Coronavirus

CNBC, WashPost Push Chinese State Propaganda Targeting Elon Musk
The Washington Post and CNBC tried to wokescold Twitter owner Elon Musk for advancing the Wuhan COVID-19 lab leak theory. The outlets attempted to achieve this by pushing … Communist Chinese state propaganda.

Kimmel Blames 'Diarrhea' Tucker, Other 'Dingbats' For Anti-Asian Hate
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel does not like being reminded that he once dismissed the possibility that the COVID-19 pandemic began as a lab leak, so on his Tuesday show he compared Fox News’s Tucker Carlson to “diarrhea” while blaming him and others for anti-Asian violence in America.

The Hill: GOP 'Seizing' On Energy Department Lab Leak Conclusion
The Hill needs to find a new synonym for "pounce" since the "seized" and "jump" in their article to describe Republican reactions to the Energy Department giving credence to the Wuhan lab leak theory have already become clichés.

NY Times Whiners Hardest Hit: DOE Now Believes COVID Lab Leak Theory
The Department of Energy now believes it’s likely the Covid-19 pandemic emerged from a biolab leak in Wuhan, China, vindicating three years of dissenting conservatives who were smeared as not only wrong but racist for advocating a theory about the origins of Covid that is now the official hypothesis of yet another government agency. Yet the relatively sober new coverage belies the paper’s…

Chris Cuomo: GOP Not Serious About Getting to Bottom of COVID, I Am!
In something resembling then-Senator John Kerry’s infamous ‘I was for it before I was against’ bungle, NewsNation primetime host Chris “Fredo” Cuomo opened Monday’s edition of his eponymous show by touting how he had reported on the lab leak origin theory of COVID in 2020, before The Wall Street Journal reported the Energy Department’s findings in 2023. But he omitted how he bashed…

Disconnect: Hours After Journos Grill WH on Lab Leak, Nets Move on
With the sudden news Sunday night via The Wall Street Journal that the Biden Department of Energy believes COVID-19 came via a lab leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Monday’s White House press briefing featured one hardball after another for both Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and her main crutch John Kirby of the National Security Council. However, the “big three”…

'Stay in Your Lane!' Late Night Downplays DOE's Lab Leak Conclusion
Monday provided the late night comedians their first opportunity to react to the Wall Street Journal’s reporting that the Department of Energy has concluded that the COVID-19 pandemic began as a lab leak. Of those who covered the story, most dismissed it due to the DOE having “low confidence” in its conclusion.

NBC Notes Conservative 'Frustration' in Wuhan Lab Leak Vindication
On Sunday, The Wall Street Journal published a bombshell report that the United States Energy Department under President Joe Biden concluded that the COVID-19 pandemic was caused by a laboratory leak in Wuhan, China. While this may be news to some Americans, conservatives have believed this what the most likely cause of the pandemic for the past three years. During this time they were…

NewsBusters Podcast: Biden WH Forces Press to Consider Lab Leak Theory
Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro and I were back behind the microphones to kick off a new week, which began with a bombshell that the Biden Department of Energy believes it’s likely the COVID-19 pandemic was borne out of a lab leak. We also discussed the initial media coverage as well as one new tidbit about the Asbury revival, the latest silliness from The View, and ABC becoming a…

Hysterical: WashPost Cry-Bully Blames Capitalism for Child Depression
The Washington Post’s in-house cry-bully Taylor Lorenz made a hysterical attempt to blame capitalism and climate change for child depression.

MSNBC's Melber Struggles To Defend Network's Mueller, COVID Reporting
HBO Real Time host Bill Maher was discussing Fox News and its lawsuit with Dominion on Friday with MSNBC’s The Beat host Ari Melber when he asked if MSNBC also simply tells its viewers what it wants to hear, “Can you honestly say MSNBC doesn't do some of that?”

NYC Misinfo Response Unit Reportedly Advised Big Tech What to Censor
The New York City Health Department reportedly ran a censorship unit during the COVID-19 pandemic and the health commissioner pressured tech platforms to censor so-called “misinformation.”

NBC Warns Biden Is in a Room Filled With GOP and No COVID Rules
Moments before President Biden stepped onto the floor of the House Tuesday night, NBC senior Capitol Hill correspondent Garrett issued a word of warning about what he would be stepping into: a possible “lively room” will with Republicans and no COVID restrictions.