THE DAILY NEWSLETTER - MONDAY, MAY 3, 2021

Media Winners & Losers

MEDIA WINNER:
John Oliver

John Oliver went after Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson on Sunday night for pushing vaccine myths, going as far as to slam Carlson as a “super spreader.”

“Our best way out of this mess long term is clearly vaccines,” Oliver argued. “These vaccines can save not just your life but the lives of people around you, and it’s genuinely dispiriting that just a few months into the vaccine rollout we are already at this point. And the problem is, for the coronavirus, the herd immunity threshold is thought to be between 70 and 90 percent of the population, but a survey found that while 60 percent of American adults have got, or want to get, the vaccine and about 18 percent say ‘maybe,’ and 22 percent say ‘no.’”

Despite the fact that a significant percentage of the population is still hesitant to get their shot, largely followed media figures and hosts pushed misinformation surrounding the vaccine.

OIiver laid waste to them.

“The CDC is being cautious, and wants to be sure it’s not spreading bullsh*t around during a global pandemic like a frozen dinner duke with a TV show,” he said addressing Carlson's remarks. “Anyway, I hope that answers at least one of your gape-mouthed, bad-faith wonderings, Tucker, you scrunch-faced fear baboon.”

“Stop listening to what Joe Rogan tells you, he’s a ‘f***ing moron’—and those are his words, not mine,” he said, in this classic, devastating segment.

MEDIA LOSER:
Washington Post, New York Times, NBC News

CNN's Brian Stelter knocked the Washington Post, New York Times and NBC over their retracted stories about Rudy Giuliani and OAN following the raid on his apartment by federal investigators.

The three outlets were forced to make major public corrections over the weekend. The outlets falsely reported that the FBI had warned Giuliani and One America News Network that they were being targeted by a scheme to spread Russian disinformation. Stelter called it “a major black eye” on Sunday’s Reliable Sources as he broke down how the three outlets were misled by their sources and retracted their reports shortly after.

“The new story is that FBI planned to warn Rudy and OAN they might be used as Russian puppets, but they didn’t actually deliver the warning,” Stelter summed up.

Stelter was joined by CNN senior media reporter Oliver Darcy, who said that “The bottom line is there are safeguards in place, unfortunately, human error is still at play and news organizations sometimes do get burned like this.”

Still, Darcy and Stelter managed to make the real bad guys the "outlets like the New York Post and others in MAGA media" who "do everything they can to avoid issuing corrections."

But the redirect, and the praise for the virtuous corrections of a false story aside, they were correct to in calling this a major black eye for today's losers.

The A-Block

Exclusive: Fox Nation Running Ads For New Special on
Gov. Cuomo’s Scandals During Chris Cuomo’s CNN Show

Fox Nation, Fox News Media’s subscription-based streaming service, will debut a new special, The Collapse of Cuomo, that focuses on the scandals swirling around Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY), and they’re promoting it with an ad running on his brother Chris Cuomo’s CNN program, Mediaite can exclusively report.

The 30-second ad will be running on Cuomo Prime Time, as well as other CNN programs like New Day and The Situation Room, targeting key markets in New York City and Washington, DC. The ad contains a clip from a now-infamous May 2020 interview that Chris Cuomo conducted with his gubernatorial brother in which the CNN host teased him with a giant cotton swab prop.

The ad scrolls through several articles highlighting the various sexual harassment and assault accusations that have piled up over the last few months, as well as the nursing home deaths blamed on Gov. Cuomo’s Covid-19 policies.

Read the rest and watch the clip, from Mediaite's Sarah Rumpf.



In Other News...

Not The 'Enemy of the People': Biden Salutes 'Fierce Bravery of Journalists' on World Press Freedom Day

Brian Kilmeade Goes OFF on Biden Adviser's 'Unbelievably Insulting' Caution on School Reopening

Tim Scott Addresses Response to Comments About Racism: Biden, Harris 'Said Exactly What I've Been Saying'

‘The Bullsh*t Factory’: CNN’s Jim Acosta Curses Twice on Air While Straight Pwning Fox News

Jake Tapper Goes Off on ‘Made-Up Convoluted Crap’ in the GOP: We Don't Have 'A Fact-Based Republican Party'

Must See Clip

"Is this country worth fighting for?"

CNN host W. Kamau Bell told SiriusXM host Dean Obeidallah that the continual incidences of police violence make him wonder “Is this country worth fighting for?”

On Friday’s edition of The Dean Obeidallah Show, the host talked with Bell about police incidents that have continued to crop up even as Derek Chauvin was being found guilty for the murder of George Floyd.

Bell, who hosts United Shades of America on CNN, expressed compassion for the families of Black people killed by police, and frustration at the persistence of the problem, in this thought-provoking exchange.

Links We Like

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Class Struggle Built the Welfare State
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