“…“I’m delighted to have the endorsement of my old friend, CornPop,” he said as horrified aides attempted to cut off the footage. “You know, CornPop and me go way back…
…Biden also praised “CornPop” as “clean and articulate.”
“Anyway, it’s great to have CornPop’s endorsement, and I know that working together, we can build a stronger Canada.”“
Rumors the Dimocrats’ Increasingly Insensate Uncle in the Biden Basement initially remarked, “Corn Pop, what big EARS you have!” could not be confirmed.
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, as regards the FOX News exclusive regarding the origins of the Wuhan virus, we’re with Jim Geraghty, who, though still rightfully cautious, accurately observes…
“I can’t quite spike the football yet; I wishBrett Baier and Gregg Re of Fox News had been able to use named sources,and that these sources could have at least hinted at anything not yet publicly known about the labs in Wuhan that made them suspect that SARS-CoV-2 started from an accidental release.
But you can feel the ground shifting underneath your feet:
There is increasing confidence that COVID-19 likely originated in a Wuhan laboratory, though not as a bioweapon(although, it should be noted, most EVERY ChiCom research program is dual purpose) but as part of China’s effort to demonstrate that its efforts to identify and combat viruses are equal to or greater than the capabilities of the United States, multiple sources who have been briefed on the details of early actions by China’s government and seen relevant materials tell Fox News.
This may be the “costliest government coverup of all time,” one of the sources said.
The sources believe the initial transmission of the virus was bat-to-human, and that “patient zero” worked at the laboratory, then went into the population in Wuhan.
The “increasing confidence” comes from classified and open-source documents and evidence, the sources said. Fox News has requested to see the evidence directly. Sources emphasized — as is often the case with intelligence — that it’s not definitive and should not be characterized as such.Some inside the administration and the intelligence and epidemiological communities are more skeptical, and the investigation is continuing.
What all of the sources agree about is the extensive cover-up of data and information about COVID-19 launched by the Chinese government.
Documents detail early efforts by doctors at the lab and early efforts at containment. The Wuhan wet market initially identified as a possible point of origin never sold bats, and the sources tell Fox News that blaming the wet market was an effort by China to deflect blame from the laboratory, along with the country’s propaganda efforts targeting the U.S. and Italy…
China “100 percent” suppressed data and changed data, the sources tell Fox News. Samples were destroyed, contaminated areas scrubbed, some early reports erased, and academic articles stifled.
If someday there is an outbreak of anew, strange, and deadly virus in the Cumberland area of northwest Atlanta, people will understandably wonder if the virus first manifesting there had anything to do with the fact that the headquarters of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is nearby.If someday there is an outbreak of a new, strange, and deadly virus in Frederick, Md., people will understandably wonder if the outbreak has anything to do with the nearby U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick.
And when there is an outbreak of anovel coronavirus that originated in bats in Wuhan, China, people understandably start to wonder if it has anything to do with the two laboratories in the city that were doing research on novel coronaviruses in bats.
A few people sometimes ask whether it really matters whether this virus originated from someone being less careful than they needed to be with a bat in a laboratory or biological material from the bats. I assume these are good faith questions, and not some sort of effort to preserve the good name of the Chinese government. Indeed, to the doctors trying to save lives right now, and to those suffering the effects of SARS-CoV-2 right now, the scenario that brought the virus into humans doesn’t matter that much, at least at this moment.
But if we want to ensure nothing like this happens again, we need to know how this virus first got into humans.
The irony is that every possible transmission path paints the Chinese government as incredibly reckless and unconcerned about the risk to human life…”
Xi Jinping…
And had we our way, there’d be a rope around it as well.
… today?!? If timing is everything, Senator Murphy…
So here’s to this week’s winner of the Billy Madison award for mind-numbing asininity:
Congratulations, Chris: you put the “nut” in the “Nutmeg State”…along with the idiots who elected you.
In a related item of Progressive kowtowing to Peking, this article cited by Keith Koffler reminds us the WHO isn’t the only organization who’s been kissing Xi’s ass, as we learn…
“…Six years ago, Bloomberg News killed an investigation into the wealth of Communist Party elites in China, fearful of repercussions by the Chinese government. The company successfully silenced the reporters involved. And it sought to keep the spouse of one of the reporters quiet, too.
“They assumed that because I was the wife of their employee, I was the wife,” the author and journalist Leta Hong Fincher tells NPR. “I was justan appendage of their employee. I was not a human being.” (In other words, pretty much the same view Little Mike has of women in general!)
…Mike Bloomberg was the mayor of New York City.Officially, he had relinquished control of the company. In reality, his former executives say, Bloomberg was in frequent contact and shared his aspirations for growth in China.
At a press conference after The New York Times first wrote about the internal fight over the decision not to publish, Bloomberg denied the story had been killed. “Nobody thinks we are wusses and not willing to stand up and write stories that are of interest to the public and that are factually correct,” Bloomberg said at a City Hall press conference. (Little Mike is right: nobody “thinks” it, everyone KNOWS it!)
Two months after those remarks, Bloomberg’s term as mayor ended and he returned to the company he founded. In January 2014, Bloomberg held a town hall for his global newsroom. NPR also obtained portions of that audio. Asked about the China controversy, Bloomberg sounded a new note.
“If a country gives you the license to do something with certain restrictions, you have two choices,” Bloomberg told his staff. “You either accept the license and do it that way, or you don’t do business there.”
…Through a corporate spokesman, Bloomberg LP and its founder, the former mayor, declined to comment for this story…”
Little Mike Bloomberg: just another brick in the wall of the basest sort of avarice and greed which enabled Xi Jinping and the ChiComs to loose the Peking Plague upon an unsuspecting world.
“…Trump has eyed May 1 as the day that restrictions start to be loosened across the U.S. — although to what extent that happens is up to governors and other local officials.
But some of them are urging caution on reopening the economy and warning of a potential second wave of infections if the U.S. reopens too soon — which is the phrase Berenson referred to in his skeptical tweet.
“Before we start to relax, there is some troubling news about a second wave,” New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said last week. “We don’t want the same thing to happen twice.”
“We’ve got to make sure that we avoid a second wave at all costs. That would be devastating for our economy,” Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who has come under fire for her state’s stringent lockdown requirements, said this week. “So we’re going to make decisions based on science and having a real strategic phase-in of our economy when it’s appropriate and safe to do.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci, on the White House coronavirus task force, has also expressed concern about a second wave of infections in the near future. “I’ll guarantee you, once you start pulling back there will be infections. It’s how you deal with the infections that’s going count,” Fauci told the Associated Press.
But Berenson is skeptical there has even been a first wave, and has been a strong critic of the models that had their initial predictions significantly downgraded. He has also pointed to evidence that, outside of hot spots like New York, hospitals are not overburdened.
“It is worth remembering in the United States outside of New York City, and possibly New Orleans and Detroit, there has BEEN NO FIRST WAVE. There have barely even been ripples. That’s why the hospitals are empty,” he tweeted…”
At the risk of seeming to doubt the wisdom and authority of the Progressive powers-that-be, allow us to pose a few questions which conform to the colors of highlighted sections above:
Governor A. “the ‘A’ is for ‘A-hole'” Cuomo: By definition, were the “same thing” to happen, it would be happening for the second time, i.e., “twice”; then again, likely for fear they were being handed real jobs, the Cuomo family all seems to have been hiding behind the door when the brains were distributed. Otherwise, fine: you’re the governor, you keep your state’s economy shut down as long as you like…right up until the voters tar and feather your ignorant a*s and run you out of Albany on a rail!
Governor Witless Whitmer: (1) Please define “all costs“, or are we to assume you would beggar every citizen of Michigan in order to save just one life, and thus have wholly-unfamiliar with the concept cost-benefit analyses?!? ; (2) What has been the “scientific” bases for your draconian, often unconstitutional pronouncements thus far?; and, (3) When you mention the term “real” strategic phase-in of Michigan’s economy, is that as opposed to a “fabricated” strategic phase-in?!?
Dr. Anthony “Long Past His Expiration Date” Fauci: Thank you Captain Obvious…or, if you’ll pardon our French, “No SH*T, Sherlock!!!” We’re not an epidemiologist, but we have stayed in a Holiday Inn Express, so WE TOO will guarantee, once we start reopening the economy, there WILL be new infections. We’ll go Fauci one better and guarantee if we DON’T reopen the economy, there will STILL be new infections.
Here’s the juice: our problem is, has been and always will be the sort of Hobson’s choice such founts-of-misinformation-disguised-as-wisdom offer between government doing nothing and government doing everything.
As usual, the truth lies somewhere in between, as evidenced by the examples of Sweden and South Dakota reported by the WSJ‘s Holman Jenkins and Best of the Web‘s Jim Freeman respectively.
It’s also worth noting, while New York City might at one point seemed on the brink of disaster, today the Comfort sits off the city unoccupied by anyone but its crew and medical staff.
Wake up and smell the Socialism, America: like the ChiComs, these people are NOT your friends, they’re NOT concerned about either your family or its fortunes and they do NOT have America’s best interests at heart. Most importantly, they…
…until you are utterly under their control and totally dependent uponthem for your every need…including toilet paper and hand sanitizer.
Since we’re on the subject of dissimulating Dimocrats, NRO‘s Dan McLaughlin details why…
“A remarkable thing happened Monday: The New York Times executive editor, Dean Baquet, actually had to answer questions about his paper’s very different coverage of sexual-assault allegations againstJoe BidenandBrett Kavanaugh. It did not go well. It is simply impossible to read the interview and the Times coverage of the two cases and come away believing that the Times acted in good faith or, frankly, that it even expects anyone to believe its explanations. The paper’s motto, at this point, may as well be “All the NewsYou’re Willing to Buy.”
For all their lectures to the public about transparency and fearless independence, prestige journalists tend to be very reluctant to face accountability of their own. Ben Smith, who only recently left his position as editor in chief of BuzzFeed (Now THAT’s a position of journalistic moral authority!!!) for a perch as media reporter for the Times, deserves credit for putting Baquet to some tough questioning. Let’s walk through the Times’ very belated reporton the Biden allegations and Baquet’s defenses of that reporting. The article, blandly titled “Examining a Sexual Assault Allegation Against Biden,” ran on A20 of the Easter Sunday edition of the paper. On the same day, the Times opinion page ran a much more visible op-ed by Biden himself on his proposals to reopen the country.
…Baquet bobs and weaves over factors that normally would go into evaluating the credibility of an allegation, such as the importance of telling someone else at the time. Reade provided witnesses to the Timeswho said they were told by her about sexual harassment (not assault) by Biden in 1993, but they wereunwilling to go on record; Ford brought no such source forward: “I don’t mean to imply that the notion that the person told someone contemporaneously is the ultimate test. It’s not. There are a lot of tests.”
The Times report noted blandly that “the seven other women who had complained about Mr. Biden told the Times this month that they did not have any new information about their experiences to add, but several said they believed Ms. Reade’s account.” No further statements were elicited, in contrast to the lurid efforts to get supporting quotes for Ford from people who had never even met Kavanaugh. In fact, unlike Reade (for whom the Times was easily able to confirm her employment in Biden’s office), there was never any corroborating evidence produced that Ford had ever met Kavanaugh.
The Times asked Reade about “medium posts and tweets, several of which are now deleted, she had written praising President Vladimir Putin.”
Its reporting was never similarly curious about why Ford had purged her social-media accounts.Nor did the Times ever report that Ford’s own lawyer admitted after the hearings that “part of what motivated Christine” was wanting to put “an asterisk next to his name.”
Then there was this doozy of an exchange:
SMITH: I want to ask about some edits that were made after publication, the deletion of the second half of the sentence: “The Times found no pattern of sexual misconduct by Mr. Biden, beyond the hugs, kisses and touching that women previously said made them uncomfortable.” Why did you do that?
BAQUET: Even though a lot of us, including me, had looked at it before the story went into the paper, I think that the campaign thought that the phrasing was awkward and made it look like there were other instances in which he had been accused of sexual misconduct. And that’s not what the sentence was intended to say.
That “beyond the hugs, kisses and touching that women previously said made them uncomfortable” is a pretty big “other than.” But even more damning is Baquet’s open admission that he changed the line under pressure from “the campaign” — Joe Biden’s campaign. We know who really calls the shots here.“
The WSJ echoes the rank hypocrisy of Joe’s #MeToo moment thusly:
“…After Mr. Biden had left office, Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, was accused by Christine Blasey Ford of sexually assaulting her when the two were in high school. Mr. Biden spoke generally at the time about these kind of he-said, she-said cases involving a public figure.
“For a woman to come forward in the glaring lights of focus, nationally,” he told reporters, “you’ve got to start off with the presumption that at least the essence of what she’s talking about is real, whether or not she forgets facts, whether or not it’s been made worse or better over time.” Again, except for now.
The accusation against Mr. Biden has also exposed the double standards of the media. When Mr. Kavanaugh was the target, for example, the New York Times reported Julie Swetnick’s charges—including that she’d seen Mr. Kavanaugh at high school parties where women were “gang raped”—the same day she made them. They were smears backed up by no evidence. There’s been much less media appetite to report on Ms. Reade’s claims.
Times editor Dean Baquet waited 19 days to report her allegation and was asked by his own media columnist why Mr. Kavanaugh was treated differently. His answer: “So I thought in [Ms. Reade’s] case, if The New York Times was going to introduce this to readers, we needed to introduce it with some reporting and perspective. Kavanaugh was in a very different situation. It was a live, ongoing story that had become the biggest political story in the country. It was just a different news judgment moment.” It sure was…”
To borrow a phrase from Animal House, The Times might as well…
…as its long surrendered any shred of integrity…journalistic or otherwise…it ever possessed.
Yes, as evidenced by the written appeal below, and despite Jeff Bezos being one of the few billionaires to have seen an increase in his net worth since the beginning of 2020…it having increased around 20% over the last four months to some $138 billion…it’s undeniable Amazon DID…
…the subsequent editing notwithstanding:
Which just goes to prove, when you entrust your company’s public relations to a proven prevaricating Progressive propagandist…
…you get far less than your money’s worth. But when you’re the richest man in the world…yet still solicit support from the masses for your employees…WTF do YOU care?!?
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s this meme from our sister-in-law Amy…
…along with several from Balls Cotton…
…and Ed Hickey:
Finally, we’ll call it a week with yet another sordid story straight from the pages of The Crime Blotter, courtesy today of the New York Post via George Lawlor, and a…
“…Joseph Edwards Williams was facing drug charges when he and 163 other inmates — considered low level offenders — were sprung from Hillsborough County Jail on March 19, according to WFLA, citing the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office. Authorities believe that Williams was the triggerman who fatally shot a man the next day in the Progress Village area, the report said.
…Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister slammed Williams, claiming “hetook advantage” of the administrative order to free inmates amid the coronavirus pandemic to “commit crimes.” “As a result, I call on the State Attorney to prosecute this defendant to the fullest extent of the law,” Chronister said…”
Yeah,…
An incarcerated criminal uses the opportunity provided by an idiotic Progressive policy to…wait for it…commit another crime.
Whooda THUNK it?!? Reports Sheriff Chronister tempered his criticism of Williams when the accused killer explained he didn’t realize Progress Village was a gun-free zone remain unconfirmed.
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