Tom Cotton was routinely called a racist for referring to the lab leak origin – in February of 2020. To which a variety of Democrat house organs, including the Times, responded:Pressure from who in the administration? President Trump was pretty adamant about calling it the ‘China virus.’
And why didn’t The New York Times bother sending a reporter or two to do some digging on this?
We all know why. Because if they thought it could hurt Trump to investigate, they would have.
As late as May of 2021, Apoorva Mandavilli, the Times’ replacement for veteran chief science reporter Don McNeil, who was forced off the paper during 2020’s culture war, was :“Senator Tom Cotton Repeats Fringe Theory of Coronavirus Origins,” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/17/business/media/coronavirus-tom-cotton-china.html the Times, before accusing Cotton of contributing to an “infodemic.”
“Tom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus conspiracy theory that was already debunked,” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/02/16/tom-cotton-coronavirus-conspiracy/ the Post, which later issued issued a correction that still characterized the theory as “fringe.”
The Daily Beast https://t.co/g0RHtbHbBU that he was promoting a “Coronavirus Conspiracy Theory Dismissed by Actual Scientists.”
Tom Nichols, a https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/cable-news-conservatives-distort-our-politics-and-lead-viewers-astray/ who has since been rewarded with a staff writer position at The Atlantic, approached Cotton’s comments even more . When Cotton pointed out to detractors that he had not said that the virus had originally been developed as a bioweapon by the Chinese government, and that there were several hypotheses worth exploring, Nichols responded by calling it an example of “why arguing with a conspiracy theorist rarely goes well.”
“It gives the person advancing the theory to keep repeating it ‘just as a hypothesis,’ as Cotton does here. Every time you ask him, he’ll repeat it, say it’s unlikely, and then say he’s just asking questions,” continued Nichols. One might wonder if such questions are worth being asked — especially by the press. But Nichols left that to Cotton, instead opting to the senator for doing so.
Anne Applebaum, also a staff writer for The Atlantic as well as a member of the advisory panel for the Global Disinformation Index, compared Cotton’s comments to those of “Soviet propagandists who tried to convince the world that the CIA invented AIDS.”
It cost Oregon a NC in women's bball... they beat Team USA that year.“Trust us all next time, though.”
Meanwhile my oldest daughter lost her last two seasons of lacrosse and didn’t step foot in a classroom from March 2020 to HS graduation in June 2021. We drove through to pick up her diploma well over a year after this bullshit started.
Fuck you, Oregon Democrats. Not my problem anymore.
Had I known Gene Simmons said this, I would have been less cordial showing him property. In the middle of the pandemic no less when he was trying to gtfo of Cali.
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The chicom crud broke a lot of people. Gene Simmons and Howard Stern I didn't have earmarked as authoritarian cowards. I left that up to the dazzler. Had a close friend that went Howard Stern and didn't leave his house for a few months. All groceries delivered and lots of Door Dash. He was our fraternity's wild man.Had I known Gene Simmons said this, I would have been less cordial showing him property. In the middle of the pandemic no less when he was trying to gtfo of Cali.
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He flew commercially on a death plane during the height of the pandemic because he had to conduct business in Bumblefuck, Missouri. For some reason decided to share it while he at the same was mo king others whose businesses were closed.Dazzler drove alone in his car double masked.