“FACT CHECKERS” EAT CROW ON COVID ORIGIN
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
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🗓️ 30 May 2021
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| 0:00.0 | Let's go on a little walk here and the first clip we're going to talk about is from former FDA director Scott Gottlieb who took an early leave in 2019 to ride the revolving door into Pfizer's board of directors, but something interesting happened in the last year of this COVID response. |
| 0:16.0 | He's taking a role as kind of a media talking head to tell everyone something they probably already know, but only when it's okay to stick his neck out and do it. Check out this clip. |
| 0:26.0 | I think the challenge right now is that the the side of the ledger that supports that thesis that this came from a zoonotic source from an animal source hasn't budged and the side of the ledger that suggested this could have come out of a lab has been continuing to grow. |
| 0:39.0 | So people a year ago who said, well, this probably came from nature, it's really unlikely it came from a lab. Maybe a year ago that kind of a statement made a lot of sense because that was the more likely scenario. |
| 0:50.0 | But we haven't found the intermediate host. We found no evidence of this virus in an animal anywhere the closest homology we found is a pangolin outbreak that occurred in March of 2019. |
| 1:01.0 | But we haven't found the true source of the virus and with murs and SARS at this point with those outbreaks, those epidemics, we had found the intermediate host. |
| 1:11.0 | And the question for a lot of people is going to be when are too many coincidences too much when does it just seem that there's too many things suggesting that this could have come out of a lab. |
| 1:20.0 | You guys tell in this story about January of 2020. |
| 1:24.0 | Yeah, I would like to say, hey, hey, Scott, how about the people that were looking at this thing from a lab origin and doing actual research around that time and about January 30th, 2020. |
| 1:33.0 | I believe the episode was that we were talking about it, which caused us to get our YouTube channel removed. We talk about this almost every week now just because it bears repeating. |
| 1:42.0 | But that's what people received back then for questioning or investigating as journalists, the lab origins and now it's kind of a topic that we're going to talk about. |
| 1:51.0 | So the Wall Street Journal just broke a story recently. |
| 1:54.0 | And this is concerning. This is the most recent situation with the slab origin theory. They're talked about intelligence US intelligence on six staff at Wuhan lab feels debate on COVID-19 origins. |
| 2:05.0 | And in this article, it says three researchers from China's Wuhan Institute of Virology became sick enough in November 2019 that they sought hospital care according to a previously undisclosed US intelligence report. |
| 2:17.0 | It's a big stuff there, but something interesting is happening this week. The name calling stopped the no more no more conspiracy theory names debunked debunked conspiracy theories are being thrown around. |
| 2:29.0 | People are actually taking this thing seriously. And no one more than Anthony Fauci never a person to not want to get into the media narrative, even if it means flip flapping on something he said in the past, he's entered the mix as well to talk about this. |
| 2:44.0 | And he says it's not convinced. So this is an article out of the hill and it says Fauci bomb shell. He's not convinced COVID-19 developed naturally outside Wuhan lab. |
| 2:54.0 | This was talked about by him in a closed door tickets only meeting with who other than politifact sponsored by politifact in the pointer institute who are the fact checkers and they were there as well. |
| 3:06.0 | Well, six days after this meeting that Fauci was in, we have politifact come out and change their fact check. I thought facts were set in stone according to them. |
| 3:16.0 | So this is the article on that politifact forced to pull fact check that debunked lab leak origin of COVID fascinating stuff show the fact checkers, but now what's really happening and really this to me, this is the biggest story this week is the pile on is happening. |
| 3:32.0 | So we're getting people like Glenn Greenwald, longtime journalist who exposed Snowden, he went to, he went to Twitter and said, quote, fact checking like virtually everything the corporate media does to feign superiority as a total scam. |
| 3:46.0 | Just another way for them to smuggle their own ideologically driven disinformation and conspiracy theories under a more elevated facade. |
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