Conservative radio host Dan Bongino says liberal media outlets should be held responsible for failing to report that the coronavirus outbreak could have started at a virology lab in Wuhan, China.
“I don’t want to hear another peep from a liberal or a talking head media buffoon ever again about a conspiracy theory, OK?” Bongino said during a guest appearance on Fox News’s The Five.
On the Friday broadcast, Bongino said it was the duty of legacy media outlets to report the facts but that the “liberal media ecosystem” chose to ignore them.
“They never produce evidence about any of this stuff,” he said, pointing to other theories. “What’s even more infuriating about this is anyone with common sense who is outside the liberal media ecosystem would’ve seen from the start that this was probably a lab leak.”
Bongino then said several “coincidences” were accepted by the “liberal media” to cover for the Chinese government.
“This has got to be one of the most infuriating stories in modern history, and it’s all the media’s fault,” the former Secret Service agent said.
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According to Bongino, U.S. news outlets echoed propaganda directly from the Chinese government that the coronavirus outbreak stemmed from bat soup at a Chinese wet market.
“One more quick thing on this, what was incredible about it is when the Chinese government put out propaganda — ‘Don’t you dare say that this was a lab leak. Somebody ate bat soup.’ — and then, people commented about people eating bat soup. Everybody was called a racist for even commenting on bat soup for a story that was obviously Chinese propaganda. This is an infuriating mess. The media should wrap up shop and go home.”
Earlier this week, President Joe Biden ordered a commission into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic to clarify whether it “emerged from human contact with an infected animal or from a laboratory accident.”
“I have now asked the intelligence community to redouble their efforts to collect and analyze information that could bring us closer to a definitive conclusion and to report back to me in 90 days,” Biden said Wednesday.
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Intelligence agencies have traced back the first known cases to the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019 but lack substantial evidence into its specific origins.
“As part of that report, I have asked for areas of further inquiry that may be required, including specific questions for China,” the president added.
Many prominent Democrats initially dismissed the theory that the coronavirus was manmade but are now open to the idea, including Biden’s virus expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, who recently said he is “not convinced” that the virus developed naturally.
