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As Bloomberg Goes, so Goes the Nation

TUCSON - Ever since the start of the coronavirus crisis, my wife and I have been turning on Bloomberg News at 5:30 AM Pacific time to watch it during our morning exercise, even though watching it is bad for our indigestion and mental health.

We don't watch it because we're masochists but because we want to know what the business, economic, political, governmental, and media establishments are saying about the virus and the economy, so we can take their herd mentality into consideration in making personal decisions, especially investment decisions.

Yikes!  The country is in deep trouble if the hosts and guests on Bloomberg are the best and brightest Americans.  The same could be said of the hosts and guests at other news outlets, whether on the left or right, or on TV or radio, or in the print media.  

We had quarantined ourselves from almost all mass media years ago and stuck to reading history in isolation, for fear of acquiring permanent brain damage.  But we decided that the damage would be minimal if we limited our exposure to Bloomberg to just an hour.

I'll probably prove with what I'm writing here that I suffered more damage than expected.

Whatever their color, race, ethnicity or gender, the hosts, guests and journalists on Bloomberg and elsewhere all seem to come from the same gene pool.  Like the offspring of first cousins, they suffer from inbreeding—from a lack of intellectual diversity.  They have the same worldview, the same take on diversity and social justice, the same phoniness and hypocrisy, and the same boring, predictable, and unoriginal way of speaking and behaving.

It would be torture to be stuck at a social gathering with them.  You'd enter the gathering with an above-average IQ and leave with the IQ of a moron.

Donald Trump came from the same East Coast pee-u milieu but both benefited and suffered from some sort of genetic mutation that made him different from them, in some good ways and some awful ways.

Anyway, on the morning of April 9, the head of the International Monetary Fund appeared on Bloomberg to talk about the economic crisis and the need to help impoverished countries.  Political correctness and group-think oozed from her bureaucratic pores.  In speaking about the post-virus world, she dug into her reservoir of platitudes and clichés and brought up the subject of global warming.

Most Americans are worried about going to the grocery store to buy vittles and coming home with the coronavirus instead, but the Insipid Moribund Female (IMF) babbled about global warming.

Most Americans are also worried about paying their bills and losing their life savings.  So, what does Bloomberg do?  It does what other news outlets do:  It has guests appear on the show who are the very same saboteurs who have been sabotaging the economy for decades—the bankers, economists, Federal Reserve governors, hedge fund operators, and politicians who have financialized the economy, sold blue-collar jobs to China, juiced the stock market to reward corporate executives and financiers and themselves at the expense of main street savers and the elderly, and used borrowed money to expand the warfare, welfare and regulatory states.

Instead of being treated like sages, they should be tarred and feathered in front of the cameras and exiled to an Apple factory in Wuhan City to make the innards for iPhones.

Oh, then there is the matter of bare shoulders and cheesecake.   I'm referring to the tart hostess of Bloomberg's morning show and her fellow female newscasters.  Other than hair color and hair style, they all look the same:  young, slender, perky and pretty.  At the same time, in a brazen double standard, their male counterparts are older and dressed professionally in conservative business suits and ties.

Sexism is alive and well at Bloomberg, perhaps as a result of a tone set by Michael Bloomberg.  But if you were to ask Michael and his TV harem about this, they'd swear their allegiance to equal rights while accusing you of seeing women as sex objects.   

A thousand years from now, historians will be debating the reasons for the rise and fall of the United States, but the debates will end when an archaeologist uncovers videos of Bloomberg News.


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