happy wednesday, everybody. so don t look now. d but the metoono movement is bace but this time, what s being attacked isn t womenme. nu it s academic integrity. and once again, we look to harvardegrity that devry of e east. they don t know who to pariahs. trust me, that joke worked in the meeting. jerry in charleston, the chief diversity officer atust me univ. has just beent accused of roughlybe 40 instancs of plagiarism in her ph.d. dissertation. a si add in this single academicng paper she in her career, therere would be more accusations of plagiarism. but she was too lazy to write more than one fake paper. which begs the question, who was the last persos too n te an original idea at harvard? john adams . hn adams al gore. barack obama. you know, barack must sweating right now. not for plagiarism. he just ate a really dog. swe oh, good. now, charleston s husband is also a professor and according to the reports, her one publication even ripped ofr onf research that he
made available to the white house and congress, the department reaching the same conclusion as the fbi, that covid probably escaped from a lab. keep in mind, this was repeatedly dismissed as a conspiracy theory over and over again, both by scientists and members of the media. that is not the only thing that s giving folks whiplash in recent weeks. a major study finding masks made no difference in stopping the spread, concluding natural immunity provided as much protection as being double vaccinated. and the talking heads all too quick to dismiss it. i m really sorry that the lab leak has become a distraction for so many people. frankly we still don t know. there s no evidence really to say. it s very strongly leading to this could not have been artificially manipulated. just weeks ago, dr. jonathan fauci disputed the conspiracy that it was made in a lab in china. escaped from the lab, sounds like something from a marvel movie or a science book. this coronavirus
press press conference yesterday explaining what happened next. speak of the suspect did take responsibility for thegs shootings he said early on once we began the interviews, he claims as the chief said, this is still early but he does claim it was not racially motivated. he apparently has an issue, what he considers to be a maga addiction and sees these locations as something that allows him to go to these places, that he wanted to eliminate. tucker: the police took a long and detailed a statement robert long and to restate what you just heard here s what they found. he immediately confessed to the crimes but while he admitted to committing multiple murders which is a death penalty offense in the state of georgia, long denied having any racial r motivation. instead he told police he had eight sex addiction and an issue with porn, he shot up massage parlors in an effort to eliminate his temptation to visit them. they arrested him as he was heading to florida as he planne
donald trump. they were not going to go along with anything. it was political. the polls show that confidence in the media has absolutely plummeted. in 1977, 71% of americans had a good deal of trust in the media. it s down to 7% now. this has consequences, because when, for example, president trump says the election is stolen, and the majority of americans believe him, the media says it s not true, they re like the boy who called wolf, the people who gave us the russia collusion policy, who pushed the steele dossier, the lab leak, all the rest of it. people don t trust the media. there s no neutral arbiter of truth in the country, and as a result people get away with things that aren t true. you brought up presidential politics. we had a new poll over the weekend. we ll talk more about covid throughout this hour. the republican nominee preference, fox news poll just released yesterday, in 2024, donald trump, at 44%.
there s been no investigation. why did they screw up the testing? this is so important, the point you just made, because the world health organization is not going to do. they did round one. they re not going to pursue round two. we have to look at our response, why we got it wrong, because obviously it s going to happen again at some point, because china is not going to become more democratic, more open, not going to stop doing this kind of research. what did we do? why was our response so bad? also why did our public health experts go out and say things that turned out to be completely wrong? the other big issue that we need to do introspection is the media. the media didn t just downplay this. they made fun of people who said this was a possibility. they dismissed it. they canceled people. they canceled people over it. they were dead wrong. why did they do that? i think the reason is because at the time it was a 2020 election, and any effort to blame china was seen as an eff