As Ferris Bueller said, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
It looks like the American mainstream media is missing pretty much everything, as while the Trump administration is trying to get the word out about what they’re doing to ramp up the capacity of the health-care system to handle the Wuhan coronavirus, the clowns attending these press briefings are too busy focusing on attempts to play “Gotcha!” with the president.
For example:
1. Nobody cares if some smart-aleck on the president’s staff called it the “Kung Flu.”
Would it be politically correct to use the term “Kung Flu” to describe the Wuhan virus? Who gives a damn?
“Kung Flu” is funny, and if you don’t allow people to use humor at a time like this you’re a miserable human being who doesn’t deserve the attention of others.
But a CBS News reporter named Weijia Jiang, who was born in China and now calls herself a West Virginian (and, in the famous words of Sean Connery, who would claim to be that who was not?), tweeted out an accusation earlier this week that someone on the White House staff used the term “Kung Flu” to her face, which prompted her to wonder what term they were using behind closed doors.
Jiang refused to say who the staff member was and got a good calling-out from Trump’s senior adviser Kellyanne Conway.
There are two things going on here. The first is the pettiness and stupidity of the clowns in the mainstream media. Honestly — who cares if somebody in the White House cracks a joke here and there? It’s a workplace just like the rest of us have, and people tell jokes in workplaces. Playing the Perpetually Offended game poisons workplaces; we’ve all seen that. It used to be that jokes like “Kung Flu” were a means for people of different ethnicities to come together; the Irish had the best Irish jokes, the Italians had the best Italian jokes, and nobody had better Jewish jokes than the Jewish people. Somewhere along the line this became “racist,” and we’ve been needlessly walking on eggshells ever since. Dave Chappelle is funny as hell, but what Chappelle says is what every comedian in America used to say at every comedy club in America in the 1980s when this country had an actual sense of humor. He’s just the only one with enough sand to continue saying it.
If there’s a Dave Chappelle in the White House, that likely means he or she is a lot better at his or her job than Weijia Jiang is at hers.
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