CNN Is Full Of Yapping Turds

DISCLAIMER:  This blog makes abundant use of Photoshop®.  It is incumbent upon me to stress the above graphic has NOT been photoshopped.  It was taken from a published report from Daily Mail UK titled “CNN's Michael Smerconish is slammed for comparing Senator Bernie Sanders to the CORONAVIRUS, asking if either can be 'stopped'”

CNN is in hot water with supporters of Bernie Sanders after Michael Smerconish compared the Democratic frontrunner to the coronavirus that has killed just under 3,000 people worldwide and devastated financial markets across the globe on his early morning show.

Twitter lit up to slam the host as well as the cable news outfit noting "the network decided to get rid of the chyron" when sharing the host’s segment on Twitter.

#FireSmerconish even started trending as various users demanded action be taken against the host.

Let me be crystal clear.  I do not support Comrade Bernie.  I torch him regularly on this blog.  I vehemently denounce his Marxist leanings, criticize his unkempt appearance, the way he says “Cuber” and “Chiner” and his so-called “revolution”.

I would never equate the man to a deadly virus no matter how much I detest him.

Democratic presidential candidates have been describing the federal infectious-disease bureaucracy as rudderless and ill-prepared for the coronavirus threat because of budget cuts and ham-handed leadership by President Donald Trump. That’s an egregiously distorted picture, so says The Associated Press.

Some public health experts say a bigger concern than White House budgets is the steady erosion of a CDC grant program for state and local public health emergency preparedness — the front lines in detecting and battling new disease. But that decline was set in motion by a congressional budget measure that predates Trump.

The public health system has a playbook to follow for pandemic preparation — regardless of who’s president or whether specific instructions are coming from the White House. Those plans were put into place in anticipation of another flu pandemic but are designed to work for any respiratory-borne disease.

“The CDC’s response has been excellent, as it has been in the past,” said John Auerbach, president of the nonpartisan Trust for America’s Health, which works with government at all levels to improve the nation’s response to high-risk health crises. Some Democrats have charged that Trump decimated the nation’s public health leadership, but Auerbach said CDC’s top scientific ranks have remained stable during the past three years.

Last night, the President was speaking at a campaign rally in Charleston, SC and brought up the coronavirus and Democrats’ attempts to politicize the issue calling it their new hoax.

His comment was referring to Democrats claiming his administration is not doing a good job containing the virus. He never said the coronavirus itself is a hoax, just Democrats’ claims that the Trump Administration is failing to protect the country.

A POLITICO headline after the rally read: “Trump rallies his base to treat coronavirus as a ‘hoax.’”

No, he did not!

Quit playing god-damned politics. It is beyond shameful the way the press and Democrats have been spreading false information that undermines the nation’s efforts to face a potential pandemic.

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