CNN Doubles Down on Its Decision to Publish Chinese State Propaganda as "News"

CNN this week published a report copying almost word-for-word a Chinese Communist Party press release praising the People's Liberation Army Navy's efforts to contain the coronavirus and degrading the U.S. Navy's failures to do likewise.
Almost as bad as CNN's promotion of Chinese propaganda is the network's defense of its decision to run state-sponsored agitprop.
The story was a "single update from our international site’s 24-7 Live Story," a CNN spokesman told the Daily Caller. He added, "[The story] explicitly states the sourcing as a PLA story and identifies the Global Times as 'a state-run tabloid.' That transparency is key as a global news source serving a global audience."
...
Everything about the People’s Liberation Army "report" cited by CNN screams that it is government propaganda, yet it ended up on CNN's website anyway.
How?
The original CNN story, bylined to an "international homepage editor" based at CNN’s Hong Kong bureau, was based entirely on a "news report" that appeared first on a Chinese government website. It is not the sort of place where an "international homepage editor" for a free press would normally trawl for genuine news items, unless the point was to contrast.
The author then made the judgment call that the Chinese government "report" was worthy of serious attention and news coverage, a decision that presumably required the backing of an editor. The author then wrote an article based entirely on a "report" that says the People’s Liberation Army believes the People’s Liberation Army is doing a great job. The CNN article was then (presumably) edited, double-checked by CNN web producers, and then published online. Considering the number of CNN employees who were likely involved in bringing the story to life, it is remarkable that no one flagged it for propaganda or even questioned the news value of a report that states simply that China believes China has handled the pandemic wonderfully.

Anyone else remember when collusion with a hostile foreign communist regime to influence an election was considered criminal?

Posted by: Ace at 07:33 PM

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1 China News Network

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 15, 2020 07:34 PM (OzQGF)

2 ha!

Posted by: Jamaica NYC, of Puritan stock at April 15, 2020 07:34 PM (4vNgL)

3 Just sad.

Posted by: Moki at April 15, 2020 07:35 PM (mFoNl)

4 This Cromwell talk has me all confused.

Posted by: Jamaica NYC, of Puritan stock at April 15, 2020 07:35 PM (4vNgL)

5 Ventriloquist Journalism. How does it feel to have a Chi-com hand up your ass, CNN?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 15, 2020 07:35 PM (guGkK)

6 What do you EXPECT from these people?

Roll the artillery to Atlanta.

Posted by: JEM at April 15, 2020 07:36 PM (8erNz)

7 Since GEOTUS is dusting off the Constitution, would someone please remind me what it says about traitors? Seems pertinent right about now.

Posted by: Anonymous Scandi Hobo who doesn't want to be turned into jerky at April 15, 2020 07:36 PM (O2PCU)

8 Fellow-traveling Fifth Columnists

FTFC

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 15, 2020 07:36 PM (sHVgQ)

9 Also, is anyone tired of the self righteous news promos of anchors telling me who they are social distancing for like it's a major feat????

Posted by: Moki at April 15, 2020 07:36 PM (mFoNl)

10 If CNN were not being supported by filthily rich billionairs they would have went tits up decades ago. They could never make it on ad revenue alone.

Posted by: Vic at April 15, 2020 07:36 PM (mpXpK)

11 Xi: "Say hello to the nice peeple, Tater!"

Tater: "Hello, nice peeple!"

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 15, 2020 07:36 PM (guGkK)

12 You know, at least the Soviets newspapers had the fig leaf of being thrown in the gulag if they did not lie.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 15, 2020 07:37 PM (A5zUN)

13 Oh, and top 10! Not bad for a lurker even if this lurker says so himself.

Posted by: Anonymous Scandi Hobo who doesn't want to be turned into jerky at April 15, 2020 07:37 PM (O2PCU)

14 Anyone else remember when collusion with a hostile foreign communist regime to influence an election was considered criminal?
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Hmmmm. Seems not too long ago...

Posted by: Axeman at April 15, 2020 07:37 PM (Eicbe)

15 11 Xi: "Say hello to the nice peeple, Tater!"

Tater: "Hello, nice peeple!"
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 15, 2020 07:36 PM (guGkK)

Tater Puppet!

Coming soon Tater Fleshlight!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 15, 2020 07:37 PM (A5zUN)

16 CNN delenda est.

And Obergovernorfuhrer Whitmer needs to lay off the carbs.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 15, 2020 07:37 PM (NWiLs)

17
China
News
Network

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 15, 2020 07:37 PM (G51Gf)

18 China
News
Network
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 15, 2020 07:37 PM (G51Gf)
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And we all know what China is....

Posted by: Axeman at April 15, 2020 07:38 PM (Eicbe)

19 Do the Chinese own high end gay bathhouses with cameras?

Posted by: Just Asking Questions at April 15, 2020 07:38 PM (zcvbQ)

20 We wanted a fight against the globalists. We got one.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2020 07:38 PM (ZLI7S)

21 CNN?

More like Xi-NN.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2020 07:38 PM (hYcqw)

22 I want to get back into bashing our dumbass "governors"

Posted by: Mog Smash at April 15, 2020 07:38 PM (CgFRV)

23 fuck them good and hard... perhaps more than once.

Posted by: Martini Farmer semper at April 15, 2020 07:38 PM (3H9h1)

24 18 China
News
Network
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 15, 2020 07:37 PM (G51Gf)
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And we all know what China is....
Posted by: Axeman at April 15, 2020 07:38 PM (Eicbe)

It's a highly populous country on the continent of Asia, but that's not important right now...

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 15, 2020 07:39 PM (NWiLs)

25 Wish I could believe that anything substantial would come out of hearings.

Posted by: SMH at April 15, 2020 07:39 PM (RU4sa)

26 Roll the artillery to Atlanta

Way ahead of you.

Posted by: Zombie General Sherman at April 15, 2020 07:39 PM (O2PCU)

27 Our entire government is compromised.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 15, 2020 07:39 PM (ieuPy)

28 wait wait
more Art II Sec 3

"he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, "

so it seems, theoretically at least, that the Pres could CONVENE the Senate so they could take up the issue of confirmations....

unless Im Wrong (TM)

Posted by: DB- just DB. at April 15, 2020 07:39 PM (iTXRQ)

29 fuck them good and hard... perhaps more than once.
Posted by: Martini Farmer semper at April 15, 2020 07:38 PM (3H9h1)
++++++++++++
Why should those bastards get to get off?

Lock them in chastity belts. Then lock them in cages. Then dangle those cages over the street and allow people to pelt them with rotten food.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2020 07:39 PM (hYcqw)

30
Who would believe a damn word from an outfit called the People's Liberation Army?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 15, 2020 07:39 PM (G51Gf)

31 It's only collusion when they say Trump colluded.

McCarthy was right.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 15, 2020 07:40 PM (vs2ae)

32 CNN.

Worthless as shit on a stick.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 15, 2020 07:41 PM (Z+IKu)

33 The artillery got caught in traffic.

Posted by: klaftern at April 15, 2020 07:41 PM (RuIsu)

34 The Manchurian Network

Posted by: Hands at April 15, 2020 07:42 PM (786Ro)

35 CNN: Where The Truth Comes For Assisted Suicide

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 15, 2020 07:42 PM (guGkK)

36 time for FCC to call CNN what it is

Posted by: Miss Issippi at April 15, 2020 07:42 PM (LIhNq)

37 CNN is asshoe

Posted by: Hands at April 15, 2020 07:42 PM (786Ro)

38 XiNN

Posted by: vmom 2020 at April 15, 2020 07:42 PM (G546f)

39 Mr. Zucker will be pleased to know that the company effected a cost avoidance of $307.14 by Eastern-sourcing this story.

Posted by: CNN Accounting Dept at April 15, 2020 07:42 PM (sWM8x)

40 30
Who would believe a damn word from an outfit called the People's Liberation Army?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 15, 2020 07:39 PM (G51Gf)

Fellow Commie fucksticks and useful idiots.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 15, 2020 07:42 PM (NWiLs)

41 Willowed (not me)

Mitch can request a quorum to show proof of session...or Trump can. Pelosi is not allowed to reject a motion for quorum from either the Senate or the Executive Branch. The Executive, to request quorum, has to declare an emergency, which Trump has already done...he doesn't need Mitch in truth...
Posted by: Boswell at April 15, 2020 07:39 PM (32YRo)

Some smart hordlings around here.

Posted by: LASue at April 15, 2020 07:42 PM (Ed8Zd)

42 Anyone else remember when collusion with a hostile foreign communist regime to influence an election was considered criminal?

No I don't and Hillary does not either.

Posted by: Syzygy at April 15, 2020 07:43 PM (B3kya)

43 MUCK just does not have the savoir faire of MUMR.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 15, 2020 07:43 PM (A5zUN)

44 Someone needs to increase MUMR's drip, stat.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 15, 2020 07:43 PM (guGkK)

45 GIVE YOU SURPRISE FABULOUS ANAL LIKE YOU'VE NEVER EXPERIENCED.
Posted by: MIRROR UNIVERSE CALVIN KLEIN

Tired of the otters, are you?

Posted by: Hands at April 15, 2020 07:43 PM (786Ro)

46 CNN this week published a report copying almost word-for-word a Chinese Communist Party press release

let me fix that for you:

"~~CNN~~ Every major media outlet for YEARS has done nothing but publish reports copying almost word-for-word Chinese Communist Party press releases."

Posted by: zombie at April 15, 2020 07:43 PM (N9G0H)

47 Your daily reminder, MUMR is insane.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2020 07:44 PM (ZLI7S)

48 MUCK just does not have the savoir faire of MUMR.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 15, 2020 07:43 PM (A5zUN)

Indeed. He is lacking that ...je ne sais quoi.

Posted by: runner at April 15, 2020 07:44 PM (zr5Kq)

49 So is it confirmed that Patient Zero was a Wuhan lab worker?

Posted by: vmom 2020 at April 15, 2020 07:44 PM (G546f)

50 Someone just broke in for a bout of unintelligible shrieking.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at April 15, 2020 07:44 PM (Uu+Jp)

51 Hairyback Guy @ 32- Worthless as shit on a stick.

Now there's a guy sounds like he's walked down a foreign sidewalk while wearing combat boots.

Posted by: Eromero at April 15, 2020 07:44 PM (XhWtx)

52 WutCh uz InzTeID! we nUrmAl! Wi liCke neWz

(draws on wall with feces)

Posted by: MSNBC, Not Crazy at April 15, 2020 07:44 PM (gvVTU)

53 47 Your daily reminder, MUMR is insane.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2020 07:44 PM (ZLI7S)

'Crazy' by Calvin Klein.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 15, 2020 07:44 PM (A5zUN)

54 Posted by: Hands at April 15, 2020 07:43 PM (786Ro)

Any man reposts an MUMR post, gets a night in the box.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 15, 2020 07:44 PM (guGkK)

55
let me fix that for you:

"CNN Every major media outlet for YEARS has done nothing but publish reports copying almost word-for-word Chinese Communist Party press releases."
Posted by: zombie at April 15, 2020 07:43 PM (N9G0H)
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Provided one defines the Obama Administration as "Chinese Communist Party".

Posted by: Axeman at April 15, 2020 07:45 PM (Eicbe)

56 Oh you're gonna get Hearings alright, but it ain't the ones you want.

Posted by: ... at April 15, 2020 07:45 PM (uEbPt)

57 Xi Whiz! Batman

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 15, 2020 07:45 PM (aKsyK)

58 Indeed. He is lacking that ...je ne sais quoi.
Posted by: runner at April 15, 2020 07:44 PM (zr5Kq)

Bless you. Corona??

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 15, 2020 07:45 PM (vs2ae)

59 "reporters"

Pinned Tweet

Ebony Bowden
@ebonybowden
·
1h
An enormous rat just ran behind
@realDonaldTrump
in the Rose Garden. You cannot make this stuff up.

Posted by: m at April 15, 2020 07:45 PM (M5wRT)

60 An enormous rat just ran behind
@realDonaldTrump
in the Rose Garden. You cannot make this stuff up.
---
Tell Acosta to sit down.

Posted by: Axeman at April 15, 2020 07:46 PM (Eicbe)

61 Yeah I'm certain the PLA and the PLA-N have had absolutely no problems and haven't been degraded at all.

sarc/

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Sing the Isolation Blues with Lockdown Laments from The Outrage Outlet! at April 15, 2020 07:46 PM (KZl3I)

62 "Today I am asking all Americans -- I'm asking every Democrat, I'm asking every independent, I'm asking a lot of Republican -- to come together in this campaign to support your candidacy which I endorse."
-- Comrade Bernardo Sanders, endorsing Joey Paste on Monday

So some (most?) Republicans aren't Americans, Bernie?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 15, 2020 07:46 PM (DMUuz)

63 Sounds a lot like CNN's playbook in Iraq during Operation Desert Storm.

They don't want to have their "journalists" expelled from Hong Kong, and as a bonus it's anti-Trump. What's not to like from CNN's perspective?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 15, 2020 07:46 PM (bDqIh)

64 It's a highly populous country on the continent of Asia, but that's not important right now...
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 15, 2020 07:39 PM

Ok...that made me LOL.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 15, 2020 07:46 PM (WoQyf)

65 Still working my way through the whole World Health Organization deliberate cover-up of the biggest threat to world health since WW-2.

Controlled by China. Headed up by the Ethiopian health minister. And, paid for by the United States. Have I got that right?

Leaving aside the whole Ethiopian health minister absurdity, what the hell is going on?

Not on their best day could the Mad Magazine writers come up with something like this.

How many WHO dollars get kicked back to various K street and congressional coffers?

Posted by: VADM Collingwood RN - holding Nelson's rum ration at April 15, 2020 07:46 PM (9X60i)

66 An enormous rat just ran behind
@realDonaldTrump
in the Rose Garden. You cannot make this stuff up.

It was probably scared shitless by a swarm of Obama Face-Flies.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 15, 2020 07:47 PM (guGkK)

67
I mean, the damn name itself screams bogosity. How about a soccer league?

The People's Liberation Army
The Ministry of Truth (and Tooth Extractions)
The Well-equipped Doctors of Cuba
The All-Volunteer Coal Miners of North Korea

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 15, 2020 07:47 PM (G51Gf)

68 60 An enormous rat just ran behind
@realDonaldTrump
in the Rose Garden. You cannot make this stuff up.
---
Tell Acosta to sit down.
Posted by: Axeman at April 15, 2020 07:46 PM (Eicbe)

Who let Schiff out of his cage!?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 15, 2020 07:47 PM (A5zUN)

69 >> So is it confirmed that Patient Zero was a Wuhan lab worker?
Posted by: vmom 2020

I worked my scales off in that place.

Posted by: Wuhan Pangolin at April 15, 2020 07:47 PM (0FTCx)

70 I'm shocked there are rats in DC. Shocked!

I used to work near the White House. The rats down there huge and numerous. You can watch the herds of rats gallop across Layfette Park.

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 15, 2020 07:47 PM (gvVTU)

71 i am starting to see that the dems have overplayed their hand once again in re quorum

play chess with the president. i dare you

one handed typing.. no caps

Posted by: Miss Issippi at April 15, 2020 07:47 PM (LIhNq)

72 China thinks that "Errant Lab worker " sounds a lot better to outside ears than "effed up protocols, and a third world country that cannot control its bugs".

Posted by: runner at April 15, 2020 07:47 PM (zr5Kq)

73 67
I mean, the damn name itself screams bogosity. How about a soccer league?

The People's Liberation Army
The Ministry of Truth (and Tooth Extractions)
The Well-equipped Doctors of Cuba
The All-Volunteer Coal Miners of North Korea
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 15, 2020 07:47 PM (G51Gf)

People's Republic of (fill in the blank)

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 15, 2020 07:48 PM (NWiLs)

74 One of you Morons live in Taneytown?

https://tinyurl.com/ybzzykqv

Posted by: April at April 15, 2020 07:48 PM (OX9vb)

75 She had a seat in the Rose Garden. That is one of her four tweets from the occasion.

Posted by: m at April 15, 2020 07:48 PM (M5wRT)

76 I remember hearing about another "report" about a "report" that became evidence in a FISA warrant. Let's see...when was that?

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at April 15, 2020 07:48 PM (7Fj9P)

77 Impossible...can't have election influence with several deep penetrations.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 15, 2020 07:48 PM (84Pcq)

78 Since Ace seems to be around, I wonder Patterico's lame-o whiny diary blog still is listed as a "Blogger In Arms." More like a Booger on his Arm, amirite?

Posted by: LASue at April 15, 2020 07:48 PM (Ed8Zd)

79 This is the People's Liberation Network

Posted by: Hands at April 15, 2020 07:48 PM (786Ro)

80 Why should those bastards get to get off?

Lock them in chastity belts. Then lock them in cages. Then dangle
those cages over the street and allow people to pelt them with rotten
food.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2020 07:39 PM (hYcqw)

You're way too kind.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 15, 2020 07:48 PM (9Om/r)

81 Bless you. Corona??
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 15, 2020 07:45 PM (vs2ae)

Guinness ??

Posted by: runner at April 15, 2020 07:48 PM (zr5Kq)

82 Anyone else remember when collusion with a hostile foreign communist regime to influence an election was considered criminal?

That was so ~~2016~~ ~~2017~~ ~~2018~~ 2019.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - hiding out in the secret mountain lair at April 15, 2020 07:49 PM (SchxB)

83 Impossible...can't have election influence with several deep penetrations.
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 15, 2020 07:48 PM (84Pcq)

Man, that's what I keep tellin' 'em.

Posted by: Joe Biden at April 15, 2020 07:49 PM (guGkK)

84 one handed typing.. no caps

Posted by: Miss Issippi at April 15, 2020 07:47 PM (LIhNq)

Um. Dare I ask what you're doing with the other hand?

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 15, 2020 07:49 PM (OzQGF)

85 Whitmer.

30 days ago a lock on the VP slot, helps sleazy Joe carry Michigan in the general election, becomes POTUS when the Alzheimer's diagnosis becomes too obvious for even Dems to ignore any more.

Now so toxic she can't appear in front of a hand-picked "town hall" or G-d forbid, an open audience anywhere in the state of Michigan.

All the big media's horses and men
will never put Whitman together again.

Posted by: Grand Rapids at April 15, 2020 07:50 PM (Xo3T0)

86 Ronald Reagan on the Tonight Show. 1/3/75.

Ah the days of $80 Billion dollar budget deficits.

Also, you will note he makes reference to the bureaucracy as a voting bloc.

https://tinyurl.com/ycut4uf5

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 15, 2020 07:50 PM (A5zUN)

87 Oh, to be in Jeddah now that April's here...

Posted by: Victoria Coates at April 15, 2020 07:50 PM (sWM8x)

88 Remember, even Fredo describes them as 'hyper-partisan.'

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 15, 2020 07:50 PM (oVJmc)

89 Worthless as shit on a stick.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 15, 2020 07:41 PM

* scribbles furiously *

Finally! Something I could sell that never been served deep-fried at the Texas State Fair.

Posted by: Beto at April 15, 2020 07:50 PM (DMUuz)

90 You can watch the herds of rats gallop across Layfette Park.
===============
I thought that was why the Dear Lord bestowed upon us the Armalite rifle in .223.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at April 15, 2020 07:51 PM (7Fj9P)

91 78 Since Ace seems to be around, I wonder Patterico's lame-o whiny diary blog still is listed as a "Blogger In Arms." More like a Booger on his Arm, amirite?
Posted by: LASue at April 15, 2020 07:48 PM (Ed8Zd)

Patterico's such a cucked-out fag, who wears his self-righteousness and false piety like one of Liberace's capes.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 15, 2020 07:51 PM (NWiLs)

92 ... praising the People's Liberation Army Navy's efforts ...

Their army has a navy?

Posted by: Hands at April 15, 2020 07:51 PM (786Ro)

93 I used to like Patterico.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 15, 2020 07:51 PM (guGkK)

94 He did some great work fisking the L.A. Times.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 15, 2020 07:52 PM (guGkK)

95 Patterico's such a cucked-out fag, who wears his self-righteousness and false piety like one of Liberace's capes.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 15, 2020 07:51 PM (NWiLs)

How sharper than a serpent's tooth is a betrayed... lawyer?

Employed Lawyer!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 15, 2020 07:52 PM (A5zUN)

96
Lock them in chastity belts. Then lock them in cages. Then dangle
those cages over the street and allow people to pelt them with rotten
food.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2020 07:39 PM (hYcqw)

You're way too kind.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
---------

It's a thin line between 'a hanging cage' and a 'gibbet'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 15, 2020 07:52 PM (sHVgQ)

97 Heard that asshat Hugh Hewitt on Seb Gorka's radio show today defending CNN claiming all their Communist Chinese Party Propaganda Publications are likely the result of "an over-stressed intern scrambling to assemble as many headlines as possible under pressure" or some such bullshit.

Hey Hugh, pull your head of out former President Romney's ass ...

Posted by: ShainS at April 15, 2020 07:52 PM (WqPYg)

98 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 15, 2020 07:52 PM (Zz0t1)

99 People's Republic of (fill in the blank) Massachusetts.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 15, 2020 07:48 PM

Yeah. It works.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 15, 2020 07:52 PM (WoQyf)

100 This includes you, CNN, since you're one in the same:

https://youtu.be/L3tnH4FGbd0

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 15, 2020 07:53 PM (Zz0t1)

101 Would be disappointed if no Quarantine Cafe tonight,

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2020 07:53 PM (ZCEU2)

102 >>Their army has a navy?
Posted by: Hands

Someone has to teach them sodomy, eh?

Posted by: Hundreds of years of English seagoing tradition at April 15, 2020 07:53 PM (0FTCx)

103 84 one handed typing.. no caps

Posted by: Miss Issippi at April 15, 2020 07:47 PM (LIhNq)

Um. Dare I ask what you're doing with the other hand?
Posted by: Jordan61 at April 15, 2020 07:49 PM (OzQGF)

Go on...

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 15, 2020 07:53 PM (NWiLs)

104 I know a lot of people don't care for redsteeze, but this is a good one:
---
Katy Tur has had a daily show since January of 2017, roughly 3 years. That's essentially 8 million deaths since she's been on the air. More than Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot. Katy Tur belongs next to history's greatest monsters.

Posted by: Axeman at April 15, 2020 07:53 PM (Eicbe)

105 93 I used to like Patterico.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 15, 2020 07:51 PM (guGkK)

I read a lot of blogs over the years. Most of the ones I stuck around with are not the ones that just agreed with what I thought (or said the right things) but actually seemed to be real humans. More of the whole newspaper, I guess you could say, instead of just the opinion column.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 15, 2020 07:54 PM (A5zUN)

106 Worthless as shit on a stick.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 15, 2020 07:41 PM

* scribbles furiously *

Finally! Something I could sell that never been served deep-fried at the Texas State Fair.
Posted by: Beto
-------

Wait. Rat-on-a-Stick has already been done?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 15, 2020 07:54 PM (sHVgQ)

107 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 15, 2020 07:54 PM (NWiLs)

108 Um. Dare I ask what you're doing with the other hand?
Posted by: Jordan61 at April 15, 2020 07:49 PM (OzQGF)

Not THAT...unfortunately

Blow drying my hair, actually.

LOL

Posted by: Miss Issippi at April 15, 2020 07:54 PM (LIhNq)

109 Is this the end of Patter-Rico?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 15, 2020 07:54 PM (oVJmc)

110 Someone has to teach them sodomy, eh?
Posted by: Hundreds of years of English seagoing tradition at April 15, 2020 07:53 PM (0FTCx)

The Chinese invented sodomy, not to mention gunpowder.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 15, 2020 07:54 PM (guGkK)

111 Um. Dare I ask what you're doing with the other hand?

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 15, 2020 07:49 PM (OzQGF)
---
Different strokes for folks who are really different.

Posted by: Axeman at April 15, 2020 07:55 PM (Eicbe)

112 110 Someone has to teach them sodomy, eh?
Posted by: Hundreds of years of English seagoing tradition at April 15, 2020 07:53 PM (0FTCx)

The Chinese invented sodomy, not to mention gunpowder.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 15, 2020 07:54 PM (guGkK)

I thought the Sodomites invented sodomy.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 15, 2020 07:55 PM (NWiLs)

113 Not THAT...unfortunately

Posted by: Miss Issippi at April 15, 2020 07:54 PM (LIhNq)

*perks up*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 15, 2020 07:55 PM (A5zUN)

114
Got MSNBC on and Joy Reid and guest are licking their chops over the coming Biden victory. This chick Karine Jean-Pierre is the most annoying, smug, little sprite on the planet and I can't wait to see her on the "What Went Wrong" shows on November 4.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 15, 2020 07:55 PM (G51Gf)

115 A lot of the Russia hysteria was to deflect from how much of the US political and media classes were fully owned subsidiaries of China, Inc. The decision by Kissinger/Nixon to recognize the communist hell as the legitimate government of China, and the subsequent admission of the PRC into the WTO, were extreme gambles. And we lost.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at April 15, 2020 07:55 PM (puu6v)

116 China thinks that "Errant Lab worker " sounds a lot better to outside ears than "effed up protocols, and a third world country that cannot control its bugs".
Posted by: runner at April 15, 2020 07:47 PM (zr5Kq)
++++++++++++++
Aren't those two ways of saying the exact same thing?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2020 07:55 PM (hYcqw)

117 Chynah Fake News Network..
I love how Trump says Chynah..
Although yesterday he seemed to be trying to be conciliatory to China saying they were being transparent.. Not sure what his game is here..

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at April 15, 2020 07:56 PM (CjFDo)

118 I thought the Sodomites invented sodomy.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 15, 2020 07:55 PM (NWiLs)

No one told me living in a place called Sodom would be such a pain in the ass. Who knew?
-Lot

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 15, 2020 07:56 PM (A5zUN)

119 I thought the Sodomites invented sodomy.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 15, 2020 07:55 PM (NWiLs)
At the very least they perfected it.

Posted by: Jonah Goldberg at April 15, 2020 07:56 PM (8B6Ng)

120 The Chinese invented sodomy, not to mention gunpowder.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 15, 2020 07:54 PM (guGkK)

I thought the Sodomites invented sodomy.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 15, 2020 07:55 PM (NWiLs)

Them Sodomites stole it from the black Africans!

Posted by: Rev. Al Sharpton at April 15, 2020 07:56 PM (guGkK)

121 A bat bit my sister once.

Posted by: Chinese Lab Worker at April 15, 2020 07:56 PM (Eicbe)

122 The Chinese invented sodomy, not to mention gunpowder.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 15, 2020 07:54 PM

Yeah, but they never did anything with it like we did...

Posted by: San Francisco at April 15, 2020 07:57 PM (WoQyf)

123 Here is what Trump can do: call congress into session to vote on some emergency provision, then after they do that adjourn them. Then he gets to make his adjournment appointments.
The Supreme Court will rule 9-0 in his favor.

Posted by: Joey the B is a hands on guy at April 15, 2020 07:57 PM (tzOPR)

124 this one time, at bat camp...

Posted by: DB- just DB. at April 15, 2020 07:57 PM (iTXRQ)

125 120 The Chinese invented sodomy, not to mention gunpowder.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 15, 2020 07:54 PM (guGkK)

I thought the Sodomites invented sodomy.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 15, 2020 07:55 PM (NWiLs)

Them Sodomites stole it from the black Africans!
Posted by: Rev. Al Sharpton at April 15, 2020 07:56 PM (guGkK)

Sodomite homos stole our sodomy!

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 15, 2020 07:57 PM (NWiLs)

126 121 A bat bit my sister once.
Posted by: Chinese Lab Worker at April 15, 2020 07:56 PM (Eicbe)

A dingo ate my baby!

Posted by: An Australian at April 15, 2020 07:57 PM (A5zUN)

127 Oh the oath of office is just a facade.....them put the oath on your panties.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 15, 2020 07:57 PM (84Pcq)

128 CHINA IS BEST FOR HEALTHY FREEDOM NEWS FOR ALL YANKEE ROUNDEYE!

Posted by: THIS IS CNN at April 15, 2020 07:57 PM (OOOHb)

129 This explains everything.

Thanks to Miss Issippi for posting this yesterday.

If you haven't seen it and have 1:20 to spare, it's a good watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY8Nfzcn1qQ&t=5s

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 15, 2020 07:58 PM (Zz0t1)

130 'I thought the Sodomites invented sodomy'

They perfected it.

Posted by: f'd at April 15, 2020 07:58 PM (Tnijr)

131 "However, 'Freedom of the Press' " , explained all the lawyers, everywhere.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 15, 2020 07:58 PM (G1eBa)

132 Chinese Lab worker, sad to say but do the world a favor and throw her in a volcano before we start this all over.

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2020 07:58 PM (ZCEU2)

133 CHINA IS BEST FOR HEALTHY FREEDOM NEWS FOR ALL YANKEE ROUNDEYE!

Posted by: THIS IS CNN at April 15, 2020 07:57 PM (OOOHb)
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Belly LOL.

Posted by: Axeman at April 15, 2020 07:59 PM (Eicbe)

134 110 Someone has to teach them sodomy, eh?
Posted by: Hundreds of years of English seagoing tradition at April 15, 2020 07:53 PM (0FTCx)

The Chinese invented sodomy, not to mention gunpowder.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero)

No they didn't.

Posted by: Sodom at April 15, 2020 07:59 PM (gvVTU)

135 Sheez I'm turning in Amy Schumer.

Posted by: f'd at April 15, 2020 07:59 PM (Tnijr)

136 The Chinese invented sodomy, not to mention gunpowder.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 15, 2020 07:54 PM (guGkK)

I thought the Sodomites invented sodomy.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 15, 2020 07:55 PM (NWiLs)

Them Sodomites stole it from the black Africans!
Posted by: Rev. Al Sharpton at April 15, 2020 07:56 PM (guGkK)

Sodomite homos stole our sodomy!
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 15, 2020 07:57 PM (NWiLs)

Every body get down tonight!

Every body back door tonight!

Posted by: Wang Chung at April 15, 2020 07:59 PM (Zz0t1)

137 Yeah, but they never did anything with it like we did...
Posted by: San Francisco at April 15, 2020 07:57 PM (WoQyf)

Yes. Sadly, the Chinese, with their characteristic lack of imagination, confined their sodomy to acrobatic circus acts performed to entertain the emperor.

Posted by: Rev. Al Sharpton at April 15, 2020 07:59 PM (guGkK)

138 Yeah, but they never did anything with it like we did...
Posted by: San Francisco at April 15, 2020 07:57 PM (WoQyf)
+++++++++++++++
So, yeah. They made gunpowder but not cannon or guns. They invented paper money but never had an integrated economy. They invented a civil service system and exams, but rarely had an integrated government.

Odd.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2020 07:59 PM (hYcqw)

139 >>Anyone else remember when collusion with a hostile foreign communist regime to influence an election was considered criminal?

LOL, right.
Next you'll tell me Hillary, Obama, Bill weren't taking campaign donations from foreign citizens and institutions during their respective presidential campaigns. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at April 15, 2020 08:00 PM (bDqIh)

140 100?
China is asshoe

Treasonous White House snitch and agent provocateur is unmasked.

https://tinyurl.com/y796s4x7
https://preview.tinyurl.com/y796s4x7

Posted by: Braenyard at April 15, 2020 08:00 PM (nd/mG)

141 China should get rid of all its lab workers to avoid future epidemics.

Posted by: runner at April 15, 2020 08:00 PM (zr5Kq)

142 "Hey, CNN, that's a nice looking license you have there. Shame if you were to lose it."

Posted by: The FCC, in my ultimate J.O. fantasy at April 15, 2020 08:00 PM (7Fj9P)

143 We have seen General Tso, and he is one of us.

Posted by: CNN at April 15, 2020 08:00 PM (EgshT)

144 No one told me living in a place called Sodom would be such a pain in the ass. Who knew?

-Lot

Salty comment, asshole

Posted by: Lot's Wife at April 15, 2020 08:00 PM (EGyGV)

145 We have seen General Tso, and he is one of us.

Keep fuckin that chicken.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 15, 2020 08:01 PM (G1eBa)

146 LOL, right.
Next you'll tell me Hillary, Obama, Bill weren't taking campaign donations from foreign citizens and institutions during their respective presidential campaigns. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at April 15, 2020 08:00 PM (bDqIh)

Couldn't have.
Johnny Chung was in jail.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 15, 2020 08:02 PM (nd/mG)

147 Yes. Sadly, the Chinese, with their characteristic
lack of imagination, confined their sodomy to acrobatic circus acts
performed to entertain the emperor.

Posted by: Rev. Al Sharpton at April 15, 2020 07:59 PM (guGkK)

The Aristocrats!

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 15, 2020 08:02 PM (EGyGV)

148 "Hey, CNN, that's a nice looking license you have there. Shame if you were to lose it."
Posted by: The FCC, in my ultimate J.O. fantasy at April 15, 2020 08:00 PM (7Fj9P)
++++++++
Cable. No broadcast license to suspend.

CNN, ABC, NBC and Fox networks, though? There's an option. I wouldn't mind if it happens.

Pull every affiliate's license. They can get it back if the dis-affiliate. What good is a network if it has no affiliates?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2020 08:02 PM (hYcqw)

149 Salty comment, asshole
Posted by: Lot's Wife at April 15, 2020 08:00 PM (EGyGV)

*golfclap*

*grinds off a bit of Lot's wife shoulder for his stew*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 15, 2020 08:02 PM (A5zUN)

150 NOOD

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 15, 2020 08:02 PM (guGkK)

151 Salty comment, asshole
Posted by: Lot's Wife at April 15, 2020 08:00 PM

A real pillar of the community heard from...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 15, 2020 08:02 PM (WoQyf)

152 General Tso make crapChicken

Posted by: Braenyard at April 15, 2020 08:03 PM (nd/mG)

153 CNN doesn't have an FCC license. They couldn't compete with the local Spanish speaking Jewish Evangelical station.

Posted by: f'd at April 15, 2020 08:03 PM (Tnijr)

154 144 No one told me living in a place called Sodom would be such a pain in the ass. Who knew?

-Lot

Salty comment, asshole
Posted by: Lot's Wife at April 15, 2020 08:00 PM (EGyGV)

Still can't believe that fucker tried to throw us to the rapists.

Posted by: Lot's daughters at April 15, 2020 08:03 PM (NWiLs)

155 Here is what Trump can do: call congress into session to vote on some emergency provision, then after they do that adjourn them. Then he gets to make his adjournment appointments.
The Supreme Court will rule 9-0 in his favor.

Posted by: Joey the B is a hands on guy at April 15, 2020 07:57 PM (tzOPR)

Not sure that is quite right as to his Constitutional powers, but its is kind of what happens in the reality of it. He requests quorum on any matter of emergency, Congress (both houses) are compelled to show such, the absence of which (and they have shown no interest in convening) releases him to take action as if Congress is unable to take up the Nation's business, or simply put, they are adjourned - its meant to suggest someone is still in charge should Congress flee or otherwise be unavailable to carry on in the event of an emergency.

At least, that's my reading of the article...

Posted by: Boswell at April 15, 2020 08:03 PM (32YRo)

156 Anyone else remember when collusion with a hostile foreign communist regime to influence an election was considered criminal?
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Well, yes, though I expect you mean Russia, Russia.

The progs only consider Russia to be an enemy because they *aren't* communists any more.

Posted by: Methos at April 15, 2020 08:04 PM (kOpft)

157 >>Although yesterday he seemed to be trying to be conciliatory to China saying they were being transparent.. Not sure what his game is here..

It's a push-pull thing he does. Just because he is complimenting a world leader doesn't mean he loves them, it's just a negotiating tactic (i.e. you don't get as much from a leader you've just publicly condemned). He was playing hardball with Xi *before* they went and broke the world with a pandemic, then made it worse by scooping up all the PPE while lying about it, etc.. I have no doubt he will be taking action against them -- he's just not going to announce it right now.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 15, 2020 08:04 PM (bDqIh)

158 Then again, he was GREAT in the sack!

Posted by: Lot's daughters at April 15, 2020 08:05 PM (NWiLs)

159 used to work near the White House. The rats down there huge and numerous. You can watch the herds of rats gallop across Layfette Park.
Posted by: Puddleglum at April 15, 2020 07:47 PM (gvVTU)

We had a job down on M street and were working at night. During our breaks, we'd watch the huge rats come out of the grates surrounding the trees on the sidewalk and pilfer through the garbage cans businesses set out nightly.

Posted by: Traveling Man Who's Stuck At Home&&&& at April 15, 2020 08:05 PM (9Wk1C)

160 "a decision that presumably required the backing of an editor."

That's giving them way too much credit. Ever since Rathergate, I've become convinced that editor positions in national news organizations are just makework jobs. Which irritates me, since I'm a natural-born editor and worked briefly at a local newspaper. (If I spelled a HS coach's name wrong, all hell would break loose.)

Posted by: pookysgirl, literally a conservative since birth at April 15, 2020 08:05 PM (XKZwp)

161 101
Would be disappointed if no Quarantine Cafe tonight,

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2020 07:53 PM (ZCEU2)

_________

I'm looking forward to the one where we finally pics and videos of some state Governors [fill-in-the-blank] ...

Posted by: ShainS at April 15, 2020 08:06 PM (WqPYg)

162 Still can't believe that fucker tried to throw us to the rapists.

Posted by: Lot's daughters at April 15, 2020 08:03 PM (NWiLs)

Wait, wasn't he the "plliar" of the community?

Posted by: Boswell at April 15, 2020 08:06 PM (32YRo)

163 If you pay attention to Chinese propaganda vid linked in name, they even got Jackie Chan to participate, along with some westerners.

Posted by: THIS IS CNN at April 15, 2020 08:07 PM (OOOHb)

164 So is it confirmed that Patient Zero was a Wuhan lab worker?
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Trump wasn't going to comment on it, but mentioned that they (fox) had actual sources (as opposed to anonymous).

Which, is to say, yes.

Posted by: Methos at April 15, 2020 08:07 PM (kOpft)

165 >>So is it confirmed that Patient Zero was a Wuhan lab worker?

Welp, who couldn't see that coming?

Posted by: Boswell at April 15, 2020 08:08 PM (32YRo)

166 Oh yes....Everybody loves Chinese movies they way they love Christian rock.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 15, 2020 08:10 PM (84Pcq)

167 166 Oh yes....Everybody loves Chinese movies they way they love Christian rock.
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 15, 2020 08:10 PM (84Pcq)

Not all Christian rock sucks, but a lot of it does. There were some Christian metal bands back in the day who were pretty good.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 15, 2020 08:11 PM (NWiLs)

168 OT: Pretty amazing documentary just dropped a few days ago called Out of Shadows. It details the CIA's decades long involvement in the media and entertainment. It also touches on Pizzagate, Epstein, and elite pedophile rings. YouTube has tried to censor it but despite that it has over six million views in just a few days. Here's the link if anyone wants to watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY8Nfzcn1qQ&feature=share

Posted by: Augustine at April 15, 2020 08:12 PM (Alp4m)

169 AGAIN: our media takes anything and everything a Communist regime tells it at face value.

Neither critical thinking nor curiosity exist in the Main Stream Media in this country. And they wonder why they are so hated.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 15, 2020 08:14 PM (Exv3s)

170
I am certain that the Chinese navy is going to get hit as hard as any by coronavirus. In fact, it's probably already happened and they're keeping it a secret.

Their shipboard disease control is probably as lax as their damage control reportedly is. Or their high-level bio-containment lab controls.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 15, 2020 08:40 PM (t5m5e)

171 Someone explain to me why CNN's China Collusion is okay, but the fictitious Russia Collusion required years of investigation and hearings???

Posted by: Locke Common at April 15, 2020 09:09 PM (OI4Ss)

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