'A tale of two chyrons': CNN social distancing scolds who flipped over crowd at Trump's acceptance speech suddenly silent as packed March on Washington begins

Doug P. | 1:56 PM on August 28, 2020

Last night there were about 1,500 people gathered outside the White House for speeches on the final night of the Republican convention, which ended with President Trump’s acceptance speech.

CNN took the predictable angle:

Very little social distancing. Very few masks in sight on the south lawn of the WH for Trump’s speech. pic.twitter.com/J31kDKyabj

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) August 28, 2020

“There will be people who became infected as a result of that event last night, and there’ll be people who will spread it and possibly require hospitalization, may even die,” @drsanjaygupta says about the large crowd that wasn’t socially distanced for Trump’s RNC speech. pic.twitter.com/BIU3JBTV0W

— CNN (@CNN) August 28, 2020

Maybe if the Republican convention had been reframed it would get clearance from the doctor:

CNN has no problem with crowds being this close together. They'll say (and have said) people are wearing masks as if to say that means no one will get the coronavirus, and everything's fine. But they won't say schools or sporting venues can open! No, that's dangerous pic.twitter.com/XU9iAVLDAB

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) August 28, 2020

A tale of two chyrons. CNN is such a joke. pic.twitter.com/r5ixbKhhBk

— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) August 28, 2020

Color us NOT shocked.

Let's not name call. @jaketapper will address this on his show no doubt.

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) August 28, 2020

Covid is done. Open everything up. If they try to arrest you, show them this picture and tell them what they can do with jt.

— push the reset button (@joshiegoesboom) August 28, 2020