Scarborough Absent After His Covid 'Conspiracy Theory' Claim Is Debunked by the FBI

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Joe Scarborough picked a good morning to take a day off from Morning Joe. It came the day after Fox News aired an interview with FBI Director Chris Wray in which he said "The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan . . . Here you are talking about a potential leak from a Chinese government-controlled lab."

The MSM "conventional wisdom" corps has long dismissed the notion that the virus originated in a government-controlled lab as a Sino-phobic conspiracy theory. They believed it came from a nearby "wet market," which would be more convenient for the Chinese communists.

Today's Morning Joe crew buried the fact that in 2021, Scarborough sneeringly condemned "Harvard guy" Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), for:

"Spouting a conspiracy theory that the Chinese made this virus up in a lab."

You have Rush Limbaugh, every day, the Presidential Medal of Freedom honor. It's hard to say this is the most reckless thing he's ever done, but saying basically this was just a conspiracy . . . This is serious stuff, folks. Don't worry about your ratings for one week. Don't try to spool up whoever was wearing tinfoil hats in your audience. But that's what's happening. These conspiracy theorists are continuing to say things that are going to be extraordinarily dangerous for this country."

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[Ann Archy]

Weird Joey is one sick puppy.

[GOPJ]

Scarborough’s been wrong on a whole bunch of things - as he’ll discover over the coming years.

[MayflowerMadam]

I’m pretty sure he took the day off to pen his apology to Trump for calling him a liar back when Trump said what Wray confirmed. The media will be standing in line to apologize. Nah...

[SunkenCiv]

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[GOPJ]

Joe looked uneasy with the sentencing of Murdaugh this morning too.