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Throughout Chris Cillizza’s long career as a “journalist” and “political commentator,” he has shown himself repeatedly to be a dutiful propagandist for the left, never daring to get even close to an independent thought and instead faithfully reflecting whatever the political and media elites wanted him to think. And that is still largely the case, but these are unusual times, and even Cillizza has demonstrated a shocking level of independence for a leftist journo, even daring to say that Donald Trump, the veritable focus of evil in the modern world, may have been right about something. Et tu, Cillizza? Yes: for the left, it has come even to this.
Cillizza wrote on X recently: “I screwed up. Back in May 2020, I wrote how Anthony Fauci had ‘crushed’ Donald Trump’s lab-leak theory for how Covid-19 originated The CIA said over the weekend that they now believed the virus leaked from a lab.”
To get an idea of how big this admission is, consider that Cillizza’s Substack bears a heading that boasts about Trump’s disdain for him: “So What: Donald Trump once called me ‘one of the dumber and least respected of the political pundits.’ So I got that going for me. I write about politics — mostly — with humor, transparency, and authenticity. 2-3 posts a day.” Well, he writes about politics, anyway, and actually approached some transparency and authenticity in his Monday thread on X.
Cillizza noted a recent assessment from the CIA — and they wouldn’t lie to us, now, would they? “Here’s a CIA spokesperson: ‘CIA assesses with low confidence that a research-related origin of the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely than a natural origin based on the available body of reporting.’” Since this so sharply differs from what the CIA and the entire political and media establishment were telling us at the time, it is worth crediting, even though it does come from the CIA. And Cillizza was man enough to recognize its implications for his previous “reporting.”
Cillizza followed up the CIA assessment with this: “Which, if you’re keeping track, is what Donald Trump and lots of prominent conservatives — most notably Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton — have been saying for a very long time now. And, candidly, they have taken a lot of s**t for it. Including from me.” He even added: “My belief back then was that if this was a debate between Donald Trump and Anthony Fauci on the origins of a pandemic-level virus, I was going to go with the guy who spent his entire career studying this stuff, not the reality TV-star-turned-president.” And: “Except, it now appears that the reality TV-star-turned-president was right. And Anthony Fauci was wrong.”
Wow! Is Cillizza independently wealthy? Does he plan to retire and never work in the left’s propaganda mills again? Or are the facts of the COVID hysteria now virtually impossible to deny, such that even ferociously partisan hacks such as Cillizza have to admit that or risk losing whatever tattered shreds of credibility they may still have left?
Cillizza goes on to explain why he came to the conclusions that he did at the time and adds a word of caution that all leftist “journalists” would do well to take to heart: “The lesson: Be skeptical — of experts or anyone else — when dealing with a rapidly-developing and changing situation where no one has the ability to see a 360-degree view.”
And regarding Trump: “The other major mistake I made was that I let my belief that Trump just, well, said stuff, get in the way of the possibility that he could be right.” And: “My belief at the time was that Trump was just making it up. Like, he wanted to blame China for the virus. And it having leaked from an infectious disease lab — whether accidentally or intentionally — made that case much easier to make.”
These admissions are remarkable, but they’re likely to remain unique. Other leftist propagandists are likely to prefer the world of shadows and echoing the party line to the world of light and simply reporting the facts accurately. Nevertheless, Cillizza’s willingness to admit his error is a noteworthy crack in the left’s propaganda edifice. Dare to dream! Maybe Cillizza will be the harbinger of a new trend of leftist propagandists remembering that they’re supposed to be journalists and starting to report the facts without spin.
Yeah, you’re right: too outlandish to happen. Still, more and more people every day are catching on to their game. If Cillizza had to admit all this, more admissions could follow, until the whole propaganda machine grinds to a halt. Talk about big dreams!
Revoke Doctor Fauci Freedom Medal he should never been nominated Ne Prizes for Crimes Against Humanity or Beagle Pups
Fornicate fauci.
Occam’s Razor says that the moment the Taiwanese identified it as both man made and originating from Wuhan, the site of a Chinese biowarfare laboratory, that it was obvious that it had escaped from there. And that was in December of 2019.
As things progressed it became more and more obvious that that was in fact the case, and more over, that the CCP had deliberately allowed it to spread internationally since it’s escape no later than September 2019 while desperately trying to limit its spread in China.
Well, they didn’t try too hard having allowed infected Chinese to leave and travel all over the world (while restricting travel within China) taking Covid with them.
Lab leak or 1000 year old wet market down the street?
We all knew this then we all know it now.
Bat soup in the et market never was a viable explanation.
Think about it: : to cook any meat, it needs to be held at a temp above about 140f for long enough to soften and break down the protein in the meat.
To kill any virus, simply hold it at a temp of about 140 f or above for five minutes or more.
Basic late grade school biology.. or used to be. Certainly within the sphere of knowledge of a seasoned pro such as Phautchee.
Bat soup OR virus. Mutually exclusive, cannot have both.
It wasn’t that Days I was wrong. It was that he lied, obfuscated and misled.
It wasn’t that Fauci was wrong. It was that he lied, obfuscated and misled.
Robert Kennedy’s book The Real Anthony Fauci, is well worth reading.
Also, the book by Leonard Horowitz Covid Coup which extends the net for the whole virus situation and those involved.
Dr Faustus was a significant culprit in this wickedness but he isn’t the only one. And some of the names raised by Mr Horowitz are surprising.
Fauci lied a lot, not just on the origin. Mask, social distancing, and on and on
Fauci’s long history? Apparently the ‘journalist’ never looked into Fauci’s involvement in the 1980’s AIDS crisis. He became known on the nightly news promising that a vaccine was imminent. Lots of HIV+ patients believed him. He lied then and he lied about the China Virus.
As for his other sponsored experiments on human’s, I’d rather see Fauci and his enablers in those cages covered in flies than the Beagles.they used.
Fauci lied! He lied to Congress. He funded gain-of-function research in a lab in Wuhan, in C H I N A!!!!
For the life of me can’t imagine why these idiots thought working with C H I N A on dangerous deadly viruses would be a good idea. They are an Evil regime with no good on their minds. What could possibly go wrong? CCP any thoughts?
Over 7,000,000 died worldwide.
Cillizza hasn’t necessarily seen the light. It’s at least just as likely he’s read the room, realized the legacy media is laying off hundreds of “journalists” due to having lost the trust of the American people and is now trying to make himself marketable to the MSM concerns who survive the bloodbath. Today’s reporters are nothing if not self-interested, when it comes to their own survival.
Self-reflection is a really eye-opening exercise. Cillizza may still be nothing but a hack, but if we ever want to out number the other side, reason need a thumbs up when anyone comes to the right conclusion.
Sorry, too little and way too late.
At least Fauci and his bride will one day be judged by the One from whom there is no appeal.
Only Fraudci DIDN’T spend his entire career “studying [that] stuff.” In fact he didn’t study it at all and had no knowledge of it. He’s never been a molecular biologist or microbiologist, much less an epidemiologist. He was a sleazy political appointee who was completely unqualified to be awarded America’s premiere epidemiology position.
All the first people to contract “COVID” worked at the Wuhan Virology Laboratory. In Wuhan China. Quite the coincidence. Only liars and idiots claim the Wuhan Flu came from somewhere else, like bats that live 1000 miles away or a “wet” market, whatever that’s supposed to be. China claimed to its neighbors that it came from an American military base……in China! DERP.
I sure hope some enterprising assassin takes Fraudci out. I would laugh my ass off if I saw that on TV.
This worldwide “Pandemic” was a very well-planned operation to murder, under the cover of a manmade, mutated virus (bioweapon) and the mRNA based jabs, millions of the world’s citizens. As openly stated by Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, Z”l, a Jewish Orthodox physician, well aware of the nefarious globalists plans to rid the planet of vast numbers of the human population, he called it the genocide of humanity.
What this already indoctrinated reporter momentarily glimpsed is the landslide of evidence finally escaping Fauci’s tyrannical misinformation campaign. The mounting proof shows that not only was Fauci lying but he was also a participant. He actively directed funding from the NIH to Eco Heath Alliance and Dr. Peter Daszak, who worked in coordination with the level 4 bio containment Wuhan lab in the gain-of-function development of bioweapons. It is now coming to light that the AIDs virus was constructed with man-manipulated viruses. See article by Jerry Mazza in Online Journal, The AIDS virus: Made in the USA?
Impact of the AIDS virus on the immune system:
The AIDS retro-virus works, as Dr. Strecker states, by causing the destruction of the immune system, fundamentally the body’s white blood or T-cells essential to the effectiveness of the immune system particularly against opportunistic infections diseases. The B-cells deal with more benign, bacterial infections.
It is clear that Fauci, a suit-wearing sadistic psychopath, has absolutely no problems with anything he has done and the resulting suffering and death to both humans and animals.
Make no mistake, bioweapon research has not ended either.
This reporter, if he ever did any substantive research might just end up red pilled!