Conservative media outlet ‘The Daily Caller’ is under fire for an interview with Republican Senator Tom Cotton in which the Arkansas Representative stated it was wholly appropriate to question whether the coronavirus pandemic originated from a biochemical lab in Wuhan, China.
Noting the Chinese government’s dishonesty surrounding the outbreak from its earliest stages, Cotton also criticized the media for their inclination to accept Chinese propaganda at face value.
“The mainstream media are largely apologists for Chinese communists and they will accept Chinese communist propaganda,” Cotton said. “They immediately try to accuse anyone who raises these reasonable questions as conspiracy theorists that are accusing China of creating a biological weapon.”
From the Daily Caller:
Cotton, who was one of the first senators to raise the alarm about coronavirus, was widely criticized in February for suggesting that the novel virus could have been leaked from a biochemical lab situated just a few miles away from the Wuhan wet market which at the time was generally thought to be the outbreak of the virus.
The lab, run by the Wuhan Institute of Virology, has a history of studying coronaviruses isolated from bats. In 2017, a lead researcher at the institute, Zhengli Shi, announced that she and her colleagues had discovered 11 new strains of coronaviruses in horseshoe bats that when put together contain the genes necessary to make a SARS coronavirus similar that of the 2003 outbreak.
“The reason I have raised these questions from the very beginning is because of China’s statements and their actions,” Cotton told the Daily Caller. “After concealing the virus for many weeks in December and then minimizing its severity for most of January, they then peddle an origin story about the food market in Wuhan.”
“Given their dishonesty and the proximity of these labs, which we know were working with coronaviruses, it is only reasonable and responsible for us to ask the question and demand the answers.”
The lab leak theory grew new legs on Tuesday evening after Fox News host Tucker Carlson covered the study from two Chinese researchers that reported that horseshoe bats, which are suspected to be the source of the novel coronavirus, are not found within 600 miles of Wuhan. According to interviews conducted by the researchers, the bat was “never a food source in the city, and no bat was traded in the market.”
Regardless of how the COVID-19 outbreak began and who is to blame, WIBC host Tony Katz told listeners Friday that we can no longer deny that the age of the bioweapon is here.
“The era of the bioweapon has begun because regardless of how COVID-19 began, there are terrorists looking at this and coming to the realization that this is a good way to hurt the infidel.
“But here’s the bigger question: If a disease beginning to ravage the people in your nation and you willfully choose to cover it up, manipulate data and withhold data, what is the difference at that point between a leak and a bio-weapon?”
Click below to hear Tony’s full commentary.
https://omny.fm/shows/tony-katz-and-the-morning-news/the-age-of-the-bio-weapon-is-here
