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Once our evening tv news is over for the night I'll often switch over to CNN for their coverage of the current pandemic in The U.S. And clearly things are not looking good over there, with a President, who up until today, has been in complete denial over this global catastrophe. On Sunday in an interview with Chris Wallace of Fox News (not my channel of choice) Trump reiterated that the virus will simply disappear followed by an even more outrageous statement when he said "I've been right more than anybody else." So the two top guys I've been watching on CNN are Chris Cuomo, Brother of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo as well as Don Lemon. Unfortunately they can be on a bit late so I'll often catch up later with taped recordings. Chris and Don are clearly great friends and you can see the great camaraderie between them when they do their show handovers. But just a few nights ago Chris Cuomo wanted us all to get a bit mad with the way that the Government has been mishandling the pandemic and how Trump has been unable to work alongside his top Medical Advisor Doctor Fauci, sidelining him and keeping him out of the limelight. But it was only today that Trump finally admitted that it is advisable to wear face masks, almost 104 days after Health Officials advised the wearing of them. Trump's u turn clearly has a lot to do with his plummeting poll ratings. So the other night Chris Cuomo played that brilliant film scene from 'Network' (1976) comparing those times back then to the chaos now going on. In the clip Newsreader Peter Finch tells his viewers to go to their windows and yell out 'I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore.' It was a great movie like many films were back in the 1970's. And not surprisingly Finch won the Oscar for Best Actor the following year even beating off Robert De Niro for his performance in Scorsese's 'Taxi Driver.' Sadly Peter Finch died weeks before he would have collected his Oscar. |
Some have the strength to yell. I do not. I see people with hollowed cheeks and tapering limbs every day. A sign of illness the mind can't win.
ReplyDeleteNeil,Of course you're in one of the worst hit States, Florida. So we don't want to see you back in Hospital again.
DeleteBut how apt those words were from that great film.
Stay indoors and ignore the false normality Floridans are trying but failing to create for themselves...like the Governor who's in Trump's pocket, still calling it all a blip.
I remember the line but not the film. The US is a disaster, while we are panicking and stressed about 400 new infections in a city of 5 million.
ReplyDeleteAndrew, I believe Peter Finch was originally from your parts. You might remember him from 'Sunday Bloody Sunday' with Glenda Jackson.
ReplyDeleteBut yes, it seems that people's greed for normality is still spreading this virus while we don't have a vaccine.
I still have a newspaper headline that says 'Pubs wont open until Xmas.' But they hurridley opened them on July 4th just to quell the protesting masses.