On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 08:13:59 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 4/22/2020 8:03 AM, Tim wrote:
On Wednesday, April 22, 2020 at 6:26:31 AM UTC-5, Mr. Luddite wrote:
I decided to watch Rachael Maddow's show on MSNBC last night ... or at
least tried to.

She spent at least a half hour blasting Trump for his announcement of
a temporary ban on immigrants applying for green cards, etc., in her
annoying, lecturing way.

Her reasons were that there is no evidence that immigrants entering the
USA are carrying the covid-19 virus and she pointed out that the
spread of the virus was happening from *within* the USA, not from
people entering from the southern border.

WTF?

Trump never gave spreading of the virus as a reason for his temporary
ban. Never uttered a word of this.

His reason was the fact that there are 22 million unemployed
Americans right now and they should have first shot at jobs
as the shut-down of the economy is relaxed and people are able
to go back to work.

He has *never* said it has anything to do with spreading the virus.

Maddow is an intelligent person. I used to watch her show fairly
regularly before all this political division started.

Does she really believe the bull**** she delivers or has
MSNBC made it a requirement culturally and politically to
just make **** up?




Richard, I believe both. She has an image to maintain, and can come up with some bazaar things for a waiting and hungry crowd. Really amazing, actually.


Her claims last night irritated me enough to post this on the "Rachel
Maddow Show" Facebook page about 15 minutes ago:


"I watched your show Tuesday night as you criticized Trump for his
temporary ban on immigrants, green card applications etc, on our
southern border. Then you lost me. You blamed him for trying to prevent
further spread of the covid-19 virus and you pointed out that the spread
of the virus was from *within* the USA, not from immigrants.

Where did you get this from? Trump *never* said such a thing or gave it
as a reason for his temporary ban. He said it's because we now have 22
million unemployed due to the economic shut-down of the country and, as
the shut-down is relaxed, jobs should first be made available to US
citizens. You also never mentioned the exceptions to his ban.

I used to watch your show regularly before the political division in
this country took root and respected your intelligence and fairness.
What happened to it? And BTW, despite what you may think, I am *not* a
"Trumpster". I just respect fairness and honesty in reporting news."


Now I am watching to see how long it takes MSNBC to delete my post. :-)

I really doubt the unemployed will give up the $600 a week plus
whatever the state pays them for a $10 an hour job picking tomatoes
that nobody will buy. In fact those are some of the unemployed right
now. Dish washers, bus boys and hotel cleaners are also having a hard
time finding work. If everything is carry out and the hotels are
empty, they don't need those people. It really sucks if the contractor
the hotel hired for that labor was paying illegals off the books
because they won't get anything. (unless they live in a sanctuary city
that doesn't vet the "unemployed".)