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https://crooksandliars.com/2020/04/cnn-anchor-fact-checks-gop-senator-who4/26/20 11:29am
CNN Anchor Stops Lying GOP Senator In His Tracks
CNN's John King did his job for once when he stopped Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy's lame attempt to deflect from how they should be handling Trump's dangerous "advice" about disinfectants and coronavirus.
By Heather
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Good for CNN's John King for stopping one of these Republican liars in their tracks for once. Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy was asked about Trump's ridiculous remarks about UV light and injecting disinfectants as a treatment for coronavirus, and and the fact that the CDC itself had to issue a warning on the use of household cleaners.
Cassidy did his best to downplay the real danger to public health that Trump represents, saying that no one took his advice seriously, and King was having none of it.
KING: Youre a senator, but youre also Dr. Cassidy, and Im interested in your perspective. If you look at Google searches this past week, after the president talked about sunlight and using possibly using disinfectants, you see a spike in searches there forinject yourself with disinfectant. One of the highest states where those searches spiked was yours, sir, the state of Louisiana, which has been incredibly hard hit by COVID-19, and where the president has a very loyal base.
Were in the position this past week where the Centers for Disease Control and U.S. Surgeon General had to put out public statements, essentially saying, and this is my translation, dont listen to the president, be careful here.
As a doctor, what goes through your mind when the president dispenses medical advice and have you ever thought about picking up the phone and saying, sir, please, dont?
CASSIDY: The president speaks in such a way people are not going to inject themselves, and when I hear this kind of conversation around that, I think to myself, we should be talking about how do we use data to guide where we can reopen the economy, not about what the president said on Lysol, because, really, no one is going to inject themselves with Lysol.
KING: But, I'm sorry, I just need to interrupt here. I hope youre right sir, but, f you talk to the on the Maryland hotline, they got a lot of phone calls. You see these searches here. He at least puts the nugget in peoples minds. If he hadnt mentioned it, those searches dont happen, those phone calls dont happen, the time is not wasted and we can get to the point youre trying to make.
CASSIDY: So, we can talk about Lysol, if you want to, John. We really can. What we should be talking about is how do we use data in order to keep people safe and reopen an economy. Now, we can talk about searches, or we can talk about R0. R0 is the rate of the transmissibility of a virus, if we lower it less than 1, we can reopen an economy safely. Now, thats not Lysol. Maybe that doesn't kind of light up a headline, but it is what opens our economy, and frankly, thats what I'm focused on.
KING: Sir, that's what I'd love to focus on, but we also do have to cover the president of the United States when he says things.
Were in the position this past week where the Centers for Disease Control and U.S. Surgeon General had to put out public statements, essentially saying, and this is my translation, dont listen to the president, be careful here.
As a doctor, what goes through your mind when the president dispenses medical advice and have you ever thought about picking up the phone and saying, sir, please, dont?
CASSIDY: The president speaks in such a way people are not going to inject themselves, and when I hear this kind of conversation around that, I think to myself, we should be talking about how do we use data to guide where we can reopen the economy, not about what the president said on Lysol, because, really, no one is going to inject themselves with Lysol.
KING: But, I'm sorry, I just need to interrupt here. I hope youre right sir, but, f you talk to the on the Maryland hotline, they got a lot of phone calls. You see these searches here. He at least puts the nugget in peoples minds. If he hadnt mentioned it, those searches dont happen, those phone calls dont happen, the time is not wasted and we can get to the point youre trying to make.
CASSIDY: So, we can talk about Lysol, if you want to, John. We really can. What we should be talking about is how do we use data in order to keep people safe and reopen an economy. Now, we can talk about searches, or we can talk about R0. R0 is the rate of the transmissibility of a virus, if we lower it less than 1, we can reopen an economy safely. Now, thats not Lysol. Maybe that doesn't kind of light up a headline, but it is what opens our economy, and frankly, thats what I'm focused on.
KING: Sir, that's what I'd love to focus on, but we also do have to cover the president of the United States when he says things.
I'd love to see the Senator try to explain to any of his constituents that what Trump said was just some sort of a joke if one of their loved ones has died because they listened to him.
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CNN Anchor Stops Lying GOP Senator In His Tracks (Original Post)
babylonsister
Apr 2020
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lpbk2713
(42,760 posts)1. There's been a pattern lately.
Looks like the party of thieves and liars isn't going to get away with their shit any more.
Beartracks
(12,816 posts)2. Republicans: "Let Trump say whatever sensational made-up stuff he wants...
... and then claim it's the media who is sensationalizing and chasing headlines if they talk about it! Our base will eat that shit up! "
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niyad
(113,364 posts)3. That f'n enabler is a doctor?? His license to practice needs to be revoked.
warmfeet
(3,321 posts)4. The free press needs to call out every one of their lies.
We are not okay with dishonest politicians. Fuck that@!
Stuart G
(38,436 posts)5. K and R..Thank You for posting..