economic advisor to donald trump. donald trump was famously and constantly combative with the press, what would have been the media reaction if he told a cnn reporter you re in the wrong business? what do you think? they would have gotten nuts. they always went nuts. you know, look, my thought here is president biden who i think had a very bad week in almost every single area, nonetheless if he had saved all that vehemence and fight for vladimir putin instead of this girl, katlyn collins, we would have been better off. trump would never have gotten away with that. trump could have apologized 10 times and not one in the mainstream media would have reported it. howie: the former president called into fox the other night, the night of the meeting with putin, and he said this. i guess the overall is we didn t get anything.
if it was said on facebook, a month before, your post would have been deleted. colbert didn t seem happy and neither did his audience. i m going to disappoint you by not disagreeing with guy. howie: be my guest. i know jon stewart. i love him. i love what he does something like this, goes against conventional wisdom. he did a story on the cross fire show on cnn, on live tv, by pointing out the contradiction. he s not the first person, the first comedian to point out the lab theory, there may be something to it. bill marr had a government health expert on his show, happened to mention it and you could hear an audible gasp in the audience. because this bit of unconventional wisdom, wuhan, there may be something to it,
journalism it is that journalists in the country refuse to seriously consider and give real treatment to a viable theory about where a virus started that has killed 600,000 people in this country. it was not allowed. you could not speak of it. if you did or like senator tom cotton you were raked over the coles. that is an unbelievable failure of journalism over the last year. i m glad that jon stewart showed up and did what he did. i think it shines spotlight, it s an awkward thing for the media that participated in basically this coverup to the delight of china. that is the opposite of journalism and i think one of the biggest failures of the industry in recent memory. howie: some liberals went nuts online, calling stewart a racist, anti-chinese, all because he broke with the media s disdain for this theory which president biden has ordered a review of this by intelligence agencies. final thoughts.
just to put it into context, i was referring to this remarkable development whereby den released a where biden released a highly classified document regarding the 16 most sensitive infrastructure sectors. now, that is a gift to the hackers in russia. that is target practice to the hackers in china and target practice to the hackers in iran and probably north korea as well. that should never have been put out and incidentally here too he got nothing for it. and it wasn t a complete list. that s the irony of it. it didn t include space. it didn t include oceans. it didn t include other things. it s like as our own john roberts reported in geneva, you have a nice block of homes, you can rob these houses but you can t rob these houses? huh? i don t get that. and he got nothing for it. this was a major blunder on biden s part. howie: major blunder. all right. you said on your show
reinforced on the left and among many of us in the middle and sometimes we go overboard. we should always be open to any option here. howie: i interviewed jon stewart many times. he does delight in this sort of thing and doesn t feel bound by the normal restrictions that, quote, journalists do. plenty of conservative pundits who rip jon stewart for being a left-leaning comedian, are treating him with strange new respect. the national review called this a turning point for comedy and for america. well, yeah, because he said something that i think was clarifying, that bucked his own side. so that s interesting. it sort of adds an element to the story that will get your attention. but you howie, to broaden it out beyond the comedic aspect of this, i want the audience to think about what a disgrace to