In the early days of the pandemic, the World Health Organization was caught covering for the murderous Chinese regime by pushing false information about how the virus spread. And ever since, the liberal media have been trying to downplay their lies, even going so far as to tout how China was shipping supplies around the world (they were defective), and complained when then-President Trump withdrew the United States the WHO.
But on Tuesday, ABC and CBS pushed a WHO claim that the coronavirus didn’t originate from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The assertion was dubious at best considering we knew that WHO scientists were only recently allowed into the country (over a year after the virus started spreading), they were being closely watched and followed by Chinese officials, and China had been trying to rewrite the fact the virus came from their country.
And according to a Fox News Channel segment on Special Report, there were no American scientists on the WHO team and even some Biden administration officials weren’t buying their findings.
ABC’s coverage was the most disturbing because they even seemed to suggest the virus didn’t come from China at all. “A team of scientists from the World Health Organization allowed into China. They now say it is, quote, ‘extremely unlikely,’ that that virus escaped from that Wuhan research lab,” reported ABC’s World News Tonight anchor David Muir.
Adding: “They believe it was passed from animals to humans, possibly from bats or carried into Wuhan in frozen meat from elsewhere in Asia. The White House tonight says it supports this investigation but will wait for the final findings.”
CBS Evening News was even less critical of the report, with anchor Norah O’Donnell quickly noting: “Tonight, investigators with the World Health Organization are shooting down the theory that the coronavirus was leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China. They say the virus likely jumped to humans from an animal.” She then moved on to talking about the shortages in the vaccine supply.
NBC Nightly News didn’t cover the WHO’s claims at all.
Meanwhile, Fox News national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin pointed to a “fact sheet” former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo put out shortly before leaving. “Several lab researchers had COVID-like symptoms in the fall of 2019,” she paraphrased the sheet. “Research at the lab on bat coronavirus since 2016. And the removal of some of that research along with new evidence of secret military activity at the Wuhan lab involving animal experiments.”
Griffin also had soundbites of Biden administration officials not immediately willing to support the WHO’s supposed findings:
PRESS SEC. JEN PSAKI: We haven't looked at the data specifically ourselves. So, we would like to do that. We’ve express our concerns regarding the need for full transparency and access from China, and the WHO to all information regarding the earliest days of the pandemic.
NED PRICE (State Department spokesperson): Well, I think the jury is still out. I think clearly the Chinese, at least heretofore, and had not offered the requisite transparency that we need.
In closing out her report, Griffin recalled that China was evening trying to claim the virus came from the U.S.
How long until the liberal media tried to push that too?
This blind acceptance of the WHO’s claims and cover for China was made possible because of lucrative sponsorships from WeatherTech on ABC and LeafFilter on CBS. Their contact information is linked so you can tell them about the biased news they’re funding. CBS Evening News has also asked people “text Norah” at this number: (202) 217-1107.
The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
Fox News Channel’s Special Report
February 9, 2021
6:16:53 p.m. EasternBRET BAIER: Meantime, the World Health Organization is dismissing the idea that coronavirus leaked from a Chinese lab setting off a chain of events that has no claim to more than 2 million lives worldwide. But not everyone is convinced by what’s coming out of the WHO and that investigation. National security correspondent Jennifer Griffin joins us live from the Pentagon with details. Good evening, Jennifer.
JENNIFER GRIFFIN: Good evening, Bret. The delegation, which did not include American scientists, said at a press briefing in Wuhan today, the coronavirus is extremely unlikely to have leaked from a Chinese lab and most likely and most likely jumped from an animal outside the lab. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo questioned whether the WHO had enough access from the Chinese government.
[Cuts to video]
MIKE POMPEO: I look forward to seeing the results. I continue to know there were significant evidence, Bill, that this may have well come from that laboratory.
BILL HEMMER: So, nothing has changed in your view that it came from the lab?
POMPEO: Nothing.
[Cuts back to live]
GRIFFIN: Five days before leaving the State Department, Pompeo quietly issued a fact sheet accusing China of deceit and disinformation, hinting the virus originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology, based on three pieces of partial evidence.
Several lab researchers had COVID-like symptoms in the fall of 2019. Research at the lab on bat coronavirus since 2016. And the removal of some of that research along with new evidence of secret military activity at the Wuhan lab involving animal experiments.
[Cuts to video]
PRESS SEC. JEN PSAKI: We haven't looked at the data specifically ourselves. So, we would like to do that. We’ve express our concerns regarding the need for full transparency and access from China, and the WHO to all information regarding the earliest days of the pandemic.
NED PRICE (State Department spokesperson): Well, I think the jury is still out. I think clearly the Chinese, at least heretofore, and had not offered the requisite transparency that we need.
[Cuts back to live]
GRIFFIN: Senior U.S. Defense officials tell me they have not seen intelligence to suggest the virus came from the Wuhan lab. China's ambassador to the U.S. added to the finger-pointing this weekend suggesting the virus may have originated in the U.S., requesting access to American labs.
BAIER: Jennifer Griffin live at the Pentagon. Jennifer, thank you.
