White House to require coronavirus tests
for journalists covering daily briefing
Politico,
by
Caitlin Oprysko
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
4/10/2020 9:16:28 AM
The White House will conduct coronavirus tests on all journalists slated to attend Thursday’s coronavirus task force briefing as a precautionary measure, the White House Correspondents’ Association announced. “This is happening today in light of the news yesterday that a member of the White House press corps who was at the White House on Tuesday is experienc[ing] symptoms consistent with coronavirus,” said the organization’s President Jonathan Karl, adding that the journalist’s coronavirus test results were expected later in the day.The organization, along with the White House, have been incrementally stepping up security protocols as the outbreak has continued its swift
Reply 1 - Posted by:
planetgeo 4/10/2020 9:32:05 AM (No. 374863)
I suggest they use rectal thermometers. Big ones.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Right Time 4/10/2020 9:36:56 AM (No. 374869)
So, could it be the ChiCom presstitute that Karl snuck into the WH presser has contracted the Coronavirus?
Maybe this was a ChiCom plot to assassinate Trump?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
HotRod 4/10/2020 9:41:40 AM (No. 374876)
Haha! Watch: Now the media will be AGAINST testing!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 4/10/2020 9:42:04 AM (No. 374878)
I would start checking for social diseases, anthrax, ebola, and a few other ones, too.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
sydney727 4/10/2020 9:47:42 AM (No. 374886)
At minimum the press area should be behind a plexi glass screen, just like in the grocery store or post office.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 4/10/2020 9:59:17 AM (No. 374909)
Mental health screening would be more productive.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Toby Ten Bears 4/10/2020 10:08:48 AM (No. 374919)
Test them for rabies and AIDS while you're at it!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 4/10/2020 10:18:35 AM (No. 374934)
I have always thought the presstitutes shouldn't be close to our President. Those evil rats would purposely catch the virus just to pass it on to our President and Vice President. I think the President's entire group should be behind a glass 'sneeze' shield and how did a Chi-com get in, how did that happen? President Trump shouldn't play so loose with those rat idiots, ever.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/10/2020 10:23:15 AM (No. 374946)
Skip them. Tell them to go and play somewhere else until this is over...
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
stevendm 4/10/2020 10:23:35 AM (No. 374948)
And publish the results of the testing.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 4/10/2020 10:48:58 AM (No. 374987)
To poster #12, I say Hell Yeah!!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bad-hair 4/10/2020 10:56:45 AM (No. 375003)
#8 almost beat me to it. How about they have to pass an IQ test. If their numbers are above 3/4 of the president's they get to ask a question. If they ask a stupid question, the president will say "Sit down Stupid."
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
lisa belanger 4/10/2020 11:18:41 AM (No. 375044)
leave it up t trump he will put sticks in their wheels
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
offrope 4/10/2020 11:52:42 AM (No. 375089)
Drug test them while you're at it.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
lftrn97 4/10/2020 11:59:14 AM (No. 375098)
And #2 if he didn't devlop Covid-19 and die they would impeach him for violating a law of nature.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
john56 4/10/2020 12:08:04 PM (No. 375114)
Why can't they do this by a teleconference. I've been working out of my house for about a month and every "meeting" has been a conference call.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Calico Al 4/10/2020 12:17:48 PM (No. 375135)
Add a lie testing.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
hershey 4/10/2020 12:32:25 PM (No. 375162)
Instead of cronavirus they should test them for stupidity and the liberal virus...then the President wouldn't have to put up with their idiotic repeated questions....
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
KanCreeper 4/10/2020 12:38:12 PM (No. 375179)
Many of us feel that admission to the Daily WH Pressers ought to be limiterd to the media outlets that also show the briefings live....IF an outlet 'cuts away'.. THEY should be banned for an appropriate time..since they do not want to cover the current news... OR Maybe, since they operated so negatively, against the President and current administration.... They should forefit equal time for the Other views?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 4/10/2020 1:14:27 PM (No. 375247)
Should have been doing that from the start, but then the press would probably have enjoyed the inconvenience too much. Maybe in times like these, the press and the WH should move into the 21st century and do pressers by Skype. Then let some of the pundits/bloggers/websites from the right into the mix. That would make the MSM heads explode after their hair catches fire.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
IdahoJoe 4/10/2020 2:01:09 PM (No. 375290)
Acosta reminds me of Helen Thomas - the grand old lady of the Whitehouse Press Correspondents. Her 'questions' were something like 'Republicans are stupid and want to kill everyone'. Even if you put the words 'What are' in front of that phrase it does not make it a question. Acosta is equally stupid and abrasive. He is there to insult and protest, not to ask for information that he can compose into a news article for public consumption. A journalist should exist to aggregate information and compose it into reports, not to influence public opinion. Once upon a time that was the first thing taught in journalism school.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 4/10/2020 2:27:33 PM (No. 375311)
Don't forget an IQ test.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 4/10/2020 5:55:05 PM (No. 375498)
Not only that, they need to be in a different room. They are a deadly virus by themselves.
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Test them for Trump Derangement Syndrome, too.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
XCenturion 4/11/2020 12:00:19 AM (No. 375751)
And while you're at it test them for rabies and Tourettes!
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
judy 4/11/2020 5:40:42 AM (No. 375863)
Acosta was complaining to Cooper that he had to take the test when so many others needed it more....my suggestion to Acosta ..stay home!
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Make them wear facemasks and rubber gloves too.