A Mount Rushmore of bad takes this year from the WSJ opinion section.pic.twitter.com/nhvanZ3JTm
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About 200,000 Americans died of COVID-19 in the period between WSJ publishing Mike Pence's op-ed saying the media was exaggerating the threat of the virus and Scott Atlas' op-ed saying the media was exaggerating the threat of the virus.
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"Yet empirical data from the U.S., Europe and Japan show that lockdowns don’t eliminate the virus and don’t stop the virus from spreading" is a real sentence in that op-ed from a guy who helped run the WH coronavirus response because the president liked his Fox hits.
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I doubt he's taking about himself and Trump in the article.
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I have since unfollowed the WSJ. Between this garbage and the one saying Dr. Biden shouldn’t be called Dr., I had enough
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Next up: The pandemic was the friends we lost along the way....
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A lot of people died because of this, but Atlas' stature within right-wing media and conservative think-tankery has only improved.https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/staggering-cost-scott-atlas-debacle …
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@WSJ publish opinions that could literally get people killed? I thought they used to be a serious journalistic outlet. -
They ran on op ed denigrating
@DrBiden for using her doctorate title. In other words, rather than celebrating an incoming role model (teacher) who can inspire our daughters to pursue education & productive careers, they trashed her. Notably, Melania’s career was as a nude modelpic.twitter.com/JrghZBCZtK
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And neither of these miscreant official is in jail! Yet they contributed to the deaths of thousands.
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Folks who say 99% of people survive! Do the math. 1% of 330,000,000 (current US population) = 3,000,000 3 million people dead.
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