Not All Heroes Wear Capes

Legends.

Former FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate just walked off MSNBC: "I don't have time to listen to bullshit people." pic.twitter.com/m01JDIUrrl
— Emily Jashinsky (@emilyjashinsky) March 19, 2020

The faces made in the room as @ChanelRion asks Trump: Is it alarming that major media players...are consistently siding with a foreign state propaganda, Islamic radicals, and Latin gangs and cartels and they work right here...with direct access to you and your team? pic.twitter.com/4eW8RHipY5
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) March 19, 2020

And then there's this little femcel.

Someone left this note for the OAN personality at the White House: “Do you think your question was helpful in halting the spread of the coronavirus?” pic.twitter.com/Jy8rzVs5Y0
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) March 19, 2020

A friend asks, stunned: "Is this what 'journalists' actually think they're doing? Fighting coronavirus?"

Is that what they think they're doing when they ask the 100th question about whether calling a Chinese virus the Chinese virus is racist? Do they think those questions are synthesizing a vaccine?

I would actually imagine the answers are "yes:" The press corps actually does believe that if they cover the law, they're lawyers. If they cover technology, they're engineers. And if they cover an epidemic, they're front-line medical personnel with notebooks and pocket audio records.

They really are that delusional.

Update:

Someone just texted me this joke: "Fastest way to kill the coronavirus is to convince Hillary Clinton that it will testify against her."
— Emerald Robinson ✝️ (@EmeraldRobinson) March 19, 2020

Posted by: Ace at 04:25 PM

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1 so true

Posted by: runner at March 19, 2020 04:23 PM (zr5Kq)

2 Too easy.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 19, 2020 04:23 PM (dLLD6)

3 Ha !

Posted by: runner at March 19, 2020 04:24 PM (zr5Kq)

4 12 year olds, dude.

Posted by: garrett at March 19, 2020 04:25 PM (m2cNh)

5 Close

Posted by: It wasnt Me at March 19, 2020 04:25 PM (4/8k4)

6 LOLGF.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 19, 2020 04:25 PM (oVJmc)

7 Actually, if they cover an epidemic, it's because they're a disease, too.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 19, 2020 04:26 PM (E+OcO)

8 Oy !!!

Posted by: Adriane Wot Sez 'Oy!' A Lot These Days ... at March 19, 2020 04:26 PM (LPnfS)

9 >>A friend asks, stunned: "Is this what 'journalists' actually think they're doing? Fighting coronavirus?"

They are just like our soldiers and firefighters, or didn't they tell you that?

Posted by: garrett at March 19, 2020 04:26 PM (m2cNh)

10 Epic, way to go Mr. Fugate.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 19, 2020 04:27 PM (DjiZK)

11 I'm amazed that Acosta isn't wearing a Labcoat and a stethescope at thid point.

Posted by: garrett at March 19, 2020 04:27 PM (m2cNh)

12 Journalists were the first to run into the Twin Towers to save POCs from the white debils.

Posted by: Mel Gibson at March 19, 2020 04:27 PM (Q7YFR)

13 I bet Darcy left that note.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at March 19, 2020 04:27 PM (w2QL7)

14 Heh! AND she's good looking.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 19, 2020 04:27 PM (Xesvh)

15 Fuck you. War!

Posted by: DR.WTF at March 19, 2020 04:28 PM (aS1PU)

16 anything that helps bring Trump down is doing the Lord's work to these people. If Hillary were Pres and this situation was three times as bad, they'd still be covering for her.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at March 19, 2020 04:28 PM (4a9Vv)

17 How does making up a story about a WH staffer saying "Kung Flu" help stop the spread of the Kung Flu....?

Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at March 19, 2020 04:29 PM (w2QL7)

18 YES! The press is a bunch of delusional narcissists. AND they are mostly pretty dim.

Thus it was, so it is, and it always will be.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 19, 2020 04:29 PM (CPk08)

19 They are just like our soldiers and firefighters, or didn't they tell you that?
Posted by: garrett

Our first, first responders

Posted by: Bruce at March 19, 2020 04:29 PM (vd8XM)

20 Mr president - Have you and your Team even considered the impact this will have on the Avocado Markets!

Have you!?!?

Posted by: garrett at March 19, 2020 04:30 PM (m2cNh)

21 A majority of reporters got into reporting because they were unable to compete for real jobs.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at March 19, 2020 04:30 PM (w2QL7)

22 I believe in a free press. I also believe that the American press is unfree, in the hands of agents of hostile powers. The press should be liberated by any means necessary.

Stick THAT in your pipe and smoke it.

Posted by: Brother ~~Cavil~~ Tim at March 19, 2020 04:30 PM (OUMaO)

23 I'm willing to bet Darcy wrote the note himself.

Also, note that he called Chanel Rios a "personality" rather than a journalist. They really are high on their own farts.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 19, 2020 04:30 PM (ZGrMX)

24 Tim, good to see you!!!

Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at March 19, 2020 04:31 PM (w2QL7)

25 I would actually imagine the answers are "yes:" The press corps actually does believe that if they cover the law, they're lawyers. If they cover technology, they're engineers. And if they cover an epidemic, they're front-line medical personnel with notebooks and pocket audio records.

Yuuuup.

That firefighters ad from the NYT was real, after all. They really do think that.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at March 19, 2020 04:31 PM (mf5HN)

26 I nooded

Posted by: Bruce at March 19, 2020 04:31 PM (vd8XM)

27 They really are that delusional.
+++++++++++++++
Sort of. I mean, they definitely are. They are also, however, very self-impressed and have the arrogance only possible to the stupid - think deep in the recesses of Dunning-Kruger.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2020 04:31 PM (hYcqw)

28 We should require a Journalist Uniform so we would know who to bow down to on the street. Something loud, stupid and annoying. Ideas?

Posted by: Mel Gibson at March 19, 2020 04:31 PM (Q7YFR)

29 bullshit people

a meme is born

Posted by: x at March 19, 2020 04:31 PM (nFwvY)

30 A friend asks, stunned: "Is this what 'journalists' actually think they're doing? Fighting coronavirus?"

==

for a second I read that as "frying coronavirus"...oy....

Posted by: runner at March 19, 2020 04:31 PM (zr5Kq)

31 The MSM are fighting Wuhan Flu, SERIOUSLY?!?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 19, 2020 04:32 PM (bDqIh)

32 Chanel Rion is a high 1.

Posted by: Ripley at March 19, 2020 04:32 PM (MxEKc)

33 I'd like to buy that FEMA guy a beer.

I can only pray this destroys the media as we've known then for the past 50 years.

Posted by: clutch cargo at March 19, 2020 04:32 PM (8B6Ng)

34 Craig Fugate, Ubermensch!!!!

Posted by: tubal at March 19, 2020 04:32 PM (90T4r)

35 Maybe the WH should just refuse to grant interviews and let these asshats attend briefings. Fuck em. Let some judge say they have to let hem have access and tell him to piss up a rope, they can read about it in the press release.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 19, 2020 04:32 PM (Xesvh)

36 "Is this what 'journalists' actually think they're doing? Fighting coronavirus?"

It's a much more holy cause than that. They are Fighting Trump.

Posted by: davidt at March 19, 2020 04:32 PM (l3+k2)

37 >>so we would know who to bow down to on the street.

Posted by: Zod at March 19, 2020 04:32 PM (yvnmY)

38 We should require a Journalist Uniform so we would know who to bow down to on the street. Something loud, stupid and annoying. Ideas?

---

I watched Magnum Force last night. I think the outfit the pimp wore would be a good starting point.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at March 19, 2020 04:32 PM (w2QL7)

39 The establishment media is above all that, their presence is a blessing that allows the world to function.

Posted by: JebPilled at March 19, 2020 04:33 PM (QUqEV)

40 Only watched a few press briefings, but. . . is it me, or do these journos seem to be mostly young women?

That anonymous not to OAN reporter is so very HS mean girls. I hope the impact is: More Cowbell, btchezzz!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 19, 2020 04:33 PM (bDqIh)

41 This is why honest people are tuning into OAN

Posted by: Archer at March 19, 2020 04:33 PM (gmo/4)

42 Not first!

But maybe the top 20?

Posted by: Morticus Khan at March 19, 2020 04:33 PM (GwXxN)

43 #28: Clown shoes, fright wig, Jim Acosta mask, dunce cap.

Posted by: Mikey NTH Come to thePanic Party at The Outrage Outlet! at March 19, 2020 04:34 PM (REzs5)

44
They are just like our soldiers and firefighters, or didn't they tell you that?
Posted by: garrett
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It's exactly the same as D-Day.

Posted by: AOC at March 19, 2020 04:34 PM (sHVgQ)

45 I recall in the movie Necessary Roughness all the football players took journalism 101 because the course was so easy. They called it "snooze the news" or something like that.

Posted by: Quint at March 19, 2020 04:34 PM (n13/j)

46 Damn. Comments go fast

I love OANN. If only Tucker would move there.

Posted by: Morticus Khan at March 19, 2020 04:34 PM (GwXxN)

47 I'm betting Chanel Rion smells nice too.

Posted by: Northernlurker at March 19, 2020 04:34 PM (Uu+Jp)

48 We should require a Journalist Uniform so we would
know who to bow down to on the street. Something loud, stupid and
annoying. Ideas?

Posted by: Mel Gibson at March 19, 2020 04:31 PM (Q7YFR)

Teletubbie suits.

Posted by: Roland THTG at March 19, 2020 04:34 PM (88+cf)

49 Bonus: Craig Fugate was an Obama appointee.

That was an Obama appointee calling another Obama appointee (Andy Slavitt) a bullshit person on the Obama Network.

Posted by: El Kabong at March 19, 2020 04:34 PM (datdl)

50 Chanel Rion is a high 1.
Posted by: Ripley at March 19, 2020 04:32 PM (MxEKc)
++++++++++++
She is at that. She has gigantic hair, though, which is unusual for a woman who is as dark as she is. I notice it every time - she looks like she should be a big (not fat, but tall/built) blonde woman from Texas.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2020 04:34 PM (hYcqw)

51 Posted by: Mel Gibson at March 19, 2020 04:31 PM

Clown Suit

Posted by: Formerly known as Skeptic at March 19, 2020 04:34 PM (FR+I0)

52 They are busy researching the OANN lady. Going through all those FB and Twitter posts is hard work.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at March 19, 2020 04:35 PM (+fPHo)

53 We should start wiping our asses with journalists.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 19, 2020 04:35 PM (xfb67)

54 The establishment media is above all that, their presence is a blessing that allows the world to function.
Posted by: JebPilled
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We should be grateful that they are there to explain the facts.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 19, 2020 04:35 PM (sHVgQ)

55 I'm helping.

Posted by: Jimmy "The Chopper" Acosta at March 19, 2020 04:35 PM (8IzvN)

56 The media need to be required to wear dunce caps.

Posted by: Northernlurker at March 19, 2020 04:35 PM (Uu+Jp)

57 Don't be a dancing monkey for these panic peddling TDS arseholes. Be Fugate! Be better!

Posted by: Pelosi's Used Kleenex at March 19, 2020 04:35 PM (a1s18)

58 My company just created a new officer- Chief Medical Officer.

This isn't the starship fucking Enterprise, for crying out loud.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at March 19, 2020 04:35 PM (w2QL7)

59 God Bless OANN.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at March 19, 2020 04:35 PM (H8QX8)

60 48 We should require a Journalist Uniform so we would
know who to bow down to on the street. Something loud, stupid and
annoying. Ideas?

Posted by: Mel Gibson at March 19, 2020 04:31 PM (Q7YFR)

Teletubbie suits.
Posted by: Roland THTG at March 19, 2020 04:34 PM (88+cf)

I second that.

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 19, 2020 04:35 PM (vVOK2)

61 22 I believe in a free press. I also believe that the American press is unfree, in the hands of agents of hostile powers. The press should be liberated by any means necessary.

Stick THAT in your pipe and smoke it.
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So your saying the five globalist Entertainment Corporations headquartered in Manhattan should maybe not own all of nations publishing, television, streaming and movie production, publication and broadcast? Teddy Roosevelt would bust these puss filled sacks of shit in a NY Minute.

Posted by: Mel Gibson at March 19, 2020 04:35 PM (Q7YFR)

62 18 YES! The press is a bunch of delusional narcissists. AND they are mostly pretty dim.

Thus it was, so it is, and it always will be.
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 19, 2020 04:29 PM (CPk0

I was mystified about how weak a journalism major must be, so I went to a website and saw classes like "how to cover armies and spies", naturally that class included PC shit like migration and the environment. What a bunch of crap

Posted by: CN at March 19, 2020 04:35 PM (ONvIw)

63 We should start wiping our asses with journalists.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 19, 2020 04:35 PM (xfb67)
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Gross. Hard pass. I don't wanna know what kind of crazy new infections would pass through the hemorrhoids that would surely cause.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2020 04:36 PM (hYcqw)

64 Also, Andy Slavitt has been one of the biggest fear porn peddlers on Twitter wrt Wu Flu. Basically predicting Italy's breakdown in America and millions dead for the past week.

Posted by: El Kabong at March 19, 2020 04:36 PM (datdl)

65 #52: Destroy the heretic! Prepare the fire of purification!

Posted by: Mikey NTH Come to thePanic Party at The Outrage Outlet! at March 19, 2020 04:36 PM (REzs5)

66 Funny part was that Fugate just ended up going outside for a smoke. That time was more important than listening to anyone on MSNBC.

Posted by: Roy at March 19, 2020 04:36 PM (ABjxW)

67 We should start wiping our asses with journalists.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
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rofl

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 19, 2020 04:36 PM (sHVgQ)

68 I will agree that journalist that cover racism are mostly racists,

Posted by: Ripley at March 19, 2020 04:36 PM (MxEKc)

69 "Is this what 'journalists' actually think they're doing? Fighting coronavirus?"

It's the same tactic they use to fight radical Mooselimbs, isn't it

Posted by: Horus Hearsay at March 19, 2020 04:36 PM (DB16e)

70 dammit WitchDoktor I'm a doctor not a sales manager!

Posted by: x at March 19, 2020 04:36 PM (nFwvY)

71 That question left in the seat was typed?

Holy crap, the cool kids pre-planned this?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - everyone has gone bat soup crazy at March 19, 2020 04:37 PM (41rs/)

72 The media's self-importance seldom has anything to do with their behavior. Remember "you're stuck on stupid!"? A hurricane is bearing down on the Gulf Coast and Katrina is fresh in everyone's minds and the National Guard General in charge has a press conference in order to inform everyone about what they are supposed to do to prepare and when it hits.

What did reporters ask about? It wasn't that.

When we've got an array of politicians running for office, do the media ask questions to help to inform people so that they can best pick the person they actually like the most? No. Because that doesn't make a good story.

Posted by: Synova at March 19, 2020 04:37 PM (BD/yx)

73 >>They really are that delusional.

Young, dumb, uber-opinionated and incredibly misguided on what their role is.

All they have to do is pass on the facts, but this is too much even for them. They're too busy providing incorrect "context" and narrative, identifying winners, losers, heroes, and villains, yet they lack an understanding of the basics (science, history, how government works and is organized, legal boundaries, etc.).

Posted by: Lizzy at March 19, 2020 04:37 PM (bDqIh)

74 Zap pow!

Posted by: Regular joe at March 19, 2020 04:37 PM (6/uwW)

75 If I was 20 years younger

I'd take a flamethrower to this place !!

Posted by: REDACTED at March 19, 2020 04:37 PM (rpxSz)

76 >>>52 They are busy researching the OANN lady. Going through all those FB and Twitter posts is hard work.

God help her if she ever used the word 'cuck' on social media.

Posted by: El Kabong at March 19, 2020 04:37 PM (datdl)

77 53 We should start wiping our asses with journalists.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 19, 2020 04:35 PM (xfb67)

Not fair!

Posted by: The Artichokes at March 19, 2020 04:37 PM (ABjxW)

78 No capes, but a lot of them wear depends.

Saves a lot of time.

Trust me, I know.

Posted by: Sundown Joe Biden at March 19, 2020 04:37 PM (iQmdl)

79 Only watched a few press briefings, but. . . is it me, or do these journos seem to be mostly young women?
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Young women. And fags.

And John Roberts. I don't think he's fag.

Posted by: JoeF. at March 19, 2020 04:37 PM (CqE5x)

80 26
I nooded

gesundheit

Posted by: Anachronda at March 19, 2020 04:37 PM (sGtp+)

81 Hey, all! Got my home Internet at last! I had to update my Firefox on the Windows XP desktop, but it, and the Dell Win 7 machine and the MacBook Air all access the WiFi without issue. And I have a new Android phone, too!

Technology!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 19, 2020 04:37 PM (rpbg1)

82 My company just created a new officer- Chief Medical Officer.

This isn't the starship fucking Enterprise, for crying out loud.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at March 19, 2020 04:35 PM

Damn it Jim, He's dead.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 19, 2020 04:37 PM (axyOa)

83 The correct uniform for "Journalist".

That's easy. Straitjacket.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 19, 2020 04:38 PM (QzJWU)

84 I plan to make an appointment with my new CMO to talk about chronic diarrhea and hemorrhoids.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at March 19, 2020 04:38 PM (w2QL7)

85 This is why honest people are tuning into OAN

That and they actually have a variety of news that you don't see on Fox or (God forbid) CNN or MSNBC. Fox was all virus all the time this morning, OAN covered the SLC earthquake, a bunch of other stuff, *and* the virus.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 19, 2020 04:38 PM (ZGrMX)

86 Posted by: El Kabong at March 19, 2020 04:37 PM (datdl)

I'll help her out. No problem.

Posted by: thathalfrican - sucker free on my phone at March 19, 2020 04:38 PM (b4SBn)

87 That MSNBC chick always looks constipated.

Heh..Katy Turd.

Posted by: dananjcon at March 19, 2020 04:38 PM (u6xw0)

88 Someone left this note for the OAN personality at the White House

Ah, I see, just a personality. Not a true "Journalist" *sniff!*

Posted by: t-bird at March 19, 2020 04:38 PM (dBiBP)

89 71 That question left in the seat was typed?

Holy crap, the cool kids pre-planned this?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - everyone has gone bat soup crazy at March 19, 2020 04:37 PM (41rs/)

it had been previously left in one of their seats

repurposed

Posted by: REDACTED at March 19, 2020 04:38 PM (rpxSz)

90 Do not click on those twitter links, especially the OAN one, it only gets much worse. From Max Boot to Susanne Rice, all projecting and absolving themselves of any responsibility.

They're delusional narcissists who I'd happily curb stomp until somebody pulled me off of them.

Bad for my blood pressure.

Posted by: clutch cargo at March 19, 2020 04:38 PM (8B6Ng)

91 >>I believe in a free press. I also believe that the American press is unfree, in the hands of agents of hostile powers. The press should be liberated by any means necessary.

As I've seen noted elsewhere: notice that Bloomberg news reporters were *not* kicked out of China.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 19, 2020 04:39 PM (bDqIh)

92 Gross. Hard pass. I don't wanna know what kind of crazy new infections would pass through the hemorrhoids that would surely cause.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Good points, OTOH, the alternative around here is using otters...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 19, 2020 04:39 PM (sHVgQ)

93 That question left in the seat was typed?

Holy crap, the cool kids pre-planned this?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - everyone has gone bat soup crazy at March 19, 2020 04:37 PM (41rs/)
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Nah. Someone from one the captive networks (NBC would be my guess, but that's just 'cause they're Chicom-enthusiasts) was probably watching from downstairs and typed it up, printed it out, and planted it in their little cubicle inside of two minutes.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2020 04:39 PM (hYcqw)

94 My company just created a new officer- Chief Medical Officer.

This isn't the starship fucking Enterprise, for crying out loud.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at March 19, 2020 04:35 PM

Tell him to get his ass down to the first floor restroom. The toilet is clogged.

Posted by: Roy at March 19, 2020 04:39 PM (ABjxW)

95 We should require a Journalist Uniform so we would
know who to bow down to on the street. Something loud, stupid and
annoying. Ideas?

Posted by: Mel Gibson at March 19, 2020 04:31 PM (Q7YFR)

Teletubbie suits.
Posted by: Roland THTG at March 19, 2020 04:34 PM (88+cf)

Paper hats.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at March 19, 2020 04:39 PM (SgjGX)

96 Of course "Who called it the Kung Flu??!!!!!" was immensely helpful in halting the spread of the Corona virus.

Or somebody would have left her a note, right?

Posted by: Axeman at March 19, 2020 04:39 PM (Eicbe)

97
OAN "Personality?"

Fuck you, Fake News oliver darcy. Fuck you.

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at March 19, 2020 04:39 PM (8lLxM)

98 The Press is a bad mixture of ego, narcissism, stupidity and graft.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 19, 2020 04:39 PM (SENHs)

99 I wonder if the press will eagerly hunt down the person who left that note.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 19, 2020 04:40 PM (e284m)

100 That question left in the seat was typed?

Holy crap, the cool kids pre-planned this?

On a Corona typewriter which I just happen to haul around!

Posted by: Tom Hanks at March 19, 2020 04:40 PM (dBiBP)

101 From Max Boot to Susanne Rice, all projecting and absolving themselves of any responsibility.

I find their outrage hilarious. Someone needs to respond to each one with the "Hoes Mad!" GIF.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 19, 2020 04:40 PM (ZGrMX)

102 67 We should start wiping our asses with journalists.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

can you spare a square ?

Posted by: REDACTED at March 19, 2020 04:40 PM (rpxSz)

103 Weija Jiang last seen speaking with Jussie Smollett's attorney.

Posted by: BluesFish at March 19, 2020 04:40 PM (023t1)

104 MSM press conferences are unwatchable. Mostly they are either sucking up to some Dem or attacking some Republican. I wonder if it ever occurs to journalists most people would actually like to hear questions that require answers that would shed light on the issue at hand.

Posted by: Ripley at March 19, 2020 04:40 PM (MxEKc)

105 That and they actually have a variety of news that you don't see on Fox or (God forbid) CNN or MSNBC. Fox was all virus all the time this morning, OAN covered the SLC earthquake, a bunch of other stuff, *and* the virus.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 19, 2020 04:38 PM (ZGrMX)
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And their foreign coverage isn't all that extensive but it is decent. They are part of the Euronews pool (which they use "over there" based on my experience of watching TV in Europe) and pipe in some stories that many others don't cover.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2020 04:40 PM (hYcqw)

106 Fuck you, Fake News oliver darcy. Fuck you.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at March 19, 2020 04:39 PM (8lLxM)

I thought Oliver Darcy was a character in Pride and Prejudice. That has to be a fake name.

Posted by: Northernlurker at March 19, 2020 04:40 PM (Uu+Jp)

107
Who was the bloviator that Craig Fulgate called a "bullshit [person]"?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 19, 2020 04:41 PM (pNxlR)

108 95 We should require a Journalist Uniform so we would
know who to bow down to on the street. Something loud, stupid and
annoying. Ideas?

Posted by: Mel Gibson at March 19, 2020 04:31 PM (Q7YFR)

Teletubbie suits.
Posted by: Roland THTG at March 19, 2020 04:34 PM (88+cf)

Paper hats.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at March 19, 2020 04:39 PM (SgjGX)

Go old-school. A fedora with the word press on a piece of paper stuck to it.

Posted by: Roy at March 19, 2020 04:41 PM (ABjxW)

109 Glenn Beck must never be forgiven for unleashing Oliver Darcy on the world.

Posted by: El Kabong at March 19, 2020 04:41 PM (datdl)

110 MOAR PLEASE!

Actually, there should be a boycott against all components of the Pravda Enemedia.

Posted by: ShainS at March 19, 2020 04:41 PM (kyz/M)

111 I don't understand why we're shutting everything down. They called it Covid19---19!!.

It's 2020, right?

That means we're immune, right?

Posted by: Axeman at March 19, 2020 04:41 PM (Eicbe)

112 On a Corona typewriter which I just happen to haul around!
Posted by: Tom Hanks at March 19, 2020 04:40 PM (dBiBP)
++++++++++++
That's funny on a number of levels in Current Day.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2020 04:41 PM (hYcqw)

113 As of today she is no longer a personality. She is now an unpersonality.

Posted by: DC Press Corpse at March 19, 2020 04:41 PM (l3+k2)

114
I nooded
Posted by: Bruce

They got a pill for that now.

Posted by: Gooshy at March 19, 2020 04:41 PM (xW6A1)

115 My company just created a new officer- Chief Medical Officer.

This isn't the starship fucking Enterprise, for crying out loud.

Posted by: WitchDoktor

*snort

Posted by: rickb223 at March 19, 2020 04:41 PM (mndtc)

116 We should require a Journalist Uniform so we would
know who to bow down to on the street. Something loud, stupid and
annoying. Ideas?

Posted by: Mel Gibson at March 19, 2020 04:31 PM

Red shirts...with little logos on them that go chirp chirp every time they touch themselves.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 19, 2020 04:41 PM (axyOa)

117 We should start wiping our asses with journalists.

No, thanks, I'm trying to get clean!

Posted by: t-bird at March 19, 2020 04:42 PM (dBiBP)

118 i added a joke from OANN's Emerald Robinson

Posted by: ace at March 19, 2020 04:42 PM (PbpT7)

119 Check out this note I just printed and took a picture of!

Posted by: Oliver Darcy at March 19, 2020 04:42 PM (e284m)

120
I see Trump just issued his own call for all broads to come home. If you don't get your ass back home now, the US govt won't be able to help.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 19, 2020 04:42 PM (rCwaK)

121 The dude running his cumguzzler in the first video was claiming just a few days ago we'd see a mill+ deaths by next summer. Nolte at BB took it to task.

Posted by: Horus Hearsay at March 19, 2020 04:43 PM (DB16e)

122 We should require a Journalist Uniform so we would know who to bow down to on the street. Something loud, stupid and annoying. Ideas?

Posted by: Mel Gibson at March 19, 2020 04:31 PM (Q7YFR)

Teletubbie suits.
Posted by: Roland THTG

Barney.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 19, 2020 04:43 PM (mndtc)

123 We should require a Journalist Uniform so we would
know who to bow down to on the street. Something loud, stupid and
annoying. Ideas?

Posted by: Mel Gibson at March 19, 2020 04:31 PM
+++++++++++
I'm fond of the classics. Two good choices:
- Dunce cap with the person's name and place of employment on it
- Black and white striped suit, ball and chain, pickax (this one works best near a railroad or canal project)

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2020 04:43 PM (hYcqw)

124 Who was the pointed headed underwear gnome that the former FEMA head walked out on - not the chick, the dweeb reject from an old Looney Tunes cartoon.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 19, 2020 04:43 PM (e284m)

125 The note about if the question helps to stop the virus, geez. If it was directed at the girl who asked about the "WuFlu is racist" complaints, what level of failure for self-awareness is involved there?

Posted by: Synova at March 19, 2020 04:43 PM (BD/yx)

126 Chloroquine didn't kill the CoronaVirus!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 19, 2020 04:43 PM (SENHs)

127 see Trump just issued his own call for all broads
to come home. If you don't get your ass back home now, the US govt won't
be able to help.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 19, 2020 04:42 PM (rCwaK)

just broads?

Posted by: Quint at March 19, 2020 04:43 PM (n13/j)

128 I love OANN. If only Tucker would move there.
Posted by: Morticus Khan at March 19, 2020 04:34 PM (GwXxN)

I think that Trish Regan is going there first.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at March 19, 2020 04:44 PM (iuFgi)

129 Ok, that twat from Emerald Robinsin was a LOL.

Thanks, I needed that.

Posted by: clutch cargo at March 19, 2020 04:44 PM (8B6Ng)

130 Chanel's not a hero (I don't have those), but I'd be available to share my experience of high-end journalism with her, if I were available.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 19, 2020 04:44 PM (El6T/)

131 Well, some good news for me. My blood test for Valley Fever came back negative in both assays. So I guess the lung crut I have is just, wait for it, a cold.

(sets empty coffin on fire, dances around it)

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 19, 2020 04:44 PM (miJU3)

132 Young, dumb, uber-opinionated and incredibly misguided on what their role is.

All they have to do is pass on the facts, but this is too much even
for them. They're too busy providing incorrect "context" and narrative,
identifying winners, losers, heroes, and villains, yet they lack an
understanding of the basics (science, history, how government works and
is organized, legal boundaries, etc.).

Posted by: Lizzy

That's a nice summary. Most if them can't handle real subjects, and those that could, choose not to, because, let's face it, being a WH reporter is much more impressive sounding to them than, say, an accountant. I know which one I'd choose as the smartest if I knew nothing else about them.

Posted by: pep at March 19, 2020 04:44 PM (T6t7i)

133 just broads?
Posted by: Quint at March 19, 2020 04:43 PM (n13/j)

Dames and Chicks as well.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at March 19, 2020 04:44 PM (SgjGX)

134 But what about yooooorrrr gaaaaffffffssssss?!?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 19, 2020 04:45 PM (SENHs)

135
Not only are urinalists fighting coronavirus, they're developing PTSD from engaging in that fight!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 19, 2020 04:45 PM (pNxlR)

136 Journalists get a teaspoon while laboring in the Dignity Canal.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 19, 2020 04:45 PM (tLv2D)

137 We should start wiping our asses with journalists.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe

Forget newspapers, line birdcages with journalists.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at March 19, 2020 04:45 PM (QhGSQ)

138 DeBlasio attempting to hold a presser.

Has a sign language guy who looks like a college gender studies prof.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 19, 2020 04:45 PM (ptqGC)

139 >> just broads?

That's a Justin Trudeau reference. The other day he worded it thus, ordering Canadians abroad to come home, "If you're abroad, it's time to come home."

If you're a broad, get your ass back home. Steyn had a lot of fun with that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 19, 2020 04:46 PM (rCwaK)

140 Come on guys! Sometimes the truth that comes from CNN is more real than the truth that comes from Trump!

Posted by: Jim Acosta at March 19, 2020 04:46 PM (e284m)

141 They are part of the Euronews pool (which they use "over there" based on my experience of watching TV in Europe) and pipe in some stories that many others don't cover.

Yeah, the Euronews pool reports are pretty good. Lots of interesting stories you don't see in other US media.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 19, 2020 04:46 PM (ZGrMX)

142
The note about if the question helps to stop the virus, geez. If it was directed at the girl who asked about the "WuFlu is racist" complaints, what level of failure for self-awareness is involved there?
Posted by: Synova at March 19, 2020 04:43 PM (BD/yx)
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Would this fall under the millikohn scale?

If so, I rate it a 750 millikohn.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at March 19, 2020 04:46 PM (WEBkv)

143 127 see Trump just issued his own call for all broads
to come home. If you don't get your ass back home now, the US govt won't
be able to help.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 19, 2020 04:42 PM (rCwaK)

just broads?
Posted by: Quint at March 19, 2020 04:43 PM (n13/j)

Is he building a harem?

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 19, 2020 04:46 PM (Ez6QX)

144 Didn't have the nerve to ask her, ace to face. No, it was a note left on her seat. So brave!

Posted by: JuJuBee at March 19, 2020 04:47 PM (COzlW)

145 Two counterpoints, from media heroes:

@brianstelter
The tiny cable channel @OANN can do whatever it wants. What it chose to do today - is shameful.

@TreyYingst
The journalists in that briefing room are some of the finest in the world.
Many have covered the White House for decades and tirelessly worked to hold public officials accountable.
They are a vital part of our democracy.

So now that our betters have spoken, I will now wait for Ace to retract this post that says otherwise.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2020 04:47 PM (hYcqw)

146 Face to face.

Posted by: JuJuBee at March 19, 2020 04:47 PM (COzlW)

147 I'm fond of the classics. Two good choices:

- Dunce cap with the person's name and place of employment on it

As long as the characters on it are Chinese, a la the Cultural Revolution.

Posted by: pep at March 19, 2020 04:47 PM (T6t7i)

148 We believe in truth, not facts!

---- Brain Bleed Biden

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 19, 2020 04:47 PM (ptqGC)

149 Given how badly and regularly Trump smacks the press around it's obvious they're not there for the hunting anymore.

Posted by: DaveA at March 19, 2020 04:47 PM (FhXTo)

150 We should require a Journalist Uniform so we would know who to bow down to on the street. Something loud, stupid and annoying. Ideas?

Posted by: Mel Gibson at March 19, 2020 04:31 PM (Q7YFR)
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A furry costume. Complete with detachable whip so we can keep them in line.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at March 19, 2020 04:48 PM (WEBkv)

151
Ace would like to go ace to face with Demi Rose. Well Demi on Ace's face.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 19, 2020 04:48 PM (rCwaK)

152 I am heartened that there's hope yet for our media with journalists like that young woman.

Posted by: Decaf at March 19, 2020 04:49 PM (xarPm)

153 Is he building a harem?

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 19, 2020 04:46 PM (Ez6QX)

Have you seen the ~~broads~~ ladies he surrounds himself with? The guy is certainly acting like he's been there before.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at March 19, 2020 04:49 PM (1CjJc)

154 149 Given how badly and regularly Trump smacks the press around it's obvious they're not there for the hunting anymore.

Today he told them they were sitting too close to each other and he'd have to weed them out, only invite the two or three whom he likes.

Posted by: kallisto at March 19, 2020 04:49 PM (kgQKM)

155 Didn't have the nerve to ask her, ace to face. No, it was a note left on her seat. So brave!
Posted by: JuJuBee at March 19, 2020 04:47 PM (COzlW)
++++++++++
"Ace to face" sounds like some kind of terribly combative interview show wherein Ace scolds the cucks.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2020 04:49 PM (hYcqw)

156 just broads?

That's a Justin Trudeau reference. The other day he worded it
thus, ordering Canadians abroad to come home, "If you're abroad, it's
time to come home."

If you're a broad, get your ass back home. Steyn had a lot of fun with that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 19, 2020 04:46 PM (rCwaK)

ah.

Posted by: Quint at March 19, 2020 04:49 PM (n13/j)

157 And tiny dick Brian Stelter can be a grubby little shit if he wants, and today he wanted to be one, again.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 19, 2020 04:50 PM (e284m)

158
What, were you not told that the first wave of landing craft at Omaha Beach on D-Day was filled completely with urinalists? Their press shields saved them that day, I tells ya!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 19, 2020 04:50 PM (pNxlR)

159 Barney.
Posted by: rickb223
--------

Woodsy Owl. The floppy clown feet are a key ingredient, plus the hat with a feather in it

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 19, 2020 04:50 PM (sHVgQ)

160
Again, journalists go to the bottom of the medical care rationing list. Crack whores and vagrants go ahead of them.

No chloroquine for you!

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 19, 2020 04:50 PM (rCwaK)

161 Well, some good news for me. My blood test for Valley Fever came back negative in both assays. So I guess the lung crut I have is just, wait for it, a cold.

(sets empty coffin on fire, dances around it)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 19, 2020 04:44 PM (miJU3)
-----------

As someone who has had Valley Fever, all I can say is, congratulations.

That stuff is nasty. Plus, the toxins mess with your head.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at March 19, 2020 04:50 PM (WEBkv)

162 @TreyYingst

The journalists in that briefing room are some of the finest in the world.

Many have covered the White House for decades and tirelessly worked to hold public officials accountable.

They are a vital part of our democracy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2020 04:47 PM (hYcqw)

They must've been MIA from 2008-2016.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at March 19, 2020 04:50 PM (1CjJc)

163 Put these "journalists" in the bird masks doctors wore in ye olden tymes to fight the plague.

Posted by: JuJuBee at March 19, 2020 04:50 PM (COzlW)

164 Also, as to Trey Yingst's assertion that they have been covering the White House for "decades" - was he watching the same press conference? Most of the people in the theater haven't been *alive* for too many decades...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2020 04:50 PM (hYcqw)

165 153 Is he building a harem?

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 19, 2020 04:46 PM (Ez6QX)

Have you seen the broads ladies he surrounds himself with? The guy is certainly acting like he's been there before.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at March 19, 2020 04:49 PM (1CjJc)

Heh.

"All your bitches are belong to me!"

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 19, 2020 04:51 PM (Ez6QX)

166 A friend asks, stunned: "Is this what 'journalists' actually think they're doing? Fighting coronavirus?"
---
Does anyone remember when obamacare was being discussed when Lawrence Odonnell pronounced that we were going to defeat Death?

Posted by: Methos at March 19, 2020 04:51 PM (kOpft)

167 If you're a broad, get your ass back home. Steyn had a lot of fun with that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 19, 2020 04:46 PM

Just the cute ones though.

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 19, 2020 04:51 PM (TNy/K)

168 Also notice how passive=aggressive leaving that gay little note is.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 19, 2020 04:51 PM (j3npP)

169 More commentators should walk off in protest from MSM shows to encourage others to do so but I fear that money is far more important to most media people that the truth or even fate if their country.

Posted by: Decaf at March 19, 2020 04:51 PM (xarPm)

170 That's a Justin Trudeau reference. The other day he worded it thus, ordering Canadians abroad to come home, "If you're abroad, it's time to come home."

If you're a broad, get your ass back home. Steyn had a lot of fun with that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 19, 2020 04:46 PM (rCwaK)

Faggy McBlackface is ordering me to come home?

FUCK. HIM. With a rabid snapping turtle covered with thermite.

Besides, does he really want WuFlu-infected Canadians coming home by plane, shedding virus particles in the damned airport like the Flying Crowbar sheds gamma rays?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 19, 2020 04:52 PM (miJU3)

171 smooth move Tater. Babs Streisand suggest that to you?

Posted by: x at March 19, 2020 04:52 PM (nFwvY)

172 They must've been MIA from 2008-2016.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at March 19, 2020 04:50 PM (1CjJc)
+++++++++++
No, not at all. They were there, asking questions. Questions like "What do you think is the ideal temperature for hot chocolate, Mr. President?" and "Do you prefer soft or firm pillows, Mr. President?"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2020 04:52 PM (hYcqw)

173 If you're a broad, get your ass back home. Steyn had a lot of fun with that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 19, 2020 04:46 PM

Home is where the kitchen is.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at March 19, 2020 04:52 PM (1CjJc)

174 Oh! The expressions on the faces of the propagandists sitting in the rows ahead of Rion!

BWAHAAAAAAHAHAHAHAAA!!!

Posted by: filbert at March 19, 2020 04:53 PM (NiXyF)

175
That note on the seat is bogus. Why not a handwritten note, which could be left immediately? Or, speak it face to face,

No -- that is a note typed on a device and printed on a printer. It's immediacy is suspect to the Nth degree.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 19, 2020 04:53 PM (pNxlR)

176 162
@TreyYingst

The journalists in that briefing room are some of the finest in the world.

Many have covered the White House for decades and tirelessly worked to hold public officials accountable.

They are a vital part of our democracy.

Sure, one of the finest little whiney bitches in the world left that cowardly little note for the OAN reporter. Vital to our democracy.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 19, 2020 04:53 PM (e284m)

177 Home is where the kitchen is.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at March 19, 2020 04:52 PM (1CjJc)

Sadly Canadians don't have sandwiches.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 19, 2020 04:53 PM (j3npP)

178 Back in the early Pleistocene, when I was in the middle of it, a few of us subversives had a saying about most of our colleagues in the press: they can cover any topic ..... poorly.

And it was much, much, much better back then. I mean the obvious overall intellectual level, and common sense, and humility. There were exceptions - enough that there were people/publications you could read for actual news and actual reasonable context, etc.

And there are still reasonably good actual reporters, though not many. However - the editorial level, the superstructure, the institutions - are just about uniformly and thoroughly collapsed. Just dumb silly tendentious airheads who are shallow political hacks. So much of the good content dies before it gets into print.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 19, 2020 04:53 PM (El6T/)

179 Her question DID help stop the corona virus IF it managed to cause the rest of them to behave themselves in the future even just a little bit.

It's a round about way of speaking to her "peers" that they should ask relevant questions.

Trump should pick up the message on the note and set up a projector and when ever someone asks something dumb turn it on and point at it.

Posted by: Synova at March 19, 2020 04:53 PM (BD/yx)

180 No, not at all. They were there, asking questions. Questions like "What do you think is the ideal temperature for hot chocolate, Mr. President?" and "Do you prefer soft or firm pillows, Mr. President?"
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2020 04:52 PM (hYcqw)

------------

Firm, definitely firm.

Posted by: Reggie bodyman Love at your service! at March 19, 2020 04:53 PM (WEBkv)

181
Its immediacy ...

Dammit

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 19, 2020 04:54 PM (pNxlR)

182 If Trump wasn't married, he'd be fucking Ms. Rion right now.

Posted by: Sooner at March 19, 2020 04:54 PM (YkGG9)

183 W e should require a Journalist Uniform so we would know who to bow down to on the street. Something loud, stupid and annoying. Ideas?

Posted by: Mel Gibson at March 19, 2020 04:31 PM

=====

A furry costume. Complete with detachable whip so we can keep them in line.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at March 19, 2020 04:48 PM

What are we, chopped liver?

Posted by: Bronies at March 19, 2020 04:54 PM (DMUuz)

184 yet they lack an understanding of the basics (science, history, how government works and is organized, legal boundaries, etc.).

Whoa, there. Each of your "Basics" would make fine doctoral dissertations in J-School. This crew struggled (and probably never came to a conclusion) with why Mike Bloomberg didn't just give a million dollars to every American.

Posted by: t-bird at March 19, 2020 04:54 PM (aKxkI)

185
"Ace to face" sounds like some kind of terribly combative interview show wherein Ace scolds the cucks.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2020 04:49 PM (hYcqw)

In the Bane voice he used to do on the AoS podcast.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 19, 2020 04:54 PM (EGyGV)

186 When you think about it -- along with the Deep State/Media/TDS/Resistance/NeverTrump/
CommieBillionaire/HawaiianJudge/etc. Cabal -- Trump has been a wartime President since (and actually before) his election.

Posted by: ShainS at March 19, 2020 04:54 PM (kyz/M)

187 As someone who has had Valley Fever, all I can say is, congratulations.

That stuff is nasty. Plus, the toxins mess with your head.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at March 19, 2020 04:50 PM (WEBkv)

Thank you, Blake. I am pleased to not have that particular albatross around my neck.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 19, 2020 04:54 PM (miJU3)

188 The comments from leftists on the actual twitter feed are hilarious.

Basically "HOW DARE YOU TELL THE TRUTH?????"

Posted by: Mr. Trashbag, Shoggoth and Eater Of Toes at March 19, 2020 04:54 PM (T09ml)

189 176 162
@TreyYingst

The journalists in that briefing room are some of the finest in the world.

Many have covered the White House for decades and tirelessly worked to hold public officials accountable.

They are a vital part of our democracy.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 19, 2020 04:53 PM (e284m)

Oh bull-fucking-shit.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 19, 2020 04:55 PM (Ez6QX)

190 177
Home is where the kitchen is.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at March 19, 2020 04:52 PM (1CjJc)

Sadly Canadians don't have sandwiches.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 19, 2020 04:53 PM (j3npP)

For just the cost of a cup of coffee a day, you, too, can send a broad, sammiches to Canuckistan.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at March 19, 2020 04:55 PM (1CjJc)

191 "With a rabid snapping turtle covered with thermite."

I believe our AOP has broken new ground, both in an engineering and bitch-slapping rhetorical sense, here.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 19, 2020 04:55 PM (El6T/)

192 now movie theaters are seeking fed relief. Since everyone says no buy backs for the airline industry, maybe we could make some demands on a Hollywood bailout?

Posted by: Quint at March 19, 2020 04:55 PM (n13/j)

193 What are we, chopped liver?
Posted by: Bronies at March 19, 2020 04:54 PM (DMUuz)
-------------

But, do you come with a detachable whip?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at March 19, 2020 04:55 PM (WEBkv)

194 The White House press pool is not like a bunch of high schoolers, no, not at all.

Posted by: West at March 19, 2020 04:55 PM (jqZBS)

195 Stelter gave birth to twin baby propaganda potatoes over the OAN question. It's fucking wonderful, watching the fallout. Katie Rogers (NYT) is so upset she won't even give OAN the satisfaction of being "journalists". OAN seems to be OK with that.

https://tinyurl.com/s9kkvg2

Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at March 19, 2020 04:55 PM (NVYyb)

196
The journalists in that briefing room are some of the finest in the world.

Many have covered the White House for decades and tirelessly worked to hold public officials accountable.

They are a vital part of our democracy.

They did nothing--zero, nada, zilch--to hold the purple-lipped messiah accountable.

Posted by: Northernlurker at March 19, 2020 04:55 PM (Uu+Jp)

197 Next question: why don't more normal call the reactionary Democrat party operatives with bylines out for their bullshit?

Posted by: Mr. Trashbag, Shoggoth and Eater Of Toes at March 19, 2020 04:56 PM (T09ml)

198 Volchatka would solve press impudence.

Posted by: Sooper Sekrit Russian Agent at March 19, 2020 04:56 PM (QrOoP)

199 Hey Fox News, if you're wondering where your testicles went and where your ratings are soon to go, take a gander at OANN.

Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at March 19, 2020 04:56 PM (OPH9b)

200 OAN, Chanel Rion, asked what needed to be asked.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 19, 2020 04:56 PM (wiXsO)

201
Sadly Canadians don't have sandwiches.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 19, 2020 04:53 PM (j3npP)

Any nation that worships the unholy concoction called poutine in lieu of sammiches needs to be nuked.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 19, 2020 04:57 PM (EGyGV)

202 188 The comments from leftists on the actual twitter feed are hilarious.

Basically "HOW DARE YOU TELL THE TRUTH?????"
Posted by: Mr. Trashbag, Shoggoth and Eater Of Toes at March 19, 2020 04:54 PM (T09ml)

OMG, I'm going to tell Sarah that Mr. Trashbags was spoted on Ace of Spades HQ.

Posted by: Synova at March 19, 2020 04:57 PM (BD/yx)

203 They did nothing--zero, nada, zilch--to hold the purple-lipped messiah accountable.

Posted by: Northernlurker at March 19, 2020 04:55 PM (Uu+Jp)
Accountable? They were busy fantasizing about scrubbing his back in the shower.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 19, 2020 04:57 PM (e284m)

204 Posted by: rhomboid at March 19, 2020 04:53 PM (El6T/)

You can still do it even if you're an idiot by asking things like, "What is a question about this topic that should be asked that you haven't been asked?" and stuff like that.

The problem with the media now is that it's not about reporting it's about constructing the rayciss/homophobe/sexism narratives. Saw it all the time back in the 2015-2016 when they tried to cover Trump rallies. Within the first paragraph they'd bring up the rayciss/homophobic/sexism stuff. They simply can't report on anything outside of it because to them that is the way the world is constructed and everything must either fit into it or outside of it but it always relates to it.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 19, 2020 04:57 PM (j3npP)

205
176 162
@TreyYingst

Your "finest" assertion carries even less weight than Greta the Climate Golem proclaiming bogus climate scientists as "our finest scientists".

Get over yourself, you pathetic credentialist.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 19, 2020 04:57 PM (pNxlR)

206 I completely agree with TreyYingst.

However, the Trey's of the press are propagandists, not reporters.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at March 19, 2020 04:57 PM (WEBkv)

207 Sounds like our mayor has just ordered almost every public business closed in the city.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 19, 2020 04:58 PM (l6b3d)

208 Maybe the press took 8 years off holding the president accountable and feel they have to make up for it by being twice as hostile with this president. To make up for their shame of being sycophantic, toe-licking servile dogs to Obama.

Yeah. That's the ticket.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 19, 2020 04:58 PM (KZzsI)

209 And of course the melancholy truth is that journalism - real journalism, actual fact-gathering and real reporting - *is* an important part of an open society.

The near-total absence of same is a major reason for the collection of completely artificial and self-inflicted problems the US struggle against today.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 19, 2020 04:58 PM (El6T/)

210 Did I miss any new Chinese joke names for the Wohoo Flu?

Posted by: Cannibal Blob at March 19, 2020 04:58 PM (7ZMbn)

211 @brianstelter

The tiny cable channel @OANN can do whatever it wants. What it chose to do today - is shameful.

If anyone knows "tiny", it's Brian Stelter. He has to take off his shoes and socks and drop his pants to count to 20 1/2.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at March 19, 2020 04:58 PM (QhGSQ)

212 I am heartened that there's hope yet for our media with journalists like that young woman.

******

I want to be pregnant with her babies. It's the non-wokeness that adds to teh hotness by eleventy.

Is that wrong? Should I not be thinking that?

Posted by: Two Weeks From Dick Punching NeverTrumping Shitheels at March 19, 2020 04:59 PM (+dsLj)

213 When Barack and I were presidenting there were many times he sent me abroad. I usually just took aa sniff and sent her right back.

/Joe Biden.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 19, 2020 04:59 PM (m45I2)

214 I completely agree with TreyYingst.

However, the Trey's of the press are propagandists, not reporters.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at March 19, 2020 04:57 PM (WEBkv)
++++++++++++++++
Before Obama, I knew them to be biased.
During Obama, I knew them to be propagandists.
Since Obama, I suspect them to be propagandists directly agitating on behalf of foreign powers.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2020 04:59 PM (hYcqw)

215 What is Valley Fever?

Posted by: Jewells45 at March 19, 2020 04:59 PM (dUJdY)

216 the OAN question was better than: to all the "so called" Journalist that are taking the side of the Chinese ruling party, time to FOAD

Posted by: politic uber alles at March 19, 2020 04:59 PM (0hOKG)

217 OMG, I'm going to tell Sarah that Mr. Trashbags was spoted on Ace of Spades HQ.
Posted by: Synova at March 19, 2020

+++++

I am literally LOLing right now.

And happy that someone got the reverence.

[chuckle]

Posted by: Mr. Trashbag, Shoggoth and Eater Of Toes at March 19, 2020 04:59 PM (T09ml)

218 Did I miss any new Chinese joke names for the Wohoo Flu?

******

Mai Li Virus?

Posted by: Muldoon at March 19, 2020 05:00 PM (m45I2)

219 That Hillary joke just made me laugh out loud - for the first time in at least two weeks. Thank you for that.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at March 19, 2020 05:00 PM (kUmUV)

220 See, if calling it a "Chinese virus" suggests that only Chinese people can get it, which the left feels the need to "debunk", doesn't the name Covid19, named for 2019, suggest that you can't get it in 2020?

Posted by: Axeman at March 19, 2020 05:00 PM (Eicbe)

221 Check out his tweet from Mollie Hemingway. WaPo is pure propaganda. Absolutely amazing.

https://tinyurl.com/vu7jgad

Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at March 19, 2020 05:00 PM (NVYyb)

222 Sorry, I don't think it's delusion. It's intimidation.

Posted by: ... at March 19, 2020 05:00 PM (uEbPt)

223 >>Mai Li Virus? Posted by: Muldoon at March 19, 2020 05:00 PM (m45I2)

Flu Manchu

Posted by: Zod at March 19, 2020 05:00 PM (yvnmY)

224 If anyone knows "tiny", it's Brian Stelter. He has to take off his shoes and socks and drop his pants to count to 20 1/2.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at March 19, 2020 04:58 PM (QhGSQ)
+++++++++++
I put this on a prior thread, but Stelter should be careful.
Back in 80s, CNN was a "tiny cable channel." So was ESPN.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2020 05:00 PM (hYcqw)

225 If you live in Texas, make sure you get out tonight or tomorrow before midnight to have dinner at a restaurant that serves "Large Country on continent of Asia" food.

The guv has closed down the eatin places, the saloons, and the stable. You can still get treatment at doc's place above the stable though if you feel like you're comin down with the "Large Country on the Continent of Asia" virus.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 19, 2020 05:01 PM (e284m)

226 @brianstelter

Otherwise known to Native Americans as Man Who Looks Like Potato and Has Saggy Tits

Posted by: Two Weeks From Dick Punching NeverTrumping Shitheels at March 19, 2020 05:01 PM (+dsLj)

227 I can't remember where this comes from, but...

When the President is a Republican, all journalists want to be Woodward.

When the President is a Democrat, all journalists want to be Monica Lewinski.

Posted by: davidt at March 19, 2020 05:01 PM (l3+k2)

228 What is Valley Fever?
Posted by: Jewells45 at March 19, 2020 04:59 PM (dUJdY)
-------------

Lung fungus.

Seriously.

If you're white, you'll likely recover with some slight lung scarring.

If you're Asian or Black, you may survive, but have serious lifelong health complications afterward.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at March 19, 2020 05:01 PM (WEBkv)

229 Accountable? They were busy fantasizing about scrubbing his back in the shower.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 19, 2020 04:57 PM (e284m)

thanks. needed that.

Posted by: Cannibal Blob at March 19, 2020 05:01 PM (7ZMbn)

230 Brain Stelter is CNN's House Eunuch.

Posted by: Mr. Trashbag, Shoggoth and Eater Of Toes at March 19, 2020 05:01 PM (T09ml)

231 209
And of course the melancholy truth is that journalism - real journalism,
actual fact-gathering and real reporting - *is* an important part of an
open society.

True. Pity we don't have any real journalists.

Posted by: pep at March 19, 2020 05:02 PM (T6t7i)

232 Hak Kof Dai.

Posted by: Zod at March 19, 2020 05:02 PM (yvnmY)

233 I guess Wuhan is a race, too.

Posted by: Axeman at March 19, 2020 05:02 PM (Eicbe)

234 Check out his tweet from Mollie Hemingway. WaPo is pure propaganda.

Bezos owns the Washington Post and Amazon. Amazon absolutely needs the Chinese manufacturing giant to keep their costs low and make money. Bezos has issued his orders.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 19, 2020 05:03 PM (KZzsI)

235 This would be a good time to re-start talk of slave reparation payments.

Posted by: Zod at March 19, 2020 05:03 PM (yvnmY)

236 Got back from my doctor's appt. who's office is attached to a hospital. As soon as you get off the elevator there are people there to greet you in masks and gloves, that take your temperature and make sure you lather up with hand sanitizer before you can proceed.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 19, 2020 05:03 PM (wiXsO)

237

I'm with covid
<---

Posted by: Moron Robbie - everyone has gone bat soup crazy at March 19, 2020 05:03 PM (41rs/)

238 San Joaquin Valley Fever- a fungal infection centered on the San Joaquin Valley of California and other parts of the American Southwest

Posted by: Muldoon at March 19, 2020 05:03 PM (m45I2)

239 I guess Wuhan is a race, too.
Posted by: Axeman

The have a rickshaw Formula One every summer

Posted by: Bruce at March 19, 2020 05:03 PM (vd8XM)

240 Firm, definitely firm.
Posted by: Reggie bodyman Love at your service!

Al Dente', in other words.

Posted by: Gaylord Facedown at March 19, 2020 05:03 PM (iQmdl)

241
I know everyone is justifiably enranged by the behavior of the national media. But I will say that our local news coverage here in Houston of this epidemic has been pretty well factual and helpful. We saw the same thing during Harvey. So they can get it right after they've tried everything else.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 19, 2020 05:04 PM (7rVsF)

242 233
I guess Wuhan is a race, too.

Posted by: Axeman at March 19, 2020 05:02 PM (Eicbe)
Why not, Hispanic is. So is Muslim.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 19, 2020 05:04 PM (e284m)

243 San Joaquin Valley Fever- a fungal infection centered on the San Joaquin Valley of California and other parts of the American Southwest
Posted by: Muldoon at March 19, 2020 05:03 PM (m45I2)
+++++++++++++
Racist.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2020 05:04 PM (hYcqw)

244 Damn Blake that sounds awful.

Posted by: Jewells45 at March 19, 2020 05:04 PM (dUJdY)

245 And one other thing for Fox News: my boomer mother now watches OANN exclusively. She kicked Fox News to the curb a while back, and while only anecdotal, I should point out she used to watch Fox all the time. She doesn't even watch it anymore.

Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at March 19, 2020 05:04 PM (OPH9b)

246 My company, a small startup, is cutting 15-20% of all employees. I find out if I still have a job tomorrow...

Posted by: Timon at March 19, 2020 05:04 PM (dKm4U)

247 When the President is a Republican, all journalists want to be Woodward.

When the President is a Democrat, all journalists want to be Monica Lewinski.
Posted by: davidt at March 19, 2020 05:01 PM

++++

God I love AoSHQ

Posted by: Mr. Trashbag, Shoggoth and Eater Of Toes at March 19, 2020 05:04 PM (T09ml)

248 As soon as you get off the elevator there are people
there to greet you in masks and gloves, that take your temperature and
make sure you lather up with hand sanitizer before you can proceed.

Posted by: redridinghood

Not unlike Costco.

Posted by: pep at March 19, 2020 05:04 PM (T6t7i)

249 Dack, you're right.

And a related thing.

Press conferences, most anyway, have long (always?) been kind of "ugly", in the sense that there'd usually be stupid questions, unreasonably hostile questions, etc. Most people have rarely if ever watched them, so they can be shocked. But it's kind of the price of doing business with a free press, and it's often been that way, long before Trump.

But clearly the balance has tipped to where the idiotic badgering has swamped the reasonable give-and-take. Though the last 2-3 days WH events are (thankfully) not good examples, the fact that the WH discontinued the decades-old practice of holding them illustrates how bad it had become.

Just giving little speeches, rife with myths and distortions and tendentious assertions, capped by a throwaway "question".

So there's always been some ugliness that will shock the uninitiated. Now, however, there's much more, it's at a dumber level, AND the news organizations fed by these events have, for the most part, become dim propaganda operations.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 19, 2020 05:04 PM (El6T/)

250 Clinton got his bj's under the desk ... Obama (figuratively) got his while at the press room podium.

All the "can I get you a pillow" salivating/adoring media love for their LightBringer ChosenWon ... pretty much the same thing.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 19, 2020 05:04 PM (Cus5s)

251 OT and late: The FDA approved Hydroxychloroquine for the treatment of Coronavirus THIS MORNING.

Posted by: JAS at March 19, 2020 05:05 PM (2BZBZ)

252 Just a note: Craig Fugate was the FEMA Administrator during the Obama administration.

Posted by: Vendette at March 19, 2020 05:05 PM (nRNOc)

253
The have a rickshaw Formula One every summer

Posted by: Bruce at March 19, 2020 05:03 PM (vd8XM)
I'd pay to see that if they put scythes on the rickshaw wheels. Would I? No, probably not, but we could put that in the movie anyway.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 19, 2020 05:05 PM (e284m)

254 This would be a good time to re-start talk of slave reparation payments.
===============
Yes. Also a good time to talk u the need to have Great Journalists lead the first mission to Mars. The one way mission.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at March 19, 2020 05:05 PM (NVYyb)

255 231 209 And of course the melancholy truth is that journalism - real journalism, actual fact-gathering and real reporting - *is* an important part of an open society.

True. Pity we don't have any real journalists.
Posted by: pep at March 19, 2020 05:02 PM (T6t7i)

You can see the consequences of not having honest reporters in China. China suppressed reports of the corona virus to avoid embarrassment. How embarrassed are they now?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 19, 2020 05:05 PM (YqDXo)

256 236 Got back from my doctor's appt. who's office is attached to a hospital. As soon as you get off the elevator there are people there to greet you in masks and gloves, that take your temperature and make sure you lather up with hand sanitizer before you can proceed.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 19, 2020 05:03 PM (wiXsO)

When this is over, we're gonna be so damn healthy!

Posted by: Tami at March 19, 2020 05:05 PM (cF8AT)

257 I've heard of desert fever, is it similar to Valley fever?

Posted by: Jewells45 at March 19, 2020 05:05 PM (dUJdY)

258 And I do like that they didn't bleep out "bullshit".
That made me smile.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 19, 2020 05:05 PM (e284m)

259 Does sending snarky tweets to Tater result in banning? Do I remember something about that?
It might involve suggesting he is soft, stupid and shaped like a potato.

Posted by: Northernlurker at March 19, 2020 05:06 PM (Uu+Jp)

260
Both my father (92) and mother (89) have doc's appointments. I imagine there will be tons of procedures. The local hospital here ramped up protocols pretty quickly.

The nurse warned me to call and check and find out what protocols they would be using.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 19, 2020 05:06 PM (rCwaK)

261
From the vault of the "finest" --

"Mr President, ... what would you say has charmed you about your time in office so far?"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 19, 2020 05:06 PM (pNxlR)

262
Skimmed the thread. The trouble is,

WHAT'S THE CONTEXT for Fugate's walk-off? He was an Obama appointee, so I'm suspicious already.

Is it because the other guy was making too much sense?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 19, 2020 05:06 PM (G51Gf)

263
Why was the Epley Maneuver mentioned here the other day?

Does someone here have Vertigo?

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at March 19, 2020 05:06 PM (8lLxM)

264 When the President is a Republican, all journalists want to be Woodward.

When the President is a Democrat, all journalists want to be Monica Lewinski.
Posted by: davidt at March 19, 2020 05:01 PM

++++

God I love AoSHQ
Posted by: Mr. Trashbag, Shoggoth and Eater Of Toes at March 19, 2020 05:04 PM (T09ml)
***********
Perfect!

Posted by: redridinghood at March 19, 2020 05:06 PM (wiXsO)

265 Craig Fugate was the FEMA Administrator during the Obama administration.

He seems to be one of the very few actually capable hires from O'Bama

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 19, 2020 05:07 PM (KZzsI)

266 Is it wrong to hope Stelter has an on-air meltdown just so I can see it dubbed with the Mark Dice voice?

Posted by: Ian S. at March 19, 2020 05:07 PM (ZGrMX)

267 The crash helmets look like coolie hats

Posted by: Bruce at March 19, 2020 05:07 PM (vd8XM)

268 OMG, I'm going to tell Sarah that Mr. Trashbags was spoted on Ace of Spades HQ.
Posted by: Synova at March 19, 2020

+++++

I am literally LOLing right now.

And happy that someone got the reverence.

[chuckle]
Posted by: Mr. Trashbag, Shoggoth and Eater Of Toes at March 19, 2020 04:59 PM (T09ml)

Admit it, you just want to call Chanel Rion "Cuddlebunny," don't you?

Posted by: filbert at March 19, 2020 05:07 PM (NiXyF)

269 Damn Blake that sounds awful.
Posted by: Jewells45 at March 19, 2020 05:04 PM (dUJdY)
------------

It was unpleasant.

Nothing, and I mean, nothing, tasted good. I dropped 25 lbs in very short order and I really don't have 25 lbs to spare.

What's worse, though, is the secondary infections that can occur and I managed to get one.

Side note: The county health board freaked out because I tested positive for whooping cough antibodies. However, I'd warned my doctor in advance I'd had it and she sent me off with a z pac? I think it was.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at March 19, 2020 05:08 PM (WEBkv)

270 Press conferences, most anyway, have long (always?) been kind of "ugly",
in the sense that there'd usually be stupid questions, unreasonably
hostile questions, etc. Most people have rarely if ever watched them,
so they can be shocked. But it's kind of the price of doing business
with a free press, and it's often been that way, long before Trump.

But clearly the balance has tipped to where the idiotic badgering has swamped the reasonable give-and-take.

They see themselves as Jimmy Stewart fighting the power. They're posing for the camera, and thinking about having drinks with their work mates later.
"Did you SEE what I did to the BOM today? I was brutal, but he deserved it".

Posted by: pep at March 19, 2020 05:08 PM (T6t7i)

271

Did some googling about that Rion chick.

Seems a bit sketchy.

But not as sketchy as Brian Stelter sidling up to the chocolate fountain at Golden Corral.

Posted by: Rev. Dr. E Buzz Miller, Lesbian at March 19, 2020 05:08 PM (lg/F7)

272 The Wuhanese are particularly nasty people.

Posted by: Mel Gibson at March 19, 2020 05:08 PM (QZCjk)

273
WHAT'S THE CONTEXT for Fugate's walk-off? He was an Obama appointee, so I'm suspicious already.

Is it because the other guy was making too much sense?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 19, 2020 05:06 PM (G51Gf)
Based on what I got from his rant, he thinks the federal government should be in tighter control of the supply chain and it's Trump's fault it's not happening, but I could be wrong.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 19, 2020 05:08 PM (e284m)

274 My company, a small startup, is cutting 15-20% of all employees. I find out if I still have a job tomorrow...

My daughters company stopped OT last week. Yesterday he said he may have to start laying people off. She just got that job a few months ago and loves it. This just sucks. She started driving for Lyft but we asked her to stop for now due to everything going on.

Posted by: Jewells45 at March 19, 2020 05:08 PM (dUJdY)

275 And that Ebony Bowden person, who sneered and rolled her eyes and grimaced at the Indian reporter, was back in the press room again today. I don't recall anybody asking her how her actions furthered the news-gathering.

Posted by: m at March 19, 2020 05:09 PM (55d/e)

276 And I do like that they didn't bleep out "bullshit".
That made me smile.
Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 19, 2020 05:05 PM (e284m)
++++++++++++++
I doubt they could. It was unexpected and I doubt they were running tape-delay for an interview between a press whore, and agitator and former government official.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2020 05:09 PM (hYcqw)

277 I'd have smacked that " give everything to New York" guy right across the mouth Is it the rest of the country's fault they are having shortages?

Posted by: CN at March 19, 2020 05:09 PM (ONvIw)

278 What is Valley Fever?
Posted by: Jewells45 at March 19, 2020 04:59 PM (dUJdY)

Coccidioidomycosis. A fungus infection of the lungs caused by a soil fungus common in thebsouthwest.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 19, 2020 05:09 PM (miJU3)

279 > Something loud, stupid and
annoying.

Assless gimp suit with "Property of the Chinese Communist Party" tattooed on the ass.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 19, 2020 05:09 PM (tLWGd)

280 @249

I remember a press conference where Jim Acosta apologized to the JEF for having to ask him questions about Benghazi before he characterized the question along the lines of "Republicans are seizing."

The press, in the main, are nothing more than Democrat stenographers and apparatchiks.

You can literally see it in real time as Democrat press releases in the morning will become MSM talking points by the afternoon.

When dealing with the press it's best to head WT Sherman's advice.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 19, 2020 05:09 PM (FVrDO)

281 I really hope that OANN question and President Trump's answer goes "viral"!

Posted by: RICO aka msm/dnc/bureaucracy at March 19, 2020 05:10 PM (x6XkS)

282 Anyone get the margins cigarettes? They'll need it after getting blown.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 19, 2020 05:10 PM (mndtc)

283 Is it because the other guy was making too much sense?

It looks to me like he just has a job to do and was being forced to sit and listen to some guy trying to criticize what he's doing and make up random crap to attack the Trump administration. To me, at least.

The smirk on "Andy's" face tells it all.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 19, 2020 05:10 PM (KZzsI)

284 I have met Mr Fugate and he is good people. His bias seems liberal but his words and actions are extremely local and pro-liberty.

Posted by: dude at March 19, 2020 05:10 PM (hpbeA)

285 They see themselves as Jimmy Stewart fighting the
power. They're posing for the camera, and thinking about having drinks
with their work mates later.
"Did you SEE what I did to the BOM today? I was brutal, but he deserved it".

Posted by: pep

"I don't consider myself a hero, though. I was just doing my job."

Posted by: pep at March 19, 2020 05:10 PM (T6t7i)

286 A friend asks, stunned: "Is this what 'journalists' actually think they're doing? Fighting coronavirus?"

PDT could strike gold with this. Go around the room and ask each of them this. Make sure Acosta is there.

Posted by: m at March 19, 2020 05:11 PM (55d/e)

287 I notice that pin brain was more or less claiming Texas was profiteering and hoarding, or that somehow that was happening to poor New York.

Tell ya what skippy, if I had my way....types...deletes...deletes more

Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 19, 2020 05:11 PM (e284m)

288
The FEMA guy was being confronted by the loon on the right, whose hair was on fire about the supply chain. He thinks profiteers are hording everything and the government needs to come in and take it all over.

The FEMA guy then walked off.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 19, 2020 05:11 PM (rCwaK)

289 Pull the plug on Juan Williams please.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at March 19, 2020 05:11 PM (+fPHo)

290 Pull the plug on Juan Williams please.
Posted by: Les Kinetic at March 19, 2020 05:11 PM (+fPHo)

Bush girl Dana actually gave a good response

Posted by: JoeF. at March 19, 2020 05:12 PM (CqE5x)

291 I am thinking of putting in a application to be a clerk at the local Walmart Neighborhood market. Clearly there are not enough clerks.
Just temporarily. Wouldn't want the income to screw up my sweet, sweet Obamacare subsidy.
Seriously.

Posted by: JAS at March 19, 2020 05:13 PM (2BZBZ)

292 And the blaming of Texas was stupid. They can't get masks there either. The loud mouth was lying.

Posted by: CN at March 19, 2020 05:13 PM (ONvIw)

293 "I guess Craig has left."

Posted by: I Am Craig at March 19, 2020 05:13 PM (uM6CE)

294 My Wife's hospital they banned all visitors

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at March 19, 2020 05:13 PM (dKiJG)

295 > The FDA approved Hydroxychloroquine for the treatment of Coronavirus THIS MORNING.

Well, approved for testing, anyway. Docs had the power to prescribe it before, since it's an approved drug for other conditions.

Trump has ordered the FDA to fast-track all potential treatments.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 19, 2020 05:13 PM (tLWGd)

296 Juan needs to go.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 19, 2020 05:14 PM (wiXsO)

297 Important question, that I'm sure has already been answered somewhere in the comments today --

Who were the two front row 'reporters' that Trump singled out as needing to be out of there?

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 19, 2020 05:14 PM (XF4b8)

298 >>Bush girl Dana actually gave a good response Posted by: JoeF. at March 19, 2020 05:12 PM (CqE5x)

Her waffling notwithstanding, Zod would still allow Perino to lick the scent of Zod's lunch from his lips.

Posted by: Zod at March 19, 2020 05:14 PM (yvnmY)

299 Don't do any archeology in Arizona.

Posted by: JAS at March 19, 2020 05:14 PM (2BZBZ)

300
NO CAPES!!!!

Posted by: Edna Mode at March 19, 2020 05:15 PM (EGyGV)

301
Juan needs to go.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 19, 2020 05:14 PM (wiXsO)

i can't watch because of him...

Posted by: SturmToddler at March 19, 2020 05:15 PM (+NdM9)

302 >>296
Juan needs to go. Posted by: redridinghood at March 19, 2020 05:14 PM (wiXsO)

That's a guy who needs a good, hard belly-laugh. The man constantly looks like he lost his puppy.

Posted by: Zod at March 19, 2020 05:15 PM (yvnmY)

303 292
And the blaming of Texas was stupid. They can't get masks there either. The loud mouth was lying.

Posted by: CN at March 19, 2020 05:13 PM (ONvIw)
He reached out to a handy place for a New Yorker to hate to gin up the reason we should get slapped around by the Federal government,

Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 19, 2020 05:15 PM (e284m)

304 Don't do any archeology in Arizona.

"It belongs in a museum!"
--angry young Indiana Jones

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 19, 2020 05:15 PM (KZzsI)

305 No. Approved for Physicians to write prescriptions for it. It has a long history with known, minor side-effects.

Posted by: JAS at March 19, 2020 05:16 PM (2BZBZ)

306 Pull the plug on Juan Williams please.
Posted by: Les Kinetic at March 19, 2020 05:11 PM (+fPHo)

You misspelled Fox.

Posted by: golfman at March 19, 2020 05:16 PM (hOMhY)

307 Honestly, I didn't think the media could get much lower or debase this situation to the degree they have.

I was wrong.

They have demonstrably and consistently taken up the line of the Communist Chinese. They have turned a crisis in which we should all be uniting around solutions into a political war against our citizens. They have incited panic and anxiety, on purpose, with their questions and headline. It's a disgrace to a degree I have never experienced or witnessed.

The president called out the WSJ. They have been the absolute worst. I've been a long time subscriber for business and today I cancelled it. I can't, no I won't read the garbage they write anymore. Done.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 19, 2020 05:16 PM (VpIIl)

308 Hey, I get paid to read the script. It's not easy to be like the pro wrestling heavy.

Posted by: Juan Williams at March 19, 2020 05:16 PM (l3+k2)

309 Listening to the FEMA telecon with governors. Right now Pence says that "tens of thousands" of N95 masks have been identified--originally for industrial use so needed a federal liability waiver to be released for use for med purposes.

Likewise thousands of ventilator/respirators identified--apparently from outpatient and other facilities. Some may need retrofit of one valve.

THIS IS GOOD NEWS people

Posted by: groovygirl at March 19, 2020 05:16 PM (ybC9u)

310 303: NYC dude was so fucking entitled. New York has had the same time to prepare as the rest of the country.

Posted by: CN at March 19, 2020 05:17 PM (ONvIw)

311 Anyone see where the margins are blown?

It isn't the usual suspects....

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 19, 2020 05:17 PM (dLLD6)

312 You can literally see it in real time as Democrat press releases in the morning will become MSM talking points by the afternoon.

When dealing with the press it's best to head WT Sherman's advice.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 19, 2020 05:09 PM (FVrDO)

Trying to decide what the big win will be with all this panic. DJIA or the final nail in the coffin for the FNM.

Posted by: golfman at March 19, 2020 05:18 PM (hOMhY)

313 I have seen some press conferences from Ike that were amazingly cordial. Sure the press has been argumentative towards Republicans for some time but not like this. They seem like hyperactive kids. No way was it this bad, it just wasn't.

The press has been extremely antagonistic since Nixon, Ford, and Reagan.

Posted by: Quint at March 19, 2020 05:18 PM (n13/j)

314 LOL, Faux Noos, on their website is saying the Chi-Coms are SUCCESSFUL in convincing the world that they are the "good guys."

Posted by: JAS at March 19, 2020 05:18 PM (2BZBZ)

315 I am thinking of putting in a application to be a
clerk at the local Walmart Neighborhood market. Clearly there are not
enough clerks.
Just temporarily. Wouldn't want the income to screw up my sweet, sweet Obamacare subsidy.
Seriously.

Posted by: JAS at March 19, 2020 05:13 PM (2BZBZ)

I did that with HEB and with Kroger. We'll see if they hire a fatbodied, OCD, creaky oldster. *snicker*

Posted by: Count de Mnet at March 19, 2020 05:18 PM (dQ1sa)

316 Valley Fever disproportionately affects spore people.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 19, 2020 05:18 PM (m45I2)

317 310
303: NYC dude was so fucking entitled. New York has had the same time to prepare as the rest of the country.

Posted by: CN at March 19, 2020 05:17 PM (ONvIw)
Their government lit their hair on fire at the first opportunity. And have decided Jet-A is a good way to douse the fire.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 19, 2020 05:18 PM (e284m)

318 >>>Anyone see where the margins are blown?

(smokes cigarette)

Posted by: The Margins at March 19, 2020 05:18 PM (l3+k2)

319 FNC gives Williams way way too long a leash. His long rant about PDT not doing enough and not leading enough was over the top.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at March 19, 2020 05:19 PM (+fPHo)

320 Dr. Birks says 50% of cases in three states/10 counties.

Hope this helps folks...sure Ace will post more in a different thread.

Posted by: groovygirl at March 19, 2020 05:19 PM (ybC9u)

321 Thats my Daughter's boss. Heh.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 19, 2020 05:19 PM (o2MD2)

322 Nextdoor is just one hysterical rant about WuFlu after another. Now a bunch of old cranks are telling people to stop going outside to exercise. I guess that means golf, too.

It's really something to read. I live among these loons.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 19, 2020 05:19 PM (ptqGC)

323 Former boss I guess. She works for FEMA.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 19, 2020 05:19 PM (o2MD2)

324 Yeah. I am thinking that I should not tell them about my degree in Comp. Sci. They might think that I am "over qualified."

Posted by: JAS at March 19, 2020 05:20 PM (2BZBZ)

325
And the blaming of Texas was stupid. They can't get masks there either. The loud mouth was lying.

Posted by: CN at March 19, 2020 05:13 PM (ONvIw)
He reached out to a handy place for a New Yorker to hate to gin up the reason we should get slapped around by the Federal government,
Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 19, 2020 05:15 PM (e284m)

The commie hatred for anything Texas is irrationally epic. You have to have lived in a commie area for awhile to truly realize it.

I used to wear my Texas Rangers MLB ballcap to the farmer's market in SoCal and enjoy the sputtering from the hippies, who wanted to rant about Texas, but didn't want to be seen getting agitated about a sports team, because that would be uncouth.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 19, 2020 05:20 PM (EGyGV)

326 Don't watch FNC and you won't ever see Juan again. Watch Fox Business or OANN (todays hero of journalism award winner).

Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at March 19, 2020 05:20 PM (NVYyb)

327 When dealing with the press it's best to head WT Sherman's advice.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 19, 2020 05:09 PM (FVrDO)

Live in Hell and rent out Texas?

Posted by: Count de Mnet at March 19, 2020 05:20 PM (dQ1sa)

328 I haven't really watched Fox either. I did watch Tucker until he went full anti war retard. I heard he did another joke of a segment the other day involving that dickhead Democrat governor of Connecticut making false claims, and running with his phony statement. Apparently by the end of the show he was saying they are going to get to the bottom of it. After they aired it. Right, douchebag.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 19, 2020 05:20 PM (VpIIl)

329 Dr. Birks says 50% of cases in three states/10 counties.

Hope this helps folks...sure Ace will post more in a different thread.
Posted by: groovygirl at March 19, 2020 05:19 PM (ybC9u)

SMH

Posted by: golfman at March 19, 2020 05:20 PM (hOMhY)

330 315
I am thinking of putting in a application to be a

clerk at the local Walmart Neighborhood market. Clearly there are not

enough clerks.
Just temporarily. Wouldn't want the income to screw up my sweet, sweet Obamacare subsidy.
Seriously.

Posted by: JAS at March 19, 2020 05:13 PM (2BZBZ)

I did that with HEB and with Kroger. We'll see if they hire a fatbodied, OCD, creaky oldster. *snicker*

Posted by: Count de Mnet at March 19, 2020 05:18 PM (dQ1sa)
I toyed with that idea for Aldi and Winco. Still thinking it. They all can use the help, those folks are going flat out from what I can tell.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 19, 2020 05:20 PM (e284m)

331 I don't know who Oliver Willis is, and something tells me I don't want to:

@owillis
Senior Writer @AmerIndependent. Prev @mmfa. I also write Fanfic about The News - join now! https://owillis.substack.com

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2020 05:20 PM (hYcqw)

332 "Based on what I got from his rant, he thinks the federal government should be in tighter control of the supply chain and it's Trump's fault it's not happening, but I could be wrong."

No, Fugate advocates for local response as the best means of resiliency in disaster response, and that Federal resources exist for funding and advisement. The other guest was advocating that Feds should DO the disaster relief, and forcibly allocate supplies from one locale to another.

Posted by: dude at March 19, 2020 05:20 PM (hpbeA)

333 He reached out to a handy place for a New Yorker to
hate to gin up the reason we should get slapped around by the Federal
government,

Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 19, 2020 05:15 PM (e284m)

Exactly, they just can't help themselves.

Posted by: clutch cargo at March 19, 2020 05:20 PM (8B6Ng)

334 The press has been extremely antagonistic since Nixon, Ford, and Reagan.

The main difference was that, aside from Donaldson, they were PROFESSIONAL despite their stupidity and bias. They still did the job and had maturity. These losers? Not so much.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 19, 2020 05:20 PM (KZzsI)

335 ..What is Valley Fever?

Posted by: Jewells45 at March 19, 2020 04:59 PM (dUJdY)

It's like, totally this, you know, this lungy virus thing, fer shur.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 19, 2020 05:21 PM (QzJWU)

336 Posted by: ShainS at March 19, 2020 04:54 PM (kyz/M)

It was you.

Into the barrel.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 19, 2020 05:21 PM (dLLD6)

337 Why sure MUMR, he's going to let them swim over, right?

Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 19, 2020 05:21 PM (e284m)

338 Muldoon, you crack me up.
Spore people.
"Women and children hardest hit."

Posted by: JAS at March 19, 2020 05:21 PM (2BZBZ)

339
Based on what I got from his rant, he thinks the federal government should be in tighter control of the supply chain and it's Trump's fault it's not happening, but I could be wrong.
Posted by: DamnedYankee

=======

Wait, so who walked off? Was that Fugate (former Obama guy)?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 19, 2020 05:21 PM (G51Gf)

340 316 Valley Fever disproportionately affects spore people.
-----

I had it (along with pneumonia) as a child. Was sick for two years. Have a nice scar on my left lung.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 19, 2020 05:22 PM (ptqGC)

341 Anyone see where the margins are blown?

#186 maybe?

Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg at March 19, 2020 05:22 PM (qc+VF)

342 FNC gives Williams way way too long a leash. His long rant about PDT not doing enough and not leading enough was over the top.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at March 19, 2020 05:19 PM (+fPHo)
----------
Anyone watching the pressers knows this is bullshit.

Posted by: jhawk90 at March 19, 2020 05:22 PM (aKgvL)

343 OK, who said Kung Flu?
Wasn't me, I would never say Kung Flu.
Because saying Kung Flu would be bad.
As bad as getting Kung Flu.

Posted by: wth at March 19, 2020 05:22 PM (v0R5T)

344 The press has been extremely antagonistic since Nixon, Ford, and Reagan.

The main difference was that, aside from Donaldson, they were
PROFESSIONAL despite their stupidity and bias. They still did the job
and had maturity. These losers? Not so much.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 19, 2020 05:20 PM (KZzsI)

yep.

Posted by: Quint at March 19, 2020 05:22 PM (n13/j)

345 I toyed with that idea for Aldi and Winco. Still
thinking it. They all can use the help, those folks are going flat out
from what I can tell.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 19, 2020 05:20 PM (e284m)

I got an email from Jewel (supermarket) We're hiring!

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 19, 2020 05:22 PM (Ty/7D)

346
No, Fugate advocates for local response as the best means of resiliency in disaster response, and that Federal resources exist for funding and advisement. The other guest was advocating that Feds should DO the disaster relief, and forcibly allocate supplies from one locale to another.
Posted by: dude

=======

GOT IT, thanks.

Huh. So an Obama appointee was making sense.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 19, 2020 05:22 PM (G51Gf)

347 Does anyone remember when G. W. Bush expanded his press room to include a certain percentage of small or alternative press representatives? And there was a guy who would just ask him questions about stuff instead of trying to trap him? And how his background was investigated and it turned out that he'd been previously employed as a porn actor?

Was anyone other than me totally confused about why his background mattered at all?

Everyone heard his questions. Anyone could read what he wrote. What possible difference could it make that he'd been a porn actor? What is the relevance?

Posted by: Synova at March 19, 2020 05:22 PM (BD/yx)

348 "Valley fever is like, totally bitchen, ohmigawd"
--Tiffany-Saundra

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 19, 2020 05:22 PM (KZzsI)

349 As I've seen noted elsewhere: notice that Bloomberg news reporters were *not* kicked out of China.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 19, 2020 04:39 PM (bDqIh)

Bloomberg and his new organization are Chinese shills. He would have been the Manchurian Candidate. The only thing Bloomberg cares about is what is good for him.

Posted by: WOPR at March 19, 2020 05:23 PM (qI+4l)

350 325: But in reality, they knew about this as long as the rest of us did, they know they are super high density, and they know that storage is an issue for most in NYC. This didn't begin yesterday.

Posted by: CN at March 19, 2020 05:23 PM (ONvIw)

351
No, Fugate advocates for local response as the
best means of resiliency in disaster response, and that Federal
resources exist for funding and advisement. The other guest was
advocating that Feds should DO the disaster relief, and forcibly
allocate supplies from one locale to another.

Posted by: dude at March 19, 2020 05:20 PM (hpbeA)
So I got the context of the whiny pinch faced scold right.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 19, 2020 05:23 PM (e284m)

352 I guess that means golf, too.

It's really something to read. I live among these loons.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 19, 2020 05:19 PM (ptqGC)

I hope #twoweeks is appropriate here.

Business is up. What else can one do? Social distancing is easy at the course.

Support your local restaurant and bars if they're doing take out.

Posted by: golfman at March 19, 2020 05:23 PM (hOMhY)

353 I doubt they could. It was unexpected and I doubt they were running tape-delay for an interview between a press whore, and agitator and former government official.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2020 05:09 PM (hYcqw)

A press whore, an agitator, and a former government official walk into a bar.

Bartender says, "What will it be, Mr. Obama?"

Posted by: ... at March 19, 2020 05:23 PM (uEbPt)

354 322 Nextdoor is just one hysterical rant about WuFlu after another. Now a bunch of old cranks are telling people to stop going outside to exercise. I guess that means golf, too.

It's really something to read. I live among these loons.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 19, 2020 05:19 PM (ptqGC)

I haven't been on mine since late last week. I don't think my blood pressure would be able to take it.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 19, 2020 05:24 PM (Ez6QX)

355 The other guest was advocating that Feds should DO the disaster relief, and forcibly allocate supplies from one locale to another.
Posted by: dude at March 19, 2020 05:20 PM (hpbeA)

The other dude has been bombing twitter for days. FHIP.

Posted by: golfman at March 19, 2020 05:24 PM (hOMhY)

356 spore people.
.......

Went in the deli to get a sandwich. There was a little Carrier in there running around touching all the candy bars. So much for shelter-in-place.

Posted by: wth at March 19, 2020 05:25 PM (v0R5T)

357
When dealing with the press it's best to head WT Sherman's advice.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 19, 2020 05:09 PM (FVrDO)

Live in Hell and rent out Texas?
Posted by: Count de Mnet at March 19, 2020 05:20 PM (dQ1sa)

Hang them all, and start getting dispatches filed from Hell.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 19, 2020 05:25 PM (EGyGV)

358 314 LOL, Faux Noos, on their website is saying the Chi-Coms are SUCCESSFUL in convincing the world that they are the "good guys."
Posted by: JAS at March 19, 2020 05:18 PM (2BZBZ)
*************
While I was sitting in the waiting room at the Drs. office, someone brought up the coronavirus and I made sure to bring up that the media better not try to rewrite history. This virus is on China.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 19, 2020 05:25 PM (wiXsO)

359

In that MSDumbAndDumber clip, I think it is that fat slob on the right that was being interviewed via skype this morning on a Canadian channel (ctv news - he was supposedly from Politico iirc), and he was trashing Trump, after a nice lead-in from the b*tch liberal host.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 19, 2020 05:25 PM (vEIlU)

360 Everyone heard his questions. Anyone could read what he wrote. What possible difference could it make that he'd been a porn actor? What is the relevance?
Posted by: Synova at March 19, 2020 05:22 PM (BD/yx)
---------
So...there's no forgiveness or redemption offered from the left?

Posted by: jhawk90 at March 19, 2020 05:25 PM (aKgvL)

361 How cowardly are you to churn out your passive-aggressive bullshit on a printer? Write it with your hand. Own it, you loser.

Posted by: Chunk Hunger at March 19, 2020 05:25 PM (uM6CE)

362 Watergate made Woodward and Bernstein stars, made them the story, the center of attention.

Now 'journalists' are chasing that stardom, that attention, that social status.

Posted by: davidt at March 19, 2020 05:25 PM (l3+k2)

363 Flooding here. And still no ground beef. (:

Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at March 19, 2020 05:26 PM (Dhht7)

364

Ace's posts today are showing A LOT of people pushing back on the media. Beclowning them.

This is so good to see. People are tired of it and lashing out at the fake news now. More please.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 19, 2020 05:26 PM (vEIlU)

365 They really are that delusional.

Makes you believe in parallel universes, doesn't it?

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 19, 2020 05:27 PM (vEIlU)

366 Apparently Tulsi Gabbard has ended her campaign (this may be a known known).
Syrian Intelligence handlers hardest hit.

Posted by: Zod at March 19, 2020 05:27 PM (yvnmY)

367 Ace's posts today are showing A LOT of people pushing back on the media. Beclowning them.

This is so good to see. People are tired of it and lashing out at the fake news now. More please.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 19, 2020 05:26 PM (vEIlU)

It will give Little Jimmy Acosta the opportunity to demonstrate how very brave he is.

Posted by: Northernlurker at March 19, 2020 05:27 PM (Uu+Jp)

368
The commie hatred for anything Texas is
irrationally epic. You have to have lived in a commie area for awhile to
truly realize it.

I used to wear my Texas Rangers MLB ballcap to the farmer's market
in SoCal and enjoy the sputtering from the hippies, who wanted to rant
about Texas, but didn't want to be seen getting agitated about a sports
team, because that would be uncouth.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 19, 2020 05:20 PM (EGyGV)
Coming from Massachusetts a long time ago, I had one, very well educated friend ask where I was going to go to the hospital in Texas if something happened to me. I had to hold my tongue, this was, by the way, long after the first heart transplant surgery took place IN HOUSTON. Sure Boston has awesome hospitals, my son is probably alive today because they do have awesome care.

BUT that doesn't mean there's no friggin hospitals in Texas!

Instead I joked that they'd probably sling me into the back of the buckboard and drive me to the usually drunk mule doctor that lived about the local stable and I moved on. But I ain't never forgotten the arrogance and ignorance.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 19, 2020 05:28 PM (e284m)

369 Speaking of flooding, has the IRS delayed tax return filing date?

Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at March 19, 2020 05:28 PM (Dhht7)

370 Hmm, it's been almost 24 hours... where's the drift compatible podcast?? It's literally been #twoweeks!

Posted by: lin-duh at March 19, 2020 05:28 PM (UUBmN)

371 I felt really bad for my son today, some kids were outside playing and he wanted to play with them but he couldn't. He was sick last week and still has a cough, he really doesn't understand what's going on. He doesn't understand why he can't go out anymore, the kid touches everything and is a hugger. My brother in law is 70 and I am a diabetic.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at March 19, 2020 05:29 PM (dKiJG)

372 Live in Hell and rent out Texas?

Posted by: Count de Mnet at March 19, 2020 05:20 PM (dQ1sa)

Ah, come on, most real Texans I know take pride in that

Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 19, 2020 05:30 PM (e284m)

373 Everyone heard his questions. Anyone could read
what he wrote. What possible difference could it make that he'd been a
porn actor? What is the relevance?

Posted by: Synova at March 19, 2020 05:22 PM (BD/yx)

They were just concerned he'd recognize them.

Posted by: clutch cargo at March 19, 2020 05:30 PM (8B6Ng)

374 Notice that it is the women who turn around to glare at her.

Posted by: Nikola's Notion at March 19, 2020 05:30 PM (hrHLc)

375 Speaking of flooding, has the IRS delayed tax return filing date?
Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at March 19, 2020 05:28 PM (Dhht7)
+++++++++++++
No, but if you *owe* after filing, you'll have an extra 90 days to pay. This is the one major policy change that is going to help me directly.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2020 05:31 PM (hYcqw)

376 369 Speaking of flooding, has the IRS delayed tax return filing date?
Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at March 19, 2020 05:28 PM (Dhht7)

Filing hasn't been delayed yet but PDT gave 90 days extra grace to pay the irs without penalty if you're a person that has to pay.
We have to write a check so will keep our money a bit longer.

Posted by: Cheriebebe at March 19, 2020 05:32 PM (a4qVe)

377 No Capes!

Posted by: Edna Mode at March 19, 2020 05:32 PM (+nWCH)

378 Little Known Muldoon Fact #6234:

Speaking of fungal infections, many years ago there was a species of barn swallows that built their nests in and around horse stables, sometimes in the horses' hair directly. Then one year a particularly nasty fungal infection wiped them all out, to extinction. After all, as they say, yeast is yeast and nest is nest and never the mane shall tweet!

Posted by: Muldoon at March 19, 2020 05:32 PM (m45I2)

379 >>372
Live in Hell and rent out Texas?

"Whatever you do, marry a woman from Texas. No matter how bad things get, she's seen worse."

Posted by: Zod at March 19, 2020 05:32 PM (yvnmY)

380
Live in Hell and rent out Texas?

Posted by: Count de Mnet at March 19, 2020 05:20 PM (dQ1sa)

Ah, come on, most real Texans I know take pride in that

Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 19, 2020 05:30 PM (e284m)

I do! Bigly.

Posted by: Count de Mnet at March 19, 2020 05:32 PM (dQ1sa)

381
Notice that it is the women who turn around to glare at her.
Posted by: Nikola's Notion at March 19, 2020 05:30 PM (hrHLc)

Heh.

The long haired blonde is PISSED.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 19, 2020 05:34 PM (EGyGV)

382 ..Coming from Massachusetts a long time ago, I had one, very well educated friend ask where I was going to go to the hospital in Texas if something happened to me. I had to hold my tongue, this was, by the way, long after the first heart transplant surgery took place IN HOUSTON. Sure Boston has awesome hospitals, my son is probably alive today because they do have awesome care.

BUT that doesn't mean there's no friggin hospitals in Texas!

Instead I joked that they'd probably sling me into the back of the buckboard and drive me to the usually drunk mule doctor that lived about the local stable and I moved on. But I ain't never forgotten the arrogance and ignorance.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 19, 2020 05:28 PM (e284m)

At slightly more than 1,400 acres, Houston's Texas Medical Center is the largest medical center in the world.

And Texas A&M University has started construction on three new towers there, to support it's new Bio-Medical Mechanical Engineering Program.

Want that new Respiratory Ventilator that's also half Star Trek Tricorder? They'll be developing all kinds of advanced gear, such.

D.Y....Tell that Beantown Snob up yonder to stuff that up his Boston Butt n' smoke it.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 19, 2020 05:34 PM (QzJWU)

383 LOL Jim!!

Posted by: Jewells45 at March 19, 2020 05:34 PM (dUJdY)

384 Uh not what you just posted, the valley girl thing.

Posted by: Jewells45 at March 19, 2020 05:35 PM (dUJdY)

385 When the ChiComs delivered that coronavirus bio-agent grenade into the cargo-hold of our MH-60 Black Hawk over Wuhan, I immediately knew my mission priority was to get Seal Team 6 to safety by any means necessary.

Posted by: Brian Williams at March 19, 2020 05:35 PM (ATCV4)

386 D.Y....Tell that Beantown Snob up yonder to stuff that up his Boston Butt n' smoke it.

Jim

Sunk New Dawn

Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 19, 2020 05:34 PM (QzJWU)

Perfect.

Posted by: Count de Mnet at March 19, 2020 05:35 PM (dQ1sa)

387 I'm multi tasking here sooo.. kinda late to some comments.

Posted by: Jewells45 at March 19, 2020 05:36 PM (dUJdY)

388 Speaking of fungal infections, many years ago there was a species of barn swallows that built their nests in and around horse stables, sometimes in the horses' hair directly. Then one year a particularly nasty fungal infection wiped them all out, to extinction. After all, as they say, yeast is yeast and nest is nest and never the mane shall tweet!

*golf clap* Well done.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #CancelChina at March 19, 2020 05:36 PM (HaL55)

389 371 I felt really bad for my son today, some kids were outside playing and he wanted to play with them but he couldn't. He was sick last week and still has a cough, he really doesn't understand what's going on. He doesn't understand why he can't go out anymore, the kid touches everything and is a hugger. My brother in law is 70 and I am a diabetic.
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at March 19, 2020 05:29 PM (dKiJG)

I'm sorry.
Can you find something inside that he'd really like to do?

Posted by: m at March 19, 2020 05:36 PM (55d/e)

390 That top vid was most excellent. More of this, faster please.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #CancelChina at March 19, 2020 05:37 PM (HaL55)

391 Everyone heard his questions. Anyone could read
what he wrote. What possible difference could it make that he'd been a
porn actor? What is the relevance?

Posted by: Synova at March 19, 2020 05:22 PM (BD/yx)

He was banging female reporters two at a time.
The other guys wee jealous.

Posted by: JoeF. at March 19, 2020 05:39 PM (CqE5x)

392 This is so good to see. People are tired of it and lashing out at the fake news now. More please.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 19, 2020 05:26 PM (vEIlU)

I want to go all Clockwork Orange on these guys. They've destroyed people's ability to make a living as well as taking out their life savings in some cases. They need to be made an example of.

I'm really, really lucky. I just sold a townhouse for above asking. Escrow closed 1 week ago. I'm totally liquid. At the exact moment my work dried up for the foreseeable future. So, I'll be able to continue paying for my mother's nursing home, her medical bills, and still have a roof over my head and have groceries. If this had happened 2 months ago I'd be in a huge heap of hurt.

My heart aches for those who aren't so fortunate, and there's far too many. All of this could have been preventable, but the media hates the orange man too much. By any means necessary.

Posted by: clutch cargo at March 19, 2020 05:39 PM (8B6Ng)

393 The house up the street from me has 4 kids. Haven't seen them in several days and they are always out playing even when it's chilly out. It's 67 right now. Kind of weird.

Posted by: Jewells45 at March 19, 2020 05:39 PM (dUJdY)

394 At slightly more than 1,400 acres, Houston's Texas Medical Center is the largest medical center in the world.

Posted by: Jim at March 19, 2020 05:34 PM (QzJWU)

The current FDA Administrator, who appeared in today's press conference, was formerly an oncologist and administrator there.

Posted by: Vendette at March 19, 2020 05:43 PM (nRNOc)

395 I'm sorry.
Can you find something inside that he'd really like to do?
Posted by: m at March 19, 2020 05:36 PM (55d/e)

Lots and lots of board games, Amazon stock is gonna go through the roof, with all the games we ordered. Risk, Clue, pop pirate, monopoly, also Anki Overdrive matchbox cars you can control with your phone shoot other cars and disable them really cool what technology has done with kid toys

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at March 19, 2020 05:48 PM (dKiJG)

396 So one minor media outlet treats Trump like the rest of them treated Obama.

Posted by: Boorish Robot at March 19, 2020 05:49 PM (NGPuE)

397 I asked Marcy Darcy in a tweet do you think asking PDT if he is racist calling it the Wuhan Flu or Chinese Virus ? & 1st Is Chinese is NOT a Race so it is NOT racist & #2 it's epicenter was Wuhan Guangdong Province China

Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at March 19, 2020 05:52 PM (aNkIJ)

398 395 I'm sorry.
Can you find something inside that he'd really like to do?
Posted by: m at March 19, 2020 05:36 PM (55d/e)

Lots and lots of board games, Amazon stock is gonna go through the roof, with all the games we ordered. Risk, Clue, pop pirate, monopoly, also Anki Overdrive matchbox cars you can control with your phone shoot other cars and disable them really cool what technology has done with kid toys
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at March 19, 2020 05:48 PM (dKiJG)

very cool

Posted by: m at March 19, 2020 05:54 PM (55d/e)

399 Did some googling about that Rion chick.
Seems a bit sketchy.
But not as sketchy as Brian Stelter sidling up to the chocolate fountain at Golden Corral.
Posted by: Rev. Dr. E Buzz Miller, Lesbian at March 19, 2020 05:08 PM (lg/F7)
~~~~~

Sketchy?

Did you see her 4-part expose of corruption in Ukraine? Pretty sure she's the real deal.

Posted by: IrishEi at March 19, 2020 06:03 PM (sGotD)

400 RE comment Jewles at 215. Valley Fever is a fungal infection, usually of the lungs/respiratory system. Typically found in dry, dusty areas ( think Phoenix). The spores propagate, causing fatigue, shortness of breath, and in some cases voids or other areas of damage to the lungs. Dogs can get it, too. From what I remember of my mothers infection, it is hard to get rid of, and the drug to treat it is expensive. jasonj, Tucson

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