The American people may expect the media to cover our coronavirus public health crisis with just a bit of objectivity, but MSNBC host and Democratic hack Nicolle Wallace consistently shows why those expectations will never be fulfilled.
On her Wednesday afternoon show, Wallace brought on her friend and fellow leftist Sam Stein to discuss coronavirus and the favorite target of the media, President Trump. While making her nasty opening remarks, Wallace exploited the coronavirus pandemic to take cheap political shots at Trump and his supporters:
We have had conversations for more than three years about the power that Donald Trump holds over his base,the almost cult-like figure he is to the people who believe him, and not law enforcement or intelligence agencies and is the story's playing out in realtime around the Intel and the PDB about Russian-paid bounties but I wonder if we underestimated the sway he had as a cult like figure over millions of people who saw him not wear a mask
"Cult-like figure," huh? Wasn’t it Wallace who brought on Andrew Cuomo, the governor who is responsible for making New York City a hotspot and shoving the elderly in nursing homes to die? Didn't they swoon over his press conferences? She and her fellow propagandists in the press have had no problem showing their adoration of the Democratic politician despite his massive COVID failures.
Stein was clearly only there to echo all of Wallace's partisan ranting:
The country basically has stayed remarkably consistent on the side of the public health experts for five, six months now in the middle of intense and immense personal sacrifice. The question is, could we have done more? Obviously, should we have done more if Trump had been with them through the whole time? If he had urged people to keep social distancing, talked about the virus not in optistimist terms but in realistic terms and if he had put on a mask and sent a signal to his supporters that this way the smartest, simplest public safety measure you could take, but what you see right now the mask has become this emblem of a political fight, and it didn’t have to be this way. We could have saved lives if we wore masks earlier. The president does bear some responsibility as the most prominent, public critic of mask wearing.
One might be able to argue that measures should have been taken sooner to slow the spread of coronavirus, China was still hiding the ball six months ago and the media were focused on pushing the impeachment of Trump.
But Wallace had one last dig to make, directly at Republicans who are now advocating for mask wearing -- you only care cause it’s red states having issues now!
I celebrate anybody coming to mask advocacy at any point in a global pandemic. But it counts as news that Mitch McConnell and other Republicans are doing so. I mean, did they not care when the virus threatened blue states and they care because -- what's the excuse?
The leftist networks will do the mask-shaming, backward and forward, but it's vile to suggest Republicans care less about senior citizens in blue states then their governors did.
AT&T supported this gross incompetence on behalf of MSNBC.
Read the full transcript below to learn more.
MSNBC’s Live
7-01-20
3:24 PM
NICOLLE WALLACE: Sam Stein, when I flip through social media and I see the picture of our failure, I stop everything and I click in and I go deep into the tabs of our spike and I try to understand the variables that make us different, I wonder if we aired. We have had conversations for more than three years about the power that Donald Trump holds over his base,the almost cult like figure he is to the people who believe him and not law enforcement or intelligence agencies and is the story's playing out in realtime around the Intel and the PDB about Russian-paid bounties but I wonder if we underestimated the sway he had as a cult like figure over millions of people who saw him not wear a mask, who heard him talk about cleaning of lungs, for some people almost more closely associated with comedian Sarah Cooper. These were his utterances when decisions were being made that put the spike on the graph in motion.
SAM STEIN: I'm torn about this. On the one hand, he was clearly late to the game. He talked continuously about the virus vanishing in warm weather, going away naturally. He's talked about how testing is a double-edged sword, however anyone in the medical professional community knows it's not and he's pushed the country to reopen really quickly. So that all has contributed to the climate we find ourselves in, I don’t think you can objectively argue any other way. On the flip side, you look at some of these public opinion polls and a good swath, a majority of the country still values the idea of public safety over quick economic resolution. They still are supportive of people wearing their masks in large numbers. They're still anxious about reopening society too quickly. The country basically has stayed remarkably consistent on the side of the public health experts for five, six months now in the middle of intense and immense personal sacrifice. The question is, could we have done more? Obviously, should we have done more if Trump had been with them through the whole time? If he had urged people to keep social distancing, talked about the virus not in optistimist terms but in realistic terms and if he had put on a mask and sent a signal to his supporters that this way the smartest, simplest public safety measure you could take, but what you see right now the mask has become this emblem of a political fight, and it didn’t have to be this way. We could have saved lives if we wore masks earlier. The president does bear some responsibility as the most prominent, public critic of mask wearing.
WALLACE: I celebrate anybody coming to mask advocacy at any point in a global pandemic. But it counts as news that Mitch Mcconnell and other Republicans are doing so. I mean, did they not care when the virus threatened blue states and they care because -- what's the excuse?
STEIN: I think you hit it on the head. It shouldn't be news, this is science. They should have been there from the beginning. Obviously, it gets to your first question, which is everything in the age of Trump is through the prism of politics, partisanship and Trumpism. And early on, the president set a tempo in which you didn't wear a mask. You didn't look good. It wasn't manly or was a sign of, you know, your personal freedom, your anti-government philosophy to not wear a mask. If you go even deeper on the internet and look at some of these dark corners of the web that are sort of the Trumpy outlets here, massive conspiracy theories about what masks are for, it's government control, it's Bill Gates. When you have Republican officials looking at this, fearful of course of the wrath of Trump, they are going to be hesitant and it's a sad commentary that it's taken them this long, 120 thousand dead, 40 thousand cases a day now for them to come around to a very basic public policy prescription.
