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In the early evening of last November 5, two days after the election when mail-in votes were in the process of being counted and the tide seemed to be turning in Joe Biden’s favor, Donald Trump took to the airwaves to throw a tantrum, baselessly wah-wah-ing about election fraud like an infant upset simply because he was not getting his way.
The Surgeon General has said African Americans are at a greater risk for Covid-19. Jerome Adams warned that everyone needed to help slow the spread of the disease.
Adams told CBS This Morning that testing was still a major issue. The Trump administration has responded poorly to criticize about testing this week.
“Testing is a concern,” the Surgeon General said.
“We’re going to be at 2 million tests this week and it’s rapidly ramping up with the commercial industry coming on board. We’re also seeing more people doing antibody testing.”
Adams said he had spoken with the administration’s testing czar.
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The @Surgeon_General says African Americans are at higher risk for COVID-19 and revealed he has high blood pressure & a heart condition.
"I and many black Americans are at higher risk for COVID. That's why we need everyone to do their part to slow the spread." — @JeromeAdamsMD pic.twitter.com/J4VnOSmOfK
On Thursday evening, The Guardian published a report claiming six people who worked with Fox News host Bill O'Reilly during the 1992 Los Angeles riots have disputed his past remarks that he was attacked by protesters and concrete rained down on him.
During the Friday night broadcast of The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly responded to a Mother Jones story showing he embellished his war coverage as a reporter by throwing out personal insults and accusing the magazine and others of being "far left zealots."
I was privileged to watch a chamber full of sullen, petulant, mostly far-right and white, wealthy Koch puppets, largely sitting on their hands as second term President Barack Obama, gave them a not so subtle dressing down.
The Fox "News" Fear-Mongering Industrial Complex launched The War Against The War Against Ebola this week.If there hadn't been an Ebola crisis, Fox would have had to invent one.
The one thing you will never hear mentioned by Fox News is SOFA. It gets in the way of their Obama is to blame for ISIL narrative
During Sunday's broadcast of CBS's Face the Nation, host Bob Schieffer had on Republican Senators Lindsey Graham and John McCain. Both men were ostensibly on to discuss the recent issues in Israel, as well as the ongoing situation in Iraq.
I love how conservatives scream about the free market and how government intervention only stifles growth, making this nation into a world of zombies and yes men and women.
On this week's five Sunday news shows (CNN's State of the Union, ABC's This Week, NBC's Meet the Press, CBS' Face the Nation and Fox News Sunday) almost all of the guests that were brought on for interviews were white Republican males.
Republicans are in the habit of planting stories in the press, and your "free press" falls for it over and over again. However, tt's really not that hard to spot a planted story. They have tells.
Major Garrett of CBS outed Republicans as the source behind the edited Benghazi emails that ABC News used to smear the Obama administration.
Robert Gates mocked Republicans for their criticism of the Obama administration's handling of Benghazi, saying they had a 'cartoonish' impression of military capabilities.
The Republican Party is sending missile of destruction Eric Cantor (R-VA) out today to rebrand the GOP with their 'New Agenda'. Not new policies, just softer rhetoric.
Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) destroyed Republican talking points regarding the debt ceiling on Face the Nation, and then upped the ante for more revenue.
McCain told CBS News that he would block Ambassador Rice's confirmation, saying she's 'not very bright' and 'not qualified.'
Incredible amounts of money were spent on the 2012 General Election. And lots of that money was wasted when expensive attack ads didn't work
The mainstream media was quick to proclaim a Romney victory afer last night's debate, but who really won remains to be seen
Democrats are subjected to a different set of standards than Republicans when it comes to their behavior including in political ads.