Media Admits Dismissing Wuhan Connection Because it was Proposed by Trump and Company

Timothy Birdnow

Reporters admit they dismissed suggestions the Covid 19 virus came from the Wuhan lab because Trump suggested it.

From Fox News:

"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.

Is it the job of CNN and other liberal news outlets to decide what is true for us? They seem to see themselves not as reporters but as the arbiters of reality. And if Tom Cotton or Mike Pompeo - or the sinister Donald Trump - says something then it must not be true.

How many lives were lost thanks to their incredulity?

This is more proof that we need more voices and not fewer in the media.

Oh, and if this hadn't benefited the Democrats would they have not been all over this? They spent four years talking about the evil Russians and then when there is real evidence of foreign powers doing something REALLY bad they yawn, because it was hurting President Trump.

Hat tip: Roy Spencer

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