Liberal Media Scream: ‘Some things may be true even if Donald Trump said them’ – msnNOW
Alex Brandon/AP Former President Donald Trump in March 2020 spoke about the coronavirus, calling it the China virus." The media called it a fringe theory but are now embracing.
This weeks Liberal Media Scream features a top critic of the Trump years, ABCs Jonathan Karl, who finally said out loud what supporters of President Trump already knew: The White House press corps had such contempt for the president that they dismissed everything he said.
Or, in Karls words, some things may be true even if Donald Trump said them.
Karl on Sundays This Week grudgingly conceded Trump may have been correct in pointing to a lab in Wuhan, China as the source of COVID-19. He blamed Trump, not journalists, for ignoring the lab as the source because of how Trump used racist terms in describing the virus.
During the roundtable segment on Sundays This Week, after host Martha Raddatz suggested some people have egg on their face for being so dismissive of the possibility the COVID-19 virus came out of a lab in China, Karl said:
Yes, I think a lot of people have egg on their face. This was an idea that was first put forward by Mike Pompeo, secretary of State, Donald Trump. And look, some things may be true even if Donald Trump said them. And there was - because Trump was saying so much else that was just out of control, and because he was, you know, making a frankly racist appeal talking about kung-flu and the China virus, his notion that he put forward that this may have, or he said flatly that this came from that lab, was widely dismissed, but actually there is some real reason -- we dont know, by the way, we still dont know, we absolutely dont know, but now serious people are saying it needs a serious inquiry.
Media Research Center Vice President Brent Baker explains our weekly pick: Karl said out loud what everyone already presumed: So many in the Washington press corps had such contempt for President Trump that they dismissed anything he said they could characterize in their minds as coming from foul motives. Thus, journalists proudly rationalized putting their prejudices first. But that meant the media failed in its basic duty to inform the public of the best information available about the source of a pandemic which has killed 3.5 million worldwide.
Rating: FIVE out of FIVE screams.
Tags: Washington Secrets, Donald Trump, ABC This Week, Coronavirus, China, Wuhan lab
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