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NEW NewsBusters Podcast: Night Crew Hosting and Dr. Fauci's E-Mails
Happy Friday NewsBusters readers! Today’s edition of the NewsBusters podcasts holds a special treat for listeners. With executive editor Tim Graham away on a well-deserved summer vacation, the NewsBusters night crew has been left in charge! That’s right, managing editor Curtis Houck and I will be manning the helm for the next couple of weeks.
After Emails, ‘View’ Sneers at GOP’s ‘Witch Hunt’ Against Dr. Fauci
Dr. Anthony Fauci is under renewed scrutiny after a Freedom of Information Act released thousands of his emails from the early days of the pandemic, raising questions about Fauci’s cozy relationship with China and conflicting messaging on masks, among other controversies. But Fauci’s friends at The View refused to criticize the public figure, and attacked Republicans, instead.
FNC's Heinrich Ends Briefing Blackout, Asks Psaki About Fauci E-Mails
A day after not one reporter called on during Wednesday’s White House press briefing brought up newly-released e-mails from Dr. Tony Fauci, three reporters stepped up on Thursday’s episode to ask Press Secretary Jen Psaki about the damning e-mails from the early days of the coronavirus pandemic and, on a related note, investigating the origins of the virus in Wuhan.
SHOCK: MSNBC Presses Fauci on Lab Leak (But Scarborough Rescues Him)
You don't see that too often. Someone actually demanded answers from Anthony Fauci. The doctor joined the hosts of Morning Joe to discuss the emails that were leaked yesterday. To say he dodged these questions is an understatement.
Soros-Funded Fact-Checkers: ‘No Evidence’ COVID Came from Chinese Lab
So much for the facts. A U.K.-based fact-checking outlet financed by liberal billionaire George Soros tried as early as February 2020, to swat down the idea that COVID-19 had leaked from a laboratory in communist China.
CBS Floats Crackpot ‘Chip’ Covid Theory, No Time for Wuhan Lab Origin
All three morning shows on Thursday were given interview time with CDC Director Doctor Rochelle Walensky, yet only ABC’s Good Morning America bothered to commit journalism and ask about the possibility that the coronavirus originated in a Wuhan lab. NBC’s Today and CBS This Morning skipped the subject of whether the media has been wrong for a year in dismissing the…
Former Fox Reporter Schools Fauci in Tense Interview on His E-Mails
On Wednesday night, NewsNation fill-in host and former Fox News correspondent Leland Vittert did what few national news outlets have done in subjecting the NIH’s Dr. Tony Fauci to a challenging interview. In this case, he focused on this week’s dump of thousands of Fauci e-mails from the early days of the coronavirus pandemic that showed a woeful lack of judgement, distrust of masks, and an…
Nets CENSOR Scandalous Fauci E-Mails Showing What He Really Knew
Thanks to the use of the Freedom of Information Act, the American people gained access this week to thousands of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s e-mails and revelations that he knew the National Institutes of Health may have funded gain-of-function research for coronaviruses, that COVID-19 may have come from a lab, and that masks didn’t work. And in an attempt to cover up the truth, ABC’s World News…
Stooges: WH Reporters Refuse to Ask Psaki About Bombshell Fauci Emails
Continuing to show their undying fealty to the altar of Dr. Tony Fauci, the White House press corps refused to ask Press Secretary Jen Psaki a single question during Wednesday’s briefing about the bombshell trove of emails from the NIH official from the early moments of the pandemic. It was on the mind of at least one reporter in the room as our friend Amber Athey of The Spectator had…
Recent Survey Questions Conflate COVID-19 Lab Leak Theory with QAnon
A recent survey conducted by the leftist Public Religion Research Institute associated the COVID-19 laboratory leak hypothesis with QAnon conspiracy theories.
NY Times Memorial Day: Social Gatherings Unpatriotic (Except Protests)
The Memorial Day edition of the New York Times editorial page led with an obnoxious, elitist essay by Margaret Renkl, a contributing opinion writer based in Nashville. Her attempt at a Memorial Day tribute was rendered worthless by an extraneous condemnation of her fellow Americans for not doing enough to stop the coronavirus, hidden under the benign title “A New Vision of National…
Jon Karl Struggles to Admit Trump Could Be Right About Pandemic Origin
ABC News’ Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl gave the most mockable admission on this front, while on ABC’s political roundtable, This Week, yesterday. Karl struggled to admit Trump could actually be right about the lab leak theory, even as he justified the media mocking him for it a year ago.
'Competence Is at the Helm': MSNBC Regular's Laugh Line of the Day
In a line that was one where you had to rewind the show a few times to make sure it was real, MSNBC regular and Princeton professor Eddie Glaude Jr. appeared on Monday's Morning Joe and, in trying to explain Americans' relatively positive mood nowadays, got off this laugh line: "We cannot underestimate the importance of competence...Competence is actually at the helm."
