Name: The Media Keeps Trying to "Debunk" Wuhan Lab Theory
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Media Keeps Trying to "Debunk" Wuhan Lab Theory' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-04-02. Transcript available.

The Joe Rogan Experience.
There's no part of the mainstream that looks at all credible to me anymore.
Well, it's real wacky now, right?
And here's a wacky one, where the New York Times is,
they're debunking this idea that the Wuhan lab may have been the source of
COVID.
When all these different people are talking about it.
We've been on this for forever.
We have been on it forever.
What it's extraordinary is the New York Times is still saying debunked claims
with no evidence whatsoever.
You know, Sagar and Jetty from Rising and the Hill
had this whole piece about it on his YouTube channel.
I love what they're doing.
They're the best.
They're the best.
Well, he's got two channels.
Have you been on either?
Well, I've only had him on here and Crystal together.
But what I like about...
What you guys did right at the beginning of that,
where they explained what happens...
I didn't mean to cut you off.
That's okay.
What happens in the cycle when your team wins and your team loses
and how they've both broken out of that and they've thrown that away.
Yes.
That was 10 minutes that I needed to hear.
I thought you broke new...
The three of you guys broke really new ground.
They're what we need.
There's a reasonable person on the left and a reasonable person on the right.
And they're both committed to honesty above all.
Right?
They might have different philosophical perspectives.
I think Crystal's coming towards Sagar because she's seeing the rot on the left.
Yes.
What my hope is is that she's going to be a credible progressive who's
rejecting all this nonsense progressivism.
Yeah.
I think you're right.
She's very smart.
And so is he.
And the two of them together are wonderful.
What were you going to say before I cut you off?
What I was going to say is they were talking about how the New York Times is
talking about this...
I forget who they were quoting, who was entertaining this ideal.
Is that what it was?
Oh, ex-CDC guy?
That's right.
The CDC guy.
That he was entertaining this idea, this debunked idea of this emanating from a
laugh.
But it's not debunked.
Not only is it not debunked, it's more possible than ever.
But the problem is the idea was originally associated with Donald Trump.
So these motherfuckers at the New York Times still have it in their head that
they can't admit...
I don't know that that's what's going on, Joe.
What do you think it is?
Well, what they do, it's a weird move.
We should tell people exactly what they're saying.
Okay.
The former head of the CDC is saying that it's more probable than not.
He's not saying it's absolute.
He's saying it's more probable than not that it escaped from a lab.
Right.
And he details it.
And he actually predates it.
He goes deep into September and October, he believes it might have emanated
around that
time and started spreading.
The reason why is...
And it all makes total sense.
This is a very unusual laboratory.
The laboratory had been cited in 2018 for safety protocol violations.
The laboratory works on the exact same kinds of coronaviruses that caused this
worldwide pandemic on bats.
They work on bat coronaviruses.
And this is one of two level four labs that are in this area.
So this whole thing is so...
It's so much more likely that it emanated from the lab.
But the problem is the narrative was Donald Trump is racist.
Donald Trump calls it the China virus.
Donald Trump says it came from a lab.
It can't have come from a lab because Donald Trump's always wrong.
That's one possibility.
I'm worried about something beyond that.
What are you worried about?
The way that they make this move is that they synonymize the lab leak
hypothesis with a synthetic virus engineered from scratch.
So in other words, the idea of like maybe somebody growing a horseshoe bat
coronavirus in human lung tissue to accelerate natural selection.
Because like we don't know how to engineer it.
But if you let natural selection engineer it, you can accelerate that.
Right.
So instead of saying we don't know what to make of accelerated natural
selection in a lab leaking, they try to make this move, which is like, you know,
there's no sign that this was engineered in a lab.
And you're like, OK, well, you changed what the hypothesis is in order to say
what you're saying to protect your future credibility.
And the thing that I'm really freaking out about, you've been talking about it,
Brett's been talking about it, I've been talking about it, all sorts of people
have been talking about this one for a year.
I increasingly think that none of these organizations think that they owe us
any kind of truth, that when they get caught, it's just like, yeah, of course
we had to say that.
Like, what?
Yeah.
You know, like this Time Magazine article about, of course we fortified the
election.
You what?
Oh, yeah, we fortified it.
Oh, I.
Trump was right about a conspiracy.
Like in the article.
Who's quoting that?
Who are they quoting that said they fortified the election?
There was apparently some entire group under one guy with hundreds of activists
who told their people, don't riot in the streets, have a dance party instead.
I would highly recommend, it's Time Magazine.
I read the blurb about the fortifying and I was like, hmm, that's a disturbing
quote, but what does it mean?
What do they mean, the claim of the article is we went right up to the door meddling
with the election, but all we cared about was free and fair.
And we had a huge conspiracy, so Donald Trump wasn't wrong.
There was a huge conspiracy, but we are so committed to democracy that even
though we hate Donald Trump with a passion that, you know, won't let go 24-7,
we still would never do anything against an election.
The problem is with a guy like Trump, you can almost justify some horrible
horseshit.
But if you claim that you have to fight all enemies, foreign and domestic, and
you claim that he's a Russian asset, you're pretty much saying that you have to
do something drastic.
And so the number of things that people claim is what the problem is, because
they're not all compatible.
And what I'm trying to get at more broadly is over and over I see the same move,
which is deny, deny, deny, we get caught.
Yeah, limited hangout.
Yeah, we did that shit.
That's the kind of stuff we do because we have to do it.
But I don't think they're saying they got caught.
I think they're saying that what we did was make sure the election was fair.
It was, I think, the concept of a limited hangout where you know that something
is too big to hold back, so you push a part of it into the public, not all of
it, that's the limited, and you let the public think, okay, well, now you know
the truth, and it stops there.
And then they stop asking questions because they've got a new toy to play with.
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