[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 99 (Wednesday, May 27, 2020)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E486]
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                       JERRY FALWELL JR., CORRECT

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                            HON. JOE WILSON

                           of south carolina

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, May 27, 2020

  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Madam Speaker, despite fake news 
reports during the Wuhan Virus pandemic from the New York Times and the 
Washington Post parroted by other biased media, President Jerry 
Falwell, Jr., of Liberty University has been praised May 19th by 
William McGurn in The Wall Street Journal:

       How it must hurt to have to admit: Jerry Falwell Jr. was 
     right.
       No doubt this explains why we're not reading stories about 
     how the president of Liberty University kept his Lynchburg, 
     Va., campus open while keeping his community safe from Covid-
     19. The doomsday predicted when Mr. Falwell announced Liberty 
     students would return after spring break never came to pass.
       As the Times reported nearly a dozen Liberty students had 
     come down ``with symptoms that suggested Covid-19,'' a fact 
     endlessly repeated in other news outlets. A snarky Financial 
     Times op-ed citing ``Falwell's hubris'' dropped the 
     qualifiers and asserted ``twelve students promptly came down 
     with coronavirus,'' which was corrected about a week later.
       In a part of his early statements on Liberty's reopening 
     that received almost no attention, Mr. Falwell said in its 
     handling of coronavirus Liberty would prove a ``model'' for 
     others. Would it kill the critics so quickly to paint Mr. 
     Falwell as the Grim Reaper to acknowledge, if only in the 
     name of science, Liberty's experience might have something to 
     teach them.

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