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
howard: ahead, brian kilmeade on his interview with ron desantis and the house investigating george santos. one politician who got beat up pretty badly over covid in early 200 the was republican senator tom coton the, though looking back his remarks were rather cautious tom cotton. we don t have ed that this disease originated there, but because of china s duplicity and dishonesty from the beginning, we need to at least ask the question to see what the evidence says. howard: washington post headline: tom cotton keeps repeating the coronavirus conspiracy theory that was already debunked, later correcting that to fringe theory. the l.a. beast said it was a conspiracy theory dismissed by actual scientists. another likened the comments to soviet propagandists who tried to convince the world that the
that phrases disappeared a lab it sounds like marvel movie or comic book. when senator tom cotton called for investigation. the washington post said tom cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus conspiracy theory already debunked. the new york times. senator tom cotton repeats fringe theory of coronavirus origins. not all journalists were so dismissive. it was the blindness if i could put it that way of our media we are too polarized to see scientific issues for their own sake without putting a political gloss on them. don mcneil wrote a 2020 piece new coronavirus is clearly not a lab leak scientists say. the paper spiked it because of its own doubts. when the wall street journal reported last year on emerging circumstantial evidence of a chinese lab leak and president biden ordered an intelligence probe, which turned out to be inconclusive, the media s rah approach shifted. facebook lifted its ban. the washington post fact
there is something nih can do to help put down this destructive conspiracy. fauci s reply, do nothing. it is a shiny object that will go away in time. most of the mainstream media minimized the lab leak theory and facebook barred any postings on it. when president trump expressed support for the idea, this piece in the guardian was typical. nobody is buying trumps wuhan lab theory. a lot of people on the right love that phrase. escape from the lab. senator tom cotton said tom cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus conspiracy theory that was already debunked. the new york times, senator tom cotton repeats fringe theory of coronavirus origins. not all journalists were so dismissive. it was the blindness of if i can put it that way, of our media. we are to polarize to see scientific issues for their own