

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The media continues to show selective outrage over gatherings when it comes to social distancing and face masks. The latest example comes from ABC News 4,

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Apparently, the proper role of the &#8220;independent fact-checker&#8221; during today&#8217;s presidential campaign is to present the consistent opinion that Joe Biden is a force for truth and light, and President Donald Trump is a rampaging liar who never says anything true.
No one should suggest that these &#8220;fact-checker&#8221; groups need to parcel their rulings out in a completely even fashion so everyone gets a participation trophy for being half-right. But the dramatic tilt in these &#8220;fact-checkers&#8221; betrays an obvious partisan bias.
Just look at PolitiFact&#8217;s Truth-O-Meter rulings for Biden for the month of August: Mostly True, Mostly True, Mostly True, Mostly True, Mostly True and Half True.
Now let&#8217;s compare that to Trump&#8217;s August Truth-O-Meter rulings: one Half True, two Mostly False, 11 False and four Pants on Fire.
The shock is that PolitiFact threw in one Half True. What drives you batty is that PolitiFact employed one of its typical tropes, saying: &#8220;President Trump and Housing Secretary Ben Carson claimed a San Francisco lawmaker pushed &#8216;to abolish single-family zoning in California.&#8217; Housing experts say the claim is technically correct but leaves out key context.&#8221;
Overall, from the start of 2019 through August 2020, Trump has gotten 197 Truth-O-Meter ratings, and Biden has only gotten 64. Trump rated Mostly False or worse in 156 of them (79%). He was only Mostly True or True in 17 ratings (8.6%). By contrast, Biden rated Mostly True or True in more than half: 33 of 64 (52%), and then there are 29 Mostly False or worse (45%).
Does anyone less partisan than Brian Stelter think these &#8220;fact-checkers&#8221; should boast of their &#8220;independence&#8221;?
Some might suggest this is just about a serious aversion to Trump&#8217;s casual relationship with the truth. So let&#8217;s take a broader view. Take the dates of the party conventions, from the start of the Democratic one, on Aug. 17, to the aftermath of the Republican one, on Aug. 28. Over those 12 days, PolitiFact checked Republicans and their affiliated PACs and pundits 32 times and only checked Democrats and their equivalents 11 times. The disparity of checks alone implies a partisan tilt.
The Democrats drew eight Mostly True or True ratings, two Half Trues and one Mostly False, a 10-to-1 true-false ratio. During their convention, former first lady Michelle Obama scored a True, and former President Bill Clinton was Mostly True — as usual?
Then look at the Republicans. There were four Mostly Trues and one Half True &#8230; out of 32. The other 27 ratings were Mostly False or worse. Trump drew two Pants on Fire ratings. Donald Trump Jr. and Rush Limbaugh also received a Pants on Fire. This all adds up to almost a 1-to-8 true-false ratio.
On July 17, PolitiFact posted a YouTube video of executive editor Angie Drobnic Holan to answer the question &#8220;What is PolitiFact&#8217;s agenda?&#8221; Holan declared, &#8220;Our agenda is simple: It&#8217;s to give citizens the information they need to govern themselves in a democracy.&#8221; That&#8217;s what all the left-wing journalists say.
She later proclaimed: &#8220;The PolitiFact agenda is: Don&#8217;t take sides with any politician or party.&#8221; Really? There&#8217;s no political tilt? She claimed: &#8220;We&#8217;re independent, and we work hard to find the truth. So we follow the facts wherever they take us, regardless of who made the claim.&#8221;
Fact check: Pants on Fire.
Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
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GRAHAM: PolitiFact’s Pants-On-Fire Claims Of Neutrality

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Protests over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis

HAWORTH: What Riots? Over 90 Examples Of The Mainstream Media Gaslighting About ‘Protests’

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For months, violence has gripped our streets. Riots have been a regular reality for several cities across the country. Businesses have been destroyed.

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Last year, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) said in two lawsuits that his wife and the school where she works as a third-grade teacher received threatening messages and were forced to enhance security as a result.
The Fresno Bee, which is owned by McClatchy, did what it could to paint Nunes as a liar, by requesting documents from the school relating to Nunes’ allegations. McClatchy filed a public records request asking for “any correspondence from staff about feeling harassed or documents related to enhanced security measures,” the outlet said in its <a href="https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article235143107.html">report</a> of the request.
Terri Rufert, the Sundale Union Elementary School District superintendent, responded to the request by saying the district “does not have any records responsive to these requests.” Rufert wouldn’t answer the outlet’s questions about whether any teachers or staff were harassed or if the school had to increase security.
On Monday, The Daily Wire exclusively <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-man-arrested-for-stalking-threatening-devin-nunes-wife-an-elementary-school-teacher">reported</a> that a man had been charged with sending threatening messages to Elizabeth Nunes, the congressman’s wife. As The Daily Wire explained, the threats against Elizabeth came after a prolonged political campaign against Rep. Nunes. In 2018, Michael Seeley, a member of the left-wing group Southern California Americans for Democratic Action, filed a California Public Records Act request to obtain Elizabeth Nunes’ work emails. Seeley posted Elizabeth’s emails online in multiple batches. Following the release of the emails, Nunes said his wife and the school district received a wave of harassing phone calls and emails.
After The Daily Wire’s report, the Fresno Bee wrote its own <a href="https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article245408730.html">article</a> on the charges against William Joseph Burden, again writing that no records backed up Nunes’ claims that his wife and her school were the targets of harassment and threats. This time, however, Rufert told the outlet that threats had indeed been made to the school prior to the January date listed on the criminal complaint against Burden and that the school did have to take additional security measures due to the threats.
The Fresno Bee and its owner, McClatchy, have a long history of anti-Nunes bias. In 2018, the Bee <a href="https://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/political-notebook/article216488315.html">profiled</a> Nunes and asked in the headline if he was a traitor. It then ran <a href="https://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/political-notebook/article216488315.html">two</a> <a href="https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/op-ed/article226830019.html">separate</a> op-eds from Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), who sits on the House Intelligence Committee with Nunes, accusing the Republican of covering up alleged collusion between President Donald Trump and Russia to steal the 2016 election. As Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report and a subsequent Inspector General report showed, it was Nunes who was correct about the Trump-Russia narrative, not Democrats or their media supporters.
Fresno Bee reporter Kate Irby has also written <a href="https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article239698653.html">two</a> <a href="https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article241064301.html">separate</a> articles critical of Nunes’ lawyer, Steve Biss, who is representing Nunes in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/devin-nunes-files-massive-lawsuit-against-ashe-schow">his lawsuit</a> against McClatchy, which he filed after the outlet tried to connect the congressman to a yacht party that took place at a winery partly owned by Nunes.
The article was published in 2018 but featured events that took place in 2015 and had nothing to do with Nunes. Nunes, according to the lawsuit “was (and is) a limited partner of the Alpha Omega Winery.” During a charity event, a third party auctioned off use of the yacht. Those who won the auction went on to use the yacht for a party that allegedly included the use of cocaine and underage prostitutes. An employee of Alpha Omega Winery went on to sue the company because of the event, Nunes’ lawsuit says.
The lawsuit goes on to claim that McClatchy knowingly published false information about the event in order to smear Nunes. For example, the McClatchy article stated that guests on board the yacht were “top investors” in the winery, even though Alpha Omega released a statement in 2016 saying, “No one in the group had any personal or business connection to the winery or its owners, and no Alpha Omega staff knew anyone in the group.”
Also in the article, according to Nunes’ lawsuit, McClatchy claimed that it was “unclear … if he [Nunes] was … affiliated with the fundraiser.” Nunes claims in the lawsuit that McClatchy had been informed by Alpha Omega “that Nunes had no affiliation whatsoever with the event.”
Opinion editors at the Fresno Bee also published <a href="https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article235501072.html">an op-ed</a> claiming Nunes “alleged, without evidence, that Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee had sought nude photos of Trump.” In reality, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) fell for a radio prank offering nude photos of Trump. Schiff later claimed he knew it was a prank, but the transcript gives no indication that was the case.
Breitbart’s Matthew Boyle recently published <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/28/fusion-gps-leader-bragged-in-2019-book-about-planting-false-attacks-against-devin-nunes-in-local-newspaper/">an article</a> revealing that opposition research firm Fusion GPS, the firm behind most of the false Trump-Russia collusion narrative, planted negative Nunes stories in the Fresno Bee.
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McClatchy Reverses Course, Reports Nunes Was Right About Wife’s School Needing Enhanced Security

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As the polls in the matchup between President Trump and Joe Biden quickly tighten, media heads have been begun to worry about the right-wing media &#8220;infrastructure&#8221; and its impact on voters.
Speaking on MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Joe,&#8221; Jim Vandehei, the co-founder of Axios, said that the right-wing media &#8220;infrastructure&#8221; has created a mindset in the voting populace in how it has influenced their reality.
&#8220;I went into the Trump bubble,&#8221; he said, as reported by <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/mark-finkelstein/2020/09/02/polls-tighten-morning-joe-discusses-ruinous-vast-right-wing">Newsbusters</a>. &#8220;I listened to Ben Shapiro, I listened to a tape of Rush Limbaugh, I looked at the top trending stories on Facebook—all of them from right-wing sites—and watched Fox News.&#8221;
&#8220;It’s not just Donald Trump who’s talking about this,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;This is all that the infrastructure of the sort of the modern Republican Party is talking about this. You would think that every city is on fire, that every city is being looted, that Donald Trump is the one man who stands up for law enforcement.&#8221;
Vandehei proposed that the strategy behind creating this media echo chamber is to instill enough fear into people so that they will vote for President Trump in the coming election.
&#8220;Their belief is that, eventually, that will get people, even if they won’t tell a pollster, get them to vote for Donald Trump, because they will be scared stiff by Election Day,&#8221; he argued. &#8220;I have no idea if it’ll work, but there&#8217;s no doubt that this is not just Donald Trump anymore. It is the entire infrastructure—and I think it’s an infrastructure that most people in the media don’t pay that much attention to, so they don’t realize the amplification of that.”
As the election approaches, he wondered exactly how this strategy would affect the polls, citing a story from The New York Times last week showing that in the &#8220;Facebook machine,&#8221; the news that seems to gain the most traction comes from sites and sources beyond CNN and other legacy media.
&#8220;If you put your head inside the Facebook machine, most of the stories that travel and get the widest audience tend to come from Ben Shapiro, Franklin Graham, Breitbart—sites and people that most Americans aren’t paying attention to, but people on Facebook are, and that is the Trump base,&#8221; he concluded. &#8220;And now the question is, over the next couple weeks, do we start to see those polls move, either private polls or public polls?&#8221;
Vandehei&#8217;s pontification about the right-wing media infrastructure comes after CNN’s Brian Stelter lamented that supposedly whole media outlets exist to attack Biden while no such apparatus exists to attack President Trump.
“When you see entire media companies essentially exist to tear down Joe Biden, is there an equivalent to that on the Left tearing down Trump?” Stelter asked a guest on his show.
“There really isn’t and what I would say, it’s really a diet of this type of information that a lot of these voters are getting,” the guest responded.
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Axios Co-Founder: ‘I Went Into The Trump Bubble,’ ‘You Would Think Every City Is On Fire’

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As the polls in the matchup between President Trump and Joe Biden quickly tighten, media heads have been begun to worry about the right-wing media

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The United States of America is a huge country with a population of 330 million people and a land mass of 3.8 million square miles. Only China and India have a larger population, and only Russia and Canada have larger land masses. To provide some perspective, the United States alone has a larger population than the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain combined.
In the same way that certain news stories in Spain are relatively unimportant in the United Kingdom, the same should be true of some news stories in the United States. While there are certainly stories which are relevant on a national level, there clearly exists a scale of importance which shrinks as the scope of the focus increases. As an extreme example, the mild vandalism of a local park bench may be breaking news in a small town but has no place on the front page of the New York Times.
Given that the relevance of news stories can change based on the breadth of its audience, what makes one story relevant to a local news station and another relevant on a national — or even international — level?
Unfortunately, the responsibility for answering this crucial question lies in the hands of the mainstream media. The result of their monopolization of the national narrative is that they have full control of the metrics used to determine a story’s relevance. Under pressure from the modern wave of fast-moving internet-based news and social media platforms, they have abandoned their duty to follow a patient pattern of investigation in pursuit of truth. Instead, stories are selected entirely on whether they can be used to garner instantaneous attention and push a political narrative.
If the initial story can be used to support this narrative, then it is distributed on a national scale with no regard for the accuracy of any immediate assumptions or premature conclusions. If the story doesn’t support this narrative — or worse, counters this narrative — then the strategy is either to ignore it completely, prevent it from gaining widespread attention, or to spin the story to erase its impact.
Each of these strategies are applied with such regularity that the results are plain for all those with intellectual honesty to see: the mainstream media are no longer driven by journalistic integrity, but the desire to promote a given narrative with political objectives. In short, journalists are now activists. This has uncovered a strange journalistic “face off,” where the driving factor is not relevance, but race.
The race-based nationalization of non-national stories with no regard for facts or context
There are some stories which grow organically to justify their national focus. One recent example is the death of George Floyd during his arrest in Minneapolis. The widespread (and bipartisan) anger in response to the available information — particularly video footage — gained an understandable level of attention. The fact that the story of George Floyd, who died in objectively shocking circumstances, aligned with the Left’s general belief that the United States is suffering from a systemic level of racism and police brutality — which can only be solved by electing Democrats — was a cynical bonus.
However, in the wake of the violence which has spread across the country with George Floyd’s death as the alleged catalyst, the mainstream media are clearly looking to maintain the momentum of the Black Lives Matter agenda by continuing to further the notion that all violent instances which have some racial component are therefore racially motivated.
While the conflation of cases by race is something we have come to expect from Democrats — Joe Biden himself <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/06/joe-biden-latino-african-american-remark-392354">suggested</a> that the African American community is not diverse — the same should not be true of our “journalist class.” However, mainstream media outlets now follow a familiar pattern which involves holding up a color swatch next to the alleged “perpetrator” and the alleged “victim,” with the labels of “victim” and “victimizer” often defined by unreliable and biased sources. If the “victim” is black and/or the perpetrator is “white,” the story passes their test and can be used to “prove” their “broad truth” that the United States is therefore inherently racist.
This is the logic which allowed <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/17/the-rayshard-brooks-case-is-not-another-george-floyd-incident/">Rayshard Brooks</a> to be advertised as the “next” George Floyd, despite the fact that the only similarity between the two cases was the race of the “victims” and “perpetrators.” Rather than being the primary variable of importance, Brooks’ behavior in the events preceding his death was irrelevant. His skin color fit the narrative, and so he became a household name. The same is true of Jacob Blake. After Blake was shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the mainstream media worked to bury all details of the incident other than Blake’s race. Blake was another “black man” shot by a police officer, and a “white” police officer at that. Blake’s outstanding arrest warrant, his alleged attempt to resist arrest, or his alleged proximity to a deadly weapon were, again, irrelevant.
The names Rayshard Brooks and Jacob Blake are now known across the country entirely because the mainstream media decided it should be so. While every death is a tragedy, and every life has value, the circumstances of each death are undeniably crucial in determining its relevance to the national debate over racism. The mainstream media have intentionally ignored the importance of evidence, context, and truth in favor of fast-tracking any story which can be made to fit their shallow racial objectives. Rayshard Brooks, Jacob Blake, Michael Brown. They fit that narrative. Race matters; facts don’t.
This strategy doesn’t just apply when the “victim” is black. The mainstream media act with a stunning level of carelessness when it comes to presuming and applying guilt based on race. Nick Sandmann was nationally despised after the mainstream media decided to project racist motivations based on his awkward smile during a bizarre confrontation. Kyle Rittenhouse has been labeled as a white supremacist mass murderer, with the media focusing on his race, gender, and age as primary variables of importance, despite video evidence which suggests that Rittenhouse’s use of deadly force was self-defense — with one “victim” visibly holding a handgun when he was shot. Again, race matters, facts don’t.
The counter-productive search for racial counter narratives
In an attempt to protest the sporadic nationalization of stories which fit the Left’s narrative, some among the political Right have attempted to protest by pushing for the nationalization of stories which fit some form of counter-narrative. With any such attempt, it’s important to understand the subtle difference between working to debunk the Left’s narrative with stories which provide counter-arguments and simply fighting the Left’s fire with fire.
One example of a valid counter-argument would be the attempt to promote evidence which exposes the flawed assumptions underlying a national story. Promoting video evidence of Rayshard Brooks’ arrest, radio transmissions of Jacob Blake’s arrest, or Department of Justice conclusions that the “hands up, don’t shoot” narrative was fabricated are examples of such actions.
There are others who — somewhat justifiably — see the Left’s control of the national narrative and ask the question “well, why isn’t THIS story in the news?” The crucial point here is not this question, but the motivation behind this question. For example, there was minimal national coverage when 5-year old <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/08/14/cannon-hinnant-killing/">Cannon Hinnant</a> was murdered. The man accused of his murder was Hinnant’s neighbor, a 25-year old black man called Darrius Sessoms. Cannon Hinnant’s name trended on Twitter, with much of the outrage driven by the mainstream media’s apparent reluctance to report on Hinnant’s murder.
In such instances, if the motivation is to highlight the mainstream media’s clear bias when it comes to the selection (or rejection) of stories based on racial narratives, then such anger is completely valid. By pointing out this bias, the outcome should be the careful selection of stories based on national relevance and objective evidence. If race is proven to be a motivating factor in the murder, then clearly the story is relevant to the national debate. If someone is attempting simply to achieve some form of retaliatory nationalization of one “counter story” based on race in response to another story based on race, then the underlying problem will only be worsened.
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The United States has a bizarre obsession with race. To some extent, this is understandable given the United States’ history of racial discrimination in slavery and Jim Crow and the long-lasting impact of past racist policies on communities. However, there is a clear difference between the acknowledgement of history’s impact on the modern day and the continued obsession with applying an irrelevant racial gradient to every societal interaction or event.
The mainstream media is responsible for continuing to fuel this obsession. Racism exists, without a doubt. But by dominating the national conversation fueled by subjectivity in pursuit of a false premise, the mainstream media are not fighting racism. We can never hope to truly end racism if the label of racism is diluted by its continual misattribution. We can also never hope to truly end racism if we attempt to counter the cynical promotion of false racial narratives with racial counter-narratives. The goal should be for the national conversation to be based on objectivity, rather than racial mutually assured destruction. The goal should be for the irrelevant focus on color to remain irrelevant.
More from Ian Haworth: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/haworth-riots-the-democrats-strategy-of-extortion">Riots: The Democrats’ Strategy of Extortion</a>
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Atlanta Riot

HAWORTH: The Media’s Racist Nationalization of News

Race

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This critic avoids personal anecdotes in film reviews, but this one deserves an exception.
Several months ago I had a phone argument with my closest friend. He believed New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo did a fine job during the pandemic, ignoring the thousands of nursing home patients who died under his watch.
<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2020/07/22/andrew-cuomo-nursing-homes-coronavirus-janice-dean-new-york-column/5472713002/">Janice Dean has a story</a> he needs to read.
My friend also believed in the Russian collusion narrative, which has been falling apart in slow motion for months despite the mainstream media’s shocking indifference.
We disagreed. Our voices got heated. He hung up on me. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/toto-fake-news-takes-a-personal-toll-on-us">We haven’t spoken since</a>.
Extreme media bias, the kind on furious display in the Age of Trump, is turning Americans against Americans in ways that are both acute and hard to measure. My friend and I don’t vote the same way anymore, something that doesn’t bother me a whit.
We no longer cling to the same set of facts. The rise of extreme bias and Fake News, which makes this possible, sticks in my craw.
Yet that factor is ignored in “Stars and Strife,” an otherwise well-intentioned look at our increasingly tribal times.
Writer/director David Smick couldn’t know his film would drop at a time when patriotism would be “problematic” for a sizable slab of one political party. “Stars and Strife” assumes we all love our country as a starting point, but it worries our fractured age puts America’s future in doubt.
That’s undeniable. We’ve read the news today, oh, boy.
From there we’re treated to a grab bag of cultural woes, from shrieking fights on “The View” to activists behaving badly across the country. Politicians aren’t making things better. In a shocking display of restraint, the film doesn’t flood the zone with President Donald Trump’s more divisive moments.
Smick would have plenty to work with, but there’s an equal amount from the Left, too. “Stars and Strife” keeps things as apolitical as possible given the nature of the narrative.
A grateful nation thanks him.
FAST FACT: Smick brings an <a href="http://www.davidsmick.com/Smick_Bio.html">eclectic resume</a> to his <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11796535/?ref_=tt_ov_dr">first feature film</a>, “Stars and Strife.” He’s contributed to a number of prestigious outlets, including The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. Plus, he’s the chairman and CEO of Johnson Smick International, Inc., a D.C.-based macroeconomic advisory firm.
The nation’s overriding problem is clear, and Team Smick underlines it with a cavalcade of cutesy, on the nose video clips.
We’re at each other’s throats thanks to social media, income inequality, corporate welfare, and a lack of upward mobility, among other woes. Conservatives may argue with some possible solutions here, like a plan to make the primary system less partisan and the need for a third major party.
“Stars and Strife” wants to push the conversation forward, not focus on disagreements.
The film, embraced by Executive Producer (and openly liberal) Barry Levinson, strains to avoid Michael Moore-style theatrics. Smick is front and center here, in the grand Moore tradition, but he’s not doing performance art or manipulating events for maximum impact.
He’s holding the documentary together, providing a calm, soothing voice for both sides to consider.
For every interview subject on the Left (Larry Summers, Leon Panetta) we’re treated to a chat with someone on the Right (James Baker,<a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/arthur-brooks/"> Arthur Brooks</a>).
Solutions are scattered throughout the movie, although realistically our current plight rejects a one-size-fits-all approach. We’ve become a nation of lonely, disconnected souls.
Who would argue with that… but how do you fix it?
Perhaps the film’s most healing moments come courtesy of activist Hawk Newsome. Who’s he? Newsome is the head of New York’s Black Lives Matter chapter. He shares a powerful story of crashing a Trumpian rally and speaking before an audience willing to cheer their commonalities.
One wonders what Newsome thinks of BLM’s tactics over the last two-plus months.
“Stars and Strife” loves this country in an authentic, palpable way. Historically, America has been a force for good, asking other nations only for enough land to bury our dead, Smick notes. “We are the good guys,” confirms former Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan.
Immigrant success stories abound, one more inspiring than the next.
“Stars and Strife’s” very existence suggests something hopeful, that a left-of-center industry can produce a documentary like this just when we need it most.
HiT or Miss: “Stars and Strife” has its heart in the right place and mostly avoids ideological bromides. It still ignores a massive problem in modern American tribalism, something that can no longer be denied.
A version of this article appears on HollywoodInToto.com.
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TOTO: ‘Stars And Strife’ Shreds Our Partisan Divide, Ignores Critical Issue

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Leftism

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CNN ran a segment on the unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday night that featured a chyron claiming that the protests were &#8220;fiery but mostly peaceful&#8221; as a reporter who was on the ground stood in front of a city that was on fire.
&#8220;What you&#8217;re seeing behind me is one of multiple locations that have been burning in Kenosha, Wisconsin, over the course of the night,&#8221; the CNN reporter said. &#8220;A second night since Jacob Blake was seen shot in the back seven times by a police officer.&#8221;
&#8220;And what you are seeing now, these images came and come in stark contrast to what we saw over the course of the daytime hours in Kenosha and into the early evening, which were largely peaceful demonstrations in the face of law enforcement,&#8221; the reporter continued. &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t until night fell that things began to get a little bit more contentious, things were thrown back and forth. Police started using some of those crowd disbursal tactics like teargas, even playing really loud sounds to push them out.&#8221;
&#8220;And then, what you are seeing, the common that ties all of this together, is an express of anger and frustration over what people feel like has become an all too familiar story playing out in places from across the country, not just here in Kenosha, Wisconsin,&#8221; the reporter added.
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You cannot make this up&#8230; A CNN reporter is standing in front of a building engulfed in flames and CNN&#39;s chyron reads:
&quot;FIERY BUT MOSTLY PEACEFUL PROTESTS AFTER POLICE SHOOTING&quot; <a href="https://t.co/4OHvKnh63u">pic.twitter.com/4OHvKnh63u</a>
&mdash; Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) <a href="https://twitter.com/CalebJHull/status/1298832317033705472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Earlier this week, CNN removed the word “violent” from their chyron after they briefly described the riots as “violent protests.”
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-cnn-censors-violent-protests-that-have-erupted-in-wisconsin-after-police-incident">reported</a>:
<blockquote>CNN changed a chyron during a segment early this week on the violent protests in Wisconsin over the weekend, removing the word &#8220;violent&#8221; from the chyron—even though the protests were, in fact, violent.
During a live broadcast on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer,&#8221; the network aired the following chyron: &#8220;8PM CURFEW ORDERED AFTER VIOLENT PROTESTS OVER POLICE SHOOTING OF UNARMED BLACK MAN IN WISCONSIN&#8221;
Several seconds later the chyron was taken down and was then put back up on the screen after the network removed the word &#8220;violent&#8221; from it: &#8220;8PM CURFEW ORDERED AFTER PROTESTS OVER POLICE SHOOTING OF UNARMED BLACK MAN IN WISCONSIN&#8221;</blockquote>
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Someone at CNN didn’t like the violent protests in Wisconsin being described as “violent” (observe the chyrons) <a href="https://t.co/oDN5V2muUN">pic.twitter.com/oDN5V2muUN</a>
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Late on Wednesday, the Wisconsin Department of Justice released a statement that said that Blake, who was shot as he resisted law enforcement and tried to enter his car, had a weapon in his vehicle.
&#8220;Mr. Blake walked around his vehicle, opened the driver’s side door, and leaned forward,&#8221; the department <a href="https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/wisconsin-doj-reveals-new-details-surrounding-jacob-blakes-shooting-by-kenosha-police/2329213/">said</a>. &#8220;While holding onto Mr. Blake’s shirt, Officer Rusten Sheskey fired his service weapon 7 times. Officer Sheskey fired the weapon into Mr. Blake’s back. No other officer fired their weapon.&#8221;
“During the investigation following the initial incident, Mr. Blake admitted that he had a knife in his possession,” the department added. “DCI agents recovered a knife from the driver’s side floorboard of Mr. Blake’s vehicle. A search of the vehicle located no additional weapons.”
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KENOSHA, WI &#8211; AUGUST 24: People watch a the American flag flies

WATCH: CNN Claims Kenosha Protests Are ‘Fiery But Mostly Peaceful’ As City Burns Behind Reporter

Jacob Blake

Kenosha

CNN ran a segment on the unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday night that featured a chyron claiming that the protests were &quot;fiery but mostly peaceful&quot;

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During a Sunday press conference, President Donald Trump took a shot at the general left-wing bend of mainstream reporters by telling them that he hoped they all had a &#8220;great weekend” at their “convention,&#8221; referencing the Democratic National Convention (DNC).
“It’s good to see you all,&#8221; the president said to the press. &#8220;Hope you had a great weekend at your convention.”
Though there were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dnc-ratings-bomb-jumped-off-a-ratings-cliff">rough ratings</a> for the DNC, which was virtual due to coronavirus precautions, the media found themselves praising the convention.
&#8220;Michelle Obama tells ‘the cold hard truth’ in a searing DNC keynote speech,&#8221; CNBC <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/17/michelle-obama-tells-cold-hard-truth-in-a-searing-dnc-keynote-speech.html">raved</a> over the former first lady’s speech.
MSNBC&#8217;s Rachel Maddow and Nicolle Wallace were similarly moved.
&#8220;And then Michelle Obama starts talking, and we&#8217;re all like – none of us breathed for 18 minutes,&#8221; Maddow said.
Wallace said Mrs. Obama &#8220;delivered epic shade&#8221; by using the phrase, &#8220;it is what it is,&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/msnbc-hosts-praise-michelle-obama-dnc-speech">according</a> to Fox News.
Chief Washington correspondent for Politico and senior political analyst for CNN Ryan Lizza was even more open about his feelings for former President Barack Obama&#8217;s convention speech.
&#8220;Barack Obama just delivered the finest convention speech in modern history (again),&#8221; Lizza gushed on Twitter. &#8220;Spell-binding, chilling, optimistic, beautifully written, and expertly delivered. Incredible moment.&#8221;
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Barack Obama just delivered the finest convention speech in modern history (again). Spell-binding, chilling, optimistic, beautifully written, and expertly delivered. Incredible moment.
&mdash; Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) <a href="https://twitter.com/RyanLizza/status/1296277661472489475?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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As noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/study-evening-news-150-times-more-negative-of-trump-than-biden">The Daily Wire</a> on Monday, tracking from the conservative Media Research Center found major media bias against President Donald Trump. In fact, evening news was shown to be a stunning 150 times more negative of President Trump than Democratic presidential nominee and former VP Joe Biden.
“From June 1 through July 31, the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts focused 512 minutes of airtime on the President, or nine times more than the 58 minutes allotted to Biden,” Newsbusters <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/rich-noyes/2020/08/17/study-150-times-more-negative-news-trump-biden">reported</a>. “This is an even wider gap than the spring <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/rich-noyes/2020/06/10/nets-blast-trump-9x-more-negative-comments-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">when Trump received seven times more coverage</a> than Biden (523 minutes vs. 75 minutes).”
“During these two months, our analysts documented 668 evaluative statements about the President, 95% of which (634) were negative, vs. a mere five percent (34) that were positive,” the report continued. “Using the same methodology (fully described at the end of this article), we found very few evaluative statements about Joe Biden — just a dozen, two-thirds of which (67%) were positive.”
The Daily Wire added: &#8220;In those same two months, virtually every negative story about Biden — from Tara Reade’s sexual assault allegations to his sharp leftward shift, to his apparent racial gaffes — was all swept under the rug or dramatically under-reported, even as the newscasts continued to negatively cover President Trump. The former vice president’s own policy platform, which includes massive expansions of government health care, education, and environmental programs, received just &#8216;a meager 5 minutes, 22 seconds of airtime, not one second of which included any critical analysis from any journalist.'&#8221;
Though Trump started with a lighthearted jab at the press, the president delivered promising news during the Sunday presser: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-announces-coronavirus-therapeutic-given-emergency-use-authorization-by-fda">emergency use authorization</a>” for convalescent plasma as a potential treatment against the China-originated novel coronavirus.
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Trump: “It’s good to see you all. Hope you had a great weekend at your convention.” <a href="https://t.co/9BR5OlLIqP">pic.twitter.com/9BR5OlLIqP</a>
&mdash; The Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1297681029004529664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Related:<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-announces-coronavirus-therapeutic-given-emergency-use-authorization-by-fda"> Trump Announces Coronavirus Therapeutic Given ‘Emergency Use Authorization’ By FDA</a>
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Trump Trolls Reporters: ‘Hope You Had A Great Weekend At Your Convention’

Democratic National Convention

During a Sunday press conference, President Donald Trump took a shot at the general left-wing bend of mainstream reporters by telling them that he hoped

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In an odd attempt to boost Democrat vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris, The Washington Post ran an article titled: “Kamala Harris’s dad was from Jamaica, where a fierce woman warrior once fought slavery.”
The article begins:
<blockquote>She was a warrior — the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/09/01/whether-shes-on-the-20-bill-or-not-harriet-tubman-made-men-pay-for-underestimating-her/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2">Harriet Tubman</a> of Jamaica.
As Republicans question whether Democratic vice-presidential candidate <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/16/kamala-harris-grew-up-mostly-white-world-then-she-went-black-university-black-city/?arc404=true&amp;itid=lk_inline_manual_3">Sen. Kamala D. Harris (Calif.)</a>, whose father was an immigrant from Jamaica and whose mother was an immigrant from India, is Black or even a descendant of enslaved Black people, they may want to consider the remarkable history of Nanny of the Maroons, a national hero in Jamaica.</blockquote>
Harris’ picture appears at the top of the article next to a photo of Nanny on the Jamaican $500 bill. Nanny is an impressive woman, but she is in no way related to Kamala Harris or her father. The Post could have simply written an article about a great woman or picked any random person who is an immigrant or who has an immigrant parent and found an impressive historical figure from their country of origin.
As an example, the Post could have written an article titled, “Donald Trump’s mom was from Scotland, where a fierce warrior once fought for freedom.” The warrior in question is William Wallace (many may know his name from “Braveheart”). Wallace has no connection to Trump whatsoever, and tying the two together makes no sense.
The other, more glaring problem with bringing Harris’ father into the arena is the fact that the last thing he said about his daughter was not pleasant. In early 2019, Harris appeared on a radio program called “The Breakfast Club” and told host Charlamagne tha God that she smoked marijuana in college. When asked whether she’s against marijuana legalization, Harris joked: “Half my family is from Jamaica. Are you kidding me?”
Her joke about Jamaica apparently did not sit well, as her father, Donald Harris, an economics professor at Stanford University, provided <a href="https://www.macleans.ca/politics/kamala-harriss-father-is-slamming-her-for-making-a-travesty-of-her-jamaican-heritage/">a statement</a> to Jamaica Global Online in which he called his daughter’s remarks a “travesty.”
“My dear departed grandmothers, as well as my deceased parents, must be turning in their grave right now to see their family’s name, reputation and proud Jamaican identity being connected, in any way, jokingly or not with the fraudulent stereotype of a pot-smoking joy seeker and in the pursuit of identity politics. Speaking for myself and my immediate Jamaican family, we wish to categorically dissociate ourselves from this travesty,” Donald said.
Soon after, Maclean’s <a href="https://www.macleans.ca/politics/kamala-harriss-father-is-slamming-her-for-making-a-travesty-of-her-jamaican-heritage/">reported</a> at the time that Harris – who was still running for president in February 2019 – had released a campaign manifesto mentioning her father in the beginning before he disappeared on page 20 out of 300 and was never mentioned again.
None of this appears in the Post article about Nanny, nor is any attempt made to connect her to Kamala Harris besides several campaign-provided photos of Harris as a little girl with her Jamaican relatives.
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Washington Post Headline Celebrates Homeland Of Kamala Harris’ Father. Here’s What Her Father Said About Her.

2020 Election

In an odd attempt to boost Democrat vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris, The Washington Post ran an article titled: “Kamala Harris’s dad was from

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Networks are airing the Democratic National Convention only in snippets and recaps, allowing most of the event viewership to go to online streaming platforms, even for major speakers like former First Lady Michelle Obama and, on Wednesday, Democratic Vice Presidential candidate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), if they do not fall in a distinct, one-hour, prime time slot.
The decision, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/broadcast-tv-networks-worried-about-airing-two-hours-of-trumps-convention?ref=scroll">according to the Daily Beast</a>, was a deliberate one, designed to prevent President Donald Trump from commanding a full two hours of prime time network broadcasting every day next week, during the Republican National Convention.
Although it is not required that networks set aside equal time to both parties, campaign finance rules dictate that the same amount of airtime must be offered to both campaigns &#8212; and network executives feared that Trump would opt to use all of his available airtime.
&#8220;Multiple sources told The Daily Beast that when Democratic officials met with various broadcast network executives about their convention coverage plans, the executives stressed that they could not broadcast two hours each night in part because they then would have to give the same airtime to Trump, and all the wild unpredictability that might entail from an editorial perspective,&#8221; the outlet reported.
Sources told the Daily Beast that part of the problem lay with the Republican National Committee, which decided only recently to make their convention largely virtual and did not provide network executives with a detailed list of speakers and events, leaving them &#8212; a likely left-leaning group &#8212; worried.
“We don’t know what that content is going to be,” the source reportedly said.
The Daily Beast, of course, added that network executives were concerned about Trump because of &#8220;his penchant for peddling lies, misinformation, and conspiracy theories,&#8221; particularly about the coronavirus.
Although it does appear media bias could be at work &#8212; as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/study-evening-news-150-times-more-negative-of-trump-than-biden">The Daily Wire</a> reported earlier this week, network coverage of Trump&#8217;s presidential campaign has been overwhelmingly negative &#8212; the explanation could be even simpler: people just aren&#8217;t that interested in what the Democrats have to say.
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/18/media/dnc-ratings-2020-night-1/index.html">According to CNN</a>, ratings for the Democratic National Convention are in a virtual freefall: &#8220;television viewership of the first virtual convention was down about 25% from the equivalent night in 2016.&#8221;
&#8220;According to Nielsen, the six biggest TV networks averaged a combined total of 19 million viewers during the 10 p.m. hour, which was the only hour that NBC, ABC, and CBS showed live,&#8221; the network reported. &#8220;The same six networks had almost 25 million viewers combined during the first night of the DNC in 2016.&#8221;
Michelle Obama&#8217;s speech &#8212; one of the most talked-about events of Monday&#8217;s DNC kickoff &#8212; was dwarfed in online viewership by a campaign add from Republican strategist and congressional GOP candidate Kimberly Klacik, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-star-is-born-gop-candidates-ad-trounces-michelle-obama-dnc-speech-in-digital-metrics">per The Daily Wire&#8217;s Amanda Prestagiacomo</a>.
Wednesday night will feature Harris&#8217;s speech. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden will speak Thursday night to close out the convention.
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New research suggests Americans have developed many misconceptions about their risk of death from the coronavirus pandemic. Americans who responded to a web survey vastly overestimated the risk of death among younger people while underestimating the risk of death among older Americans.
The <a href="https://www.franklintempletonnordic.com/investor/article?contentPath=html/ftthinks/common/cio-views/on-my-mind-they-blinded-us-from-science.html">study</a>, conducted by Franklin Templeton Investments and Gallup Research, found that Democrats in particular and people who obtained their news primarily from social media were misinformed. Sonal Desai, chief investment officer of Franklin Templeton Fixed Income, described the three major ways in which Americans “misunderstand the risk of dying from COVID-19”:
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<li>On average, Americans believe that people aged 55 and older account for just over half of total COVID-19 deaths; the actual figure is 92%.</li>
<li>Americans believe that people aged 44 and younger account for about 30% of total deaths; the actual figure is 2.7%.</li>
<li>Americans overestimate the risk of death from COVID-19 for people aged 24 and younger by a factor of 50; and they think the risk for people aged 65 and older is half of what it actually is (40% vs 80%).</li>
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“These results are nothing short of stunning. Mortality data have shown from the very beginning that the COVID-19 virus age-discriminates, with deaths overwhelmingly concentrated in people who are older and suffer comorbidities. This is perhaps the only uncontroversial piece of evidence we have about this virus. Nearly all US fatalities have been among people older than 55; and yet a large number of Americans are still convinced that the risk to those younger than 55 is almost the same as to those who are older,” Desai wrote.
The explanation for this massive misperception comes from how the media has covered the coronavirus pandemic and who social media has spread that misinformation.
“This, sadly, comes as no surprise. Fear and anger are the most reliable drivers of engagement; scary tales of young victims of the pandemic, intimating that we are all at risk of dying, quickly go viral; so do stories that blame everything on your political adversaries. Both social and traditional media have been churning out both types of narratives in order to generate more clicks and increase their audience,” Desai wrote. “The fact that the United States is in an election year has exacerbated the problem. Stories that emphasize the dangers of the pandemic to all age cohorts and tie the risk to the Administration’s handling of the crisis likely tend to resonate much more with Democrats than Republicans. This might be a contributing factor to why, in our survey results, Democrats tend to overestimate the risk of dying from COVID-19 for different age cohorts to a greater extent than Republicans do.”
The study also found that how information is provided played a role in people’s opinions:
<blockquote>Our susceptibility to how the information is presented also plays a role. The same data can be portrayed in different forms on a graph—some reassuring and some alarming. Our study finds that how the data are presented has a very strong impact on people’s attitudes. For example, respondents who were shown COVID-19 case trends for Texas and Florida in isolation were much less willing to reopen schools and businesses than those who were shown the same trends compared to New York. And more alarming graphics tend to be used more frequently, as they generate greater engagement.</blockquote>
To be fair, the study only looked at COVID-19’s risk of death, not the risk of health consequences from those who contracted the disease but survived. We are still learning the long-term complications from those who survived the disease.
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