I NEVER REALIZED how many members of the media were medical doctors.  Their reporting of President Trump’s first day in the hospital was laughable.  The questions posed to the Walter Reed medical team were repetitive and pathetic. 

I don’t know about CNN or MSNBC, but Fox News Channel felt the need to bring in Sunday host and failed debate moderator, Chris Wallace, Martha Mac Callum, and Bill Hemmer, who appears like he just moved over from one of the 10 o’clock nightly news shows on a local TV station in middle America.  The dialogue got tiresome and the speculation was over the top.  All agreed that they weren’t being told everything.  Just as it should be.

IT WAS ENCOURAGING to see the turnout of Trump well-wishers with flags and posters at the hospital entrance.  In my neighborhood, where the HOA tends to frown on signs, my hat is off to the few neighbors who are showing their support for Trump and the police.

WHILE THE SPECULATION FLIES with the thought that President Trump might have to give up his election bid since contracting Covid-19 as suggested by the New York Times, the headline in The Epoch Times read, “Why Trump Contracting Covid-19 Will Reelect Him.”

TOWNHALL.COM MAKES A COGENT POINT – Now more than usual, Donald Trump controls the news cycle.  “Joe Biden’s handlers better be worried.  Donald Trump has once again seized the initiative. 

Trump is going to triumph over this disease like he triumphed over the disastrous Obama economy and our garbage establishment’s track record of failure. This will show his strength and position him for a comeback since now the plucky underdog.”

MEANWHILE, the social media crowd and the Hollywood types are again making fools of themselves by tweeting “I hope he dies.”

WHILE EACH CAMPAIGN WAS DECLARING VICTORY after the first debate, Investor’s Business Daily was releasing the results of its new IBD/TIPP poll showing that President Trump had narrowed Joe Biden’s believed lead among likely voters to 2.7 points.

IBD said Biden leads Trump 48.6 to 45.9 percent, however, 4 percent were still not sure who they would support, and another 1.5 percent said they would vote for another candidate.  Who is there?

While IBD claims they are likely voters, I am astonished with how they view the candidates.  They saw Biden more likable, 54 to 34 percent.  Why is that important?

One has to wonder what they were watching when they say Biden looked more presidential (looks is important?), and had a better command of the issues (what issues were fully debated?)

At least Trump was seen as mentally sharper and edged Biden out on the Supreme Court appointments and the economy.

Interestingly, despite Biden’s polling edge, just 36 percent expect him to win, while 45 percent think Trump will prevail.  And, get this … 46 percent think most of their neighbors will vote for Trump while 36 percent think their neighbors will mostly back Biden.

PONDER THIS – A woman wrote a letter to the editor of the Arizona Republic noting that because the Biden’s hugged and kissed on the stage after the debate and the Trump’s didn’t, that “speaks volumes about the character of each man.”

LEFT-LEANING COLUMNIST Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal final got something right in her weekend critique of the first debate.  But, wait for her pivot.

She wrote of Joe Biden as “a befuddled man who struggles to carry a public thought to its conclusion, and who can’t tell you what he’ll do in part because he doesn’t want to and in part because he doesn’t really know.”

Noonan surprisingly devoted considerable space to some of Biden’s positions; poking fun with his familiar “C’mon man” line.

However, you just knew she couldn’t pass up the opportunity to slander President Trump, which she of the East Coast elite, takes particular pleasure.

“The incumbent is an incompetent who’s out of his mind,” she wrote, without recognizing all that he has accomplished in three plus years, all while being attacked by career un-Americans from within his own government.

In the conclusion to her column, she again showed how out of touch she is while noting the heightened importance of the up-coming vice-presidential debate.

She was correct when she said that America doesn’t really know Sen. Kamala Harris, but for Noonan to write that the same was true of Vice President Mike Pence, in my mind, disqualifies her as a journalist.  But then, I assume she would not want to be known as a lowly journalist. 

For months now, Pence has appeared on television almost daily as the leader of the president’s virus team. He has presented status reports and introduced members of his team.  In addition, he has appeared on all of the networks, including the popular Sunday news programs.   And, in recent weeks, he has made campaign appearances in a number of cities. C’mon, Peggy, do your homework.

May God continue to bless the United States of America.