Well, tensions boiled over yesterday on CNBC
program squawk box between hosts, Andrew Sorkin
and Joe Kernan. You see, yesterday the United
States had a grim milestone. We passed 100,000
deaths from Covid 19 on American soil and
a squawk box hosts Sorkin was unhappy about
that, but cohost Kernin didn't seem to care.
All he wanted to do according to Sorkin was
defend his good buddy Donald Trump. Here is
the very heated exchange that took place on
the air yesterday.
I'm sorry. No, you're not. No, you're not
Joe, I'm sorry. Okay, go ahead with the news.
You panicked about the market, panicked about
Covid, panicked about the ventilators, panicked
about the PPE, panicked about ever going out
again. Panic back to normal. If you didn't
like about it, what good is it? I said, I
understand that thousand people die, Joe,
and all you did was try to help your friend,
the president.
Now it's probably pretty obvious which side
I would take in this argument, right? I'm,
I'm more of the, the Sorkin kind, you know,
calling the people out for not caring about
any of this, not being concerned, trying to
defend the president's actions. And uh, I
think a lot of people obviously who, who regularly
watch her videos are on the same page, right?
President has done next to nothing to actually
do something about this massive problem that
we have in this country. Instead, he's undoing
the very few things that we as a country have
done so we can open back up and the economy
can get running again and he can possibly
win reelection. Here's the problem. There
are too many other people in this country
like Joe Kernan, people who want to downplay
everything. People who want to call the rest
of us alarmist. They're a minority, a very,
very small minority to be honest, according
to polls.
But they do exist. And so this argument that
took place yesterday on this show, from that
clip you just saw, the reason I, I was kind
of drawn to it is because it wasn't just the
argument between these two men. It wasn't,
you know, just because it was on national
TV. It was because this is the argument that
is happening all over this country right now.
This is an argument that's happening on social
media. This is an argument that's happening
probably in the comments to this video. This
is an argument that's happening with families,
with friends all over the place. Do we continue
to take this thing seriously or do we just
say whatever happens, happen, say lovey, right?
I am firmly in the camp of no, let's take
the protective measures. My life is not going
to be risked for somebody else's business.
The flourish, I'm sorry, it's not my wife's
is not either. Neither are any of my children's
lives going to be risked for that. We're not
going to do it. You may think differently
and if you're willing to go out there and
risk your own life, fine problem is you're
not just risking your own life. You're risking
the lives of other people who have to go out
there. The people who don't have the choice
or don't work for a company that said, you
can get your full pay and work from home.
That's what I'm doing. No, I'm still doing
my regular job every day, all day. And no,
believe it or not, folks, it is not this.
But that's the point. The argument that these
two men had could have been between any other
two people in this country.
It's heated. There's anger.
But we need to understand where our anger
should be directed. Should it be at, Oh, the
economy's not very good. I'm angry. Or should
our anger be better directed at the fact that
a hundred thousand American lives have been
lost because it nearly every level of government.
We're just led by incompetent. Buffoons.
