This new book was written by two political science professors from Princeton University who almost certainly are left of center in their political opinions. The fallout from this book by Ivy Leaguers will be rather heavy so the most influential media organization in America is desperately scrambling to get get out in front of it.
I came across the following op-ed piece early Sunday morning in and could not believe the hubris, the gall, the utter lack of shame of the New York Times. I linked it yesterday at 10:17 AM and moved on to other subjects. Last night I discovered this article has gone viral with people everywhere lobbing scorn and contempt at the Times for their appalling display of dishonesty and hypocrisy.
Ed Driscoll at Instapundit has done yeoman’s work compiling commentary from many sources including those remembering veteran NYT science reporter Don McNeil being hounded out of his job by his colleagues because he questioned the politically mandated position the Wuhan Lung Rot had originated in some Chinese open air market. Here are a couple of choice comments:
What makes this latest spin particularly egregious is that we’ve known for years that the New York Times’ own reporter, Don McNeil, was deliberately lied to by Fauci’s gang of pay-for-play scientists—scientists who later laughed about deceiving him. You might argue this means the New York Times was itself misled, but here’s the telltale sign: they never reported that their own reporter had been lied to. The only place you could find the truth was right here on Twitter. That’s 100% proof they were in on the cover-up—maybe not McNeil himself, but certainly the New York Times as an institution. They weren’t just complicit, they were active participants in the biggest deception in history. They knowingly covered for liars, pushed false narratives, and let the world suffer the consequences. Absolutely vile.
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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:
“Senator Tom Cotton Repeats Fringe Theory of Coronavirus Origins,” lamented the Times, before accusing Cotton of contributing to an “infodemic.”
“Tom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus conspiracy theory that was already debunked,” explained the Post, which later issued issued a correction that still characterized the theory as “fringe.”
The Daily Beast declared that he was promoting a “Coronavirus Conspiracy Theory Dismissed by Actual Scientists.”
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