{"id":1434841,"date":"2022-04-13T08:59:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T12:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1434841"},"modified":"2022-04-13T08:59:46","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T12:59:46","slug":"bill-maher-twitters-suppression-of-wuhan-lab-leak-theory-a-huge-red-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-maher-twitters-suppression-of-wuhan-lab-leak-theory-a-huge-red-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher: Twitter\u2019s Suppression of Wuhan Lab Leak Theory a \u201cHuge Red Flag\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbill-maher-twitters-suppression-of-wuhan-lab-leak-theory-a-huge-red-flag%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1434841&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"speechkit-wrapper\" class=\"speechkit-wrapper\">\n<p><span class=\"label-bg\">NEW<\/span>You can now listen to Fox News articles!\n  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Podcast giant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/joe-rogan-hunter-biden-scandal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Rogan<\/a> and &#8220;Real Time&#8221; host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/bill-maher-elon-musk-twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill Maher<\/a> railed against those who dismissed the Wuhan lab-leak theory in the early months of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/health\/infectious-disease\/coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">coronavirus<\/a> pandemic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">On Tuesday&#8217;s installment of &#8220;The Joe Rogan Experience,&#8221; the two comedians slammed the idea of policing thought, prompting Maher to cite &#8220;our friend&#8221; Elon Musk&#8217;s growing involvement with Twitter, which he himself endorsed on Friday, suspecting the Tesla CEO will combat censorship and defend free speech.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/bill-maher-elon-musk-twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>BILL MAHER CHEERS ON ELON MUSK JOINING TWITTER: HE WANTS TO FIX SOCIAL MEDIA&#8217;S \u2018CONTROL\u2019 OF FREE SPEECH<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t cool that [Twitter] didn&#8217;t allow the lab-leak theory to be talked about,&#8221; Maher said. &#8220;For months, you couldn&#8217;t even mention it. And that is certainly something that was open to question. I mean, it was like, to me the very kind of issue that if Twitter was really doing the job it should- would be a healthy forum for people to go back and forth and say, &#8216;Well, here&#8217;s why I think COVID probably came from bats because A, B and C&#8217; and then, &#8216;Well, but you know, there was this lab in Wuhan that was studying coronaviruses and somebody could have walked out with it on their shoe. Can&#8217;t we even look into that?&#8217; For Twitter to take that off, that to me was a huge red flag.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/640\/320\/83ba60b7-GettyImages-1235323447.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Bill Maher appears on \" Jimmy Kimmel Live! \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Bill Maher appears on &#8220;Jimmy Kimmel Live!&#8221; on September 15, 2021. (Randy Holmes\/ABC via Getty Images)<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Randy Holmes\/ABC via Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s crazy,&#8221; Rogan reacted. &#8220;It was crazy because it wasn&#8217;t resolved. It just wasn&#8217;t resolved. It wasn&#8217;t resolved amongst virologists\u2026 there was no way they could know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even the Biden administration admits that\u2026 Redfield, the former head of the CDC firmly believes that it was in a lab, but again, that becomes the conservative view. For what f&#8212;ing reason, why- I can&#8217;t even follow the logic of why we pick, &#8216;Okay, if you think it came from the wet markets, you&#8217;re a Democrat. And if you think it came out of the lab, you&#8217;re a Republican.&#8217; It&#8217;s like what the f&#8212; does it have to do with a Republican or Democrat?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/joe-rogan-hunter-biden-scandal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>JOE ROGAN RIPS MEDIA SUPPRESSION OF HUNTER BIDEN: HID \u2018REAL INFORMATION\u2019 SINCE THEY MIGHT NOT LIKE THE OUTCOME<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the same as everything. It&#8217;s just f&#8212;in&#8217; pure tribalism,&#8221; Rogan said. &#8220;The Democrats that do think it came out of a lab [whispers] tell you like this, they tell you like this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Really?&#8221; a surprised Maher asked.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, they&#8217;re careful,&#8221; Rogan said. &#8220;They cover the mic on their phones.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Maher was amazed that the subject of the Wuhan lab-leak theory was &#8220;that toxic,&#8221; to which Rogan replied, &#8220;100%.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/640\/320\/Joe-rogan-spotify-5.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Podcast giant Joe Rogan.\u00a0\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Podcast giant Joe Rogan.\u00a0<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Photo by Ronald Martinez\/Getty Images \u00a0| \u00a0REUTERS\/Lucas Jackson\/File Photo\/File Photo)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The HBO star suspected the left&#8217;s fear of giving credence to the lab-leak theory was the thought of it being &#8220;racist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The lab that the White people funded?&#8221; Rogan quipped.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/washington-post-correction-tom-cotton-covid-lab-leak-theory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>WASHINGTON POST ISSUES \u2018CORRECTION\u2019 ON 2020 TOM COTTON STORY CLAIMING COVID LAB-LEAK THEORY WAS &#8216;DEBUNKED&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It seems it would be much more racist to think it came out of eating that primitive, f&#8212;in&#8217; crazy food that you&#8217;re eating in the wet market,&#8221; Maher chuckled. &#8220;You&#8217;re reading the \u2018chicken of the cave\u2019\u2026 It&#8217;s just silly. It&#8217;s just silly. It&#8217;s a scientific issue. It should have no political dimension at all!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Either you want to look at things for what they really are or you have this ideological-like box that your ideas have to live in. And if you say it came from a lab, you&#8217;re a Trump supporter. You hate democracy. You hate gays. You can, like stuff it in a box like that. It gets weird with certain subjects,&#8221; Rogan later said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/640\/320\/AP21034210627378.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Security personnel gather near the entrance of the Wuhan Institute of Virology during a visit by the World Health Organization team in Wuhan in China&#039;s Hubei province on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021.\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Security personnel gather near the entrance of the Wuhan Institute of Virology during a visit by the World Health Organization team in Wuhan in China&#8217;s Hubei province on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(AP Photo\/Ng Han Guan)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, I mean, this one got somehow balled up with anti-Asian racism,&#8221; Maher told Rogan. &#8220;Trump, of course, always never finds any issue that he can&#8217;t make worse. I mean, he saw an opportunity here as he usually does to cater, I think and pander to his base, who some of whom definitely are racist and some of whom definitely like it when he does things like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/apps-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Maher continued, &#8220;But I don&#8217;t have any objection to calling it the \u2018Wuhan virus\u2019 because every virus has been named after the place it came from. I mean, you can&#8217;t almost not name a virus that is not named after where it came from\u2026 \u00a0That&#8217;s, again, one of those common-sense things that it&#8217;s not a Republican point of view, that&#8217;s just the world. Not everything is racial. &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! 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