coronavirus overtaking wuhan, china. what do we do? oh, you know who we could ask? the wuhan novel respiratory coronavirus lab. the disease [laughter] is the same name as the lab are. [laughter] that s just, that s just a little too weird, don t you think? howard: here s i stewart on his apple f the show reflecting on the backlash. i thought it was a pretty good can bit that expressed kind of how i felt. and the two things that came out of it were i m racist against asian people and how dare i align myselfs with the alt-right. howard: unreal. i bring this up, of course, because parts of the biden administration now believe the kid thely virus did originate from that wuhan lap lab. we don t know for sure, but the media and social media played a key role in stifling any debate. i m howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. howard: ahead, brian kilmeade on his interview with ron desantis and the house investigating george santos. one politician who got beat up pretty badly
disproportionate, you know, situations for african-americans. what he clearly meant was he s angry and bitter about things that happened in the his life, and he s built up, and he s blaming an entire community and warning everybody of his skin color to stay away from that community, and that s racism 101. howard: right. and those jobs were a long time ago. in fact, adams lost some subscribers to dilbert, you know, the final reason is because his distributer dropped him along with his agent. when he created a character called dave the black engineer to mock workplace diversity. but i still come back to, and you ouch thed on it, rich touch thed the on it, rich, why scott adams would do this. he seems to be blaming the media and reporters as a last resort. yeah. and, you know, it could have been that he just figured, well, i have this independent platform, i ve made a lot of money and i can just comy own thing. but clearly he regrets it, and it s a huge reputational hit,
coronavirus overtaking wuhan, china. what do we do? oh, you know who we could ask? the wuhan novel respiratory coronavirus lab. the disease [laughter] is the same name as the lab are. [laughter] that s just, that s just a little too weird, don t you think? howard: here s i stewart on his apple f the show reflecting on the backlash. i thought it was a pretty good can bit that expressed kind of how i felt. and the two things that came out of it were i m racist against asian people and how dare i align myselfs with the alt-right. howard: unreal. i bring this up, of course, because parts of the biden administration now believe the kid thely virus did originate from that wuhan lap lab. we don t know for sure, but the media and social media played a key role in stifling any debate. i m howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz.
talking about the possibility of a lab leak at wuhan, and you say much of that had to do with donald trump. explain. yeah. well, first of all, the media s supposed to report the information. it s not supposed to try to control the information. and that s what we ve seen in the recent years, and this is perhaps the most flagrant and worse example of that. and one of the reasons that the media kid this, they just assumed because they don t like and distrust donald trump that he must have been wrong when he suggested this was at least an open question. and one of the things you should learn as a journalist from, like, two weeks after you puck up your pad and paper and start reporting is that people you dislike or distrust might occasionally be right. and it s bizarre, howie, that we have to say this to journalists, but they should have kept an open mind, and they didn t at all on this. howard: right. and sometimes if you re political your political adversaries support one view, you mi
howard: desantis won that the round, and the cbs program unfairly ed admitted his comments. the governor s press secretary, brian griffin, told me the downside of his battles with the press is the public if isn t being served by journalists who don t like him. but when he faces ideological attacks from the national media, things may play out differently. brian, what do do you make of of the ongoing warfare between ron desantis and the press and does that help him in a republican primary? i think it helps him overall, howie. everything you pointed out, he s been right. if there was a time he was wrong, that s when the problem is, that s when the panels come out and say ron desantis is just angry or trying to be like president trump. but 60 minutes thing, the other situation with going against the ap courses and the curriculum to take these ap courses to get that college scholarship, he is not existence black history,