CNN Asks: “What Would High School Burnout Jeff Spicoli Do?”

On Thursday evening CNN’s Anderson Cooper hosted a global Town Hall with world-renowned epidemiology and virology expert Sean Penn.

During the farcical town hall, Penn was asked to share his expertise on how the U.S. military could stop the spread of the Chinese virus everyone wants us to refer as COVID-19 so as not to stigmatize the pandemic’s country of origin.

Penn will always be Jeff Spicoli, the bud-loving high school burnout who starred in Fast Times At Ridgemont High, in my eyes.

Spicoli said, “There is no greater humanitarian force on the planet than the United States military. The logistical skills, commitment to service, their care for the people. It’s really time to give the military the full breadth command and control of this operation. I wouldn’t blink, I would have put command and control in their hands a month ago, certainly today.”

“I could talk quite a bit about what should have been done, now with the lives that have been lost and the amount of people that are sick, clearly what we have to do, and what the military does so well, in terms of coordination…coordinating with hospitals, building hospitals, they can build a hospital in 25 minutes,” Penn said, explaining that he highly respects the National Guard but the military is needed on U.S. soil during the pandemic.

Spicoli Penn has no medical background, although he did play a 19th-century doctor in a movie last year. He has never served a day in the military.  He is a wife beater.  He just adores murderous drug cartel leaders like Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.  In 2016 he interviewed the Mexican drug lord for Rolling Stone.  The interview unintentionally made it possible for U.S law enforcement to locate and capture the slimeball.

The socialist douchebag has repeatedly drawn criticism for his activist efforts even attempting to blend it with journalism by visiting Iraq after the U.S. invasion in 2005.

What CNN’s Town Hall amounted to was little more than an attack on President Trump’s handling of this national health emergency.  It offered little in the way of rational information, instead it promoted panic and hysteria.  Their desperation to fill up airtime with a hard-left, intellectually underdeveloped actor is both unserious and disgraceful.

My friend over at Diogenes’ Middle Finger has a quote I’d like to share with you: 

“It's in the nature of political writing and reporting to dramatize and the rewards in the Internet era are entirely on the side of hysterical dramatization.  The past 20 years of Internet-driven panic and hysteria have dramatically lowered the public opinion of media; writers and artists in general. In the liberal community, these professions are generally seen as caring and driven by the desire to educate. But that's seldom true.  Those professions are mostly home to reckless drama queens determined to advance their personal ambitions with dramatic presentations. And most of those entertainers and artists aren't very smart.  The emotionally self-indulgent are naturally inclined to be irrational.”

Last yesterday afternoon, POLITICO published a report pointing out former Vice President Joe Biden has made no public appearances or statements since his most recent victories against Comrade Bernie.  He has instead been talking with health officials, businesses, governors and members of Congress in an effort to start “shadow briefing” on the coronavirus pandemic to show how he would handle the crisis.

Biden’s home is being outfitted with equipment that would enable him to livestream events, have interactive tele-press conferences and broadcast interviews with network television.  Biden confessed he hired a professional team to do that because “that’s a little above my pay grade to know how to do that.”

Brad Parscale, Trump Campaign Manager said, “Biden will take attention from real updates Americans should know just to score political points.”

His first virtual town hall, a week ago today, was an unmitigated disaster rife with technical difficulties, garbled audio, blank screens and randomly going live to unsuspecting participants.  And hilariously, at one point Biden walked out of the frame and could be heard asking, “Am I on camera?”

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