Media and comedians embrace the politics of fraud by failing to disclose that Democrats said the same thing about the virus that conservatives did

Sharyl Attkisson:
News media, liberals mock conservatives for early pandemic comments they made themselves

Analysis of three months of public comments shows health officials, liberals and media personalities made comments similar to conservatives now being mocked.

A video entitled “Heroes of the Pandumbic” was posted Friday by the Comedy Central program “The Daily Show.” In less than 24 hours, it had racked up millions of views.

The video mocks conservative personalties and Trump administration officials, primarily those appearing on Fox News. A montage of brief clips implies these figures have uniquely missed the mark on coronavirus dangers, downplaying or denying the pandemic.

But a review of three months of public comments by public health officials, news personalities and liberal figures show they made similar comments as those skewered by The Daily Show video but have escaped similar critique.

“Hannity. Rush. Dobbs. Ingraham. Pirro. Nunes. Tammy. Geraldo. Doocy. Hegseth. Schlapp. Siegel. Watters. Dr. Drew. Henry. Ainsley. Gaetz. Inhofe. Pence. Kudlow. Conway. Trump,” reads a Daily Show tweet promoting the video. “Today, we salute the Heroes of the Pandumbic.”

Liberal media and readers circulating the video often add remarks ranging from gleeful to hate-filled.

It’s an all out information war. Coronavirus, a health crisis, has been weaponized and politicized in the media; each side blaming the other for hype and panic, or doubt and disinformation.

Some are suggesting Fox News should be “sued” by coronavirus victims. Among the most charged language is that used in the blog Bulwark. Writer Jonathan Last attacks conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh claiming, “This vile, foolish man has blood on his hands.” Last adds, “When this is all over, there should be a reckoning—a very real, very thorough reckoning—for all of the people who made this pandemic worse by pushing disinformation and lies in the service of making it harder for the country to quickly respond to the crisis.”
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The one-sided condemnation, often targeting conservatives and Trump supporters, ignores an essential fact: many of the criticized comments accurately reflected guidance from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) at the time— and even today. Also, it turns out, liberal sources and public health officials have said the very same things without being criticized. It is as if the rhetoric is deemed to be dangerous or “coronavirus-doubting” only when uttered by conservatives, Trump supporters or other targeted people.
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She goes on to give multiple times liberals said the same thing in the early stages of the virus.  It is well worth reading the whole thing.

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