There are some things you can and cannot say on CNN. For example, you can’t say “China virus,” but you can say “bullshit.”
Prime-time host Chris Cuomo literally said the word “bullshit” in one of his lengthy monologues just two weeks ago, and it seemed to bother no one. But White House trade adviser Peter Navarro nearly had his mic cut after he dared point out accurately that COVID-19 originated in China.
“The Chinese Communist Party infected this nation with a deadly virus,” Navarro went to say before New Day co-host John Berman muttered, “No.”
Berman then referred to “this virus” before Navarro interjected, “It’s the China virus, the CCP virus.”
Berman had had enough. “You know what? We let you say that once,” he said. “Peter, please don’t say it again on this show. I know why you’re saying it.”
Navarro laughed — what else could you do in that situation? — and said, again, “China virus.”
With that, Berman thanked Navarro for joining the program, closing with a claim that Asian Americans had told him they had been harassed over being associated with the virus.
Evidence that any Asian Americans have been attacked in relation to the virus is, at best, scant. But even so, it doesn’t change the reality that the virus did start in Wuhan, China.
U.S. intelligence has stated as far back as April that the virus “originated in China.”
If the national media were more interested in reporting the truth rather than pushing a moral cause, they wouldn’t find offense in stating simple facts.
