Jon Stewart Gets BASHED After Voicing His Thoughts On Lab-Leak Theory (Video)

Stewart spoke up in defense of this theory when he appeared on Steven Colbert’s show.

The Daily Caller reports that Stewart made these claims in 2021 and faced immense blowback from certain corners for promoting this theory. However, a new report from the Department of Energy shows that there may be more to the theory than what some wanted to believe. It turns out that the Department of Energy recently released a report in which it made it clear that the lab leak theory is certainly something that could have potentially been the root cause of what allowed the COVID-19 pandemic to spread in the first place.

During a June 2021 appearance on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” Stewart mocked people who felt that it was completely impossible that the virus spread from a lab. He felt that they were too quick to dismiss the theory that a lab leak could have been the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic spreading.

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Stewart said: “Oh my God! There’s a novel respiratory Coronavirus overtaking Wuhan, China,” and “What do we do? You know who we could ask — the Wuhan Novel Respiratory Coronavirus Lab. The disease is the same name as the lab!”

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A few months after that appearance, Stewart spoke with the Hollywood Reporter and said that he was a “little shocked” by all of the blowbacks that he received from that appearance.

Stewart addressed the controversy again recently on his show. He said: “Are you trying to get me canceled again?” as he joked with one of the producers of his show. Stewart then continued:

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“The larger problem with all of this is the inability to discuss things that are within the realm of possibility without falling into absolutes and litmus-testing each other for our political allegiances as it arose from that,” and “My bigger problem with that was I thought it was a pretty good bit that expressed kind of how I felt, and the two things that came out of it were ‘I’m racist against Asian people’ and ‘how dare I align myself with the alt-right.'”

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Finally, he concluded by saying:

“The part that I don’t like about it is the absolutes and the dismissive like, ‘Fuck you, I’m done with you. I will never forgive you, you have crossed an unforgivable line, you’ve expressed an opinion that is antithetical to mine, or not mine.'”

Stewart believes that this theory is worthy of consideration.