h 20, 2020 at 6:16 p.m. | UPDATED: March 21, 2020 at 8:00 a.m.
Mix in a grandstanding TV reporter with an annoyed President Trump, and it usually doesn’t end well.
That’s what happened when NBC News correspondent Peter Alexander repeatedly laid the bait at Friday’s daily coronavirus briefing.
“What do you say to Americans who are scared, though? Nearly 200 dead, 14,000 sick, millions as you witness, who are scared now. What do you say to Americans who are watching you right now, who are scared?”
Yeah, we get it. Scared! Very subtle.......
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NBC: “Trump, promoting unproven drug treatments, insults NBC reporter.”
CNN: “Trump viciously attacks NBC news reporter in extended rant after being asked for message to Americans worried about the coronavirus.”
The media’s normal bashing of Trump has been ratcheted up during the coronavirus pandemic to new levels.
But it’s getting old. Trump is right — the public wants answers. Hope, not hype. Trump is actually right about the anti-malaria drug, chloroquine. As the Herald’s Rick Sobey reported, Boston Medical Center is already using it on suspected coronavirus cases, with some success.
“It seems to stem some of the inflammation,” said Lee Wetzler, an infectious disease specialist at BMC.
That’s called reporting. It’s not false hope.
Trump has become the face of the government during the crisis. You can’t accuse him of being in the bunker. Democrats and their media supporters are privately hoping the pandemic leads to the end of the Trump presidency, but they may end up being wrong.
Trump peddles coronavirus hope, media peddles partisan hype
Mix in a grandstanding TV reporter with an annoyed President Trump, and it usually doesn’t end well.
That’s what happened when NBC News correspondent Peter Alexander repeatedly laid the bait at Friday’s daily coronavirus briefing.
“What do you say to Americans who are scared, though? Nearly 200 dead, 14,000 sick, millions as you witness, who are scared now. What do you say to Americans who are watching you right now, who are scared?”
Yeah, we get it. Scared! Very subtle.......
.........
NBC: “Trump, promoting unproven drug treatments, insults NBC reporter.”
CNN: “Trump viciously attacks NBC news reporter in extended rant after being asked for message to Americans worried about the coronavirus.”
The media’s normal bashing of Trump has been ratcheted up during the coronavirus pandemic to new levels.
But it’s getting old. Trump is right — the public wants answers. Hope, not hype. Trump is actually right about the anti-malaria drug, chloroquine. As the Herald’s Rick Sobey reported, Boston Medical Center is already using it on suspected coronavirus cases, with some success.
“It seems to stem some of the inflammation,” said Lee Wetzler, an infectious disease specialist at BMC.
That’s called reporting. It’s not false hope.
Trump has become the face of the government during the crisis. You can’t accuse him of being in the bunker. Democrats and their media supporters are privately hoping the pandemic leads to the end of the Trump presidency, but they may end up being wrong.
Trump peddles coronavirus hope, media peddles partisan hype