The media is garbage, continued

Federalist: "Media Freaks Out On ‘MyPillow’ CEO Mike Lindell For Encouraging Americans To Read The Bible."

More - From Instapundit. 

Daily reminder the media is garbage

Red State: "The Washington Post’s Gleeful Hot Take on the Crashing Economy Gets the Thrashing It Deserves."  These people are not serious.

Extra - ICYMI, here's the idiot high-school graduate Chuck Todd yesterday.

Gas is really cheap for the car you don't drive

BBC: "Coronavirus: Oil price collapses to lowest level for 18 years."

Saw $1.59 gas recently here in Western Massachusetts.

New Yorkers flee Gotham

Fox News: "Cuomo threatens lawsuit over Rhode Island crackdown on virus-fleeing New Yorkers."

I have family in the Hudson Valley of New York and they say the area is being overrun by people from New York City, getting out of town and staying at vacation homes or B&Bs.

Extra - Hot Air: "The Hamptons Is Seeking A Travel Ban… From NYC."

All is proceeding as foreseen

David Harsanyi: "Will Biden live up to his own principles?"  With regard to Tara Reade, that is.

Surely, as with Kavanaugh, the existence of the accusation is disqualifying?

Apparently not, for ideals of justice seem to be quite malleable these days. Journalistic norms, too. The same media that relayed every unsubstantiated and tawdry rumor during the Kavanaugh confirmation, and that happily transmitted the Michael Avenatti–produced gang-rape smear, is treating Reade’s story quite differently. Why, we might ask, isn’t Reade receiving the same coverage as E. Jean Carroll, a woman who accused Donald Trump of assaulting her in 1995 or 1996 at a Bergdorf Goodman store in Manhattan? Virtually every major news organization let Carroll tell her story. Reade has been trying to tell hers for decades. Believe women?

This was all predicted during the Kavanaugh smear: that a Democrat would be accused and the mainstream media would shrug it off.  We are not surprised.

For the record, I don't believe this allegation at all.  But I don't get to make that decision.  It was Biden and the Democrats who decided that the mere presence of an allegation in this #MeToo world was enough.  As Harsanyi notes in detail: these are the rules the Democrats set.

Here comes the relief

Legal Insurrection: "House Passes $2 Trillion Wuhan Coronavirus Bill, Heads to Trump’s Desk."

One interesting detail from this story: members of the House were sitting in the gallery so that there would be proper distance between everyone.

This is a mistake

Twitchy: "Tough guy Joe Biden’s latest shot at Donald Trump isn’t the slam-dunk he thinks it is."  Long story short, Biden is blaming the spike in unemployment claims on Trump.

This is never going to fly because there's no way that Biden can explain what he might have done differently to limit job losses.  Let's see if the deeply unpopular American media will ask him or keep on pretending he's a viable candidate with all his marbles.

Listen to the scientists

Hope this guy is right.  NY Post: "Coronavirus turning point in US will be earlier than predicted, Nobel laureate says." 

Inside fun

The Paris Review: "A Brief History of Word Games."

Via Arts & Letters Daily.

It's the New York Times, of course

What happened to this paper?  When I was younger, I read the Times pretty regularly.  It's a sham now.  Power Line: "Our garbage media in one story."

Bookmark this page

A really excellent source tracking Coronavirus: "Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University." 

Well, this made me laugh

Imgur: "Out-of-work sportscaster calls everyday life."

The media is trash

Your daily reminder from Instapundit.

How the journalists think

So we got that goin' for us

Fox News: "Tax Day moving to July 15 amid coronavirus crisis." 

What this guy said

When I saw this headline, I thought it was the Onion

CBS Baltimore: "Baltimore Mayor Begs Residents To Stop Shooting Each Other So Hospital Beds Can Be Used For Coronavirus Patients." 

There goes the GOAT

Fox News: "Tom Brady to join Tampa Bay Buccaneers, agrees to deal in principle." 

Damn...Dow minus 3 large

Fox Business: "Dow drops 2,997 points on word coronavirus crisis could extend until August."

Until today, I thought the coronovirus threat was overblown but apparently everybody else disagrees.  In the morning, I got an email from Planet Fitness saying they're closing down and in the afternoon my company - the place where I make a living - said they were reviewing options.  Suddenly the old saw that when your neighbor is unemployed, it's a recession but when you're unemployed, it's a depression.

Now I'm scared.  This feels like a black swan event.

On the other hand...she used Purell

CNN: "Infected people without symptoms might be driving the spread of coronavirus more than we realized."  Hmmmm.

Hoisted by our own petard

Is the response to coronavirus causing much more damage to health and wealth than the virus itself?  Heather MacDonald: "Compared to what? - Our misguided response to Covid-19"

The number of cases in most afflicted countries is paltry. As of today, 127 countries had reported some cases, but forty-eight of those countries had fewer than ten cases, according to Worldometer. At this point, more people have recovered from the virus than are still sick. But the damage to people’s livelihoods through the resulting economic contraction is real and widespread. Its health consequences will be more severe than those of the coronavirus, as Steve Malanga shows in City Journal. The people who can least afford to lose jobs will be the hardest hit by the assault on tourism. Small entrepreneurs, whether in manufacturing or the service sector, will struggle to stay afloat. Such unjustified, unpredicted economic havoc undermines government legitimacy.

Instapundit posts an email about how restaurants are barren, hurting the livelihoods of the wait staff, busboys, hosts, and cooks.  Panic has already erased trillions in the stock market for fewer deaths than a week in Chicago.

Sundown Joe in a crisis

Politifact: "“During the 2009 swine flu outbreak, Biden made reckless comments unsupported by science & the experts. The Obama Admin had to clean up his mess & apologize for his ineptitude.”

Verdict: Mostly true.

This part made me laugh:

The Obama administration did not issue a formal apology about his comments.

Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry.

It's a mystery why the media keeps losing credibility

Twitchy: "Stock markets rally DURING President Trump’s press conference."

Ace: "Former New York Times "Reporter" Jim Roberts Tweets, "The Dow Has Fallen 300 points Since Trump Started Speaking," Then Stealth-Deletes as Down Rises Nearly 10%, Nearly 2000 Points." 

Media who spent 3+ years peddling the Russia hoax, doxxing random meme makers, harassing grandmothers, defaming Catholic teenagers, lying about Kavanaugh, and claiming Net Neutrality was Armageddon didn’t magically start telling you the truth last week. https://t.co/tgK1SCY7DN

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) March 13, 2020

Un-captive audience

Babylon Bee: "CNN's Ratings Collapse As Coronavirus Fears Empty American Airports."

Don't stand so close to me

Now I've seen it all

Sarah Palin was unmasked on "The Masked Singer" tonight after singing "Baby Got Back".

Wut.

Here comes the gaslighting

Ace: "Media Rushes In to Defend Old Sick Demented Man."

It was only a couple of days ago that Joe Lockhart was aghast at suggestions of Joe Biden's obvious cognitive decline. Then, today, we were treated to this:

Different angle, close up of ⁦@JoeBiden⁩’s aggressive and clearly unstable behavior while yelling at the auto worker. pic.twitter.com/dzk2dshfZH

— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) March 10, 2020

This is some grade-A fake news

Daily News: "It’s the decency, stupid: The secret to Joe Biden’s resiliency."

Oh rly?  Red State: "Joe Biden Lied for Years About the Car Accident That Claimed the Life of His Wife and Daughter."

Paste: "The 10 Worst Things Joe Biden Has Done in His Political Career."

CNN: "Biden in 1993 speech pushing crime bill warned of 'predators on our streets' who were 'beyond the pale'." 

The class warfare two-step

Charles C.W. Cooke: "The ‘Million Dollars Per Person’ Affair Is Telling."

This, right here, is why so many left-leaning Americans think that “the billionaires” can pay for everything. It’s why Elizabeth Warren was enthusiastically boosted by the media despite her ridiculous pretense that she could pay for a series of gargantuan initiatives without raising taxes on anyone but the extremely rich. It’s why Democrat after Democrat promises not to raise “middle class taxes” while promising programs that require the raising of middle class taxes. How did this bad tweet make it onto TV to be endorsed? Why did Mara Gay agree with it? Why didn’t Brian Williams notice? Because the people involved in this clip thought it was true. This is how they see the world.

That's correct: everybody on the Left views the rich as swimming in rooms of gold coins like Scrooge McDuck.  Then they convince themselves those billionaires "don't really need/deserve that money" and all bets are off, opening up spectacularly stupid and unconstitutional ideas like the wealth tax.

I forget who said it - P.J. O'Rourke maybe - but some wag once noted that when you boil it down the motto of the Democratic Party is "gimme a dollar."

Why do Democrats hate women?

Twitchy: "DNC announces threshold to qualify for next debate (guess who’s NOT going to make it)."

The only woman/Russian agent left in the race.  Bye, Tulsi!

Nevertheless, she desisted

I've been waiting months to make that joke.  But remember: it's not that Elizabeth Warren was a singularly bad candidate.  It's that Democrats are sexist and insecure:

That's right, Democrats. If you didn't support Elizabeth Warren for whatever reason -- her ridiculous policies, her established pattern of brazen lying about her own history, her off-putting personal affect, the awful grating sound of her voice as she hectors you for trying to live your life -- it's because you're insecure.

Please note that none of this applies to any woman who has ever run for political office as a Republican. It's not insecure to vote against those women for any reason. After all, they're Nazis!

Warren was, to borrow a phrase, a congenital liar.  She lied about her heritage, her son's private school, getting fired for being pregnant and almost certainly for Bernie's alleged comment about saying that women couldn't win.  Her public policies bent towards tyranny whether it was the wealth tax, throwing Americans off their health care, or eliminating the filibuster (somehow).  It's not misogyny to state that an unlikable candidate with terrible policy proposals should lose.

Tulsi's back, baby!

It looks like Tulsi Gabbard's single delegate in American Samoa is enough to get her back on the debate stage.

The end of Warren

Well, I can't stay up for the fireworks and what looks like a good night for Sundown Joe.  But we can all laugh at Liz Warren who is heading towards a third place finish in Massachusetts.

What a horribly inept campaign.  In October she was sky-high and then she threw it all away with boundless pandering and fuzzy math.

Choose your destroyer

Reason Online: "On Super Tuesday, Dems Pick Between a Biden Restoration and a Sanders Revolution. Both Are a Disaster for Liberty." 

The leg-tingles have ended

Federalist: "Embattled Chris Matthews Resigns Suddenly From MSNBC." 

You know the thing

Joe Biden mangled the Declaration of Independence while campaigning in North South Carolina while preparing for Super Thursday Tuesday. 

Pete is out

This is surprising considering he was just on "Meet the Press" this morning saying he was hopeful for Super Tuesday.  I know the guy has money (a lot more than Biden) so I wonder why the sudden departure.  Maybe it's one of those plays for a future cabinet position.

The fightingest fighter who ever fought is gonna fight and fight

Warren is going to stay in the fight to the bitter end.  Fox News: "Warren declares contested Democratic National Convention the 'final play'."

In a head-turning memo Sunday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren's campaign declared that "the reality of this race" is that "no candidate will likely have a path to the majority of delegates" at the July Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee, Wis. -- setting out in stark terms the possibility of a bruising convention that party leaders have long feared, and outlining Warren's strategy for winning the presidential nomination there in a dramatic "final play."

Also from the anti-Warren Legal Insurrection: "Warren Goes #StopBernie – Lashes Out After SC, Vows Convention Fight."  So now she's going after Bernie after burning up all her ammunition on Bloomberg in the last two debates.

The fact that Warren is now planning to stretch out her zombie campaign all the way to the convention doesn't surprise me at all.  Her whole schtick - first in Massachusetts and now nationally - is that she's a fighter who fights.  She couldn't possibly stop fighting until the fight is fought.