{"id":76850,"date":"2021-02-18T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76850"},"modified":"2021-02-13T07:54:30","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T13:54:30","slug":"joe1-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76850","title":{"rendered":"Walking Back…Most Of Their Assertions, To Be Honest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

I recently suggested a new on-going feature, walking back the lies<\/a>.\u00a0 I have another item for the column.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The Best and Brightest people\u00a0who sneered at Conservatives<\/a>\u00a0as ignorant, hateful racists for suggesting the debunked idea that a lab in Wuhan was the source of the virus and the Chinese were covering it up\u00a0– are\u00a0walking back the lie.<\/a>\u00a0 It seems\u00a0 the virus may indeed have originated in Wuhan and the Chinese may indeed have covered it up.\u00a0<\/p>

No apology of course.\u00a0 No admission that Conservatives were right all along.\u00a0 We don’t insist on that, don’t expect it, and would be astonished if it were forthcoming.<\/p>

But somebody should remember and therefore the purpose of this ongoing feature.\u00a0 We were right.\u00a0 And they knew it.\u00a0<\/p>

Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Series? Not a bad idea at all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s verging on a Berg’s Law of “Fact-Checking” – something to the effect of “to the ‘fact-check’ caste, truth is directly correlated to “did a progressive say it”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thinking. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently suggested a new on-going feature, walking back the lies.\u00a0 I have another item for the column. The Best and Brightest people\u00a0who sneered at Conservatives\u00a0as ignorant, hateful racists for suggesting the debunked idea that a lab in Wuhan was the source of the virus and the Chinese were covering it up\u00a0– are\u00a0walking back the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,130,230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-tc-media-bias","category-the-fact-check-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76850"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76861,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76850\/revisions\/76861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}