This week’s Liberal Media Scream features two prominent journalists turning their fire on longtime public servant and coronavirus task force member Dr. Deborah Birx, apparently not satisfied with their daily criticism of President Trump.
On NBC’s Meet the Press, Andrea Mitchell said that top scientists such as Birx should resign to protest some of the things Trump has said that the media doesn’t like or agree with.
And host Chuck Todd asked if Birx was getting “sucked into the Trump vortex,” a sort of guilt by association.
From the panel segment on the April 26 Meet the Press:
Andrea Mitchell: “…dangerous, toxic advice coming from the White House. And unfortunately, I think that the credibility of the scientists really now is on the line, that they have to decide whether to stay inside and be valuable or whether or not they have to see another alternative, like [former Trump chief of staff] Jim Mattis, and quit. Because when Dr. Birx said to you today that sunlight does kill the virus, she is perpetuating an unscientific, untested single study presented by a nonscientist from the Department of Homeland Security, which led to the president, as she put it, not fully digesting the data. She needed to be very clear on disavowing it. And to this point, she still has not been, even this morning.”
Chuck Todd, to another guest on the panel: “Dr. [Vin] Gupta, are you worried that Dr. Birx is letting her credibility get sort of sucked into the Trump vortex?”
Brent Baker, Media Research Center vice president of research, explains our weekly pick: “Journalists claim President Trump’s supposed misstatements at the task force briefings are harmful, yet here are two leading journalists not hesitating to impugn a task force scientist, Dr. Birx, who provides accurate information. What she has done wrong, in the eyes of these two TV news stars, is to not provide a strong enough rebuke of Trump. Thus she too must be discredited.”
Rating: 3 out of 5 screams.
