{"id":45293,"date":"2020-05-15T12:53:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T19:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45293"},"modified":"2020-05-15T13:21:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T20:21:09","slug":"fox-news-leads-the-trump-charge-against-coronavirus-relief-for-the-american-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45293","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Leads the Trump Charge Against Coronavirus Relief for the American People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the nation continues to suffer through the worst pandemic in a century, Donald Trump continues to downplay the risks and seeks to force the American people back into unsafe workplaces. His record thus far has resulted in more than 1.4 million people infected and more than 86,000 deaths. But apparently that isn&#8217;t enough for Trump and his GOP confederates.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/FoxNews\/foxnews-syimulus-wish-list.jpg\" alt=\"Fox News, Democratic Wish List, Coronavirus, Trump\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45294\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/3539172419430861\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Friday morning Trump held a press conference to announce his <em>&#8220;plan&#8221;<\/em> for developing a vaccine. True to form, the plan consisted of nothing but happy-talk and bragging about imaginary achievements. He baselessly claimed that there would be a vaccine before the end of the year, contradicting the estimates of every credible immunologist. Even worse, he insisted that people would return to work whether or not there was a vaccine. Trump still fails to grasp that there can be no resolution of this crisis without a vaccine, along with universal testing, tracking, and treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Predictably, State TV (aka Fox News) is backing Trump 100% in two significant ways. First, they are <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/coronavirus-covid-19\/fox-news-largely-ignores-coronavirus-whistleblower-testimony-favor-obamagate\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">practically ignoring<\/a><\/strong> the the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic throughout their broadcast day. In its place they are feverishly flaunting the phony <em>&#8220;ObamaGate&#8221;<\/em> conspiracy theory that no one &#8211;  including Trump &#8211; can even define. And secondly, what little coverage of the pandemic they do offer is starkly skewed to a far right perspective that is generally reserved for fringe Internet trolls.<\/p>\n<p>For example, Fox News did a segment on the HEROES Act, a Democratic congressional initiative to provide relief for those impacted by the pandemic. The Fox angle was focused squarely on what they considered to be inappropriate funding programs. According to Fox (and featured in their on-screen graphic above), there were five primary targets of their criticism:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>$1,200 payments for certain undocumented immigrants.<\/strong><\/li>\n<p>These include adults who were brought here as children and who have been working, paying taxes, and even serving in the military. But even were that not the case, undocumented immigrants are still members of our communities and require assistance in order to mitigate the spread of the virus.<\/p>\n<li><strong>$3.6 billion for mail-in voting.<\/strong><\/li>\n<p>This is required in order to insure the safe conduct of the upcoming election in November. That&#8217;s something that Trump and Republicans don&#8217;t care about since they prefer it when fewer people vote. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45212\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Trump even said<\/a><\/strong> that with higher levels of voting <em>&#8220;you\u2019d never have a Republican elected in this country again.&#8221;<\/em> What&#8217;s more, recent elections in Wisconsin where mail-in voting was prohibited by the GOP resulted in at least <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5829264\/wisconsin-primary-coronavirus\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">52 people becoming infected<\/a><\/strong> with the coronavirus. Finally, both Trump and Fox News have been <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45044\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">trying to bankrupt the Post Office<\/a><\/strong> in order to suppress voting access.<\/p>\n<li><strong>$20 million for arts and humanities.<\/strong><\/li>\n<p>This is a category of relief that Republicans are fond of disparaging, but which the American people support. Particularly during times of hardship, like those we are now experiencing. It&#8217;s also a sector of the economy that employs millions of Americans who are not otherwise covered by previous relief programs. Plus, financially it&#8217;s a pittance.<\/p>\n<li><strong>$100 million for domestic violence prevention.<\/strong><\/li>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to figure out why they would include this on their hit list. Are they in favor of domestic violence? And there is evidence that quarantining has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/police-see-rise-domestic-violence-calls-amid-coronavirus-lockdown-n1176151\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">increased the incidence<\/a><\/strong> of such violence.<\/p>\n<li><strong>Bank loans\/financial services for cannabis businesses.<\/strong><\/li>\n<p>This was clearly added in order to exploit the association to illicit drugs. However, in the real world, cannabis is actually a valid medicine that many Americans rely on.\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s safe to say that most Americans would approve of the items in this Democratic <em>&#8220;Wish List.&#8221;<\/em> But to make matters worse, here are some of the items that Fox News left out:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Another $1,200 one-time payment to everyone, up to $6,000 per family, <\/li>\n<li>$1 trillion in aid to state, local, territorial, and tribal governments to help offset revenue losses due to the pandemic shutdown and retrain public employees.<\/li>\n<li>$200 billion in hazard pay for the essential workers.<\/li>\n<li>A 15% increase in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.<\/li>\n<li>$75 billion for testing and contact tracing as well as free treatment for coronavirus.<\/li>\n<li>An extension of the $600 bump to weekly unemployment insurance payments through January.<\/li>\n<li>$175 billion in new money for rent, mortgage, and utility payments.<\/li>\n<li>$25 billion in emergency funding for the Postal Service.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is a positive agenda of support for the American people that Trump is already threatening to veto. One of his treasured initiatives that he is holding the bill hostage over is a payroll tax cut. That&#8217;s a deliberate attack on Social Security which is funded by that tax. Furthermore, with 36 million people out of work, that&#8217;s not even a tax cut that would provide much benefit. Those unemployed Americans already have zero payroll tax deductions. And another of Trump&#8217;s sticking points is his proposal to prohibit lawsuits against corporations where employees are harmed by lax safety precautions related to the coronavirus. So Trump wants to force people back to work and then indemnify the companies if those people get sick or die.<\/p>\n<p>But none of this has to make any sense. It only has to be played over and over again on Fox News to keep their glassy-eyed cult followers in line. They are not an especially cerebral crowd and can be easily trained to obey the edicts of Dear Leader as manifested by his media machine. The good news is they are a small cadre of crackpots who will ultimately have little impact on the direction of the nation. And November can&#8217;t come too soon.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the nation continues to suffer through the worst pandemic in a century, Donald Trump continues to downplay the risks and seeks to force the American people back into unsafe workplaces. His record thus far has resulted in more than 1.4 million people infected and more than 86,000 deaths. But apparently that isn&#8217;t enough for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,684,1200,8],"tags":[1397,218,554,33],"class_list":["post-45293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-propaganda","tag-coronavirus","tag-democrats","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-syimulus-wish-list.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-bMx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44785,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=44785","url_meta":{"origin":45293,"position":0},"title":"Fox News Viewers and Republicans are More Likely to Buy Trump&#8217;s COVID-19 Lies","author":"Mark NC","date":"4\/11\/2020","format":false,"excerpt":"The COVID-19 pandemic that is ravaging America and the world continues to set new and more tragic milestones. 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