Liberal Media Weaponize Coronavirus to Viciously Attack President Trump When 9/11 Happened, Most of the Doing, That’S the Hoax,” Said Trump
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Creating a Media Culture in America Where Truth and Liberty Flourish Liberal Media Weaponize Coronavirus to Viciously Attack President Trump When 9/11 happened, most of the doing, that’s the hoax,” said Trump. liberal media rallied to help unify the Nonetheless, Sunday Today’s Willie Vol. 27 • Issue 5 • May 2020 country and provide generally fair and Geist declared that the president balanced news in the fight against an “called coronavirus a Democratic existential threat. With the coronavirus, hoax.” NBC Today’s Tom Costello INSIDE which is deadlier than 9/11, the liberal reported that Trump had suggested media have weaponized the threat to “this was all a hoax.” Also, CNN’s Don relentlessly attack President Donald Lemon falsely stated that Trump had PAGE 3 Trump, divide the country, and promote first called COVID-19 “a hoax.” Bozell to Trump: their leftist agenda in an This was blatantly $75 Million for Corporation for Public election year. dishonest reporting. Broadcasting in This has been After the Coronavirus Relief Bill abundantly documented administration is Wasteful and and exposed by the MRC’s announced there Misguided NewsBusters division, as would be a commission well as MRC Business and established to make PAGES 4-5 MRCTV, and in television recommendations BITS & PIECES: and radio interviews of on reopening the CCP TV? CBS Censors, MRC experts. economy, PBS’s fake CNN Fails, ‘Pitt-i-ful’, The Washington Post, conservative David Spiked! and CNN’s Anderson Cooper was MiniBits for instance, said this Brooks told NewsHour is “Trump’s Chernobyl” furious, railing that Trump that it would be staffed had hijacked his own press and CNN’s Chris Cillizza with Trump sycophants, PAGE 6 conference and was using labeled it “Trump’s the briefings as a “reelection using “North Korean- Tim Graham’s Nationally platform, an opportunity to lie, Syndicated Column: Katrina.” The New York style loyalty tests.” In Times’s Gail Collins said to deflect, to attack, to bully, the same vein, CNN’s “The Kavanaugh Roasters and cover up…” Hide Biden’s Accuser” the pandemic should be Fareed Zakaria claimed renamed “Trumpvirus.” that senior administration officials PAGE 7 At what should be — what must be were “emulating the sycophancy, MRC In the News, and — a time of national unity, a biased, incompetence and propaganda of North MRC Action Grassroots one-sided national media are tearing Korea.” Campaign Updates us apart. Let’s look at some other In other words, Trump is a examples. totalitarian dictator. PAGE 8 In March, the liberal media pushed On MSNBC’s The Last Word, host The MRC’s the lie that Trump had described the Lawrence O’Donnell ranted, “More Caribbean Cruise coronavirus as a “hoax.” What Trump people are sick in America tonight had actually said was that liberals (and because Donald Trump is president. Democrats) were politicizing the virus More people are dead and dying in to blame him, as they did with the America tonight because Donald Trump “Russia collusion” farce. is president.” “I’m talking about what they’re Continued on page 2 CNN’s Jake Tapper retweeted an item Like many in the liberal media, NBC The View’s Sunny Hostin charged, “People from Trump-hater George Conway that Today’s Tom Costello falsely reported that are dying because of some of the said the president is “100% insane, and Trump had suggested “this was all a hoax.” information that’s being disseminated nobody in the administration has the from these clown press conferences.” ba**s to tell him that.” Continued from page 1 As Gallup and other polls started to show that 60% Also on MSNBC, Brian Williams asked former Vice of Americans approved of Trump’s handling of the virus President Joe Biden, “What is President Trump’s threat, the leftist press started to call for an end to culpability, what’s his level of responsibility, say, the president’s coronavirus task force press briefings. toward the illness and fatalities we’re witnessing MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow bemoaned, “I would stop every few minutes these days?” On NBC’s Meet the putting those briefings on live TV. … [A]ll of us should Press, host Chuck Todd asked Biden, “Do you think stop broadcasting it. Honestly, it’s going to cost lives.” there is blood on the president’s hands, considering The View’s Sunny Hostin charged, “People are dying the slow response?” because of some of the information that’s being Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin, another disseminated from these clown press conferences.” fake conservative, tweeted her own formula for Morning Joe’s Mika Brzezinski fumed that the calculating the “Trump death toll” from the virus, briefings were “a complete waste of time,” they adding that related deaths “are victims of Trump’s “literally have no value.” stupidity and narcissism.” “[W]e cannot be a part of spreading These intrepid journalists, not surprisingly, never disinformation, of lying to the American people,” she issued similar news reports when swine flu (H1N1) declared. This is the same Brzezinski who peddled was wiping out more than 12,000 Americans during “Russia collusion” disinformation for two-plus years. President Barack Obama’s tenure. No liberal reporter On CNN, Anderson Cooper was furious, railing that asked Obama, “Is there blood on your hands?” Trump had hijacked his own press conference and Hollywood, predictably, jumped on the was using the briefings as a “reelection platform, Trump=Death bandwagon. Former Seinfeld actor an opportunity to lie, to deflect, to attack, to bully, Jason Alexander, for instance, tweeted, “This is the and cover up ….” As conservative Larry O’Connor most despicable man to ever inhabit the Oval Office. observed, “Cooper and his peers think these briefings Thousands will die needlessly for his arrogance and are theirs. They think the briefing room is for them. incompetence. … We must remove this horror from They think they get to make the rules and if the power asap.” president or his staff don’t adhere to them, they are Actress/activist Sarah Silvermann tweeted that out of line.” conservatives “are responsible for thousands of It’s the briefings as well as any other venue deaths” from the virus. The View’s Joy Behar snarked, controlled by a conservative president that leftist “Tom Hanks has coronavirus and we have Forrest journalists seek to subvert. They want to set the Gump in the White House! Isn’t it a fact and obvious narrative, define what the public hears, and censor that Trump’s party does not care about people?” what doesn’t advance their agenda. At the MRC, we Left-wing director Spike Lee said he doesn’t call document and expose that liberal media bias every Trump “by his name. I call him Agent Orange.” day, and we’ve been doing it for 33 years. Back in the real “news” world, CNN’s Jake Tapper You can help us in this good fight by making a retweeted an item from Trump-hater George Conway donation to our non-profit organization. Use the reply that said the president is “100% insane, and nobody in card and postage-paid envelope enclosed with this the administration has the ba**s to tell him that.” newsletter to send your most generous gift today. When called out by constitutional law Prof. Sincerely, Jonathan Turley, who said the tweet reaffirmed the belief that the media are “campaigning against Trump rather than covering him,” Tapper backpedaled and L. Brent Bozell III then deleted the Conway smear. Founder and President 2 • MRC WATCHDOG • MAY 2020 Bozell to Trump: $75 Million for Corporation for Public Broadcasting in Coronavirus Relief Bill is Wasteful and Misguided In an Apr. 2 letter to President Donald Trump, MRC President Brent Bozell denounced the fact that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which funds PBS and NPR programming, received $75 million as part of the coronavirus/relief bill, the CARES Act. He then detailed how that money could have been better spent to help Americans suffering from the pandemic. Below is Bozell’s letter to the president. L. Brent Bozell III Founder and President Dear Mr. President, As you are aware, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) received a $75 million grant from the Federal Government as a part of the CARES Act. We believe that was misguided. Just as Amazon, Microsoft, Ford Motor Corporation, and Starbucks have given so generously to help in the fight against COVID-19, so should the CPB give. The CARES Act is already law and the money the government issued to the CPB is unlikely to be returned. Regardless, it is worth noting what this money could have been spent on instead. Seventy-five million dollars could have purchased: • 300,000 Covid-19 test kits or, • 192,307,692 masks or, • 4,166 ventilators or, • 357,483,318 pairs of medical gloves or, • 21,428 hospital beds or, • 12,500,000 bottles of hand sanitizer At this point in our country’s history, all of these things are infinitely better uses of taxpayer money than giving it to left-wing outlets like NPR and PBS, both of which attack you and your administration continuously. According to CPB’s own website, it already has a bloated annual budget of $445 million. As you have appropriately called for yet again this year, federal funding for CPB should be completely eliminated. As with any other private entity in a free society, the CPB should have to compete in the free market to convince consumers that its programming is worth their financial support. Anything else is legalized plunder. The CPB produces programs promoting values which many Americans just don’t agree with.