WaPo head ‘fact checker’ Glenn Kessler heckled over lab-leak flip-flop
05/26/2021 // News Editors // Views

With the COVID-19 'lab leak' theory finally gaining mainstream legitimacy following recent reports from the Wall Street Journal, and an admission by Anthony Fauci that he's now open to the possibility, formerly smug establishment 'fact checkers' are now scrambling to salvage their reputations after categorically dismissing a lab leak as a 'debunked conspiracy theory.'

(Article by Tyler Durden republished from ZeroHedge.com)

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1395163292742651904

The latest 'fact checker' to bend the knee is the Washington Post's Glenn Kessler who last year issued a snarky tweet to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) in response to Cruz accusing WaPo of "abandoning all pretenses of journalism to produce CCP propaganda" in response to Kessler promoting a video suggesting that an accidental lab leak was 'doubtful.'

"We deal in facts, and viewers can judge for themselves," Kessler sniped at Cruz.

https://twitter.com/GlennKesslerWP/status/1256267931220049920

Fast forward one year, and Kessler is the proud owner of a highly ratio'd tweet after being forced to eat crow over his 'fact checking' with a new article entitled "How the Wuhan lab-leak theory suddenly became credible."

Kessler's destroyed credibility did not go unnoticed:

https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1397173489254162435

https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1397178132105338880

May 2020: UNLIKELY https://t.co/w2CjAtFzHG

May 2021: CREDIBLE

— Razor (@hale_razor) May 25, 2021

https://twitter.com/Libercon2016/status/1397186140382371840

Brighteon.TV

https://twitter.com/gregsandiego/status/1397185793542660097

Speaking on the issue of destroyed credibility over early Wuhan reporting and CCP apologists is retired New York Times science editor, Nicholas Wade, who slammed the MSM on Sunday for failing to investigate the origins of COVID-19.

According to Wade, the media failed to "take off its political glasses" and see beyond facts which are being obscured by the Chinese Communist Party.

"'I think we see a sustained Chinese propaganda effort at work," said Wade, who was a staff writer for the Science Times section of the NYT from 1982 to 2012, in an interview with Mark Levin on "Life, Liberty & Levin."

"But, you know, more than that, it was just the blindness, if I could put it that way, of our media — we're too polarized to see scientific issues for their own sake without putting a political gloss on them," Wade continued. "We don't know for sure: The origin of the virus is just we've got these two possible scenarios. But if you look at all the evidence and ask yourself, well, which scenario explains all these facts better on present evidence, it seems, to me at least, that the lab-escape hypothesis explains it a lot better."

"But it's a sort of complicated conclusion to arrive at, and I can only assume that the media was blindsided, they didn't do the work that was necessary."

Let's not mince words Wade, the Media opposed the lab leak theory because President Trump promoted it, and the CCP has its tentacles deeply embedded in American propagandists who breathlessly peddle their talking points.

Read more at: ZeroHedge.com and Journalism.news



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