Posted on 05/31/2021 4:47:28 PM PDT by Yong
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo voiced warnings to the public over the weekend that the Wuhan Institute of Virology remains functional and that controversial activity may have happened there.
“I’m very worried that this stuff still goes on and that the U.S. government’s been funding it,” Paul said in an appearance on Fox.
Dear mercy
Pompeo, DeSantis, and Paul are setting themselves up for 2024.
Oh great......
🤔😡😡😡😵😵😵
So if the Chicoms unleash a new virus “to destroy the Western populations and leave China relatively unscathed” (rumor of the strategy tested by the 2019 Wuhan Virus bioweapon release) Biden’s government will demand we all be censored from saying “Golly, we really don’t like what China did.”
Or else: Banned on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, credits cards, banks, and discount deals for Reader’s Digest renewals.
Reporters admit dismissing Wuhan lab leak theory in part because Republicans proposed it!
‘Some things may be true even if Donald Trump said them,’ ABC’s Jonathan Karl said.
ABC’s Jonathan Karl saying some journalists have ‘egg’ on their faces over the Wuhan lab leak theory and more round today’s top media headlines
Journalists continued to acknowledge Sunday that the media’s longstanding dismissal of the Wuhan “lab-leak” theory was in part due to Republicans pitching it.
Once widely cast aside as a racist “conspiracy theory” and “fringe” nonsense, the possibility that the coronavirus accidentally leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology has gained increasing credence in recent weeks. The saga has led to yet another reckoning for mainstream media journalists about groupthink and bias in the industry. Faced with criticism that they blasted the theory last year for political reasons, some reporters have admitted its Republican origins with figures like Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., former President Donald Trump, and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo played into why they disparaged it.
ABC News Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl suggested on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday that figures like Trump and Pompeo were not taken seriously by members of the media, saying “now serious people are saying it needs a serious inquiry.”
REPORTERS BLAME TRUMP FOR NOT INITIALLY FINDING WUHAN LAB THEORY CREDIBLE
“Yes, I think a lot of people have egg on their face,” Karl said. “This was an idea that was first put forward by Mike Pompeo, secretary of state, Donald Trump, and look some things may be true even if Donald Trump said them. Because Trump was saying so much else, that was just out of control, and because he was, you know, making a frankly racist appeal talking about Kung Flu, and the China virus, he said flatly this came from that lab, and it was widely dismissed ... but now serious people are saying it needs a serious inquiry.”
New York Times reporter David Leonhardt also conceded Sunday many journalists dismissed the lab-leak theory solely because Cotton, a Trump ally and longtime critic of China, proposed it.
“I think people made this mistake. I think a lot of people on the political left and a lot of people in the media made the mistake. They said, ‘wow if Tom Cotton is saying something, it can’t be true.’ Or they assumed that. And that’s not right,” he said on CNN.
CNN’S SMERCONISH COMPLAINS OF COVID LAB LEAK THEORY ‘POLITICS,’ DESPITE NETWORK DISMISSING IT FOR MONTHS
NBC’s Chuck Todd addressed the issue on “Meet The Press” Sunday, saying that “for many,” the lab leak theory got “tangled up in politics” and was conflated with one theory that the Chinese released the virus deliberately.
While interviewing former Trump Deputy National Security Adviser Matthew Pottinger, Todd repeatedly suggested anti-China rhetoric was to blame for media dismissals of the virus.
“Did in some ways, the sort of irrational attacks on China, did that slow down efforts of the intelligence community to actually do some fact-finding?” Todd asked.
“Well, look, I think what slowed down efforts more than anything else were the early statements that were published by a few scientists dismissing the idea that it could have come out of a lab,” Pottinger said. “And in fact, caricaturing people who thought that it might have come out of a lab.”
“Do you think your former boss’ statements contributed to that a little bit?” Todd asked.
WAPO COLUMNIST ROASTS MEDIA ON COVID-19 LAB THEORY ABOUT-FACE: ‘ZERO SELF AWARENESS’
“Well, you know, there are political mistakes that lead to, to, you know, trouble in government. And then there are institutional shortcomings,” Pottinger said.
The language mirrored that of figures like the New York Times’ Maggie Haberman and the Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler last week.
“I think it is important to remember that part of the issue is when this was first being reported on and discussed back a few months after the pandemic had begun, was that then President Trump and Mike Pompeo, secretary of state, suggested they’ve seen evidence that this was formed in a lab and they also suggested that is was not released on purpose. But they refused to release the evidence showing what it was and so because of that made this instantly political,” Haberman said on CNN last week.
‘Outnumbered’ slams media for 180 on Wuhan lab leak theoryVideo
In a new fact-check timeline that declared the lab theory was “suddenly” credible, Kessler wrote, “The Trump administration’s messaging was often accompanied by anti-Chinese rhetoric that made it easier for skeptics to ignore its claims.”
Washington Post reporter Aaron Blake wrote an analysis titled, “The vexing ‘lab leak’ theory on China and the coronavirus,” in which he defended reporters dismissing the Trump administration claims that there was a high probability the virus originated in a lab.
FORMER STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL: PROBE INTO COVID ORIGINS FOUND ALMOST NO EVIDENCE SUPPORTING NATURAL ORIGIN!
“Given everything we know about how Trump handled such things, caution and skepticism were invited. That (very much warranted) caution and skepticism spilled over into some oversimplification, particularly when it came to summarizing the often more circumspect reporting,” Blake wrote.
The Washington Post’s Josh Rogin blasted reporters on Saturday for their sudden about-face, saying the facts on the ground had not changed out of the blue, and accusing them of bias, “general incompetence” and even “TDS,” short for Trump Derangement Syndrome.
President Biden ordered the intelligence community last week to investigate the origins of the virus and report back in 90 days.
#MediaBuzz - Sunday, May 30 Video
Outlets from the Washington Post and New York Times to CNN and NPR have gone from outright mockery of the idea to taking it seriously, and “fact checks” have been updated with editor’s notes about why the theory is no longer necessarily “debunked.” Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield is among the proponents of the theory, pointing to the virus’ efficient transmission among humans and the “gain of function” research at the Wuhan lab.
The virus’ true origins are still unknown.
Fox News’ Thomas Barrabi and Andrew Kugle contributed to this report.
David Rutz is a senior editor at Fox News. Follow him on Twitter at @davidrutz.
Fox Natio
A video montage shows the dozens of times the media used the term “Wuhan virus” or “Chinese coronavirus” to talk about COVID-19. President Donald Trump received criticism for calling the coronavirus a “foreign virus” in his Oval Office address last night. CNN’s Jim Acosta said it was a
There needs to be a complete sweeping of the mainstream media, they have become a very very dangerous propaganda machine of the left and they need to be destroyed every last one of the
BC’s Jonathan Karl saying some journalists have ‘egg’ on their faces over the Wuhan lab leak theory and more round today’s top media headlines.
Journalists continued to acknowledge Sunday that the media’s longstanding dismissal of the Wuhan “lab-leak” theory was in part due to Republicans pitching it.
Once widely cast aside as a racist “conspiracy theory” and “fringe” nonsense, the possibility that the coronavirus accidentally leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology has gained increasing credence in recent weeks. The saga has led to yet another reckoning for mainstream media journalists about groupthink and bias in the industry. Faced with criticism that they blasted the theory last year for political reasons, some reporters have admitted its Republican origins with figures like Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., former President Donald Trump, and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo played into why they disparaged it.
ABC News Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl suggested on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday that figures like Trump and Pompeo were not taken seriously by members of the media, saying “now serious people are saying it needs a serious inquiry.”
REPORTERS BLAME TRUMP FOR NOT INITIALLY FINDING WUHAN LAB THEORY CREDIBLE
“Yes, I think a lot of people have egg on their face,” Karl said. “This was an idea that was first put forward by Mike Pompeo, secretary of state, Donald Trump, and look some things may be true even if Donald Trump said them. Because Trump was saying so much else, that was just out of control, and because he was, you know, making a frankly racist appeal talking about Kung Flu, and the China virus, he said flatly this came from that lab, and it was widely dismissed ... but now serious people are saying it needs a serious inquiry.”
New York Times reporter David Leonhardt also conceded Sunday many journalists dismissed the lab-leak theory solely because Cotton, a Trump ally and longtime critic of China, proposed it.
“I think people made this mistake. I think a lot of people on the political left and a lot of people in the media made the mistake. They said, ‘wow if Tom Cotton is saying something, it can’t be true.’ Or they assumed that. And that’s not right,” he said on CNN.
CNN’S SMERCONISH COMPLAINS OF COVID LAB LEAK THEORY ‘POLITICS,’ DESPITE NETWORK DISMISSING IT FOR MONTHS.
ABC’s Jonathan Karl saying some journalists have ‘egg’ on their faces over the Wuhan lab leak theory and more round today’s top media headlines
Journalists continued to acknowledge Sunday that the media’s longstanding dismissal of the Wuhan “lab-leak” theory was in part due to Republicans pitching it.
Once widely cast aside as a racist “conspiracy theory” and “fringe” nonsense, the possibility that the coronavirus accidentally leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology has gained increasing credence in recent weeks. The saga has led to yet another reckoning for mainstream media journalists about groupthink and bias in the industry. Faced with criticism that they blasted the theory last year for political reasons, some reporters have admitted its Republican origins with figures like Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., former President Donald Trump, and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo played into why they disparaged it.
ABC News Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl suggested on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday that figures like Trump and Pompeo were not taken seriously by members of the media, saying “now serious people are saying it needs a serious inquiry.”
REPORTERS BLAME TRUMP FOR NOT INITIALLY FINDING WUHAN LAB THEORY CREDIBLE
“Yes, I think a lot of people have egg on their face,” Karl said. “This was an idea that was first put forward by Mike Pompeo, secretary of state, Donald Trump, and look some things may be true even if Donald Trump said them. Because Trump was saying so much else, that was just out of control, and because he was, you know, making a frankly racist appeal talking about Kung Flu, and the China virus, he said flatly this came from that lab, and it was widely dismissed ... but now serious people are saying it needs a serious inquiry.”
New York Times reporter David Leonhardt also conceded Sunday many journalists dismissed the lab-leak theory solely because Cotton, a Trump ally and longtime critic of China, proposed it.
“I think people made this mistake. I think a lot of people on the political left and a lot of people in the media made the mistake. They said, ‘wow if Tom Cotton is saying something, it can’t be true.’ Or they assumed that. And that’s not right,” he said on CNN.
CNN’S SMERCONISH COMPLAINS OF COVID LAB LEAK THEORY ‘POLITICS,’ DESPITE NETWORK DISMISSING IT FOR MONTHS
NBC’s Chuck Todd addressed the issue on “Meet The Press” Sunday, saying that “for many,” the lab leak theory got “tangled up in politics” and was conflated with one theory that the Chinese released the virus deliberately.
While interviewing former Trump Deputy National Security Adviser Matthew Pottinger, Todd repeatedly suggested anti-China rhetoric was to blame for media dismissals of the virus.
“Did in some ways, the sort of irrational attacks on China, did that slow down efforts of the intelligence community to actually do some fact-finding?” Todd asked.
“Well, look, I think what slowed down efforts more than anything else were the early statements that were published by a few scientists dismissing the idea that it could have come out of a lab,” Pottinger said. “And in fact, caricaturing people who thought that it might have come out of a lab.”
“Do you think your former boss’ statements contributed to that a little bit?” Todd asked.
WAPO COLUMNIST ROASTS MEDIA ON COVID-19 LAB THEORY ABOUT-FACE: ‘ZERO SELF AWARENESS’
“Well, you know, there are political mistakes that lead to, to, you know, trouble in government. And then there are institutional shortcomings,” Pottinger said.
The language mirrored that of figures like the New York Times’ Maggie Haberman and the Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler last week.
“I think it is important to remember that part of the issue is when this was first being reported on and discussed back a few months after the pandemic had begun, was that then President Trump and Mike Pompeo, secretary of state, suggested they’ve seen evidence that this was formed in a lab and they also suggested that is was not released on purpose. But they refused to release the evidence showing what it was and so because of that made this instantly political,” Haberman said on CNN last week.
‘Outnumbered’ slams media for 180 on Wuhan lab leak theoryVideo
In a new fact-check timeline that declared the lab theory was “suddenly” credible, Kessler wrote, “The Trump administration’s messaging was often accompanied by anti-Chinese rhetoric that made it easier for skeptics to ignore its claims.”
Washington Post reporter Aaron Blake wrote an analysis titled, “The vexing ‘lab leak’ theory on China and the coronavirus,” in which he defended reporters dismissing the Trump administration claims that there was a high probability the virus originated in a lab.
FORMER STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL: PROBE INTO COVID ORIGINS FOUND ALMOST NO EVIDENCE SUPPORTING NATURAL ORIGIN
“Given everything we know about how Trump handled such things, caution and skepticism were invited. That (very much warranted) caution and skepticism spilled over into some oversimplification, particularly when it came to summarizing the often more circumspect reporting,” Blake wrote.
The Washington Post’s Josh Rogin blasted reporters on Saturday for their sudden about-face, saying the facts on the ground had not changed out of the blue, and accusing them of bias, “general incompetence” and even “TDS,” short for Trump Derangement Syndrome.
President Biden ordered the intelligence community last week to investigate the origins of the virus and report back in 90 days.
#MediaBuzz - Sunday, May 30 Video
Outlets from the Washington Post and New York Times to CNN and NPR have gone from outright mockery of the idea to taking it seriously, and “fact checks” have been updated with editor’s notes about why the theory is no longer necessarily “debunked.” Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield is among the proponents of the theory, pointing to the virus’ efficient transmission among humans and the “gain of function” research at the Wuhan lab.
A video montage shows the dozens of times the media used the term “Wuhan virus” or “Chinese coronavirus” to talk about COVID-19. President Donald Trump received criticism for calling the coronavirus a “foreign virus” in his Oval Office address last night. CNN’s Jim Acosta said it was an example of “xenophobia.”
NBC’s Chuck Todd addressed the issue on “Meet The Press” Sunday, saying that “for many,” the lab leak theory got “tangled up in politics” and was conflated with one theory that the Chinese released the virus deliberately.
While interviewing former Trump Deputy National Security Adviser Matthew Pottinger, Todd repeatedly suggested anti-China rhetoric was to blame for media dismissals of the virus.
“Did in some ways, the sort of irrational attacks on China, did that slow down efforts of the intelligence community to actually do some fact-finding?” Todd asked.
“Well, look, I think what slowed down efforts more than anything else were the early statements that were published by a few scientists dismissing the idea that it could have come out of a lab,” Pottinger said. “And in fact, caricaturing people who thought that it might have come out of a lab.”
“Do you think your former boss’ statements contributed to that a little bit?” Todd asked.
WAPO COLUMNIST ROASTS MEDIA ON COVID-19 LAB THEORY ABOUT-FACE: ‘ZERO SELF AWARENESS’
“Well, you know, there are political mistakes that lead to, to, you know, trouble in government. And then there are institutional shortcomings,” Pottinger said:
The language mirrored that of figures like the New York Times’ Maggie Haberman and the Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler last week.
“I think it is important to remember that part of the issue is when this was first being reported on and discussed back a few months after the pandemic had begun, was that then President Trump and Mike Pompeo, secretary of state, suggested they’ve seen evidence that this was formed in a lab and they also suggested that is was not released on purpose. But they refused to release the evidence showing what it was and so because of that made this instantly political,” Haberman said on CNN last week.
‘Outnumbered’ slams media for 180 on Wuhan lab leak theoryVideo
In a new fact-check timeline that declared the lab theory was “suddenly” credible, Kessler wrote, “The Trump administration’s messaging was often accompanied by anti-Chinese rhetoric that made it easier for skeptics to ignore its claims.”
Washington Post reporter Aaron Blake wrote an analysis titled, “The vexing ‘lab leak’ theory on China and the coronavirus,” in which he defended reporters dismissing the Trump administration claims that there was a high probability the virus originated in a lab.
FORMER STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL: PROBE INTO COVID ORIGINS FOUND ALMOST NO EVIDENCE SUPPORTING NATURAL ORIGIN
“Given everything we know about how Trump handled such things, caution and skepticism were invited. That (very much warranted) caution and skepticism spilled over into some oversimplification, particularly when it came to summarizing the often more circumspect reporting,” Blake wrote.
The Washington Post’s Josh Rogin blasted reporters on Saturday for their sudden about-face, saying the facts on the ground had not changed out of the blue, and accusing them of bias, “general incompetence” and even “TDS,” short for Trump Derangement Syndrome.
President Biden ordered the intelligence community last week to investigate the origins of the virus and report back in 90 days.
#MediaBuzz - Sunday, May 30 Video
Outlets from the Washington Post and New York Times to CNN and NPR have gone from outright mockery of the idea to taking it seriously, and “fact checks” have been updated with editor’s notes about why the theory is no longer necessarily “debunked.” Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield is among the proponents of the theory, pointing to the virus’ efficient transmission among humans and the “gain of function” research at the Wuhan lab.
The virus’ true origins are still unknown.
Fox News’ Thomas Barrabi and Andrew Kugle contributed to this report.
David Rutz is a senior editor at Fox News. Follow him on Twitter at @davidrutz.
Fox Nation
Trump has so many wins it’s unbelievable. Even post Trump we’re finding out he’s right as Joe bungles issue after issue. The democrats are becoming anti-Americans.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/reporters-admit-dismissing-wuhan-lab-theory-republicans
Thanks guys. The public will get right on it.
“Trump has so many wins it’s unbelievable. Even post Trump we’re finding out he’s right as Joe bungles issue after issue. The democrats are becoming anti-Americans.”
All Americans have been screwed!
All that was before has been stolen from All of us.
We have failed to keep our Republic.
Welcome to the soviet,where the worst will lord over the best.
Include Jesus in your bug out bag!
They need to discuss this article: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/bies.202100015
LOL! That picture is a keeper. Thanks.
Why in Sam hell are we funding anything in communist China with hard earned American tax dollars?
That’s a huge slap in the face.
I’m glad Pompeo is still on the scene and stirring the pot. Not sure I want him for our President but really like the guy.
I’m
Ready
Colloidal silver kills em all.
Try this. Google it. Then duck duck. Or private search
See who puts up
Lies
Who puts up the truth
Silver has been killing bacteria and viruses. Mold and fungi. For 1000s of years
Wuhan Lab to receive NIH approved taxpayer funding through 2024:
https://dailycaller.com/2021/02/16/wuhan-lab-eligible-taxpayer-funding/
April report: China building many more bio-labs:
https://in.news.yahoo.com/china-build-more-bio-labs-025500510.html
The Chinese agenda is expanding. In 2016 a Chinese military official mapped the CV spread to the US:
So who thinks they only designed one virus.
Well guess what sits below three gorges dam? When lab’s time is limited.
I'm open to whatever works.
Maybe it'll be "Hiyo Silver, away!"
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