SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT:

A JOURNALISTIC SCANDAL – FROM FOX:   New York Times writer David Leonhardt told "Reliable Sources" host Brian Stelter on Sunday that the media made a "mistake" by ignoring Sen. Tom Cotton, R.-Ark., and others who suggested for months that COVID-19 could have escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China, before new evidence surfaced last week giving credence to the lab leak possibility.  A Wall Street Journal report released last week revealed that a few researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were ill in November 2019 with COVID-like symptoms. Once word spread, media outlets who once dismissed the lab leak theory as "fringe" suddenly started treating it as credible, such as the New York Times, who published starkly different headlines from May 2020 to May 2021.  New York Times writer David Leonhardt told "Reliable Sources" host Brian Stelter on Sunday that the media made a "mistake" by ignoring Sen. Tom Cotton, R.-Ark., and others who suggested for months that COVID-19 could have escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China, before new evidence surfaced last week giving credence to the lab leak possibility.  I'm mildly pleased that some journalists have found religion.  It's long overdue.  But they now have to go on to other journalistic misadventures, like climate change and the reporting of the Vietnam War, and concede major inaccuracies and exaggerations that misled the country.  They can also throw in their sweetheart reporting of Barack Hussein Obama Jr, leading to the election of one of the worst presidents of our lifetime.

June 1, 2021