Greg Gutfeld

We previously reported how Media Matters deputy director of rapid response Andrew Lawrence falsely accused Fox’s Greg Gutfeld of downplaying the Wuhan coronavirus.

Greg Gutfeld says Fox's "The Five" sounded the alarm on coronavirus back in January……BUT he's lying pic.twitter.com/m7UpyhBLSQ

— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) March 31, 2020

In fact, as Gutfeld showed with video from Jan. 28 was that he was one in media who was calling it out as a concern early.

this was January 28th. what were media hacks who are acting like they're Nostradamus now, saying back then? Zilch. https://t.co/AJpYjsFziV

— GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) March 22, 2020

What were those on the liberal media doing then? Calling the White House task force too male and too white and focusing on the impeachment of President Donald Trump.

Gutfeld warned Lawrence but he kept at it.

The way your show and your network covered this from the beginning are going to get people killed

— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) March 31, 2020

Gutfeld later tweeted he was talking with lawyer Harmeet Dhillon.

But the Media Matters president tried to dig the hole a little deeper.

A Fox News host threatening to sue Media Matters for…wait for it…criticizing Fox’s coronavirus coverage, says his show always took it seriously (the show did not always take seriously) and that @mmfa is slandering

Imagine being so foxed up to assert Fox always took seriously

— Angelo Carusone (@GoAngelo) April 2, 2020

Notice how Carusone didn’t bother to @ Gutfeld. Naturally, Gutfeld found out anyway.

Gutfeld pointed out that he’d done 17 segments expressing concerns about the virus. But reality apparently doesn’t matter to the folks at Media Matters.

17 segments refute his lie. Your employee lied about what I said on the Five. And your backpedaling and goal-post moving reveals that. Do the right thing. Not the ideological thing. Angelo, you know i was concerned & made it clear. You know that in your heart. https://t.co/Zlisr8W4R6

— GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) April 2, 2020

last note @GoAngelo i'm not trying to get U fired or ruin U. MMFA's goal has always been that for me. but i wont do that to U. I think youre wrong. U think i'm evil. U can change that. here & now. All i ask is U do the human thing: admit a wrong. U will feel better for it.

— GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) April 2, 2020

Gotta love Gutfeld for calling it like it is, although one wonders if he’s right about the heart part when this is on what Carusone is focused.

But otherwise he’s right on the money there, for sure.

Even now you see folks on the left trying to use a pandemic as an excuse to go after Fox News and shamelessly claim they’re responsible for costing lives.

Meanwhile while folks like Gutfeld were actually sounding the alarm, you had Democrats saying it was time to go out and party, with Pelosi saying to go out to the parade in San Francisco’s Chinatown and NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio even into March saying transmission wasn’t easy and if you’re under 50, don’t worry.

SUPERCUT!

Dems give really terrible Coronavirus advice pic.twitter.com/j9pTJr5Lw5

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) April 1, 2020

With other media was writing stuff like this:

Media hacks, and their liberal pals, absolutely hate it (read the comments in this thread) when you post THEIR OWN HEADLINES about the Wuhan Virus. It drives them mad. The truth hurts. Please retweet this to remind them of THEIR words. 👇🏻👇🏻🚨 pic.twitter.com/9PQv9yV01z

— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) April 2, 2020

HT: Twitchy