Let’s just cut to the chase. Embattled CNN — AKA: The Most Trusted Name in News™ — can fire all the liberal lapdogs like Brian Stelter it wants but as long as it keeps running Unadulterated crapLike this, it will stay in Ratings for toiletIt will continue to gasp for every last bit of politically correct air until it stops breathing.
The rest is predictable.
During a segment on monkeypox on Monday’s A New Day CNN national correspondent Dianne Gallagher argued, despite tons of facts and scientific evidence to the contrary, that “monkeypox is NOT a sexually-transmitted infection.” No, really — read on.
The monkeypox celebrations were started by John Berman (who always appears like a deer at the headlights),
Today, we are taking new steps to stop the rise in monkeypox cases. This weekend saw the White House launch a pilot program that sent out 50,000 vaccines for monkeypox to LGBTQ events in the United States. This morning Dianne Gallagher was in Charlotte, North Carolina. The city hosted Pride events all weekend. Dianne, was there anything you saw?
Gallagher’s response started off factually…
Hey, you know, John, the Pride festival ended this morning here in Charlotte, but it is only the beginning of the Biden administration’s efforts to accelerate the monkeypox vaccine and the federal response to the outbreak. […]
The North Carolina city’ Pride festival is the launch site of a Biden pilot program to send 50,000 doses of the monkeypox vaccine to LGBTQ-centered events, like Pride, around the country.
…before quickly collapsing in a pile of politically correct, science-ignoring, narrative-driven crap:
[M]en who have sex with men, and transgender people, do make up the majority of monkeypox cases right now, which is why they’re being prioritized with the limited vaccine supply.
But monkeypox cannot be contracted sexually and can occur from close contact. Therefore, if Biden wants his outreach to succeed, they should celebrate while also educating.
Where does one begin to point out the “misstatements” (bald-faced lies)?
Let’s take a little trip to a faraway land (from the so-called “mainstream” media)… a land known as The Mysterious Land of Facts We should?
This article was published on August 18 by Scientific American. Monkeypox can be transmitted sexually. It is important to know that it may help people.With the subhead The United States has found that Black and Latino men have the highest risk of contracting monkeypox.We learn:
A clear picture emerges as data from across the globe about who was affected by the current outbreak of monkeypox. Outside Africa, 99 to 98 per cent of cases were in men. The remaining 92 to 98% of these cases are in self-identified males who have sex.
Many of the U.S., Europe Union and UK cases involved men living with HIV.
MPX has a major impact on Black and Latino men in America who have had sex. If the current dynamic is not changed, this will lead to a worsening racial gap, just as HIV did with my research.
]I]t’s important to understand how infections move sexually to research how they work and to prevent transmission whenever possible.
Moreover? As noted by NewsBusters, the article’s author, Steven Thrasher is not exactly “some homophobic, conservative, white man.”
To the contrary, he is a biracial gay man who is a chaired professor of “social justice” and a past winner of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association Journalist of the Year award.
Perhaps most notable was Thrasher’s warning that by “not naming, researching, preventing and addressing how transmission is happening,” people will be kept “from understanding how to prevent infection, allow unnecessary worry, and exacerbate racist and homophobic social determinants of health.”
In other words, matters could be worse if there’s a refusal to admit how it’s been primarily spread.
Bottom line:
While I realize Steven Thrasher and Scientific American aren’t nearly as qualified to disseminateThese facts about monkeypox as CNN’s world-renowned infectious diseases expert Dianne Gallagher [sarcasm matters] this little episode is just one of many in which liberal media sock puppets get too far out over their skis — intentionally so — in the holy name of whatever left-wing narrative they’re presently lying about.