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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I don’t think KEC really cares that much but she needed to act the part in order to (successfully) call out that CCP officer’s bluff.
Good for KellyAnne! My new mantra ‘if there’s no video, it didn’t happen’. PERIOD.
LOL, yes she’s got a beefy physique about her.
The point is the reporter is obviously lying. She’ll sit there all day and (falsely) report that someone said it. But when ANYONE asks her who it was she won’t tell them. Prez Trump asked today too. Nope, won’t say.
Is Weijia Jiang making up a verbal hate crime, her own version of a Jessie Smollett stunt?
She won’t name the person who said it, as if this is something you’d say on background.
In my constitutionally protected opinion, she deserves to be sued for slandering every member of the White House sraff, by putting them all under suspicion
Hoax.
Chris Plante, whose radio show I listen to daily, called it the “Kung Flu” at least three weeks ago. I thought it was clever; why doesn’t he get the credit?
They should sue the reporter for slander, imo
Flu Tang Clan?
I think it’s funny! Kung Flu
That made me laugh.
And it’s no tautology either.
The world is suffering a Kung-Flu Pandamic.
Gasp! Ms. Jiangxi’s was perpetrating a hoax!
Another instance of demand exceeding supply.
Wuhan flu is better since it is named after where it originated. CCP Flu is best.
Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!!!
She’s afraid to give a name because the records may reveal the name she gives was not there at that time and thus, prove her to be another Media Liar out to damage President Trump and his team with complete and utter lies.
This is the old “somebody said” BS routine. She should have her press credentials yanked.
“She was born in Xiamen, China and raised in West Virginia, where she immigrated with her parents when she was two years old.”
I guess raising hell and crapping on the White House is her was of saying “Thank you for letting me come to America”. Please tell me more about how wonderful this recent mass immigration wave has been for America (legal AND illegal)
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