coronavirus overtaking wuhan, china. what do we do? oh, you know who we could ask? the wuhan novel respiratory coronavirus lab. the disease [laughter] is the same name as the lab are. [laughter] that s just, that s just a little too weird, don t you think? howard: here s i stewart on his apple f the show reflecting on the backlash. i thought it was a pretty good can bit that expressed kind of how i felt. and the two things that came out of it were i m racist against asian people and how dare i align myselfs with the alt-right. howard: unreal. i bring this up, of course, because parts of the biden administration now believe the kid thely virus did originate from that wuhan lap lab. we don t know for sure, but the media and social media played a key role in stifling any debate. i m howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz.
doesn t need to be 51, 75, from a policy standpoint. you guys are trying to get to the numbers. this is a serious topic, but let s have some fun. i m going to have you fact check a joke. that s always fun. jon stewart made waves with the way he talked about it. sometimes there s a kernel of insight or seeming insight in a joke. here s jon stewart on this whole thing. the novel respiratory coronavirus overtaking wuhan, china. what do we do? you know who we could ask? the wuhan novel respiratory coronavirus lab. the disease is the same name as the lab. i have been alone for so long. [ laughter ] this is june 21, and he makes that link. how do you pond to that scientifically? there s no evidence pointing to that. to say something like that, you re just causing a group of
more likely this is a natural occurrence sars cov 1 animal reservoir to a human. we still don t know what the argument is. it is more likely to be a natural jumping of species from an animal reservoir to a human. jesse: but the first liberals who dared to think logically were the comedians there s a novel respiratory virus overtaking china, what do we do? do you know who we can ask the wuhan novel respiratory coronavirus lab. the disease is the same name as the lab. [laughter] that s just a little too weird, don t you think? there has been an outbreak of chocolaty goodness near hershey pennsylvania. what do you think happened? like, oh, i don t know. maybe steam shovel made it with a cocoa bean or it s the [bleep] chocolate factory.
thank you very much for being with us here today. talk to you soon. thank you. god bless. martha: joe concha joins me, columnist for the hill and a fox news contributor. so how the media dealt with this, joe, there s also a lot of corrections that need to be done here. i want to play this from john stewart. when this happened, i thought to myself, this is a big turning point. this moment means something. sure enough after jon stewart said this, it opened the door i think for where we re getting today. watch this. if there s evidence, i d love to hear it. there s a novel respiratory coronavirus overtaking wuhan china. what do we do? oh, you know who we could ask? the wuhan novel respiratory coronavirus lab. the disease is the same name as the lab. how did this happen? they re like a penguin kissed a turtle. he had a better analogy.