One heck of a dishonest report from
CBS's 60 Minutes on the medical mask shortage
American Thinker,
by
Monica Showalter
Original Article
Posted By: PageTurner,
4/13/2020 9:46:42 AM
CBS, the network that brought us the crying nurse with mental health issues who didn't understand hospital procedures, and the two, count 'em, two, video instances of Italian hospital mayhem to make phony claims about chaos at New York and Pennsylvania hospitals in the coronavirus pandemic, has now put out another whopper.
This time, it's a 60 Minutes segment about mask and personal protective equipment shortages at a New York City hospital, which, its report argues, is all Trump's fault.
Here is their tweet with the segment:
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Jebediah 4/13/2020 10:03:21 AM (No. 378052)
I agree that focusing on the worst of the worst in terms of infection was misleading----New York City and environs is a hotbed. But it is also true that Andrew Cuomo, who spent the $ meant to replenish the supplies spent it instead on "green" deals (he also closed many small hospitals in the city, leaving areas on their own), and the hospital administrators really bear responsibility. It is so easy to blame Trump, who has been President for three years, rather than Obama who was in for eight! Or Congress, who, like Cuomo, had "better" places to spend their appropiation $
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
mobyclik 4/13/2020 10:16:25 AM (No. 378078)
''Good News'' to the so-called 'media' is anything bad said about President Trump. ''Bad News'' is...well, you get the idea. BTW, in these articles about PM Boris Johnson being virus free, why is there no mention of HOW?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
hershey 4/13/2020 10:16:48 AM (No. 378079)
They need to be declared a terrorist organization and have the FCC pull their broadcast license...
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
VirtuDawg 4/13/2020 10:18:12 AM (No. 378084)
Who watches 60 Minutes-of-Liberal-Propaganda? Usually consists of fake news wrapped up in something portrayed as "journalism."
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
czechlist 4/13/2020 10:33:03 AM (No. 378106)
I quit watching 60 minutes with the Dan Blather - false, but accurate - crap.
My Dad refused to watch it because of Andy Rooney. Dad was a WWII ETO vet, wounded, POW and was disgusted with Rooney's Stars and Stripes liberal reporting.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 4/13/2020 10:48:01 AM (No. 378127)
I haven't watched 60 Minutes since I left home where my parents would sit and view in on a B&W tv set. Andy Rooney creeped me out and I realized as a teen it was a liberal fake news show. After returning from the war I really knew who was reporting fake propaganda from top to bottom, Dan Rather was really a fraud and I was just 20 years old back then. I can't even find CBS on my channel changer that's how much I don't watch network programming I'm not surprised.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
kono 4/13/2020 11:03:50 AM (No. 378148)
Dan Rather's CBS duplicity was rationalized as "fake but accurate". While Dan defended it even after he was fired as their news anchor, CBS issued a few mea culpas and promised to hold to a higher standard in their future work.
Either 'future' meant just the near future, or this wasn't considered 'work', or somebody changed the definition of 'higher'.... smh.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 4/13/2020 11:05:52 AM (No. 378150)
Well of course they are dishonest. After all they are See BS.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
seamusm 4/13/2020 12:19:26 PM (No. 378231)
I stopped watching 60 Minutes thousands of hours ago.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 4/13/2020 12:22:33 PM (No. 378233)
Watch see bs?
That’s like watching Chrissy Wallace
Never
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Avikingman 4/13/2020 12:48:51 PM (No. 378256)
60 minutes is not watched here. Propaganda disguised as news, read by all puffed up newsreaders.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 4/13/2020 12:51:56 PM (No. 378261)
Worthless and dishonest reporting but that is no surprise.
Response to all issues is done locally, then at the state level, and finally at the federal level. Communities should be preparing for various emergencies. Then the state should fill in the remaining gaps. It's nice that the federal government should have SOME supplies when community and state systems are overwhelmed but that shouldn't be the go to supply house.
Living in New Hampshire we get lots of snow and ice. We need plows, sand, salt, and other things to deal with it. Local communities clear town roads and facilities. The state does state roads. In a bad winter, the state may help subsidize the towns. In a really bad blizzard, the National Guard and some military equipment might be made available.
In tornado prone areas the response is local and state based.
In areas exposed to hurricanes, local and state response is where the planning takes place.
Areas prone to flooding have to plan to deal with that.
The needs for each circumstance is unique and so must be the planning.
FEMA may pump supplies into a stricken area but it is still the local agencies that are supposed to be running the show. Federal disaster relief might pump money into an area after the fact.
This hospital should have made it's needs for pandemic planning known. The community government and state government should have helped to fund it and verify it. Perhaps federal reserve allotments might handle 10% - 20% of the need in extreme situations but if a community wants to be certain, they should plan to do it all themselves. In this case they apparently didn't. That's on them.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Newtsche 4/13/2020 1:02:04 PM (No. 378269)
I'm not alone in steering clear of 60 Minutes.
I had just started working in tv news in the mid-70's, 60 Minutes was the gold standard.
I suppose it took a couple years of religious watching before the stink of the product was too much to bear.
In the many decades since, the show has proved me right over and over.
If someone makes a point by citing 60 Minutes, I respond "60 Minutes?!?!" and end the discussion.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 4/13/2020 2:54:25 PM (No. 378345)
Shortages would be on the hospital administrators and the Mayor himself. THEY are the first responders, not Trump. This is on them. The Feds are only back up for if a state of emergency is declared. Cuomo spent all the money the Feds gave him on his pet projects like dodgy energy programs and medical care for illegals. This really needs to come out.
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