In yesterday’s Facebook post I said:
“Giuliani has Covid.”
“Please media, if you are disinclined to say, in light of the people who have died because of him and his ilk, and in light of the heartbreak of countless friends, associates, and relatives, “Maybe there’s justice in the World,” just say NOTHING!
This morning I was pleasantly surprised:
Apparently my words, or sentiment, or cosmic coincidence, have reached some in the media. This morning, Stephanie Ruhle said that Giuliani had Covid. She and members of her family are recovering from Covid and she is doing her show from home. She mentioned Giuliani to introduce her opening segment on the devastation of the disease and continued with an explanation of her situation and all the “right” things she and her family have been doing and are continuing to do. Saying Giuliani had Covid was ALL she said about him. THANK YOU STEPHANIE!
It is not necessary to go on to say the considerate and empathetic things that decent people feel the need to say, and that their inherent goodness compels them to do. Our compulsion should be to express our decency, goodness and empathy by ALWAYS INCLUDING our consideration of the victims, and by ALWAYS TAKING INTO ACCOUNT that the people who are responsible for promoting a carnage have disqualified themselves from any soothing.
Earlier, Mika Brzezinski, responding to a tweet from Giuliani went much farther. She said, “Well isn’t that nice for him!”
Media, if you can’t bring yourself to be like Mika, then do as Stephanie did. Just say NOTHING!
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