Thinking back to Senior and Blow!

SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 2020

Wallace, Stokols won't ask:
For what it's worth, Dr. Trump's (latest) miracle cure is featured today, above the fold, on the front pages of the New York Times and the Washington Post.

So, at least, there's that.

That said, our thoughts this morning drifted back to Jennifer Senior's column.

The column appeared in the hard-copy New York Times on Tuesday, April 6. Predictably, it triggered no further discussion.

In her column, Senior asked if President Donald J. Trump is mentally ill. More precisely, she seemed to offer a diagnosis. She said or suggested that Trump suffers from the condition technically known as "narcissistic personality disorder."

Completely predictably, Senior's column triggered no further discussion. Led by a January 2018 editorial in Senior's own New York Times, our high-end journalists and high-end news orgs have agreed on a certain course:

The Goldwater Rule must remain in effect. There must be no discussion of the psychiatric or psychological states of our political leaders.

Early this morning, our thoughts also drifted back to Charles Blow's column.

His column appeared in the hard-copy New York Times this past Tuesday, April 20. Predictably, it triggered no further discussion.

In his column, Blow argued, with great cogency, that Donald Trump's daily prime-time TV shows shouldn't be televised.

Others may disagree, of course. But no such discussion occurred.

In large part, we thought of these columns on this beautiful, chilly morning because of a pseudo-discussion we saw yesterday on cable. For today, we aren't going to transcribe it for you, though we may do so next week.

In this pseudo-discussion, Nicole Wallace and Eli Stokols pseudo-discussed the difficulty of covering Trump's daily "briefings." As the pair pretended to discuss this alleged problem, we couldn't help noting the following facts:

Neither party raised the possibility that the briefings shouldn't be aired at all. Also, neither party discussed the possibility that something is clinically wrong with the person at issue—that Trump may be mentally ill.

Wallace and Stokols ostentatiously praised each other for the depth of their ruminations. But neither party mentioned wither of these possibilities.

"Man [sic] is the rational animal," Aristotle is said to have said. Top major expert anthropologists now largely reject that claim.

Several have told us that "man" has actually turned out to be "the animal which is hard-wired to avoid real discussion." We recalled this claim as we watched Williams and Stokols pretend to discuss Thursday's gonzo events.

Commander Trump has now said that he was simply being sarcastic when he made his latest sad remarks during Thursday's prime time program. It has also been suggested that the commander will no longer conduct these daily prime-time programs.

That remains to be seen. But it's amazing to see the way our top journalists keep staging pseudo-discussions, in which every question is picked apart except the questions which matter.

Is something wrong with Donald J. Trump? On April 6, Senior said something is plainly wrong.

She said it in the New York Times. It produced no further discussion.

For ourselves, we heard a bit of "Rosebud" in the president's attempt to pose, once again, as a brilliant man of science. Here's the way our our out-on-his-feet Palooka-in-chief started Thursday's discussion:
TRUMP (4/23/20): Thank you very much. So I asked Bill a question that probably some of you are thinking of, if you’re totally into that world, which I find to be very interesting.
Stating the obvious, no one was thinking of the ridiculous questions which followed—no one but Donald J. Trump.

That said, Trump was rather plainly posing as a man of science. He'd done the same thing, way back when, on his trip to the CDC to straighten everything out.

That trip occurred on Friday, March 6. Trump made the following sad remarks, explaining how brilliant he is:
TRUMP (3/6/20): We’re prepared for anything. We’re prepared. We are, really, very highly prepared for anything. And in a short period of time—I mean, what they’ve done is very incredible. And I’ve seen what they’ve done back there. It’s really incredible.

REPORTER: And just from a health perspective—

TRUMP: And, by the way, NIH, what they’ve done—I spent time over there—and I like this stuff.

You know, my uncle was a great person. He was at MIT.
He taught at MIT for, I think, like a record number of years. He was a great super-genius. Dr. John Trump.

I like this stuff. I really get it.
People are surprised that I understand it. Every one of these doctors said, “How do you know so much about this?” Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.

But you know what? What they’ve done is very incredible. I understand that whole world. I love that world. I really do. I love that world.
His uncle was a great super-genius—and so, it seemed, was Our Trump. That same sad person was speaking last Thursday as he made his absurd remarks.

For ourselves, we hear a bit of "Rosebud" in such pitiful, clueless remarks. We feel sorry for such anyone who is so delusional—so detached from the normal understandings of "the family of man [sic]."

We can almost find ourselves thinking that this sad, delusional person is among "the many others who were but a few of the butchered and betrayed and martyred children of the Earth." That said, the person is question holds the nuclear codes. He started threatening Iran this week, but even this won't make our journalists discuss the questions at hand.

("Man is the animal which can't seem to focus," one top expert has said.)

We'd like to hear Yale's Bandy X. Lee speak about Trump's mental state. We'd like to hear her thoughts about a person whose overpowering sense of inferiority is so baldly transparent.

We'd like to hear Dr. Lee speak. There could be respectful ways to do that, but our upper-end journalists have agreed that such a thing mustn't occur.

One top expert spoke to us about this problem last night. Sometimes, this renowned major expert said, if it weren't for all the forbidden discussions, there would be no discussions at all!

Improvements from the Fake News: On his trip to the CDC, Donald J. Trump said this:

"Anybody that needs a test can have a test."

That was a delusional (if somewhat imprecise) claim, but that's what he actually said. But within the Fake News, pundits routinely say that Trump said this:

"Anyone who wants a test can get a test."

That isn't what he actually said, but it's better than what he actually said! For that reason, in time-honored fashion, the new improved claim took hold.

How long did it take for this transcription error to take hold? Go ahead—just click here.

That headline appeared the very next day. People, we're just saying!

111 comments:

  1. Here is some background to why Trump may have talked about injecting disinfectant on Thursday:

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/revealed-leader-group-peddling-bleach-cure-lobbied-trump-coronavirus

    As the article describes, the leader of the Genesis II church in Florida contacted Trump directly about his miracle cure for corona virus (involving drinking bleach), and he had 30 members of his church also contact Trump. Alan Keyes is a proponent of this cure. Meanwhile, the government was trying to shut down those pushing this product.

    There have been studies of the people who believe delusional things. There are people who genuinely believe themselves to be spirit mediums who can communicate with the dead. There are people who believe they have been abducted by aliens. There are people who believe aliens (usually reptilians) walk among us. There are people who believe that Hillary Clinton ran a pedophile ring in the basement of a pizza parlor (which had no basement). Such studies have found that outside of their bizarre beliefs, these people are not mentally ill.

    Delusions can also be part of some types of schizophrenia, especially paranoid schizophrenia. They can also be part of paranoid personality disorder. But having delusions doesn't mean someone is necessarily mentally ill, because otherwise normal people can have delusions too. A delusion is nothing more than a fixed belief in something that is not consensually held to be true.

    So, Somerby's insistence that Trump must be delusional because he readily accepts a bizarre treatment for corona virus that is being advanced by people he may like and trust (e.g., Alan Keyes), especially when he is motivated to seek such a treatment, doesn't make him mentally ill. It makes him gullible. It makes him wrong. But it doesn't make him mentally ill. Ask Bandy Lee about John Mack.

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    2. Corby, since you’re a scholar and a sage in human psychology, allow me to ask you a question.

      If I, or a loved one, is battling cancer, and I mention the technology in the movie Fantastic Voyage, am I able to be both ironic/sarcastic and wistfully sincere if I ask if that sort of tech is on the horizon?

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    3. Not in a press briefing that is being televised. Trump should have known that people might try his suggestion, even if you said it appeared in a movie and was prospective not real. When you are in a leadership position, you cannot mention stuff like that without considering the impact on the audience.

      As a teacher, you always think about the effect of your statements on your students. A president has even more influence. He has a responsibility not to encourage behavior that might be harmful to people.

      You can surely see the difference between saying "I wonder whether bleach inside the body might clean out the virus?" and "I wonder whether a future technology might be able to shrink virus-fighters to tiny size in order to remove cancer?" The capability for shrinking people is way futuristic, but the capability for drinking bleach is in every idiot's hands because almost every household has it on a shelf.

      I saw Trump's statement and he didn't sound sarcastic at all. I have no doubt that he sincerely wants to help people by curing the virus. He was not deferring to the experts -- he was asking them to investigate what he presented as a probable cure.

      As to whether people will do what he says -- yes. There are lots of studies of influence and persuasion that support the idea that a president influences people and that they will do what he suggests. That's what leadership is about. Leaders need to be aware of that.

      I think that if Trump had been talking about cancer, his suggestion might have made more sense, because people are used to treating cancer with toxic substances and experiencing unpleasant side effects on the way to a cure. But cancer treatments are getting more sophisticated and today's chemo isn't necessarily going to make you nauseous and cause hair to fall out. Depends on the type of cancer and the type of therapy. But that kind of thing might encourage people to think that if they are vomiting and feel stomach pain, that means the bleach is "working." Bad idea.

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    4. No, a delusion isn’t a fixed belief in something most other people believe false. You’re thinking of religion. A delusion is a fixed belief in something that’s demonstrably false.

      For instance, if you think reptilians from outer space are walking amongst us as human, then you’re delusional. All sorts of things, like the requirement of intergalactic travel and the fact that no one has ever captured a reptilian, make this a delusion. But if you think, as I do, that Republicans walk amongst as human, that’s not a delusion, since there’s mountains of evidence for that claim. Cecelia, for instance.

      Hey, Cece! Make my point for me by posting a flip comment about Clint, Texas.

      To be fair, Trump didn’t say he believed that injecting disinfectant would cure COVID-19; he said it was an interesting possibility to investigate. Your choices are that the President is either massively ignorant or completely delusional.

      Which is worse? It’s the Necker Cube of American politics.

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    5. There are things that delusional people believe that cannot be proven false. They are still considered delusional because most people don't support their beliefs. I agree that religion falls into that category, but when people hold religious beliefs, there is usually a group of other people with the same beliefs and psychology is unwilling to label those beliefs all delusional. When lots of people agree with something, delusional or not, it is called culture. Most definitions of "delusion" include the word "idiosyncratic" to describe the beliefs.

      It would be difficult to prove there aren't reptilians, if you think of them as disguised in high tech ways. Arguing with a delusional person gets you nowhere.

      Personally, I do not think the president is delusional, except about himself. Delusional people have a hard time in life because distance from reality usually results in dysfunctional behavior. In Trump's case, his money cushions him from that feedback and makes it possible to maintain his delusions about his capabilities. He is obviously ignorant.

      Which is worse? We don't have to choose because Trump is both.

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    6. deadrat, here’s your flip answer:

      You're right in that you don’t have to be delusional to have a level of investment in some sort of thinking that keeps you from seeing the trees from a forrest.

      You’re very right and illustrative.

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    7. Corby Not in a press briefing that is being televised.

      Right. It's imprudent for a politician to throw out a very foolish idea in a televised press briefing. Trump frequently says dumb-sounding things. But, making lots of foolish statements is far different from being mentally ill.

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    8. That's a very low bar for being president -- not being mentally ill.

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    9. What kind of thinking is it that makes you think it's the forest that keeps you from seeing trees?

      Or spelling forest with a double alveolar consonant?

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    10. Lack of familiarity with American idioms?

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    12. Oops. I meant not seeing the trees for the forest.

      That’s better.

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    13. If a free-market, small-government corporate executive cries out for Daddy government to save them in a forest, does it make sound?

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    14. Yes. We call them crickets.

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    15. cockroaches, but I'll give you half a point for them both being insects.

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    16. Corby - I agree with most of your comments. Trump is not dysfunctional, and he does way over-value his abilities. IMHO, it's not just money, it's Trump's incredible list of achievements and successes that make it possible for him to maintain his delusions about his capabilities. I've met other high-achieving people who were arrogant and conceited like Trump, but none to the same degree.

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    17. Dear Corby lecturing about delusions? My oh my.

      Thanks for the laughs.

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    18. "There are people who believe that Hillary Clinton ran a pedophile ring in the basement of a pizza parlor (which had no basement)."

      It sounds, dear Corby, like you're saying that Hillary Clinton did indeed run a pedophile ring, but not out of the basement of a pizza parlor.

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  2. While Trump is nuts but that doesn't mean he is crazy.

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  3. “Neither party raised the possibility that the briefings shouldn't be aired at all.”

    The briefings are having this effect:

    “A Reuters/Ipsos poll this week found approval of Trump’s handling of Covid-19 had dipped to 42%, down from 48% the week before.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/10/trump-poll-numbers-dip-handling-coronavirus

    This may be why Trump took no questions at yesterday’s briefing.

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    1. And there will be no briefing today.

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  4. "In his column, Blow argued, with great cogency, that Donald Trump's daily prime-time TV shows shouldn't be televised."

    Yawn. We do know that your zombie cult is terrified, dear Bob, when infidels are allowed to speak. What else is new.

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  5. “But within the Fake News, pundits routinely say that Trump said this:

    "Anyone who wants a test can get a test."

    That isn't what he actually said, but it's better than what he actually said!”

    Details matter. If a media critic who hates the media is going to make a claim like this and wants to be taken seriously, he better damn well be correct.

    According to the official White House transcript:

    “THE PRESIDENT:  Anybody that wants a test can get a test.  That’s what the bottom line is.”

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-tour-centers-disease-control-prevention-atlanta-ga/

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  6. Trump doesn't know a thing about medicine and doesn't shy away from talking about things he doesn't know much about.

    Now what are we going to do about the fact that we have a rapist at the top of the Democratic ticket?

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  7. I'm backkkkkk!!!!
    Trump is a liar and a thief.
    Mao and DinC, go drink some Clorox.

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  8. Somerby believes Trump is delusional, maybe mentally ill. Maybe.

    But it is always useful to go deeper and see if there is possibly something else going on.

    It was funny when Somerby talked about “light-bulb colonics” yesterday.

    But as with hydroxychloroquine, so possibly with internal UV light therapy:

    http://yastreblyansky.blogspot.com/2020/04/president-on-drugs-update.html

    So, take your pick: Trump is delusional and mentally ill, and leave it at that. Or dig deeper to see what may be very deliberate corruption. It’s worth a look.

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    1. So, he's crazy like a fox.

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    2. Interesting conspiracy theory in your dembot link, dembot.

      And quite a transparently dumb one too, I must say.

      As if Our Beloved Commander, who could easily (and radically) move stock prices of the whole industries and whole nations by saying something completely uncontroversial, needed to sink to the level of some cokehead liberal pump-and-dump fraudster.

      Tsk. It betrays, again, the utter dumbness and an appalling lack of imagination of your zombie-cult soros-dembottery, as if we needed another proof of that.

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    3. Oh well. Guess he’s just mentally ill after all.

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    4. Trump is an international joke. He has been for a long time. He is by far the weakest president we've ever had.

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  9. "A 1993 video has surfaced that appears to show the mother of Tara Reade, the former aide to Joe Biden who has accused him of sexual assault, talking about "problems" her daughter faced on CNN’s "Larry King Live."

    This is nothing short of a disaster and it isn't going away.

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    1. What good reason would there be to pretend that sexual assault is a deal-breaker, after Trump was elected President, and Brett Kavanaugh was approved for a lifetime gig on the Supreme Court?

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    2. Her daughter faced problems on "Larry King Live"? What did that bastard King do to her?

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    3. Mao,
      For the sake of your bosses, I hope more people believe these lies, than your fantasy about people wanting to get a virus so your establishment friends can keep stiffing them for their labor.

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    4. deasrat you should find the relevant portions of the Larry King tape and apply some of your world famous blighted and pointless weed inebriated sleuthing to the matter and post the results here in a 890 word post so we could all not give a fuck.

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    5. Oh, dear: Archive Of Biden Accuser's Mother Calling CNN Scrubbed From Google Play Catalog

      "The August 11, 1993 broadcast is conspicuously missing from the catalog in between the August 10 and August 12 episodes, according to a screenshot taken by Twitter user @absinthol, who writes "CNN removed the August 11th, 1993 Larry King Episode from Google Play, the episode featuring a call from Tara Reade's mother."

      "CNN is actively colluding with the Biden campaign to cover up evidence of Biden's sexual assault," the tweet continues."

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    6. In disappearing the broadcast, they even renumbered the catalogue of Larry King episodes.

      They removed the Aug. 11th episode, and gave the Aug 12th episode that number.

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  10. He's very self-centered and heartless but so are most rich people. What sets him apart is he is impulsive and compulsive. He has to keep talking and talking. If you are like that eventually you start to throw in compliments for yourself just so you feel you're getting something out of the experience.

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    1. I see some "heart" there from time to time but otherwise think this is accurate.

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  11. TMZ is reporting that Kim Jong Un is dead (or in a vegetative state) following heart surgery.

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  13. I knew when I voted for Trump I would have to defend some doozies. So that has come to pass many times over.

    I'm still going to vote for him again considering the alternative is a Democrat, so of course it's worth it.

    The Democrat being a rapist makes it even easier.

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    1. See, this is why you cannot talk to Trump voters, reason with them, find out why they voted for him.

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    2. All you have to do is ask. Abortion, freedom of religion including freedom not to be forced to bake a cake, gun rights.

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    3. More effective economic policies, more jobs, more prosperity, more realistic foreign policy, stronger support for Israel, more focused on helping Americans, illegal immigration, 2nd Amendment rights, freedom of speech on campus,...

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    4. See, this is why you cannot talk to such people. They won't listen to facts, such as that Democrats bring greater economic prosperity, fewer wars, and so on. Objective comparisons of Democratic presidents versus Republicans are meaningless to such people.

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    5. Trump economic prosperity: Through the stratosphere

      Trump wars: 0

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    6. Not quite. That prosperity is gone with the wind. I think Syria counts as a war, as does his tensions with Iran and his loss to the Taliban in Afghanistan. No progress on the war against domestic terrorism at all.

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    7. Gone with the wind? The economy is better today than Obama's last day in office, and at its worst point March 16 was STILL better. Remarkable. 0 wars.

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    8. You're entitled to your own delusions, but not your own facts.

      Obama left office in January 2017. There were 214,000 claims for unemployment insurance that month, and the unemployment rate was 4.6%. In March of the Trumpandemic there 6,867,000 claims, and so far in the current month of the Trumpandemic there have been 4,427,000 more. That wiped out all the job gains of the Obama administrations, which started in 2009, when he took over during the Bush-43 depression. The current estimate for Trump’s unemployment rate is 12%-13%, and administration officials say the result will be worse than the Great Depression, aka the Hoover Depression.

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    9. The Obama Presidency: The 8 years between the era of corporate executives crying out for Daddy government to save them from George W. Bush running the economy into the ground, and the era of corporate executives crying out for Daddy government to save them after Donald J. Trump ran the economy into the ground.

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    10. Zero wars and the best economy in the history of humankind. You can't even imagine the unmitigated catastrophe coronavirus would have brought if a Democrat were in office.

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    11. anon 11:52, if Clinton was in office, the catastrophe would have been entirely averted. See, two can argue in this same stupid way.

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  14. From Facebook:

    "Light physicist here...one who has run laser labs...with a Public Service Announcement:

    If you watched a press conference today with a very prominent moron telling people to use UV light as a potential skin disinfectant to kill CV19 - STOP!

    UV light is extremely dangerous to skin and eyes. That is why we use sunscreen. Especially don't use UV-c on your skin.

    That being said, UV is very, very good at killing viruses on other surfaces. Use UV light on non-skin surfaces only, and protect yourself from light hitting the surface then bouncing back and hitting you or someone else."

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    1. "Led by Mark Pimentel, MD, the research team of the Medically Associated Science and Technology (MAST) Program at Cedars-Sinai has been developing the patent-pending Healight platform since 2016 and has produced a growing body of scientific evidence demonstrating pre-clinical safety and effectiveness of the technology as an antiviral and antibacterial treatment.

      The Healight technology employs proprietary methods of administering intermittent ultraviolet (UV) A light via a novel endotracheal medical device. Pre-clinical findings indicate the technology’s significant impact on eradicating a wide range of viruses and bacteria, inclusive of coronavirus. The data have been the basis of discussions with the FDA for a near-term path to enable human use for the potential treatment of coronavirus in intubated patients in the intensive care unit (ICU).

      Beyond the initial pursuit of a coronavirus ICU indication, additional data suggest broader clinical applications for the technology across a range of viral and bacterial pathogens. This includes bacteria implicated in ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP).

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    2. If you watched a press conference today with a very prominent moron telling people to use UV light as a potential skin disinfectant to kill CV19

      Trump did not say this at all. He made a dumb suggestion about a possible approach to research.

      Trump's enemies rightfully accuse him of exaggerating and lying. But, his enemies exaggerate and lie in their criticism of Trump.

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    3. "UV light is extremely dangerous to skin and eyes."

      Tsk. Your facebook physicist sounds like a complete moron, my dear dembot.

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    4. UV is what causes skin cancer.

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    5. It sounds like George LORD God Soros employs child-dembots. This is a violation of the Geneva convention.

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    6. It’s not completely the stuff of science fiction.

      https://issels.com/treatment-summary/ultraviolet-blood-irradiation-therapy/

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    7. Whenever people are desperate for a cure, there are people who will take advantage of them. Just because someone presents testimonials and uses science-y sounding language, doesn't mean there is anything effective about such "therapies." It is the stuff of con artists. The market for alternative medicine consists of bogus and ineffective therapies and it is bigger than legitimate healthcare. It is sad that this virus is bringing these therapies out of the woodwork and that we don't have reliable experts who will tell us what works and what doesn't. Instead we have a president who is using such things to make money off the people he should be protecting.

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    8. Dembot is concerned. And saddened. How sweet.

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    9. issels.com

      Nice dumpster dive using an end-stage cancer grift clinic (their cost link is kaput so you have to call a "consultant") to defend your orange piece of sh*t.

      Moo-moo and Dinkster have nothing on you.

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    10. The belief in free-market, small government ideology, OTOH, is completely the stuff of science fiction.

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    11. Anonymouse10:44pm

      It wasn’t a recommendation of the treatment any more than a question to a doctor about techniques that denature a virus on the horizon for internal applications was a recommendation for something that isn’t out there yet.

      You can chastise Trump for riffing because somebody will do something desperate, and lord knows that’s not going to stop him, but wouldn’t it have made more sense to highlight the answer to the question and expounding upon that, rather than suggesting that this question was a recommendation?

      The same goes for the drug hydroxychloroquine which you would think could be purchased like Hall’s lozenges at CVS, rather than having to be prescribed and monitored.

      The Daily Howler is significant because it is iconoclastic. It daily illustrates that there is no longer any adults in the room.

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    12. https://apnews.com/b44f4531071e6204023f7b8e16f59d4b

      Aytu Bioscience is studying internal UV therapy in league with Cedars-Sinai Hospital in LA.

      The application is an endotracheal device.

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    13. That’s a lot of heat. Whose fantasy am I?

      Here’s you a nightmare:

      https://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2020/04/we-still-dont-know-how-the-coronavirus-is-killing-us.html?__twitter_impression=true

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    14. Cec,

      Well I guess you guys got all the bases covered now.
      He was thinking out loud.
      No, he didn't say inject,
      No, he was being sarcastic,
      No, he was relating what he had recently read in medical journals.

      "The fog of unknowability" (See Kasparov, Gary)

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    15. I'll add one more. It's not the least absurd thing that he's ever said, and I don't care that he said it. Still voting for him.

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    16. Trump's bigoted statements about immigrants are way more absurd.
      They are the reason 11:47 is still voting for him.

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  15. Where was Somerby with this criticism -- that NY Times went overboard trying to be balanced and "objective" and thereby implied that there was some controversy about whether drinking bleach or using UV light on the body is harmful. They then issued this correction:

    "We've deleted an earlier tweet and updated a sentence in our article that implied that only "some experts" view the ingestion of household disinfectants as dangerous. To be clear, there is no debate on the danger."

    Where was Somerby? Sleeping in the weeds?

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    1. This is a blogspot. It has no ads and no subscription fee. It's written by a teacher in his spare time. This isn't the United Nations here.

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    2. Somerby is not a teacher. He is a semi-retired stand-up comedian. He was a teacher for about 10 years after his graduation from college, back in the 1970s. He claims he is musing on the mainstream media, but I just see him abusing reporters, especially those who are young, female and who went to Ivy League or elite colleges. Makes me wonder what the girls did to him back when he attended Harvard.

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  16. Maybe Somerby should do a post on how actual ‘fake news’ gets generated and promulgated. This is regarding the Larry King Live episode with a call-in from an unidentified woman talking about her unidentified daughter who had unspecified problems with an unnamed “senator” that supposedly ‘disappeared’ from Google Play:

    “On Sunday afternoon, CNN provided as a statement a reply tweet from CNN Communications spokesperson Matt Dornic, who denied that the network removed anything from Google Play, calling the allegation from Hamilton "B.S."

    "Listings on the site are not sourced thru CNN. Click any episode, it will say 'not available to watch,'" Dornic added in the reply to the Twitter user.”

    “Fox News was told that CNN did not license the "Larry King Live" content that appeared on Google Play, and Google controlled the episode listings.

    A source told Fox News that "Larry King Live" was never available on Google Play and its entire catalog was listed there for users to add to on their "wishlist" so that they could be notified if the program became available later.”

    https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-larry-king-episode-featuring-biden-accusers-mother-disappears-from-google-play-catalog

    The video of the King show episode in question is viewable on YouTube and in news reports from CNN.

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    1. You can’t pull the King episode up because you have to buy it.

      I’m not sure how Google has no deal with CNN when they are selling CNN content.

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    2. Are you saying theses private businesses (Google and CNN) don't have your best interests at heart, dear Stalin?

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    3. Squirming dembots issue a non-denial denial.

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  17. Beneath contempt defenses of Trump abound here, but can anyone explain how sarcasm comes into play into this matter at all? How was Trump being sarcastic and to what possible end? I think he needs to go back to “I was only kidding.” True, an obvious lie only good enough for his creepy followers. But sarcasm is a thing.

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    1. It's a word he heard that he doesn't understand, but he can repeat. Right-wingers have been doing this with "math" and "economics" for decades.

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    2. He thinks sarcasm includes snark, ribbing, other forms of humor. I'm still voting for him.

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    3. No doubt there isn’t an infamy that wouldn’t win your freakish respect. Again, who was he ribbing and about what?

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