Reading the room of an increasingly unemployed and petrified nation, network news has decided to join forces with perhaps the only two other institutions more reviled than themselves: celebrities and the Beijing bootlickers at the World Health Organization.
ABC, NBC, and CBS will all stream a benefit concert to raise money for the WHO. If there was ever a concert to avoid watching solely out of protest, this is it. In fact, if there was ever a fundraiser, you would harm the world by giving to and help make the world a better place by taking away the proceeds, this is it.
Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and Jimmy Fallon will all host, and a number of A- and B- (and C-) list celebrities are set to perform or appear in some way. In a less than subtle plot reveal, the concert is aptly named “One World: Together At Home.”
As these millionaire celebrities and WHO frequent flyers whitewash the history of the COVID-19 virus to exculpate China’s malevolent communist regime with their hokey, “We’re all in this together!” historical revisionism, let us consider for a moment how the public is reacting to this crisis. They are rallying around a normally divisive president (3 in 5 Americans approve of how he’s handling the coronavirus) and a perennially unpopular Congress (3 in 5 approve of their job on the coronavirus, up from their usual 20% approval rating). When it comes to the coronavirus, they give similarly high marks to Vice President Mike Pence (3 in 5 approve), even higher marks to state governments (4 in 5 approve) and overwhelming majority support for domestic institutions such as schools and the Centers for Disease Control.
One institution that has escaped this love-bombing is the news media, whose handling of the virus is disapproved of by a whopping 55% of the country. It’s not much of a mystery why. From the onset of the outbreak, the media has served as a mouthpiece for the Chinese Communist Party. They are now set to raise money for the organization that magnified and parroted the Chinese regime’s lies to the world.
It is forgivable that these networks all downplayed the extent of the virus. Few, aside from Tucker Carlson and Tom Cotton, sounded the alarm early on. But from their fake obsession over whether the term “Wuhan virus” is racist (it’s not) to their parroting of Beijing’s claim that they have miraculously and completely stopped the spread of the virus in China, the media has utterly beclowned itself at every turn.
Worst of all, the networks are now so recklessly delusional that they genuinely believe U.S. citizens, worried about whether they’ll make rent next month, want to watch a bunch of celebrities in their Hidden Hills mansions laud one another and pat the WHO on the back for its failures.
The WHO helped cause this problem. It spread China’s lies, even maintaining in mid-January that human-to-human transmission of this virus was impossible. The organization has, under Chinese pressure, promoted crackpot pseudoscience such as traditional Chinese medicine. And, of course, the organization also recommended against wearing masks.
The very idea of giving to such an international organization is repulsive. It is doubly so when the celebrities putting it on made their careers by mocking half the country — people now hard-pressed to pay their bills. Those are the people who deserve your help, not the WHO.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the celebrities all showed up to preen and self-congratulate for this terrible organization, and no one watched?
