Flashback: Politico Harshly Derided Wuhan Lab Leak Theory as Like a 'Dystopian Movie Plot'

Newsbusters ^ | July 9, 2021 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

On Friday, Politico published an article, "POLITICO-Harvard poll: Most Americans believe Covid leaked from lab," which revealed the results of a poll showing that a majority of both Republicans and Democrats now view the COVID-19 virus as having leaked from the Wuhan lab rather than it spreading naturally from a bat. The subtitle of the story, "Opinion on the lab leak scenario, once seen as a fringe theory, has shifted dramatically" is interesting because Politico itself was at the forefront of the many media outlets branding the lab leak scenario as "fringe."

The reason for Politico's over the top harsh branding of the lab leak theory appears to have been primarily political as you can see in their April 17, 2020 story, "‘Biological Chernobyl’: How China’s secrecy fueled coronavirus suspicions." The political branding of the theory as "fringe" begins with the subtitle, "U.S. officials are still debating whether the virus emerged from a Chinese lab. But that’s not stopping Fox News." And from there it is all downhill for Politico.

[PJ-Comix]

I think it was Don Jr. who said that if you wait just 6 months, what was once derided as a conspiracy theory by liberals becomes fact. BTW, same thing seems to be happening with the idea that there were undercover FBI agents at the 1/6 Capitol breach. Yesterday I saw Saagar Enjeti and Krystal Ball saying that there is now proof that there was at least one undercover government agent there. Soon that one will turn into a few followed by MANY.

[qaz123]

If folks don’t see that the Left is trying to create a dystopian society here in the US, they’re not paying attention.

DC will be Panem. And certain cities, will have satellites. Heavily armed and protected satellites.

And all the liberal, cannon fodder think they’ll be allowed in and won’t realize they’re not allowed until it’s too late.

[fieldmarshaldj]

It wasn’t leaked. It was deliberately unleashed by Red China.

[MarvinStinson]

Talented and fair journalists like George Stephanopoulos have shown that the once hard and fast line between careers in politics and journalism is obsolete. In any event, POLITICO already employs some people who have worked in politics prior to coming to journalism, or who wrote for strongly ideological platforms before reorienting themselves to straight-news journalism.

by JOHN F. HARRIS Politico senior editor
https://www.politico.com/story/2010/02/why-politico-let-jonathan-allen-come-back-033253