They haven’t won their campaign to shut down the daily White House Coronavirus Task Force briefings, so the liberal media have shifted tactics to call what’s said lies.
For this week’s Liberal Media Scream, we have New Yorker magazine writer Susan Glasser comparing the briefings with President Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, and a host of doctors and agency heads to the mocked Pentagon briefings during the Vietnam War, dubbed the “5 o’clock follies.”
“I believe that this is Donald Trump’s version of that,” she said on CNN Sunday.
Glasser on the Sunday airing of Reliable Sources:
“I can’t think of a more collective act of the American people watching day after day, the inconsistency and untruths and misleading, confusing response by the federal government in the form of the president over the last few months. So my perspective is this, having watched basically, I think, every single one of these briefings — my takeaway, I wrote about them as comparable to, if not worse than, the 5 o’clock follies during the Vietnam era in which the Pentagon lied to the American people about the Vietnam War. I believe that this is Donald Trump’s version of that.”
Brent Baker, vice president of research at the Media Research Center, explains our weekly pick: “Glasser reflects the disdain so many in the Washington press corps have for President Trump, putting their personal revulsion toward Trump ahead of seeing the big picture — how the briefings, which always include top government official beyond just Trump, provide a lot of relevant information. If Trump makes a misstatement, journalists can easily correct him afterward. And they certainly haven’t hesitated to do so.”
Rating: 4 out of 5 screams.
