{"id":548858,"date":"2021-06-01T19:35:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T23:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=548858"},"modified":"2021-06-01T19:35:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T23:35:46","slug":"the-chinese-have-us-over-a-barrel-of-wet-bats-greg-gutfeld-says-us-might-not-sue-china-if-american-money-funded-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-chinese-have-us-over-a-barrel-of-wet-bats-greg-gutfeld-says-us-might-not-sue-china-if-american-money-funded-research\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Chinese Have Us Over A Barrel Of Wet Bats\u2019: Greg Gutfeld Says US Might Not Sue China If American Money Funded Research"},"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\">46<\/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%2Fthe-chinese-have-us-over-a-barrel-of-wet-bats-greg-gutfeld-says-us-might-not-sue-china-if-american-money-funded-research%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=548858&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\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-01-at-7.24.00-PM-e1622589923275.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Fox News host Greg Gutfeld warned that suing the Chinese over the impact of the coronavirus pandemic could be problematic if the U.S. had partially funded the research.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/25\/china-murdered-my-father-in-law-greg-gutfeld-says-media-bullied-people-dismissing-lab-leak-theory-trump-hatred\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gutfeld<\/a> joined his co-hosts on Tuesday\u2019s broadcast of \u201cThe Five,\u201d saying that any American involvement in gain of function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology could get in the way of holding the Chinese accountable if it was determined that the virus had leaked from a lab. <strong><a class=\"text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/27\/no-transparency-greg-gutfeld-joe-biden-paid-spokesman-product-no-one-sees\/\">(RELATED: \u2018No Transparency\u2019: Greg Gutfeld Calls Joe Biden The \u2018Paid Spokesman\u2019 For A Product No One Will Ever See)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s assume that the Chinese, this lab is where the leak came from \u2026 What do we do going from here? What is the answer?\u201d co-host Harold Ford Jr. asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an interesting problem because I think that Chinese have us over a barrel of wet bats because all they have to do is show that we had any bit of funding during this, right? If the United States helped fund this thing, how is the United States gonna sue them?\u201d he asked. \u201cWe will have to sue ourselves because \u2014 I kind of think that we had some funding. I keep hearing the story about how they waived the restrictions that allowed the funding to continue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I think that that is probably why nothing is going to happen, because we might have our fingers all over those bats,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/11\/greg-gutfeld-cdc-the-five-dr-fauci\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gutfeld<\/a> continued.<\/p>\n<p>He then pivoted to address the media\u2019s reaction to the fact that many of them had pushed back on the lab leak theory a year earlier, calling it a conspiracy theory or saying that it had been debunked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like the self-reflection and I agree with Dagen that they are only doing self-reflection because there is no risk of danger involved, Trump already lost,\u201d Gutfeld went on to say, noting that media had doubled down on Trump being wrong in order to damage him politically.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at every facet of life and how the media impacts it, it is never good whether it is COVID or it\u2019s crime or it\u2019s race or it\u2019s pro-life matters, whatever it is, they added a veneer that makes it far more damaging than it has to be and creates unnecessary pain and suffering for a lot of people,\u201d Gutfeld added. \u201cI mean, imagine if a surgeon decided not to use an effective therapy on your kid because he went to school with the scientists and they did not get along? That\u2019s the media.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Co-host Jesse Watters joked that the obvious solution would be to get rid of all media other than Fox.<\/p>\n<p>Gutfeld concluded by saying that the problem wasn\u2019t the fact that media had been wrong but that they had been fully invested in the idea that the other side could not be right.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey attacked people who brought up the lab theory, calling them kooks and conspiracy theorists,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/26\/dagen-mcdowell-media-blew-off-lab-leak-theory-republicans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dagen McDowell<\/a> agreed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News host Greg Gutfeld warned that suing the Chinese over the impact of the coronavirus pandemic could be problematic if the U.S. had partially funded the research.Gutfeld joined his &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278851,"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\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-01-at-7.24.00-PM-e1622589923275.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018The Chinese Have Us Over A Barrel Of Wet Bats\u2019: Greg Gutfeld Says US Might Not Sue China If American Money Funded Research","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-01-at-7.24.00-PM-e1622589923275.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018The Chinese Have Us Over A Barrel Of Wet Bats\u2019: Greg Gutfeld Says US Might Not Sue China If American Money Funded Research","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548858","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=548858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}