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By Bob Brigham
Published February 22, 2021
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Monday released an uncharacteristically harsh statement about her Republican colleagues' approach to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
"Less than one week after urging House Republicans to block $160 billion in funding for vaccines to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, Minority Whip Steve Scalise is using his position to elevate Republicans who have publicly urged Americans not to take the COVID-19 vaccine," Pelosi said. "Scalise is scheduled to lead a CPAC panel with Wayne Dupree, a Republican activist who has repeatedly cast doubt on the safety of COVID-19 vaccines and encouraged Americans not to take it."
"Republicans have publicly complained about their inability to mount public opposition to the bipartisan American Rescue Plan's push to crush the COVID-19 virus, including funding to speed up the distribution of vaccines and expand testing and contact tracing. Turning to vaccine skeptics is a reckless and dangerous escalation of Republican efforts to put partisanship over crushing the virus and creating 10 million American jobs," she argued. "House Republicans may not like the American Rescue Plan's push towards ending the COVID-19 pandemic. But their constituents do."
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Speaker Pelosi, you cannot trust someone that supported an insurrection .......... and thinks the virus is a hoax just like the election was a hoax and is trying to score political points, after all he makes $225,000 a year being an insurrectionist supporter now off the taxpayers back.......you should have reminded him of that .............just saying....
Wounded Bear
(58,647 posts)Especially if your only cover is from old WHN who was twice impeached and lost the popular vote twice in 4 years.
Caliman73
(11,730 posts)You have an entire media apparatus that literally gives Scalise and the rest of the GOP/Conservatives a platform to spew their stupid lies. Then you have a mainstream/corporate media that while they may occasionally hold someone's feet to the fire or complain about them in editorial, typically frames arguments as one opinion versus another, rather than the more accurate One side lies constantly while the other plays by the rules of fact and reality.
Pelosi is formidable, but Democratic messaging does not get that same respect and coverage that Republican/Conservative messaging does.
Wounded Bear
(58,647 posts)Caliman73
(11,730 posts)Many many journalists have been and continue to do their jobs reporting accurate information. It is the system that is messed up. The higher ups that pressure newsrooms to hang on every syllable that Trump and the GOP exclaim because "ratings". Those who own big stakes in media companies who pressure newsrooms to talk about how great the "market" is and how "tax breaks for the rich are stimulative".
We know that right wing media is basically all propaganda. We expect it. The mainstream media is not coordinated to sell a particular political story, but it is still owned by large corporations who want profit and who also want low taxes on their companies and their major shareholders.
That is what I mean by cover.
sheshe2
(83,746 posts)Is now saying trumps vaccine is a hoax? One that trump promoted as saving us all, something only he could do.
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