Posted on 03/18/2020 7:17:22 PM PDT by Helicondelta
“This morning a White House official referred to #Coronavirus as the ‘Kung-Flu’ to my face,” CBS News reporter Weijia Jiang tweeted on Tuesday. “Makes me wonder what they’re calling it behind my back.”
As PBS NewsHour correspondent Yamiche Alcindor questioned her about the rhetoric, Conway turned to Jiang, who also stood in the slightly social-distanced press scrum outside the White House and demanded to know which official she was accusing. “Weijia, who was it? Tell us!”
When Jiang replied by saying, “I think you understand how these conversations go,” Conway shot back, “No, I don’t know how these conversations go, and that is highly offensive so you should tell us all who it is.”
In his own press conference on Wednesday afternoon, Trump was asked by Alcindor if he thinks if either term puts Asian-Americans at risk. “No, not at all,” the president said. “I think they probably would agree with it, 100 percent. It comes from China.”
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Winnie-Xi-Pooh Flu.
The Chinese government is engaging in several public relations campaigns right now.
One is the lie that the Wuhan flu / coronavirus is REALLY an American bioweapon used on China.
The other is a simpler demonization of America. Never mind COVID19, SARS, bird flu and swine flu coming out of China every couple of years - you’re evil racists for associating yet another plague with us. You, you’re the bad ones, you’re the meanies, shut up and do what we want.
Egg FLU young?
Press scrum or press scum and zoo zoo zang is the worst.
Of course she made it up, shes's a Leftwong activist, not an honest journalist.
I was just joking, playing off of list of named diseases.
I’m sure Gehrig wouldn’t have felt insulted, nor his family.
It’s all just politically correct nonsense.
It sure is.
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