The media has been doing everything they can for the last few weeks to try and change history. Corporate news organizations are attempting to claim that conservatives ignored the coronavirus and the mainstream media didn’t.
Journalist Sheryl Attkisson wrote a great piece pointing out that the mainstream media has been on a blitz accusing folks on the right of downplaying the virus when in reality it was the mainstream media downplaying the virus.
Fox News contributor Mollie Hemingway promoted the story.
I’m sure you’ve all seen the obviously coordinated Coronavirus disinformation campaign against conservative media. Campaign attempts to rewrite history of who said what when about Coronavirus threat, namely by burying similar comments from liberal media. https://t.co/VXpwXECEc1
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) April 6, 2020
The story triggered Andrew Kaczynski at CNN and Brian Stelter chimed in.
This is such nonsense. None of these “similar” comments have dates. I had to look them up. It repeatedly compares comments from conservative figures in late February and March to comments in *January* https://t.co/ww7VRnOe1m
— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) April 6, 2020
i wonder why @SharylAttkisson didn’t include the dates.
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) April 6, 2020
That’s when things started to go downhill for Stelter, he should have kept his mouth shut.
All the links are there, Einstein. Date for CDC comment? Current as of today. https://t.co/EVuCjFykY3
— Sharyl Attkisson🕵️♂️ (@SharylAttkisson) April 6, 2020
She also responded to Kaczynski.
1. “Similar” comments have links, dates, context 2. Many comments were made in comparable time periods or even “after” ones flagged. 3. You miss big point: many of the comments were and are accurate whether provided by conservatives, liberals or public health officials. https://t.co/hsjSK5p2Pq
— Sharyl Attkisson🕵️♂️ (@SharylAttkisson) April 6, 2020
But the one accurate thing about your tweet is that you prefaced it as “nonsense.” 😉 https://t.co/hsjSK5p2Pq
— Sharyl Attkisson🕵️♂️ (@SharylAttkisson) April 6, 2020
Neither Stelter or Kacynzki mention that Nancy Pelosi, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, and Biden advisors were telling Americans that they had nothing to worry about as late as February 24th.
