How the Left’s Media Turned Lies Into Lockdowns [WATCH]

Newsmax host Carl Higbie criticized the national media’s coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, arguing that major news organizations prioritized political narratives over facts and helped elevate public officials whose guidance has since come under renewed scrutiny.

Higbie also pointed to remarks from Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), who reflected on how partisanship influenced his own views during the pandemic.

Higbie began by questioning why many media organizations continue to retain public trust.

“Why does the media have any credibility at all today?” Higbie asked.

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He said he believes viewers who continue watching certain outlets are motivated more by politics than facts.

“My only conclusion, again, I’m going on data here, is that people watching them, the few that are still watching them, they don’t actually care about facts or anything that might make any sense.”

Instead, Higbie argued, “They just want to see things that make Trump look bad.”

According to Higbie, that approach is inconsistent with journalism.

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“That’s not journalism. That’s actually a cult.”

He added, “Congratulations, Libs, but I was right and they were wrong.”

Higbie acknowledged that television ratings have declined for several networks but questioned why any audience remains.

“A lot of people are turning them off. The ratings have cratered on a lot of these left-leaning networks.”

He continued, “However, how did they retain any viewers at all at this point?”

Higbie argued that media organizations embraced sensationalism during the pandemic.

“You see these networks; they cut their teeth in the mantra that if it bleeds, it leads.”

He said that once COVID-19 emerged, networks focused on the most alarming aspects of the pandemic.

“So when COVID happened, they found the most sensationalized aspects of Covid, which were in part coming from Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx and all these other nut jobs and proponents of lockdowns.”

According to Higbie, those reports were used to damage President Donald Trump politically.

“And they sensationalized it like this: CNN, pow, death count for the first months when it was on screen.”

He added, “How many people were dying when Trump was in office? And then the second Biden got in, boom! They turned that thing right off.”

Higbie also claimed reported death figures were later overstated.

“And we now know that they overinflated those numbers.”

He continued, “Even Deborah Birx was like, ‘Oh yeah, we had to like lock her up too.'”

Higbie argued that the media elevated Fauci’s public profile throughout the pandemic.

“They placated Fauci’s ego too, putting Anthony Fauci on the cover of any magazine they could get their hands on, giving him more credibility.”

He also criticized messaging directed toward parents.

“They convinced millions of people that oh, your children will die if you go to school, even though we had the data at the time and they ignored it.”

According to Higbie, “Children were almost not even susceptible to COVID in any serious matter at all.”

He also argued that health officials ignored obesity as a significant risk factor.

“We knew being fat was a massive risk factor, and yet anybody who said anything about that, oh, you’re fat phobic and you can’t do that and you’re discriminated against.”

Higbie added, “No, I’m just trying to make people not die. Get on a treadmill.”

He also criticized media coverage surrounding podcast host Joe Rogan.

“They changed Joe Rogan’s skin color through a filter on CNN to make it look like he was sick when he was talking about ivermectin working.”

Higbie argued that media organizations also promoted vaccine messaging through public campaigns.

“They got kids and even adults to sing just the craziest videos about the vaccine.”

He continued with another example.

“A bunch of high octane, high octave men social distancing to a point of basically neutering themselves, singing in a parking lot with pride flags.”

Higbie said those campaigns had the opposite effect on him.

“That made me want to get the vaccine even less because I didn’t want to end up like those people.”

He also criticized the media’s treatment of former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

“The media was so interested in rushing to make people that they approved of into heroes that they never stopped to think that maybe those people might have been wrong.”

Higbie continued, “A perfect example is Andrew Cuomo as governor.”

“He was the next coming of Christ, according to the liberal media.”

According to Higbie, “Headline after headline” portrayed Cuomo as “a rising star.”

He argued that later developments contradicted that image.

“Then it turns out he was actually a horrible person and wrong about all of it, and his policies ended up getting a bunch of old people killed that he rammed into old folks’ homes.”

Higbie also criticized former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s vaccine promotion efforts.

“Bill DeBlasio offered free French fries for vaccines. I mean, what a nerd!”

Turning to Sen. John Fetterman, Higbie said even Democrats have begun acknowledging mistakes made during the pandemic.

“And even rational Democrats like John Fetterman regret that he even believed the narrative.”

Fetterman reflected on how partisanship influenced his thinking.

“I think that the next time our nation’s facing something like this, we are not become, you know, as I might have been, blinded by the partisan idea that maybe the truth might come from a side that’s different than than you are.”

Higbie concluded by arguing that many media organizations have refused to acknowledge errors in their pandemic coverage.

“And the guy recovering from a stroke becomes more rational than the rest of his entire party.”

He added, “But the media today still can’t admit that they were wrong.”

“They know they were wrong, which is why they omitted the coverage of it yesterday.”

Higbie concluded by saying, “They were so self-absorbed that, despite all the facts now, they still believe that they can just say whatever they want, and that somehow we at home aren’t laughing at them.”

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