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
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were sold9 in this market. that, we found, was disproven by dna. but still, like you said, we may never know. so i don t thinkst the embarrassing, but i also don t think tom cotton when we talk about an investigation, i don t think that investigation needs to play out on facebook. howard: well, facebook is one of the entities, the giant social media site that literally would not even let you entertain the theory, and i guess i disagree with youen how some of this looks in retrospect. rich, how much of this had to do with the journalistic feelings about social justicesome. yeah. i think leslie just hit on the point, the presumption was if you said it came from the lab instead of from a wet market, that that somehow was anti-chinese or anti-asian-american which makes no sense. there s no connection whatsoever, you know? the ccp doesn t represent all asians or all asian-americans. it s a communist regime that evidence points that this may have leaked from the lab. we ll probably never u