CNN proves once again that it’s here to repeat whatever White House officials want them to say as it relates to President Biden being a miracle worker of the pandemic.
Reporter Jeremy Diamond wrote for CNN.com Wednesday that a new partnership between pharmaceutical competitors Merck and Johnson & Johnson to ramp up COVID-19 vaccine production is all to the credit of White House coronavirus czar Jeff Zients.
It couldn’t have been done without him! According to whom? Why, according to him, of course!
“Preliminary conversations that began under the Trump administration about a vaccine manufacturing partnership between the pharmaceutical giant and its competitor, Merck, whose own vaccine attempt had failed, were ‘incremental,'” the report said, “and going nowhere fast, according to two senior administration officials.”
That’s right — Diamond cited two anonymous White House officials of the current administration to trash the work of the previous one. And he did it without a flicker of skepticism, just like a real journalist!
Diamond continued swallowing the Biden White House line and attributed the deal between the two companies to the persuasive skills of Zients, which, if you didn’t know, are legendary. Just look at how he did it, according to Diamond’s report:
And just like that, the clouds parted, the sun shone through, and the executives of Merck and Johnson & Johnson knew exactly what they must do.
I’d say, “You can’t make this stuff up,” but Diamond can. Or, a least he can repeat it after a White House official made it up.
This is just like back in January, when another CNN reporter bought into the laughable claim from yet another anonymous Biden White House official who told her that the administration was having to start a vaccine distribution plan “from scratch.” The Biden team had come into office, and “what they saw as a complete lack of a vaccine distribution strategy under former President Donald Trump, even weeks after multiple vaccines were approved for use in the United States,” the ridiculous story claimed.
That one was even disputed by the sainted Dr. Anthony Fauci, of all people.
I don’t care who gets the credit for the vaccine deal, but don’t tell me it was because someone told them, “You can’t be incremental and small in your thinking.” It’s like these unnamed White House officials created the gauzy Zients narrative after watching that scene from Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” video where the singer brings the opposing gangs together through dance.
Unfortunately, that’s not real life. But it really is CNN: the place to get White House spin on the vaccine, and probably just about everything else.
