{"id":542116,"date":"2021-05-26T19:05:17","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T23:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=542116"},"modified":"2021-05-26T19:05:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T23:05:19","slug":"siding-with-the-communist-party-dagen-mcdowell-blasts-media-for-blowing-off-lab-leak-theory-because-republicans-brought-it-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/siding-with-the-communist-party-dagen-mcdowell-blasts-media-for-blowing-off-lab-leak-theory-because-republicans-brought-it-up\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Siding With The Communist Party\u2019: Dagen McDowell Blasts Media For Blowing Off Lab Leak Theory Because Republicans Brought It Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/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%2Fsiding-with-the-communist-party-dagen-mcdowell-blasts-media-for-blowing-off-lab-leak-theory-because-republicans-brought-it-up%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=542116&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-26-at-5.15.22-PM-e1622068399276.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"44.968829841594\">\n<p>Fox Business host Dagen McDowell laid into media during Wednesday\u2019s broadcast of \u201cThe Five,\u201d saying a lot of people had written off a lab leak as the possible origin of coronavirus because it was a theory promoted by Republicans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/18\/jesse-watters-dagen-mcdowell-reporters-biden-joke-threat-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">McDowell<\/a> pointed out that a number of Republicans \u2014 most notably Republican Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton \u2014 had suggested the virus had likely <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/23\/3-wuhan-lab-scientists-hospitalized-2019-us-intel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">leaked<\/a> from the Wuhan Institute of Virology and had summarily been dismissed as conspiracy theorists. <strong><a class=\"text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/18\/dagen-mcdowell-mocks-joe-biden-texas-death-rate-plummets\/\">(RELATED: \u2018Those Neanderthals Really Knew What They Were Doing\u2019: Dagen McDowell Mocks Joe Biden As Texas Death Rate Plummets)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is one of the biggest stories certainly in my lifetime,\u201d McDowell began. \u201cAnd to quote Greg Gutfeld, \u2018Common sense is the enemy of ideologues,\u2019 especially stupid and lazy ideologues. And I mean the media.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McDowell went on to say that from the very beginning of the pandemic, people on Fox News and Fox Business had been talking about the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/24\/fauci-lab-leak-covid-19-wuhan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wuhan virology lab<\/a> and the possibility that they were doing experiments with bat coronaviruses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe knew that. But what was the media doing? Siding with the Communist Party of China instead of a sitting U.S. Senator, Tom Cotton, who was talking about this virology lab more than a year ago,\u201d McDowell continued. \u201cSo that\u2019s where the media is and they are still doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McDowell then pointed out the fact that Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy had asked press secretary Jen Psaki about the possibility that COVID-19 had leaked from a lab.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat idiot site, what is it, Media-itis, was writing mocking stories about Peter Doocy and today the whole White House press corps is trying to ask Jen Psaki about this,\u201d McDowell concluded. \u201cThis is one of the biggest stories of our lifetime but oooh, Trump, that bad dictator in charge, meantime three and a half million people are dead because of Communist China and a virus that likely came from that lab.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox Business host Dagen McDowell laid into media during Wednesday\u2019s broadcast of \u201cThe Five,\u201d saying a lot of people had written off a lab leak as the possible &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313192,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-26-at-5.15.22-PM-e1622068399276.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Siding With The Communist Party\u2019: Dagen McDowell Blasts Media For Blowing Off Lab Leak Theory Because Republicans Brought It Up","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-26-at-5.15.22-PM-e1622068399276.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Siding With The Communist Party\u2019: Dagen McDowell Blasts Media For Blowing Off Lab Leak Theory Because Republicans Brought It Up","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}