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AP Photo/Tony Dejak We’ve seen a lot of talk about ‘misinformation’ in the last few days from the Biden team and the media. But what’s so ironic about all that is that the Biden administration and the liberal media are some of the biggest purveyors of misinformation out there. Take a statement that President Donald Trump made today, for example. A Politico editor termed it “a dangerous turn of events as Trump flirts with anti-vaccine sentiment.” But, that isn’t even close to refle...

On Saturday, Vice President Kamala Harris wished her Twitter followers an enjoyable long weekend. That’s when all hell broke loose. Within hours, Harris, who had just delivered the commencement address during the U.S. Naval Academy’s graduation ceremony a day earlier and shared a video on Twitter of her conversation with history-making Midshipman 1st Class Sydney Barber, was being accused of disrespecting the military. The mistake: Harris didn’t specifically mention Memorial Day in her �...

Print this article New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman has thoughts on who’s partially responsible for the press’s failure last year to investigate the theory alleging the coronavirus originated in a research facility in Wuhan, China. She blames former President Donald Trump, of course. Haberman also blames former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for the media’s knee-jerk rush last year to dismiss an entirely plausible and now increasingly likely theory. Who knew these two men had th...

"Cotton did one thing that those other sources didn’t do — he speculated a little."

A huge fuckup, with perhaps not-so-huge policy stakes

Liberal journalist Matthew Yglesias thrashed the mainstream media's widespread dismissal of the Wuhan lab leak coronavirus theory, writing Wednesday it was a “genuinely catastrophic media f***-up” that unfairly maligned Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark.

Politico editor Sam Stein has invited critics to direct their fire at him over a tweet and an article that contained the claim that Vice President Kamala Harris faces criticism for focusing too much on being the first Black VP, and not enough on being the first Asian-American veep. On Tuesday, Politico tweeted an article […]

NBCs Chuck Todd failing to ask Dr. Fauci about the origins of COVID and more round out todays top media headlines. Left-wing CNN analyst Susan Hennessey is joining the Justice Department in another example of the liberal network serving as a pipeline to the Biden administration. Hennessey will serve as senior counsel for the departments national security division after a stint at the Brookings Institution and the Lawfare blog. Secretary of State Antony Blinken served as a global affairs analyst...

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POLITICO Get the POLITICO China Watcher newsletter Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. 02/25/2021 08:41 AM EST Hi, China Watchers! Please join me in welcoming your guest host for this week, Melissa Chan, a correspondent fo...