Politi"fact" Retracts Wuhan Virus "Fact"-Check That Ruled The Lab-Lead Hypothesis: "Pants On Fire"

link   The MSM has become a progressive propaganda organ, and its "fact-"checks are just another branch of that media. What's the difference supposed to be, anyway, between fact-checks and regular stories? Why not just write another story? Aren't news stories basically supposed to be fact-checks themselves? Fact is, the MSM now routinely just adopts whatever view is popular on the left, and cobbles together stories that cherry-pick and spin and nip and tuck until progressive propaganda comes out the other end. Of course politics is notorious for making people lose their objectivity. But what's happening on the contemporary progressive left is unprecedented in my lifetime. The left so controls all our institutions that its dogma rarely generates significant public pushback. Its worldview has become extremely radical--and the more extreme someone gets, the less objective they become. And the postmodern progressive left is built on political correctness--a view that specifically subordinates evidence and reason to political dogma. Ordinary extremists are epistemically wrecked by their extremism--but few specifically accept rejection of truth and objectivity as a principle.