WHITE HOUSE WATCH: VACCINE BREAKTHROUGH AND THE STEALTH VIRUS TASK FORCE
By Denny Gulino WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – There were clues Monday that the White House Corona Virus Task Force still exists, a sighting of two of its members and the disclosure by Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin that he will attend Task Force meetings this week. Otherwise there was no sign of the NIH’s Tony Fauci nor […]
WHITE HOUSE WATCH COMMENTARY: SOMETHING WORSE THAN EITHER SIDE WINNING?
By Denny Gulino WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – All eyes are now on the 2020 presidential election – the words every day from every cable network and, from time to time, maybe the question should be raised, why? First, back to headquarters for late breaking virus news, like the CBS “60 Minutes” interview with Federal Reserve Chair […]
WHITE HOUSE WATCH COMMENTARY: THE TRUTH ABOUT DR BRIGHT AND THE PRESIDENT
By Denny Gulino WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – When Jack Nicholson ad-libbed, “You can’t handle the truth” in that 1992 movie it became one of those phrases that assumed a life of its own, used long after in contexts far removed from the original plot. The Nicholson character’s truth proved to be irrelevant, part of a strident […]
WHITE HOUSE WATCH COMMENTARY: FIGHTERS, HATERS AND UNSUNG HEROES
By Denny Gulino WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – There is a basic problem in news coverage of the pandemic, the fact that the virus culture wars are much more interesting than the fight against the virus itself. When President Trump calls an answer from NIH’s Tony Fauci “unacceptable” as he did Wednesday, the president’s fans are cheering […]
WHITE HOUSE WATCH COMMENTARY: ONE WORD SAID IT ALL – ‘INEVITABLE’
By Denny Gulino WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – The testimonies of Fauci, Redfield, Hahn and Giroir Tuesday seemed to many, perhaps even a lot of investors and traders, like something new when in fact there was not only nothing new, but what was there was way too late. The testimonies, if anything, just demonstrated again it’s not […]
WHITE HOUSE WATCH: AMID THE TESTING HAZE, A BREAKTHROUGH
By Denny Gulino WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – It has been a little more than two weeks since there has been a Corona Virus Task Force briefing and Monday’s substitute, a presidential briefing, was intended to illustrate vast progress made in making virus testing widely available. The Rose Garden even had added to the background two large […]
WHITE HOUSE WATCH: HOT OR COLD WAR, OR PEACE FOR OUR TIME?
By Denny Gulino WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – We all know the big things in our lives that are changing because of the new consciousness of health risks and the sense of shared responsibility we feel for those around us, particularly the seniors, but there are less obvious and more subtle threats we have to deal with […]
WHITE HOUSE WATCH COMMENTARY: MARKETS HAPPY, PRESIDENT”S OPTIMISTIC
By Denny Gulino WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – The week ends with once again everything that involves the corona virus falling neatly into place : the stock markets end a stellar string of positive trading days, the president said we don’t even need a vaccine and at least 45 states have some reopenings under way despite the […]
WHITE HOUSE WATCH COMMENTARY: WHY FIXATE ON FACTS – OR ‘FACTS?’
By Denny Gulino WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – The Corona Virus Task Force has done its job and the new projections of virus death tolls are so high because they assume no further mitigation efforts. Facts? Who are we to question high officials? Why does anyone question anything? Profound questions – about questions – which probably relate […]
WHITE HOUSE WATCH COMMENTARY: LET’S NOT ABANDON VIRUS HAPPY TALK TOO SOON
By Denny Gulino WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – The economy’s is going to be back soon, bigger and better than ever, testing is in great shape and we’re going to have stadiums packed shoulder to shoulder and one more thing, sometimes fantasy isn’t all bad. Watching the crowds at the Michigan statehouse protesting and in Boston and […]