Joe Scarborough picked morning to take a break day from Morning Joe. It got here the day after Fox Information aired an interview with FBI Director Chris Wray during which he mentioned  “The FBI has for fairly a while now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most certainly a possible lab incident in Wuhan . . . Right here you’re speaking about a possible leak from a Chinese language government-controlled lab.” 

The MSM “standard knowledge” corps has lengthy dismissed the notion that the virus originated in a government-controlled lab as a Sino-phobic conspiracy concept. They believed it got here from a close-by “moist market,” which might be extra handy for the Chinese language communists. 

At the moment’s Morning Joe crew buried the truth that in 2021, Scarborough sneeringly condemned “Harvard man” Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), for:

“Spouting a conspiracy concept that the Chinese language made this virus up in a lab.” 

You could have Rush Limbaugh, day-after-day, the Presidential Medal of Freedom honor. It is arduous to say that is probably the most reckless factor he is ever performed, however saying mainly this was only a conspiracy . . . That is severe stuff, of us. Don’t fret about your scores for one week. Do not attempt to spool up whoever was sporting tinfoil hats in your viewers. However that is what’s occurring. These conspiracy theorists are persevering with to say issues which are going to be terribly harmful for this nation.”

If Scarborough had any guts, or journalistic integrity, he would have appeared on immediately’s present to eat some crow — or higher but, some bat from that Wuhan dwell market. Carrying a tinfoil hat would have been a pleasant extra contact.

However Joe was surprisingly absent. Mika Brzezinski opened the present by blandly asserting with out rationalization that “Joe has the break day.” As Church Girl Dana Carvey would say, “how handy!”

Now that the liberal media line on Covid origin has been debunked, and Republicans who pointed the finger on the Commie-controlled Wuhan lab have been confirmed proper, Morning Joe common Katty Kay underlined the “intelligence group” remains to be divided on this matter and urged Republicans to not make a lot point out of that, to be able to protect “bipartisanship.”

KAY: I believe the necessary factor in regards to the choose committee is that they maintain the bipartisanship that they’ve. And that they do not let statements like we have had out of China this morning type of pressure the type of polarization we have seen in American politics the place this turns into a tit-for-tat, with Republicans saying, look, we mentioned it was from a lab, and Dr. Fauci, for instance, did not agree with us that it was from a lab, and he was saying it was from the market.

And you can see a few of that already in a number of the extra excessive pro-Trump voices, across the reviews that the US intelligence, that the FBI thinks that this did come from a lab. So I believe the true job of the committee is to maintain the partisan — the bipartisanship on China coverage collectively, and never let this change into one other sufferer of American division over virtually each subject between left and proper.

Proper. As a result of these oh-so-bipartisan Democrats by no means exploit any potential political benefit.

Joe Scarborough being surprisingly absent for Morning Joe the day after his declare was debunked that individuals who consider Covid originated in a Wuhan lab are “spouting a conspiracy concept” was sponsored partly by Volkswagen and Roman. 

This is the transcript.

MSNBC
Morning Joe
3-1-23
6:07 am ET

MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Welcome to Morning Joe. It’s Wednesday, March 1st. Joe has the morning off. However together with Willie and me, we have now, after all, the host of Approach Too Early, White Home bureau chief at Politico Jonathan Lemire. US particular correspondent for BBC Information, Katty Kay, and the president of the Council on International Relations, Richard Haass is with us this morning.

. . . 

WILLIE GEIST: You had the Director of the FBI yesterday saying in no unsure phrases that the FBI, along with the Division of Vitality which has been speaking about for the final couple of days, the FBI believes within the lab-leak concept as effectively. 

MIKA: Yeah. The Director of the FBI says China is obstructing efforts by the US and others to research the origins of Covid.

In an interview with Fox Information, Christopher Wray mentioned that the company has assessed that the virus most certainly got here from a possible lab incident in Wuhan.

CHRISTOPHER WRAY: I ought to add that our work associated to this continues, and there are usually not an entire lot of particulars I can share that are not labeled. I’ll simply make the commentary that the Chinese language authorities, appears to me, has been doing its finest to attempt to thwart and obfuscate the work right here, the work that we’re doing, the work that our U.S. authorities and shut international companions are doing, and that is unlucky for everyone.

. . .

MIKA: Yeah, there’s not a whole settlement on this within the intelligence group, Katty. 

. . . 

KATTY KAY: I believe you are proper to level out that there is some division within the intelligence communities over the diploma of confidence with which anybody is aware of whether or not this got here from a lab or got here from that market.

And I believe the necessary factor in regards to the choose committee is that they maintain the bipartisanship that they’ve. And that they do not let statements like we have had out of China this morning type of pressure the type of polarization we have seen in American politics the place this turns into a tit-for-tat, with Republicans saying, look, we mentioned it was from a lab, and Dr. Fauci, for instance, did not agree with us that it was from a lab, and he was saying it was from the market.

And you can see a few of that already in a number of the extra excessive pro-Trump voices, across the reviews that the US intelligence, that the FBI thinks that this did come from a lab. So I believe the true job of the committee is to maintain the partisan — the bipartisanship on China coverage collectively, and never let this change into one other sufferer of American division over virtually each subject between left and proper.