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Sunday, May 23, 2021

Politifact Forced to Pull ‘Fact-Check’ That “Debunked” Lab Leak Origin of COVID

More proof ‘fact checks’ are designed to protect the establishment.

Politifact has been forced to pull a ‘fact check’ that claimed it had “debunked” the lab leak origin theory of COVID-19 after more prominent voices suggested the explanation was a reasonable possibility.

The original ‘fact check’ was entitled ‘Tucker Carlson guest airs debunked conspiracy theory that COVID-19 was created in a lab’ and was rated “pants on fire,” meaning that the lab leak theory was completely untrue.

However, the entry has now been updated with an editor’s note which basically reverses the judgment.

“Editor’s note, May 17, 2021: When this fact-check was first published in September 2020, PolitiFact’s sources included researchers who asserted the SARS-CoV-2 virus could not have been manipulated. That assertion is now more widely disputed. For that reason, we are removing this fact-check from our database pending a more thorough review. Currently, we consider the claim to be unsupported by evidence and in dispute. The original fact-check in its entirety is preserved below for transparency and archival purposes. Read our May 2021 report for more on the origins of the virus that causes COVID-19.”

As we highlighted yesterday, even Biden’s own CDC Director Rochelle Walensky admits it’s a “possibility” the virus was leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, an opinion more than shared by her predecessor Robert Redfield, who told CNN in March that it was the “most likely” explanation.

Numerous other credible individuals and scientific groups have also asserted that the lab leak is the most likely source and demanded the...

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12 Easily-Debunked Leftist Lies

If Americans look the other way and allow lies to fester, they will be used to further the radical leftist agenda.

Americans must strive to debunk lies the second they are uttered. If left unchecked, lies are always used to justify tyrannical policies. The below non-exhaustive list of factual statements should be used by Americans to counter lies told everyday by left-wing politicians and their radical allies.

1.) Trump supporters are not attacking Asian-Americans

Joe Biden signed a b i ll into law this week that promotes the false premise that the coronavirus has something to do with attacks on Asian-Americans. There is zero data available for public scrutiny that so-called “hate crimes” against Asian-Americans have gone up at all.

The two main sources of the false narrative is the Maoist-leaning group “Stop AAPI Hate” and the laughably biased Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, housed at California State University, San Bernardino. Neither of these sources provide evidence to support their slanderous claims, yet the groups are both used to justify massive infusions of tax-payer money into leftist organizations and biased police trainings.

2.) NRA members do not conduct mass shootings

The National Rifle Association has nothing to do with mass shootings. In fact, groups like the NRA protect and empower citizens by training them in the proper use of firearms. There is zero evidence that those conducting mass shootings are NRA members or are remotely influenced by the NRA or similar groups.

It is quite likely that the left attacks the NRA because their members are more likely to engage in politics than non-members. The vast majority of NRA members are Republicans. Politically active Republicans threaten Democrat rule.

One rule of thumb is that leftists are motivated by power. If Americans are empowered to protect themselves, they are less likely to be dependent on the government. As author Trevor Loudon states, “Leftists are not against guns, they are against you having guns.” Disarming citizens will not protect them. The Second Amendment has no qualifiers.

3.) January 6th was not an “armed insurrection”

Thoughtful people concede that there were bad apples stirring up patriots on January 6th. But the vast majority of those who entered the Capitol building – often through doors opened by Capitol police – wandered in, took selfies and wandered out. The only shot fired on January 6th was the one that resulted in the death of an unarmed, decorated female veteran named Ashli Babbitt.

It is far more likely that Trump supporters were set up on January 6th to deflect from rampant, premeditated voter fraud. The biggest indicator that the events at the Capitol were contrived to paint a narrative is the vast suppression of details surrounding that day.

Watch a clip of Fox News Host Tucker Carlson and actual journalist Julie Kelly discussing unanswered questions from January 6th:

4.) Police are not murdering black people in a racist rage

Considering that there are 375 million interactions police have with criminals every year, it is amazing more people are not killed. The vast majority of Black Lives Matter martyrs are criminals resisting arrest. There is zero evidence of a systemic racial motivation in police-involved deaths.

The lie is promoted by leftist politicians and their allies to vilify those who protect Americans and have every right to defend themselves from criminals.

5.) White supremacy is not a problem

Former NFL Player Called ‘Not The Right Minority’ By Team When Applying For Coaching Job

Former NFL player Eugene Chung claims he was told that he was “not really a minority” when interviewing for a coaching job this offseason, the Boston Globe reported.

While reviewing his experience and qualifications during the interview, Chung claims “It was said to me, ‘Well, you’re really not a minority,’ ” the Globe reported. Chung said he was frozen and angry.

“I was like, ‘Wait a minute. The last time I checked, when I looked in the mirror and brushed my teeth, I was a minority,’ ” he said. “So I was like, ‘What do you mean I’m not a minority?’

“You are not the right minority we’re looking for,” the interviewer responded, according to Chung.

Chung claimed he was “dumbfounded” and said that is “when he realized what the narrative was,” the Globe reported.

Chung is of Korean descent and was the first-round pick of the New England Patriots in 1992 out of Virginia Tech, according to ESPN. He played for five seasons in the NFL. He was an assistant coach from 2010-2019 for the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs.

More awareness is being spotlighted on Asian-American discrimination, and because of their relative accomplishments, Asian-Americans are often not considered people of color, according to the Wall Street Journal.

“Asian-Americans are caught in a bind—condemn the system of white supremacy and privilege along with other people of color or be ‘banished’ from the victim group as white-adjacent,” Wenyuan Wu, executive director of Californians for Equal Rights, told the Wall Street Journal.

“This is the type of discrimination people of Asian descent routinely deal with in America and it rarely gets acknowledged,” Wu told the Daily Caller. “I think racial spoils and racial identity politics fundamentally erode equal citizenship. Nobody wins in a zero-sum game that subjects individuals to a race-based competition of privilege, oppression and representation.”

The National Football League (NFL) has taken significant steps to combat alleged racism. The Rooney Rule is an NFL policy that requires every team to interview at least one non-white candidate for openings at the head coaching position, general manager jobs and...

Capitol invader arrested again, MSM forgets to mention he’s a far-left agitator

Local news Fox 13 reported that John Sullivan was arrested again in his home in Utah and $90,000 was seized.

He famously sold his footage of the Capitol breach and the killing of Ashli Babbitt to the cable news networks after he invaded the Capitol on January 6th with a CNN reporter, Jade Sacker.

The two of them encouraged others to breach the Capitol. Sullivan and the reporter excitedly exclaimed that they did it as they invaded.

BLM inc. threatening to “rip the president out of the White House”

They say they won’t wait until the next election.

They’re openly calling for a revolution.

This is domestic terrorism on full display, out in the open. They don’t even try to hide it. pic.twitter.com/OyhNSzBEwu
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) August 29, 2020

THE MEDIA IS A DISGRACE

Nowhere in the Fox 13 or Reuters article do they mention that he is a hard-Left revolutionary – nowhere except a vague comment at the end of the Reuters piece. They only talk about this invasion of...

Five rural Oregon counties voted on Tuesday to secede from the state of Oregon and join the state of Idaho.

The Idaho Statesman reported:

Thousands of people in eastern Oregon voted Tuesday for their elected officials to consider ditching their state and becoming part of Idaho.

Voters in Sherman, Lake, Grant, Baker and Malheur counties all voted for ballot measures that would lead to them becoming Idahoans. People in Union and Jefferson counties had already voted in favor during the November election. . .

The vote is only the first step of the “Greater Idaho” project, which would allow some Oregon counties to join a state that advocates say more closely aligns with their political preferences.

Breitbart News reported in April that a political action committee and a new 501 c 4 non profit group are driving efforts that will allow rural counties in Oregon to join Idaho:

Move Oregon’s Border is a Political Action Committee formed in 2019 that focuses on Oregon ballot initiatives. In March, Move Oregon’s Border founder Michael McCarter announced the establishment of a 501 c 4, Citizens for Greater Idaho, which will focus “on Idaho, Oregon, and beyond, to support the vision of Move Oregon’s Border.” . . .

Petitions gathered by Move Oregon’s Border have forced the placement of ballot initiatives to change the border between Oregon and Idaho for consideration by voters in nine Oregon counties.

Ballot initiatives to change the border between Oregon and Idaho have already been voted on in four Oregon counties. Two counties (Union and Jefferson) voted in favor of moving the border in November, while two additional counties (Douglas and Wallowa) voted against changing the border.

On May 18, the ballot initiative to change the border between Oregon and Idaho will be voted on in five additional counties: Baker, Lake, Grant, Malheur, and Sherman.

“Move Oregon’s Border continues to collect signatures in seven other counties where no vote has occurred yet: Curry, Josephine, Jackson, Klamath, Harney, Morrow, and Umatilla counties,” the group’s website states.

Move Oregon’s Border founder and president of Citizens for Greater Idaho Mike McCarter said in a statement released on the group’s website on Wednesday: