FAKE NEWS: WHY THE MEDIA LOST THE BRANDING WAR.

ICHEOKU says the media in America has so far been unable to shake off the moniker   Fake News, which President Donald John Trump gave it and it is not without a reason. The media, instead of just reporting the news and giving out information as it is, and allow the people to decide what they want to do with it or make of it, have become so opinionated. They are agenda driven, they propagandize the people, they insert themselves in the news and sometimes even become the news itself, forcing their jaundiced viewpoint on the people and expects consumers to swallow it as news line, hook and sinker. 

Often times, this their opinion end up being wrong, false or later disproved as incorrect.  But instead of a retraction, apologizing or offering an explanation for why they got the story wrong, they usually double down, insisting that their version of the story is the truth and that the real truth is false or that their "sources" were forced to make a retraction just to make them look bad. This leaves many people wondering what exactly has become  the new objective of the media, which no longer correctly reports stories as they happened, being traditionally a purveyor of news and information; and insists that the consumers gulp down whatever they feed them without question. Why would the consumer not get the whole story, but only gets the subjective story which the media wants them to get.

The media has become so invested in pushing their own opinion that they now dabble into the stories, thriving in disputations and confrontations. Instead of trying to ferret out useful information on the way forward, they always dwell in the past insisting that somebody was once wrong, without finding out what has happened since the last time the person was wrong. Take the current coronavirus crisis for example, the media is always pointing to the previous statements made by the president at the beginning of the crisis, without providing the context of what information was available to the president then when he initially took a position. Whether they expect the president to be a prophet or magician or Nostradamus who sees tomorrow, nobody knows; otherwise how did the media expect the president to get everything right about the coronavirus from the onset. 

But they do not seem to care as they have an agenda which drives their narrative and regardless of all the president's best effort since the first time he opined on the coronavirus, they usually return to the misdeeds at the onset. This behavior is not a purveyor of news as they should be, but a recidivist activist media eager to score cheap points and make the president look bad and incompetent, period. The people are not interested about what was initially got wrong due to the then available information; they are only interested in what is going on presently and plans for the future on how to fix what is a national emergency of immerse proportion. This inability of American media to rise above the fray and report just the news, the present developments, fairly and objectively, is what has made the moniker fake news to stick to them. 

A matter which becomes so laughably pathetic when the person at the receiving end of their distortions is frequently proved to be right and innocent of their smear and propaganda. The American media also frequently reports stories which were unverified and unverifiable, and when later debunked, instead of an apology and retraction, they will simply move on to the next story as if it was not a big deal that they got the story wrong or that somebody suffered damage as a result. It is happening with such frequency that they all cannot be mere accidents or sources which later proved unreliable. Their purpose seems to be clear, a well orchestrated effort to smear, damage, disparage and cause disaffection within the society.

If not on purpose and purely accidental, they will admit to their mistake or that there was an error of judgement in their reporting and apologize for it, or simply retract and correct the falsehood. But they do not, instead they will ignore it or try to be stubbornly defensive about it or simply move on to the next false story. The circle of false stories continues with such frequency that it feels like they purposely make them up as they go and with one objective in mind, just to propagate a predetermined narrative. This failure of mea culpa and their obstinate refusal to admit their mistake, especially where glaringly clear, is what made the moniker FAKE NEWS to stick. They may not like it and wished that it went away, but until they fundamentally changes their manner of reportage, the public will never get back to filly believing everything the media says and at best, will always take it with a grain of salt. 

It is undeniable that the media usually has a dog in the fight in their effort to control any story. They want to always control the story. They want to be the only one informing the public on what is going on and according to their viewpoint, such that when the story does not fit their narrative, they readily tweaks it and sometimes even report another falsehood just to be in charge of information which the people are getting. But this making up of stories and reporting what is not true is simply going too far, as those who expected to be informed on the currency of events by the media, end up being fed rubbish and none existent falsehoods. It is regrettable and it is unfortunate what has become the fate of the media in America, as people no longer trust and believe what they publish as true and correct information, but mere propaganda meant to further a predetermined viewpoint narrative.

If as is widely understood before now that the purpose of the media is to inform and disseminate information, as a correlative, it necessarily follows that they should also issue corrections and retractions when they get things wrong or subsequent developments  ,Ade them being wrong or false. If they fail to do this, it becomes a journalistic malpractice and it continues, it becomes agenda driven and no longer a news outlet since they have abdicated from their primary duty to inform the public. 

The failure to correct such proven false and incorrect story or news, make the media  to be driven by other motive short of dissemination of information. So many media houses in America are guilty of this and it shows in their favorability rating and many people have also since tuned off. Nobody is expecting the media to be always 100% correct all the time, but that they should make effort to get their stories right most of the time and to, when mistakes are made, humbly acknowledge them, apologize and retract the bad story. That way, the public will understand that they are doing their best to inform them correctly and that they have no particular bias on which information they chose to convey, but are only interested in keeping the people informed of developments. 


Reporting unverified and unverifiable falsehoods is what makes the public question the truth of what they hear, read and watch in the media. Why the media have chosen this path to perdition is beyond ICHEOKU's comprehension as the media has been severally caught pants down with false stories. The worse part is their willful indifference to  these falsehood and the damage it is causing to their victims, both the disparaged and the consuming public who end up being misinformed. Of times, when they want to report these fake news, they will claim that anonymous sources told them that such and such happened, and when it pans out not to be true, they will blame it on the so called unnamed sources. 

Reporting fake news has eroded the media credibility so much that so many people no longer believe what they hear or watch in the media. People know and were tired of it but unfortunately seemed to have resigned to their fate of never going to get the media back to what they used to be and without any recourse until President Donald John Trump came around to call them out. The president bravely, boldly and courageously took them on and it has been game on to hold them accountable ever since. Today, this holding of the media accountable has taken on a global dimension as the term FAKE NEWS is now widely used throughout the world to designate an unverifiable and unverified news. But will the media ever recover from the damage to their credibility and believability, nobody knows.  

For example, no media house has ever confronted Hillary Clinton to explain why she has not accepted the result of the 2016 presidential election or asked her that she once complained that then candidate Donald John Trump was threatening our democracy by saying that he will not accept the election result under certain circumstances, what changed? A functioning, unbiased media would have since taken her to task about her apparent hypocrisy, but they all have agendas and unfortunately, it does not include asking Hillary Clinton tough questions. Even when the Democrats falsely claimed that the illegal immigration in the Southern border was a manufactured crisis, the media failed to confront them for some explanation when the invasion became widely obvious. Then add Russian Collusion, Ukrainian impeachment hoax as well as the General Michael Flynn's frame up by James Comey's FBI. It is no longer a quest to ferret out the truth.

Also. no journalist ever played to Democratic Party leaders their reactions during the Bill Clinton's impeachment and asked them to explain why their positions then are not also applicable to the impeachment of President Donald John Trump. It is also surprising that no media ever insisted that what was captured on video of Joe Biden, Charles Schumer, Nancy Pelosi and Jerry Nadal saying then, should remain the same high bar for invoking articles of impeachment during the Trump's impeachment hoax. Except for the terrific Mika Brzezinski's intervention, none of the Democratic Party leaders have yet insisted that women should be believed in the unfolding Joe Biden's Tara Reade's scandal as they all had parroted during the Justice Brett Kavanuagh's blackmail by Dr Christine Blasey Ford.

The American media agenda driven narrative also reared its biased head when Kanye West wore a MAGA hat to the White House. They all went crazy calling him insane and out of his mind and being Uncle Tom for supporting President Donald John Trump. But the same media did not call Kanye crazy when he berated George W. Bush for hating black people during his slow response to Hurricane Katrina victims. Rather, the media reported him as a heroic crusader who was putting the plight of black Americans upfront and center stage of America forum. Also the same Kanye West wasn't insane and crazy when he snatched Taylor Swift's microphone, but he suddenly became an inmate of a lunatic asylum simply because a MAGA hat had messed up with his brain. 

The FAKE NEWS badge of dishonor has now indelibly stuck to the media. It will be very difficult if not impossible to shake it off. It is pitiful and it is sad that the entire media outlet in America conspired to bring this unintended consequences upon themselves by endlessly reporting negatively of the Trump administration. They will not give him credit for anything, including which he did a clear right as the Commander in Chief of the United States armed forces with the taking out ISIS leader Abu Bakr Baghdadi. How does the media think that over 63 million MAGA members who support the president feel, seeing them report only negatively about our beloved president or does it mean that the president has never done anything to earn him a good mention in the media and it is system wide the media. 

If not for bundling of channels, millions of people would have since done away with CNN and MSNBC in particular from their television package. Anyway, when next they complain or have the audacity to say that they are not FAKE NEWS, let them say how many good press they have ever given the president since he won the last election as any objective media would have repeatedly done. Are they saying that the president has never done anything right or they just want to report only the bad stuff. Also why do they get so many stories wrong and why the frequent use of unnamed sources which often turn out to be wrong. It is also instructive that CNN's Jim Acosta forced the cancellation of the White House media briefing; but instead of pointing out his rudeness which led to it, the media  are busy complaining that the president no longer allows the White House Press briefings to hold. It is just sad and the media are shamelessly pitiful but like a tortoise and its shell, fake news has become the shell of the media in America. 

GENERAL FLYNN'S FRAME UP: A SNIPPET OF AMERICA'S JUSTICE SYSTEM.

ICHEOKU says General Michael Flynn's frame up is a microcosm of the underbelly of America's justice system, especially as it appertains to the poor and minorities in America. The same group of people who everything is literary skewed against, including the supposedly one cap fits all justice system. They are poor and cannot afford lawyers and when, a public defender with zero experience and interest in the favorable outcome of their case is appointed to represent them, they do not get the adequate representation necessarily required to grant them a just outcome. 

The result is a skyrocket prison population in America where the poor and minority make up the larger percentage of people behind bars. At least General Flynn has a high profile and the means to get good representation, the reason his case is getting all the headlines and still remaining in the news cycle. It is not necessarily that his was one case that was got wrong because it is not as there are thousands of other cases, including some who have already been executed as a result of frame up obtained wrongful conviction. 

ICHEOKU is not necessarily shocked nor surprised that General Flynn was railroaded as such often happens in America. The only difference is that his was the highest they have gone with such a rogue activity, targeting the National Security Adviser to the president of the United States of America President Donald John Trump. If they could be this brazen, imagine what they have been able to get away with people without name recognition and money in America. It is the rot which little fellas have been forced to put up with in the name of justice and you ask yourself justice for who? It is corruption and it should be condemned by all good intentioned people. 

It did not start with General Michael Flynn nor will it end with him as it is a system wide malfeasance in justice enforcement in America which permeates every strata, from Cities to Counties to States and right up to Federal. Imagine a once revered institution such as the FBI descending so low through the shenanigans of its leaders, just to put an army general away or have him fired from his job. Many people have been forced to give false testimonies that led to execution of people for crimes which they did not commit; so the general got a somewhat fairer treatment compared to what so many others have been forced to put up with, including losing their life. 

ICHEOKU says does not in any way rationalizes what happened to Michael Flynn, but if it helps to draw attention to the rot within the system and sanitizes it, it would have had a positive outcome. Unfortunately, nobody should bet on it because as soon as President Donald John Trump is gone, it will be back to business as usual. The problem is structural and purposed to help the Deep State maintain their vice hold on power. This is the reason Senator Charles Schumer said that the Deep State has seven ways of getting people from Monday through Sunday and the Senator from New York was not kidding.  They selectively choose who to allow to hold certain positions of authority by excluding people they don't like in order to protect and guard their power hold. 

They frame people up for offenses which they did not commit nor were even aware of. Sometimes they even kill people and plant a gun on them, brand them criminals in order to justify killing them. They have threatened fathers, mothers and family members with severe penalties in order to force out false confessions. Stories abound of such extra judicial activities throughout America's justice system. Even drugs have been planted in people's places as well as in their cars and other places under their control just to frame them up. Then think about how they sometimes solve murder cases so rapidly by uprooting one homeless guy and making him the criminally accused person just to satisfy an urgent political need to solve a murder case. 

The litany of abuse in the justice system is legion, only that Michael Flynn's matter is suddenly shining a well deserved light on what has been an underbelly of America's justice system. Unfortunately, many minorities and the poor who have been shouting about the unjust justice system have been largely ignored for the most part. So, it is a somewhat positive that Michael Flynn investigation, which was purely vindictive based on suspicion that Flynn was an agent of Russia engaged in clandestine activity against the United States, is again bringing attention to this. There was no basis in fact or law for his investigation and there was no valid law-enforcement reason for the FBI to interview him, but they did it anyway. James Comey bragged about this impunity on national television. 

They had a recording of the Flynn–Kislyak conversation and they knew exactly what was said, hence did not need to interview Flynn about what he said, except that they had intention to entrap him with a lie should there be any inconsistencies in his recollection. They also knew that no quid pro quo exchanged hands between Flynn and Ambassador Kislyak to warrant any criminal investigation, but they framed him anyway. The two agents James Comey sent to waylay him also knew that Flynn did not lie, yet he was forced by circumstances of financial ruin and threat to prosecute his son to plead guilty, admitting that he had lied when he knew and even the FBI knew that he did not lie. What he went through is not uncommon as many people have lost even their lives as a result of such high handedness by law enforcement. 

All ICHEOKU is saying now is that it be stopped and let the case against Michael Flynn be the catalyst that brought it to a quick end. As for James Comey and his acolytes, there should be a consequential deterrent, otherwise some officials are bound to repeat their roguery in the future. Rogue cops are bad for everyone and James Comey is now the face of these bad cops who ruin it for other good cops. He needs to be isolated and decontaminated in order not to infect other cops. A prosecution, conviction and lengthy prison term will be quiet in order because if ir is Michael Flynn today, for who will the bell toll tomorrow. The entire system could use some sanitizing and the Michael Flynn's case is a good place to start. 

CHINA IS RED AND RED MEANS DANGER: LET'S QUARANTINE CHINA.

ICHEOKU says China is a blood hound and after sucking the blood of its people, it is now sucking the blood of the world through its Wuhan coronavirus. They purposely did not warn the world about the danger posed by the coronavirus and today the result is a devastated world in comatose. Hundreds of thousands of lives lost and the entire world's economy has crashed. #MakeChinaPayAGreatPrice.

JAMES COMEY: A PERSONIFICATION OF IMPUNITY, ANY CONSEQUENCES?

“I sent them. I probably would not have done that or maybe gotten away with in a more organized administration. There is a process to that such that if the FBI wanted to send agents into the White House itself to interview a senior official, it would work through the White House counsel and there would be discussions and approvals and it would be there. I thought it is early enough in the administration, so I said lets just send a couple of guys over there." - James Comey, disgraced former FBI director. 

ICHEOKU says he knew that it was wrong but he did it anyway, begging the question, will he ever be held accountable. Will James Comey be allowed to get away with it in the Trump government as he had boasted that he would not have gotten away with it in previous Bush and Obama governments, presupposing that he got away with it in the Trump administration. ICHEOKU says has he gotten away with it or he had spoken too early, oblivious that the wheel of justice grinds slowly. American people are waiting and watching to see what happens next as such impunity was rather too brazen to be swept under the rug. 

It is imperative that such conduct be discouraged in the future and the only way to ensure that convincingly, is to take action against the former director by prosecuting him to the full extent of the law possible. What happened to Michael Flynn should not be viewed with any partisan lenses whatsoever nor should it be dismissed as just a Trump's presidency matter. No, it should be treated as a wholesome effort at restoring confidence in the Federal Bureau of Investigation and American law enforcement in general. If they could do this to a three star general and National Security Adviser to the president, imagine what they have gotten away with in the past with other lesser mortals. It is sad and it diminished America's standing in the eyes of the world; this needs to be restored.

CORONAVIRUS: COVID ORGANICS MEDICINE TO THE RESCUE.

ICHEOKU says at this stage of great disruption in the world caused by the coronavirus disease, with no known cure or palliatives, trying the Madagascan COVID Organics Medicine is an option worth looking into. Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina has been touting this his country's herbal medicine as the answer to the coronavirus question for quite some time now. His country have practically no coronavirus fatality not infection of great magnitude. Therefore, it is about time the world looked the way of the tiny Indian Ocean country of Africa and see if there is any truth to what he is saying. 

President Donald John Trump once told African Americans what do they have to lose by voting for him, so what has a world which is hopelessly disillusioned about the lack of cure for a disease which has so far proved very devastating got to lose by trying the Madagascan Covid Organics medicine. At least it is not poisonous, just a herbal concoction, and it won't kill the drinker. ICHEOKU says can somebody please import the medicine into the United States of America and help save some lives now. The government should wave whatever import licensing required and the CDC/FDA should also waive all approvals and let the medicine be administered to the dying COVID patients, afterall what have they got to lose, trying it. #TryCOVIDOrganics.

TARA READE: THE DELILAH OF BIDEN?

ICHEOKU says is she the one and will she add to the statistics of women who have taken down powerful men. Adam was submitted by Eve, ditto Samson by Delilah, Bill Clinton by Monica Lewinsky and of late Harvey Weinstein by several women. Will Tara Reade do the same thing to Joe Biden? The world awaits and watches to see how all this ends up, but so many downfalls of men have been attributed to some incensed women. Will Tara Reade prove Joe Biden to be just another vulnerable man? 

JOE BIDEN'S INTERVIEW: MIKA BRZEZINSKI DID A TERRIFIC JOB.

ICHEOKU says exactly what every unbiased and fair minded person expects from journalists, a fact finding and truth seeking quest to ferret out the truth, regardless of who is on the spot. Nobody wants any journalist's opinion because it is not their job to offer opinions. Theirs is to seek out the truth and tell it to their audience as it is, without any coloration whatsoever. That way, the public will get needed answers which will make it easier for them to understand with more clarity the issues involved and also help them make informed decisions. 

Mika Brzezinski acquitted herself very well as a journalist in her interview with Joe Biden about Ms Tara Reade's sexual assault allegation against the former Vice President and Democratic Party's presumptive presidential candidate. It was pointed and direct to the points and she did not allow Joe Biden to prevaricate or meander around so much. She held Joe Biden to the gun to ensure that he answered the questions and not play the usual game which politicians play, wander off to their talking points and prepared statements instead of answering the questions asked. ICHEOKU says is a cynic who believes that politicians often times get their questions ahead of time, but it does mot look like Joe Biden got a heads-up and if he did, he was definitely played with a fake. 

There were three particular questions which many people wanted to see Joe Biden answer and Mika Brzezinski asked him those three questions. The first question was whether Joe Biden sexually assaulted Tara Reade; second, whether women should be believed and third, why what was good for Justice Brett Kavanaugh is not good for Joe Biden. In response to the first question, it was an emphatic denial by Joe Biden as was expected of any man who is accused of such a sexual crime. Joe Biden flatly denied that it ever happened, saying "No, it is not true. I am saying unequivocally it never, never happened, and it didn’t. It never happened." 

As with men in his shoes, they first deny it, then feign ignorance of the incident and the apparent lack of knowledge of their accuser. They usually maintain this default position until incontrovertible evidence to the contrary emerges in which case they will pretend penitence. It happened with Bill Clinton with his infamous "I did not have sex with that woman, Ms Lewinsky  which denial he continued until the blue dress surfaced. So is it possibly that Joe Biden has taken a template from Bill Clinton and is now riding the same wave of initial denial, hoping that his archived papers will never be released and if, that it will never turn up the Tara Reade's alleged complaint, who knows? 

On the second question whether women should still be believed in view of his own present circumstances, Joe Biden answered in the affirmative but went ahead to qualify it by saying that women should be believed subject to further investigation for the veracity of their claim. Joe Biden definitely pivoted from his previous position and now seemed to say that women should be preliminarily believed, investigated and subsequently thereafter, find the man guilty if proved. It would appear that Joe Biden also took a page from President Ronald Reagan's "trust but first verify" in his response to believability of women on matters of sexual misconduct allegation. ICHEOKU says wonders why Joe Biden did not accord Justice Brett Kavanaugh the same level of benefit of the doubt when Dr Ford similarly accused the Judge in 2018. 

In response to the third question on whether his case is somewhat different from Justice Brett Kavanaugh's case and whether he regrets the position which he took during the Kavanaugh's case, Joe Biden said that what he said during the Justice Brett Kavanaugh's hearings was that Dr Ford had a right to be heard and the fact that she came forward raised the presumption that she was telling the truth, unless it’s proved that she wasn’t telling the truth or it is clear from the surrounding facts that she did not tell the truth. ICHEOKU says what the former Mr Vice President said during the Kavanaugh's case was publicly said and everybody knew exactly what he said then, therefore he should not mislead the people or attempt to meander his way out of what he said just to suit his own present purpose. Joe Biden was emphatic then about the standard of belief and it is somewhat  statutory without any qualifications whatsoever. She said it, therefore it must be true. 

But good enough Mika Brezezsnki did not allow Joe Biden to get away with his embellished responses and severally pushed back at him to answer the questions truthfully. Some of the best moments of the interview for ICHEOKU, when very good pertinent questions were asked include the three following:- 

1. "But Mr. Vice President, as it pertained to Dr. Ford, everyone wanted — high-level Democrats said she should be believed, that they believed it happened. You said if someone like Dr. Ford were to come out, the essence of what she is saying has to be believed, has to be real. Why, why, why, why is it real for Dr. Ford but not for Tara Reade? 

2. "Well, I’m going to try and ask the question in many different ways. Stacey Abrams said during the Kavanaugh hearings: “I believe women. I believe survivors of assault should be supported and their voices heard.” Kirsten Gillibrand tweeted: “Do we believe women? Do we give them the opportunity to tell their story? We must be a country that says yes every time.” They now both support you. Nancy Pelosi falls into this category too, as well as many other leaders in the Democratic Party. Are women to be believed — are women to be believed unless it pertains to you? Given the fact that you have said in the past that if a woman goes under the lights and talks about something like this, we have to consider that the essence of this is real, is the essence of what she is saying real? 

3. "You were unequivocal, Mr. Vice President, back in 2018 during the Kavanaugh controversy and hearings, and you said that women should be believed. You said this: “For a woman to come forward in the glaring lights of focus nationally, you’ve got to start off with the presumption that at least the essence of what she is talking about is real, whether or not she forgets the facts, whether or not it’s been made worse or better over time. She’s going to be going on national television on Sunday. Tara Reade is coming forward in the glaring lights, to use your words. Should we not start off with the presumption that the essence of what she’s talking about is real? She says you sexually assaulted her. 

However, Joe Biden stuck to his denial saying "from the very beginning, I have said believing women means taking the woman’s claim seriously when she steps forward, and then vet it. Look into it. That is true in this case as well. Women have a right to be heard, and the press should rigorously investigate claims which they make. I will always uphold that principle. But in the end, in every case, the truth is what matters. And in this case, the truth is that the incident did not happen." ICHEOKU says yes indeed the truth is always what matters, but whose truth is it anyway, his or Ms Tara Reade's? 

ICHEOKU says as to Joe Biden's confusion on why the allegation is just now coming up after 27 years, saying that he did not understand it, ICHEOKU says Harvey Weinstein was emphatic that no man understands it either and that men are generally confused by the #MeToo created crisis. Also as to his statement that he doesn’t remember Tara Reade or any type of complaint she may have made 27 years ago, ICHEOKU strongly believes Joe Biden because his recollections have faded away and so much that he doesn't even remember where he is at most of the times and possibly will also forget by tomorrow that the interview with Mike Brzezisnki ever took place. 

Joe Biden tried to say that there is no corroboration of the incident and therefore Tara Reade lied, to which ICHEOKU says even her mother's voice from the grave corroborated the allegation and so did her brother's and a neighbor's recollections. The other fourth would be corroboration is the letter of complaint which she said she filed contemporaneously about the incident and which Joe Biden should facilitate its release. Other than this, the matter remains a disputation between a woman and a man and since women should be believed, the onus squarely rests on Joe Biden to prove convincingly that it did not happen. A sure way to do this is for Joe Biden to grant unlimited access to whatever documents in his Senate files that will establish that he did not do the allege, including Ms Tara Reade's alleged complaint or its lack therein. 

According to Joe Biden, tax records are private documents which are not put out in public, thus begging the question, why did Democrats insist that President Donald John Trump should make his own tax records publicly available during the Russian collusion hoax? 

One major lesson from the Joe Biden's sexual assault allegation is the unintended consequence of an ultra partisan position which was taken based on convenience, that women should be believed, regardless. What the Democrats did to Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2018 has now finally caught up with them in 2020 as it is now haunting  their presidential candidate Joe Biden. When they were making the bonfire to roast Justice Kavanaugh, little did they know that they were also gathering the woods with which their Joe Biden is now being barbecued. But it is possible that they did not know it will come this so soon. A day will also come when their ill conceived impeachment of the president will come around to similarly haunt their own party's elected president. Karma is a female. It is sad; such highly partisan irrationality and irascibility should be discouraged in American politics as the wheel of life keeps on turning unstoppably. For who the bell tolls. 

ICHEOKU says to her great credit, Mika Brzezinski made Joe Biden answer or attempted to answer the questions which she asked him and that won her a lot of people's admiration, including ICHEOKU's. Hopefully she will remain true to the journalist the world watched grill Joe Biden about the sexual assault accusation by Ms Tara Reade. The interview was the stuff real journalism is made of and she acquitted and redeemed herself very well as a journalist who is worthy of her epaulettes. ICHEOKU agrees with Mika Brzezinski that the 'fairest way to create the most transparency' is for Joe Biden to push for the release of any documents with Tara Reade’s name on them, whether it’s at the University of Delaware or the National Archives? 

ICHEOKU is completely satisfied with the interview likewise many others who wanted Joe Biden to tell his own side of the story. Overall, it was a great interview, especially in the follow up and push back aspects of it. Kudos to Mika for a job well done. It is also worth noting that it was a mentally improved Joe Biden who showed up in the interview and he did well under the circumstances and should in the interest of openness grant access to the alleged complaint.

KUDOS TO MIKA BRZEZINSKI: A GREAT INTERVIEW!

TARA READE: THE WORLD AWAITS JOE BIDEN'S RESPONSE.

ICHEOKU says provided it will not be his "I did not have sex with that woman" moment, believing that finger is not penis, the Democratic Party's presidential candidate Joe Biden can still recover from the sexual assault allegation if he keeps it real with American people. If the allegation is true, he should just apologize to Tara Reade for the indiscretion of many decades past and ask for forgiveness. If it is not true, he should vehemently deny it and vociferously state his case and demand an apology from Tara Reade for dragging his name in the mud. But what American people will not tolerate nor accept is another politician lying to their face about some sexual contact which he forced on a staffer. 

American people have had enough of politicians using their offices to abuse vulnerable women who are working for them and will not take kindly to another episode of it coming from Joe Biden. But as Harvey Weinstein said and hopefully Joe Biden will say too, American men are going through a #MeToo crisis right now in the country. Men are confused about the issue and that he is genuinely confused as well. ICHEOKU wishes the former Vice President and presidential candidate of the Democratic Party well as he finally mans up to face Ms Tara Reade. He will either get the matter rested or pour gasoline on it depending on how he tackles the problem. As for Tara Reade, her rebuttal should follow soon immediately thereafter and if Joe Biden admits and apologizes, for her to accept and forgive him pronto. American people are waiting and so does the world. 

TARA READE'S JOE BIDEN'S SEXUAL ASSAULT ALLEGATION: WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE?

ICHEOKU says why the sudden loss of interest by the protectors of womanhood and defenders of the right of women over  their vagina. Are some women not entitled to such protection and can be so flagrantly violated without recourse to any defense. What is going on America or is the double standards not too appalling that it violates every conscience and all tenets of fairness. Why should Harvey Weinstein be in prison and Justice Brett Kavanaug's nearly lost his Supreme Court nomination because of allegations of sexual misconducts, but no similar upheaval is being raised against Joe Biden for his alleged sexual assault on Ms Tara Reade. 

What is fair is fair and the same flat rate should apply to every man accused of similar offense. ICHEOKU is not saying to suffer the Democratic Party's presidential candidate Joe Biden, only that the sexual assault allegation against him by Tara Reade be similarly investigated and subjected to the microscope as was done in Weinstein and Kavanaugh's cases. What is good for the goose should also be good for the gander as justice and fairness demands equal measure. The same treatment should be meted out to every man against whom such allegation has been leveled because so many men in the past have paid a hefty price as a result of such allegation. Therefore it should not and cannot just stop now because the Democratic Party's presidential candidate, Joe Biden, was implicated. 

ICHEOKU says American people have heard earful during the past years about the need to believe all women, including from one Hawaii Congresswoman who publicly scolded American men to shut up and man up and accept the fact that women always tell the truth about their sexual assault experiences. The #MeToo movement from hell has been in the fore front of this vagina crusade against men for some time now but seem to have gone into shelter in place quarantine over the Joe Biden's case. They have gone radio silent and you wonder whether Ms Tara Reade's womanhood is not legitimate or that Joe Biden is too sacred to be similarly sacrificed. The #MeToo movement have even levied maximum protest against some accused men even on occasions when it was obvious that certain peculiarities in the circumstances of the alleged assault made it questionable. But they disregarded it and fervently powered on with their believe all women fighting cry. 

What the #MeToo movement did to some men literary equates to social lynching and some men's lives were forever upended. Many accused men lost their jobs, some were forced to resign their appointments and many others are in prison today serving long prison sentences as a result. So many others have been forced into hiding, excommunicated by their families and friends because the #MeToo movement demanded their heads on a platter for some indiscretion or unintended violations of so many decades past. They have amassed such influence and power over men that it has become somewhat institutionalized in America now that once accused, the man is automatically presumed guilty and sometimes does not even need bothering to prove his innocence. So, why is the latest accused man, Joe Biden, still walking scot-free and without the baying teeth of the #MeToo rabid hounds biting off his flesh and crushing his bones. They did it to Kavanaugh and Weinstein, why not Biden? 

The mantra 'BELIEVE ALL WOMEN" should be a one cap fits all; an equal opportunity treatment to every sexual misconduct allegation against men. It should be of such general application that every woman who makes such allegation should be believed or at least heard out, regardless. But it seems that as with Joe Biden, this hitherto standard rule has been infected with the great contagion of political correctness. The Believe All Women's #MeToo code of principle is now malleable and can be subjugated to a different scrutiny due to who was implicated. Apparently, it seems that it is simply a tool of choice in the hands of these nut job women and their invoking it depends on who the woman making the allegation is and of course, who the offending man is, their various political leanings factored in. 

Why should Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Harvey Weinstein be treated like ravenous monsters but Joe Biden is being cuddled like a harmless pet dove. The same people who nearly lynched Justice Kavanaugh and Harvey Weinstein over similar allegations are the same people who are either not answering questions about the Tara Reade accusation or decided that their Joe Biden can do no wrong and did not do what was alleged. A matter made more painful because Joe Biden's own misconduct seems to have more collaboration than the other two men, yet it is receiving little attention in the media and among within other various protect women groups such as the radical #MeToo anarchists. It is also noteworthy that these people never gave the other two men, particularly Justice Brett Kavanuagh a benefit of the doubt but they are now cutting slacks to Joe Biden. 

ICHEOKU is not a hardliner nor a political leftist or rightist; and ordinarily would not have cared if their meet was consensual as they were both adults when the alleged incident took place. But the victim, Tara Reade, has cried out about what Joe Biden did to her several decades ago, although very old, but in the interest of fairness to what Justice Kavanaugh was made to go through, the Joe Biden's incident should also be seriously investigated. Her allegation has been collaborated by her mother from the grave through Larry King show,  past recollections of a brother and a neighbor all of which made it more likely than not it happened. Joe Biden's fading memory possibly tampered with his own recollection and told him differently, hence his inability to remember the incident and subsequent denial.  There was no collaboration in the Justice Brett Kavanaugh's incident and he emphatically denied it, yet he was harangued by the other side, people who pretended that their love for women fired them on. ICHEOKU says is Tara Reade not a woman or do they love her less, otherwise why is Joe Biden being protected and shielded. 

It is a well known fact that Joe Biden loves women. It is also well known that he publicly touches them, caresses them, kisses them, tickles them and intimately hugs them and there are so many pictorial evidence to this effect. This also collaborates that there is a high probability that Joe Biden was enamored by the allure of his beautiful 29 old assistant, who managed interns working for him in 1993 and put a move on her as she alleges. According to Tara Reade, she filed a contemporaneous report about the incident to the Senate Personnel Office, told her mother, brother and a neighbor about it. She was retaliated against, fired from her job and told to go find another job because she was not a right "fit" for the job, since presumably,  the job requires someone who would not mind being ravaged by a horny dog masquerading as a politician. According to her, she was delivering a duffel bag to Joe Biden in a gym, when he cornered her in a private hallway, pinned her against the wall, kissed her, propositioned her and fingered her. 

It is also instructive that Tara Reade also worked for Leone Panetta but had no similar experience or complain against him.  She also could not have made the Joe Biden complaint lightly, being a lifelong Democrat and would not have any ulterior motive to try and bring down her party's presidential candidate. The only nagging problem with her narration is how a 29 year old woman would forget some pivotal facts about an incident which should have left an indelible impression in her memory, such as where exactly the unwanted touching took place and the time of the day it occurred. This two things are important because it will throw more light on how the hallway would be so free of people that Joe Biden did not mind being caught or seen by other passers by. Also, she did not shout, scream of push him away following the first move to pin her down before kissing her, then reaching underneath her underwear to touch her vagina. But hey, we should believe all women and Tara Reade is a woman. 

The main gist of this article is why the media is not similarly impassioned with telling the Joe Biden's sexual assault allegation story as they were with Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Harvey Weinstein, two people they publicly lynched for alleged sexual misconducts. Unfortunately, it seems that the charter establishing the #MeToo movement does not have a provision of equal protection of every victim woman, otherwise Joe Biden would have since been forced to satisfactorily explain what happened or at least tell his side of the story; and either apologize or call Tara Reade a liar to her face and also explain away all the circumstantial collaborating evidence. But thankfully, the Democratic Party's presidential candidate has finally agreed to tell his side of the story after previously stonewalling by general denial. 

ICHEOKU is looking forward to what Joe Biden will say in retort and paraphrasing Cheryl W. Thompson's, 'ever since the #MeToo movement erupted, Democrats including Biden have been insisting that society should believe women, now they are grappling with what that really means. Lets see if they still believe that society should believe all women when they make allegations of sexual misconduct against men, barring any exception known as the Joe Biden exclusion rule.

BEING POLITICALLY HOMELESS THIS NOVEMBER - TARA READE.

"I voted for the Obama-Biden ticket twice but does not intend to cast a vote for president this November. I personally do not want Trump to be reelected president. I am a life long third generation Democrat and will not vote for a Republican. However, I am not going to vote for the person who assaulted me president. So where it leaves me is that I am now essentially politically homeless." - Tara Reade. 

ICHEOKU says exactly the cruel faith which awaits Joe Biden this November as there are many people, especially Bernie Sanders' supporters, who will rather wait out the election than vote for Joe Biden. Some of them might even cast a protest vote for President Donald John Trump, which will further bleed votes from Joe Biden. The result, Joe Biden will not be able to muster enough votes to secure the White House and President Donald John Trump wins his reelection for a second term. ICHEOKU says if you go to Vegas, feel free to put your money on it, except that Las Vegas was shutdown by coronavirus and who nobody knows whether it will be reopened before the election.

HILLARY CLINTON FALLS IN LINE: ENDORSES JOE BIDEN.

ICHEOKU says the real news would have been that Hillary Clinton refused to endorse Joe Biden, not that she did what was expected of her, although much later than earlier anticipated. Many people thought that following her acerbic attacks on Bernie Sanders during the primaries and her refusal to endorse any of the women who ran in the Democratic Party primaries, that she would have since thrown her weight behind the party's establishment candidate Joe Biden and much earlier before Barack Obama did. 

That she finally came around to do it now is therefore not a big deal, especially as she is frontally vying for the vice presidential slot in the Joe Biden's promised female vice presidential candidate. She sees being Joe Biden's Vice President as the greatest  opportunity of producing a female president of the United States of America and she cannot see herself conceding that life time achievement to any other woman in America not named Hillary Clinton. So, it is game on and that was what actually precipitated her endorsement and not that she indeed cares about Joe Biden's political fortunes that much, fully away that the former Vice President is a damaged product for the United States of America presidency. 

Like her other contenders for the honor to run alongside Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton is just another schemer who is in it just for herself and who has now thrown her hat into the arena of the soon to ensue cat fight among the women of the Democratic Party on who Joe Biden should choose. Therefore, it does not move the needle either way that Hillary Clinton finally followed the party's cue and endorsed Joe Biden. Her underlying motive is selfish and she clearly has no other choice in the matter but to be seen as championing the candidate of the party, for which she could be rewarded with the vice presidential slot. 

Anyway, ICHEOKU is emphatic that her endorsement will not change anything going into the election of November 3rd, 2020. Her decision only amounts to the lining up of the same armada which President Donald John Trump sank in 2016 and will again destroy, come November 3rd, 2020. In fact ICHEOKU does not know anyone who was planning not to vote for Joe Biden who will now say because Hillary Clinton endorsed him, has changed their mind. The only downside to her endorsement is that some people who probably were planning to vote for Joe Biden, but who detest Hillary Clinton so much, will see her endorsement as a turn off and with it, they will either switch their votes or not vote at all during the election. 

As was with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's endorsement of Bernie Sanders during the last Democratic Party's primaries, Hillary Clinton's endorsement of Joe Biden might equally turn out to be the kiss of death to whatever chances Joe Biden hitherto had at being elected president of the United States of America come November 3rd, 2020. Many people strongly believed that Bernie Sanders lost the last primaries because Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez turned many people off with her crazy ideas which they considered too extreme. Hillary Clinton has also similarly turned so many off that they react to her like a do not touch poison ivy. She is horrible and so many people would rather not see her around the corridors of the White House.

Aggregated, her endorsement is not a much added value to Joe Biden's campaign, admitted it does not hurt either for the campaign that she is not opposing his candidacy. The Democratic Party is a cudgel and whip fall in line party, where conformity is strictly enforced and at the pain of being ostracized or even kicked out of the party. This is the reason no Democrat can afford to challenge the dictates of the party's hierarchy or dare to oppose the party's anointed nominee. They must do as told, unlike the Republican Party where every member is fully republican and is never told what to do nor would they listen if told. 

The Republican Party is the real Democratic Party and should be rebranded Republican Real Democratic Party because members freely air their opinions and express their viewpoints, including the right to oppose and not accept their party's presidential nominee, if they want. They also publicly criticize and chastise their party's flag bearer and many have openly called for party members to vote for the other party's candidate. But this freedom is strictly limited in the Democratic Party as there is no democracy therein because the freedom to differ or choose differently is a taboo within the Democratic Party. Every member must follow the party's dictates, fall in line and tow the party's guidelines unless they become quarantined from the party.

Anyway, regardless of Hillary Clinton's endorsement, Joe Biden is a damaged product which American people will not buy on November 3rd, 2020. His risk of loss to the American people is simply too big and uninsurable, especially at this period of great peril in the land. The coronavirus is ravaging the nation and there is also a threatening economic doomsday which only a clear eyed fighter of a president is appositely suited for. The too many wars on too many fronts demand continuity and American people will not unwisely change their horse midstream. It has never happened before and it will not happen on November 3rd, 2020 because despite his shortcomings, President Donald John Trump has proved himself to be a great champion for America. The president loves America so much that he doggedly fights for the best interest of America and the American people. On November 3rd, 2020 American people will show him that they appreciate his commitment to the America First agenda with a reelection vote for a second term.

ENDORSEMENT INDEED: THE BROMANCE DID NOT START TODAY.

SEARCHING FOR JOE, WHERE IS JOE BIDEN?

ICHEOKU says a leader leads from the front, not from inside a basement. If Trump can do it, so should Joe Biden; thus begging the question when will Joe Biden emerge to see his shadow like the Punxsutawney groundhog.

CORONAVIRUS DAILY BRIEFING: THE PRESIDENT STEPPED ON IT REALLY BADLY.

ICHEOKU says the first mistake which the president made was to appoint a coronavirus task force and still personally micromanaged the daily briefings about the job they are doing. He wouldn't let members of the task force and their chairman handle the daily updates about the task for which they were constituted. The president thereby turned it into a combustible issue with the media rather than a uniting national event to update the American people on the effort being made by the government to tackle the coronavirus. 

The president is not a politician and he is not well versed in the art of broader messaging, which would have appealed to the entire nation rather than just his usually cloistered MAGA base. He would have let the more astute politician, his Vice President Michael Pence, handle the daily briefings. Michael Pence would have known the right words to use and the proper tone to deploy to reach the broader spectrum of the American people and thus been able to create a more nationalistic embrace of the effort, instead of the Trump problem which the current narrative reads. 

The president also was utterly defensive and tried too hard to fight off attacks on him for a botched preparation for the coronavirus. He first tried to cuddle the media thinking that he could woo them, but he forgot that the media are Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party's sympathizers who still seethe with anger that he is still in the White House. They pounced on the president like a pack of wild dogs and the rest is now history, as the president has in frustration, suspended the daily briefings. 

ICHEOKU says suspending the briefings is not the answer, the president just needs to extricate himself from it and let Michael Pence and his team Taskforce handle it. Whatever the president needs to communicate in addition should be made through issued press releases or better still with his tweets or he can even hand it over to Micheal Pence as he goes to make the daily briefings as an announcement from the president. The media does not like the president and this feeling is mutual; so their mere sighting of the president is like flashing a red cloth before a bull and they always go into a ruinous frenzy in their attempt to hurt and ridicule the president. They are in an intractable battle with the president and they will never rest nor call for a truce until they see his back from the White House. This is why the daily briefings no longer briefs on anything but has since turned into a fighting ring. 

It is not a secret that the media does not like the president's audacity and the fact that the president won the election despite their antagonistic posture against him and his being in the White House still makes them mad till today. Then add the constant face off which the president gives them, calling them fake news and the temperature continuously boils over. Their operation bring the president down is never ending and it manifests in the way they frame their questions at the daily briefings, not necessarily to find out what is being done about the coronavirus, but to trap the president into what they will later use to bludgeon him, in continuance of their anti Trump narrative. 

However, the president failed to shield himself from his critics by continuously stepping into piles of dungs while the daily briefings lasted. He saw it as a medium with which to constantly push back criticism in defense of what he felt was a good job which his White House was doing. But the high number of deaths and infections in the country, the worst throughout the world, did not help convince anybody that a good job was being done by the White House. This was where correct messaging was very important but the president failed to adjust and adopt the appropriate messaging, specifically tailored for the sombre moment. 

The president was unable to and could not separate himself from his campaign style messaging and morph into a consoler in chief messaging which was required at the present moment of great grief in the land where thousands are dead and thousands more are afflicted with the contagion. This failure to adjust properly messed things up badly for the president and many people saw him in different lights. He was constantly protesting, too combative and overly defensive, refusing to even take some responsibility for some things which were done wrong or which did not pan out well as planned. 

Yes, the president issued an order banning flights from Wuhan China but he failed to ensure that the order was effectively carried out immediately and without delay. He also failed to recognize that the people in Wuhan China were routing their flights through Europe and then to America and in that way circumvented his order. A politically more astute president would have admitted that there could have been few lapses here and there in implementing the order, but that he timely acted in the best interest of the country and when relevant information became available. 

The president should have left the issue there, but instead, he continuously rehashed it as if it was the silver bullet that stopped millions of Americans from dying. ICHEOKU says 50,000 plus dead Americans are simply too many and it made a nonsense out of the Chinese air closure, but the president did not advise himself properly on this consequential fact. As it turned out, the closing of air border with China apparently was not good enough to starve off the disaster and the president should have admitted to it, as one of the few flaws in the effort. But not President Donald John Trump who feels he can do no wrong and is seemingly above reproach. 

Nobody is infallible and American people would have understood as they wanted him to admit to the lack of total success with the stoppage of flights from China, but the president failed to see the needed contrition. This lack of responsibility for some role in the huge number of deaths and infection suffered, despite all his best effort which turned out not to be good enough, is a negative for the president. It will count against him when the election comes, admitted he did enough overall to help him win a reelection; and he will walk all over Joe Biden come November 3rd, 2020. But winning the election is not the reason for this piece, only that some mistakes were made for which the president ought to have made some mea culpa. 

Further, the president somewhat personalized the effort at tackling the coronavirus pandemic, frequently using the first person pronoun "I" in referring to the efforts being made to contain the virus.  It should not have been so, as members of the Taskforce are in fact the people who were doing the actual work and they should have been allowed to take whatever credit and deficit that came from the effort. It would have been acceptable if the president took credit for his excellent choice of the people in the Taskforce. But to take credit for everything this Taskforce people did by always prefixing his statements with "I did this, I did that" somewhat became a real turn off for many people. 

Unfortunately, the president saw the daily briefings as an improvisation for his MAGA campaigns and forgot that millions of Americans who who are not members of the Republican Party or Team MAGA, who were similarly afflicted and concerned about the coronavirus, were equally tuning in, listening and watching the daily briefings. These people would rather they are not bothered with the president's reelection campaign and would have preferred the daily briefings were strictly honed in on the coronavirus to disseminate necessary information about what the government is doing to combat the virus. It is possible too that some members of the Taskforce are not the president's fans either and were disturbed to watch the president sometimes veer off into politics. 

It was a huge mistake for the president to have said things about his reelection campaign or against Joe Biden and the Democratic Party concerning the November election during the daily briefings. Many people were not interested and on nerves over the affliction ravaging the land to want to hear anything about an election. These are more important things than the November election or even reelecting the president. Thousands of people were dying and thousands more were being infected and the president was talking about his reelection. That is a no no and time inappropriate as too many people were so scared and too worried about their fate and that of their loved ones to be interested in any election politics talk. 

So, it was a mistake for the president not to strictly stay on the message of coronavirus and dabble into the November 2020 election. The president should have stayed laser-focused on the coronavirus message and never allow himself to be distracted with Joe Biden or the Democratic Party or even his chances on November 3rd. The president would have allowed his action to speak for him and they were beginning to do this until he delved into politics, even touting his high poll numbers in the middle of the crisis when every effort were being marshaled to combat the unseen enemy. It was an otherwise avoidable needless distraction as many of the mobilized people possibly don't like the president, did not vote for him in 2016 and probably will not vote for him on November 3rd. It was an opportunity to unite the country, albeit for the duration of the coronavirus endeavor, but which the president failed to rise up to the occasion. 

The president also made a big goof with his demand that his name appear on the stimulus checks which led to the delay in getting those checks to the people who needed it most. It was a big mistake as nobody really cares what is written on the checks except for the dollar amount. Most people will not even read what is written on the check before they present them in check cashing stores to get their money paid. Some people will even be angry that the president's name was put on their checks and you ask yourself what then was the wisdom behind delaying the checks from getting to the people just to put the president's name on them. 

Most people do not care and it will not make any difference in how they see the president, nor will it make anyone who never wanted to vote for the president to change their mind on November 3rd. As far as they are concerned, the money does not belong to the president but the American people, so why should the president take credit for giving it to them by putting his name on the checks. Meanwhile all those people who got direct deposit payments did not have the president's name written on their deposit slips, so why on the checks. It only confirms the vainglorious nature of the president who always wants to be adored but he is only succeeding in putting many people off by such action. Some people see him as being too full of it an such action helps cement this stereotype. 

As if the president has not done enough already to damage himself with the daily briefing, the final nail on the coffin was the comment about injecting disinfectants which will live in infamy as the president's worst words ever uttered. ICHEOKU was shocked beyond recompense and so did millions of people in America and world wide that a president of the United States of America was this bereft of knowledge about toxicity. It does not matter under whatever subterfuge it was said and sarcasm does not cut it either, to suggest or even think that such a toxic compound like disinfectant could be injected into the human body. 

The goof merely added impetus to the president's critics who accuse him of having very shallow knowledge, lacking in brain thrust and capacity. But who wouldn't following such inexplicable comment and instead of apologizing as a misspeak, the president piled on by trying to explain it away as sarcasm. ICHEOKU says what manner of a person would be making a humor faced with the biggest challenge of our time, when thousands of people have perished and thousands more are afflicted and dying. A misspeak may be, but a sarcasm, hell no. Therefore, going forward, when it comes to matters of life and death or any other thing requiring specific expertise and professional knowledge, the president should beat it and allow the people with requisite knowledge to take the center stage. It is not politics and in that way he would have some people to put the blame on if things goes awry and did not pan out well. 

Enough is enough, the president should beat a retreat from the daily briefings but allow Michael Pence and his Taskforce to carry on with it. The Taskforce should be allowed to do what they were constituted to do - work on the coronavirus and brief American people on what they are doing to combat the pandemic through the daily briefings. The president should not because he is being pilloried by the media cancel the daily briefings because it is important for the American people to know what they need to know about the coronavirus. He should just extricate himself from it, period. Mr President should not seize the ball and carry it away just because you fumbled it, he should let the rest of he team carry on with the play. So, Mr President please restore back the daily briefings but without yourself being present. Allow the Taskforce to do their job.