The President is not a Piñata
If you don’t like President Trump, don’t vote for him in November.
The constant derision and Presidential bashing in the broadcast and print media is unprecedented and unnecessary. This has become abundantly clear in the daily White House coronavirus briefing that features openly hostile reporters firing a non-stop stream of “gotcha” questions at the President.
If he cured the pandemic, the press would report that he created it in order to cure it.
ABC News reported that approximately 700,000 Chinese visited the United States in December and January. The virus first appeared in Wuhan in November. Who knows how many visitors brought the virus were infected? Initially there were accounts of a strange new flu, a strong influenza, reported.
As evidence mounted that a pandemic was coming from China, on January 31 in the middle of the impeachment trial, President Trump banned inbound flights before any other country in the world did. Former Vice President Joe Biden, campaigning in Iowa, called the President racist and xenophobic on February 4, after his earlier tweet, "We're in the midst of a crisis with the coronavirus. We need to lead the way with science, not Donald Trump's record of hysteria, xenophobia and fear mongering”. Every prominent Democrat took shots at him for banned flights. By the way, yesterday, Biden on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos”, had the unmitigated gall to accuse Trump of dragging his feet on the travel ban.
And the media? All the usual suspects jumped on the narrative immediately that the President was racist and xenophobic. That created more hatred of the administration, ratcheted up the already increased division in our country.
Four Democratic debates were held between January 1 and February 25, in the first three, not one Democrat mentioned coronavirus. Furthermore, the moderators didn’t mention coronavirus either. For almost two months, while Democrats supposedly debated important national issues, nothing was discussed about coronaviruses threat until the last one, February 26, and Bernie Sanders commented on it – barely.
The daily press briefing exposes the bias and stupidity of a lot of reporters. Assignment to the White House beat is a pinnacle achievement for most journalists. But you wouldn’t know these were the best of the best, based on their behavior and questions. In Sunday’s briefing one actually asked the President why the grocery stores aren’t closed.
Another media host Mika Brzezinski of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”, wondered today if the President has a “financial interest” in the manufacture of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, since he has repeatedly promoted the drug as a possible coronavirus treatment.
The foregoing, two of countless examples that demonstrate the media’s utter ignorance.
How about just the reporting the news, simply put, not punditry, not personal animus, not editorial pontification and especially not acting like children at a birthday party taking turns to whack the presidential piñata?