The newfound grudging respect for coverage of the Wuhan Lab Leak story allows many of us to step back and walk down memory lane to recall how the corporate propaganda press vilified anyone who dared mention the narrative over the past year. Especially delicious are the recent "corrections" to stories from last year that attempted to "fact-check" officials who pointed out major issues with the official storyline generated by the communist Chinese government.
When Sen. Tom Cotton and Sec. Mike Pompeo challenged Beijing authoritarians over their obstruction, lack of candor, and outright deceit in the critical early months of the pandemic, "fact-checkers" called them liars. Their source? The propagandists in Beijing.
These shills for the communist authoritarian's who still revere Mao have been dragged quite a bit in the past several days, and rightly so. Remarkably, rather than taking the "L," they're attempting to push back and sanctimoniously still claim they're the only ones here adhering to virtuous journalistic standards.
Take the Washington Post's "Pinnochio Guy" Glenn Kessler. This is a grown man whose primary job is to run cover for Democrats by assigning cartoon characters to people he has deemed as "liars" in the media or politics.
As critics were taking a bit of a victory lap over the literal rewriting of history now that it seems pretty clear that the early censorship of Wuhan lab leak investigations was misguided at best, totalitarian censorship at worst, Kessler tried to indignantly defend himself.
