Pardon the whiplash! It feels like the media suddenly decided the theory saying the deadly coronavirus leaked from a lab in Wuhan is now considered plausible, when, in 2020, they aggressively dismissed it as a "fringe theory."
What Kessler leaves unsaid is all the vicious media rhetoric against Cotton for his merely demanding China should have to answer for this. He does admit that The Trump administration s messaging was often accompanied by anti-Chinese rhetoric that made it easier for skeptics to ignore its claims. Tom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus conspiracy that was already debunked, warned a headline from his own Washington Post. Senator Tom Cotton Repeats Fringe Theory of Conspiracy Origins, screamed The New York Times. Tom Cotton is playing a dangerous game with his coronavirus speculation, wrote Chris Cillizza on CNN. com.
Kessler also left out of his timeline his own tweet in which he called the theory virtually impossible, dismissed Sen. Ted Cruz and promoted his shop s explanatory video on Wuhan: I fear @tedcruz missed the scientific animation in the video that shows how it is virtually impossible for this virus jump from the lab. Or the many interviews with actual scien
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Pardon the whiplash! It feels like the media suddenly decided the theory that the deadly coronavirus leaked from a lab in Wuhan is now considered plausible when it was aggressively dismissed by the press as a “fringe theory” in 2020.
It s not a mystery why this happened. The Democrats thought the coronavirus was going to be that “silver bullet” that would remove Trump from office. Their arrogant belief that Trump was an ignoramus led them to shame anyone or any theory that Trump endorsed on the year’s biggest story. They were willing to embrace the supposed authority of communist China, of the China-enabling World Health Organization, and the “prevailing opinion” of science journals and magazines..that endorsed Biden for president.