Thread by @ggreenwald

Everyone saw this happen. It was never justified to treat as proven COVID's zoonotic origin, nor any reason to mock the "lab leak" theory.

But media outlets did. That's because COVID's origin became politicized, and media outlets, as always, sided with their ideological tribe.

https://twitter.com/JosephWulfsohn/status/1632749591559917570

Add this near the top of the mountains of media scandals. On a vital question of this generation - how did COVID originate? - they claimed a certainty they lacked, and banished a theory that was fully viable, because they prioritized their partisan allegiances above reporting.

Probably the most incredible media fact -- one so shameful the NYT has to ignore it -- is that their lead COVID reporter maligned the lab leak theory as **racist**, only for key parts of the USG itself to now admit it's a likely explanation.

Fauci gave the orders; they obeyed.

To ban the "lab leak" possibility, liberals like the NYT's main COVID reporter did the only thing they do: labeled as "racist" any views that diverge from theirs.

Listen to Colbert *still* defending the wet market theory and - if one theory must be racist - tell me which it is:

When it came to COVID's origin, all that should have mattered is the truth. But since liberals can't engage in debate without calling everyone racists, somehow "lab leak" became racist.

Far more racist were liberals who blame COVID on China's primitive, filthy food markets.

Exactly. If one theory of COVID's origin had to be racist - and, for liberals, every view deviating from theirs must be - mocking the Chinese's primitive, filthy food markets was vastly worse than suspecting it leaked from a sophisticated US-supported lab

https://twitter.com/TheBrennanCo/status/1632774057694482432