This week’s liberal media cry features a prominent critic of the Trump years, ABC’s Jonathan Karl, who nevertheless said out loud what President Donald Trump’s supporters already knew: The White House media had such contempt for the president that they rejected everything he did. had said.
Or, in Karl’s words, “some things would possibly be true, even if Donald Trump said them. “
Karl grudgingly admitted Sunday that Trump might have been right to point to a lab in Wuhan, China, as the source of COVID-19. He blamed Trump, not journalists, for ignoring the lab as a source because of how Trump used “racist” terms to describe the virus.
During this week’s roundtable segment, after host Martha Raddatz warned that “some other people have an egg on their face” for being so dismissive of the option that the COVID-19 virus came here from a Chinese lab, Karl said:
“yes, I think a lot of other people have an egg on their face. This is a concept he first introduced through Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State Donald Trump. And look, some things would possibly be true, even if Donald Trump. “And there, because Trump said so many other things that were just out of control, and because he made, you know, a downright racist call when he talks about ”kung-flu” and ”Chinese virus”. , his perception that he argued that he possibly would have done so, or that he said categorically that he came here from this largely rejected lab. But in fact, there’s a genuine explanation why, we don’t know, along the way, we still don’t know, we don’t know at all, but now other serious people are saying that serious investigation is needed. “
Media Research Center Vice President Brent Baker explains our weekly choice: “Karl said out loud what everyone already assumed: so many members of the Washington press had so much contempt for President Trump that they rejected everything he said they could characterize in their minds as something that was coming. “Therefore, the hounds rationalized with pride by putting their prejudices first. But this meant that the media had failed in its basic duty to inform the public of the most productive data available about the origin of a pandemic that has killed 3. 5 million people. other people around the world. “
Note: FIVE of FIVE calls.