kayleigh mcenany is stupid, and so qualifies to be (NOT MY) pres drumpf's / trump's White House press secretary. More proof she is stupid enough to work for the drumpf / trump-pence administration is her repeating a false story that Paw Patrol was being cancelled due to "cancel culture". More proof of her stupidity is shown in her parroting of drumpf's / trump's demand that schools open in the fall pandemic be damned with her statement "The science should not stand in the way of this." From the BBC and NBC.....
Paw Patrol: Cartoon not cancelled despite White House comments
25 July 2020
Children's programme Paw Patrol has not been cancelled, its makers have said, after the White House press secretary appeared to fall for rumors it had.
Kayleigh McEnany said the cartoon about patrol dogs, some of whom run a police department, was among programmes and games axed due to "cancel culture".
But the series swiftly reassured fans that there was "no need to worry".
A number of police shows in the US have been taken off air following protests against alleged police brutality.
They follow the death of African-American George Floyd while in police custody in May. The US government has also faced criticism over the deployment of federal troops in the city of Portland, Oregon.
What did the press secretary say?
In Friday's briefing, Ms McEnany said President Donald Trump was opposed to "cancel culture" - a term for when individuals or companies face swift public backlash and boycott over offensive statements or actions - and "specifically as it pertains to cops".
"We saw a few weeks ago that Paw Patrol, a cartoon show about cops, was cancelled. The show Cops was cancelled, Live PD was cancelled," she said.
She also repeated a claim - previously tweeted by the president's former campaign manager Brad Parscale in early June - that toymaker Lego had withdrawn police-themed merchandise.
Lego responded at the time to clarify that none of its sets had been removed from sale.
While the press secretary's statements about Paw Patrol and Lego merchandise were incorrect, the TV series Cops and Live PD have both been cancelled in recent weeks - although both had faced controversy.
Cops, which had run for more than three decades, had been strongly criticised over its portrayal of policing and the ethics of how it was filmed. The podcast Running From COPS investigated the series last year, and found that many suspects had not given their consent to appear in the show and that the programme misrepresented policing in the US.
Live PD was another US reality TV programme that followed police on patrol. The A&E network paused transmission of the series after George Floyd's death before cancelling it in June, following reports it had filmed an incident between police and an African-American man, which resulted in his death.
White House press secretary: 'The science should not stand in the way of' schools fully reopening
By Allan Smith
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said during a Thursday press briefing that "science should not stand in the way of" schools fully reopening for the upcoming academic year, later blasting coverage of her comments as a "case study in media bias."
Asked about President Donald Trump's message to parents as some schools opt to go fully online in the coming weeks, McEnany said "the president has said unmistakably that he wants schools to open."
"And I was just in the Oval talking to him about that," she said. "When he says open, he means open in full, kids being able to attend each and every day in their school. The science should not stand in the way of this."
She added that the U.S. is an "outlier" among western nations in terms of getting kids back to school, adding, "the science is on our side here and we encourage for localities and states to just simply follow the science, open our schools."
"It’s very damaging to our children," she said. "There’s a lack of reporting of abuse, there’s mental depressions that are not addressed, suicidal ideations that are not addressed when students are not in school. Our schools are extremely important, they’re essential, and they must reopen."
McEnany's comments come as the Trump administration has pushed for schools to fully open for students five days per week. Districts across the country face the conundrum over how to best provide an education to students while keeping them, teachers and staff safe amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Vice President Mike Pence echoed the White House press secretary's comments in an interview that aired Thursday night with Greta Van Susteren.
"While we’re giving guidance from the CDC about the best way to safely reopen schools, we’ve made it very clear we don’t want federal guidance to be a barrier to reopening schools," Pence said. "And so we’re going to be working very closely with local school officials, as well as governors around America, to make sure they have not only the guidance but the resources to get our kids back.”
Many districts are proposing a hybrid model, where students shift between online learning and some days in the classroom so that appropriate safety measures can be taken. The Trump administration has criticized those plans, with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos telling CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday that a mixed model of virtual and in-person learning is "not a valid choice for families."
Taking to Twitter following her briefing, McEnany called coverage of her remarks a "case study in media bias."
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