Posted on 03/21/2020 6:01:37 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
These are not the polls the corrupt news media was hoping to see. Not at all. – After two solid weeks of the corrupt news media and prominent Democrats parroting the talking points of the communist Chinese government, the public is obviously grown weary of the nonsense. No one with a normal, functioning brain believes that the terms “Chinese flu” or “China virus” that President Donald Trump likes to use are in any real way “racist.” They simply – and accurately – identify the source of the virus that is killing thousands of people all over the world.
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The public’s weariness of the tiresome media/Democrat narrative is now showing up in polling data, with no fewer than four new national polls this past week showing strong majorities of Americans pulling together to reject the narrative and approving of the President’s handling of the crisis. In the two most recent polls, taken this week as the media focus on this non-issue reached a fever pitch, the majority margin is now in double digits.
A new ABC/Ipsos poll released early on Friday shows the approve/disapprove ratio at 55% to 43%, and a new poll from Morning Consult released on Friday afternoon pegs the margin at a whopping 53% to 39%.
The corrupt media petulance moved into the silly season at Friday’s Coronavirus Task Force press conference. The questioning became so absurd that even the normally composed Dr. Anthony Fauci, a 40+ year veteran of such events, snapped at the media twice for reporters’ efforts to mischaracterize some of his own comments.
Unfortunately, though, Fauci’s own comments – intentionally downplaying the potential for hydroxychloroquine to treat coronavirus – ended up playing a dominant role in the presser.
The President’s most notable confrontation of the Friday event came with inveterate jackass MSNBC reporter Peter Alexander, who decided it was his role to debate the POTUS on whether or not he was being “reassuring” enough to the American people.
Here’s a longer, unedited clip of the exchange, not the highly-edited one pretty much every TV outlet decided to run with later:
Buddy Belk @LessGovMoreFun . Here is the full clip, (not the abbreviated dem-clip they've passed around) -- where NBC's Peter Alexander talks over @POTUS, interrupts him, and asks bombastic questions:#ConCast#ChinaCoronavirus#FF
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Alexander: What do you say to Americans who are scared, though, nearly 200 dead, 14,000 who are sick, millions, as you witness, who are scared right now. What do you say to Americans who are watching you right now who are scared?
Trump: I say that you are a terrible reporter. That’s what I say. [crosstalk]
Alexander: [badgering now] But what do you say…
Trump: I say that’s a very nasty question, and I think it’s a very bad signal that you’re putting out to the American people. The American people are looking for answers, and they are looking for hope. And you’re doing sensationalism, and the same with NBC and Comcast, I don’t call…
Alexander: [more badgering]
Trump: …I don’t call it Comcast, I call it Comcast…[more badgering] let me just, for who you work…[more badgering] let me just tell you something: That’s really bad reporting, and you ought to get back to reporting instead of sensationalism. Let’s see if it [hydroxychloroquine] works: It might, and it might not. [more badgering] I happen to feel good about it, but who knows? I’ve been right a lot. Let’s see what happens.
[End]
Now, what had led up to this was really caused by Dr. Fauci, whose real agenda in all of this remains a matter that is still up in the air. Fauci, despite multiple peer-reviewed international studies – one of which we talked about in yesterday’s Campaign Update – indicating that hydroxychloroquine, a plentiful, well-known anti-Malaria treatment, is highly effective in actually curing coronavirus, had just finished his own statement during which he severely downplayed the potential for that drug to help in this pandemic, choosing instead to focus on new drugs that are in the development phase.
Several things are important to note here:
Fauci is a life-long bureaucrat, and it is the nature of bureaucrats to protect their own turf and always seek to expand it. His remarks were entirely consistent with this professional outlook. Those new drugs stand to make billions for American Big Pharma in the context of this plague. Profits from mass production and distribution of a well-known, pre-existing drug like hydroxychloroquine would be far, far less. And, The use of an already-approved, well-known drug denies federal bureaucrats the opportunity to gum up the process and claim credit. So, what is Fauci’s real motivation here? Is he just another turf-protecting bureaucrat who is being influenced by corporations and their lobbyists? It certainly happens. But to his credit, Fauci did come back to the podium later and lecture the reporters in the room for overstating his previous remarks.
Another concern about Fauci surfaced on Friday, this in the form of a letter he sent to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after her shamefully dishonest Benghazi-related testimony before the House Intelligence Committee in 2013. Here is the text of that email, which can best be characterized as a love letter, found yesterday in the files of WikiLeaks:
From your doctor admirer From: Fauci, Anthony (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 6:10 PM
To: Mills, Cheryl D
Subject: Today’s performance
Cheryl: Anyone who had any doubts about the Secretary’s stamina and capability following her illness had those doubts washed away by today’s performance before the Senate and the House. She faced extremely difficult circumstances at the Hearings and still she hit it right out of the park. Please tell her that we all love her and are very proud to know her.
Warm regards, Tony
Anthony S. Fauci, MD
Director National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Building 31, Room 7A-03
31 Center Drive, MSC 2520
National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-2520
Phone: (301) 496-2263 FAX: (301) 47-4409 E-mail: afauci
[End]
My goodness. “Please tell her we all love her”? Really???
At best, this letter and his remarks at Friday’s press conference show lack of judgment and situational awareness on Dr. Fauci’s part. At worst, well, let’s hope the worst case scenario is not in play, because lives are literally at stake.
Bottom line, it is best to treat everything this guy says with a very skeptical ear.
That is all.
Maybe, but I do not accept the media trying to stir up stuff, trying to drive a wedge in the administration.
Fauci is NIH not the CDC.
Bear in mind that email is from 2013.
He is popular and credible.
Firing him would be moronic and give the media a big window to attack Trump.
Light is the best disinfectant.
Let Faucci talk, he agrees with Pres. Trump on most things.
Being stampeded by the media’s invented arguments and divisions in the administration- that is their goal.
One more emergency measure that congress and every state legislature should pass: Prohibit all tort liability actions against individuals or organizations providing good faith treatment for the Wuhan Virus.
One reason that medical providers are so unwilling to consider any emergency modifications to normal procedures is the fear of tort liability suits a year from now after all this is over.
“This Hillary-loving bureaucrat has been running CDC since 1984”
you’re a liar, just like the whole lot of you trolls spreading lies, disinformation and dissension here about President Trump’s COVID-19 team ...
Fauci has never “run” the CDC; he’s the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Fauci
I’ve personally watched every minute of every Trump press conference regarding COVID-19, and it’s obvious that President Trump completely trusts Dr. Fauci and that Dr. Fauci totally has President Trump’s back.
If President Trump didn’t trust Dr. Fauci, Fauci wouldn’t be at every press conferences with President Trump.
It’s obvious that you and your lot of trolls are nothing but thinly disguised anti-Trumpers when you attack people that President Trump trusts, because you are attacking his ability to pick trustworthy people during this crisis ..
If he gets CV, what will he beg to be treated with?
Trump and Pence do not need to be on the same stage together and certainly not with so many at the podium.
If fired, he may go rogue and publicly bash the President every chance he gets. Instead, he should remain on the team, but with a greatly reduced role and much less face time on TV.
Called it a could be game changer. Did not call it a game changer. As president he can say these things but scientists rarely bolt ahead and say things are a could be game changer. They deal in science and good for them. For a leading scientist/researcher to say something may be a game changer is not helpful and if doesn’t turn out to be, credibility is shot and the media hounds run as a pack and get nasty because they were told something that might not work as something that might.
Excellent post
Is christine Grady investing in pharmaceuticals????
“Is christine Grady investing in pharmaceuticals????”
Hmmm... How to find out? ... Are government employees required to have their investment information made public? She’s also NIH, along with her troll husband, so maybe there’s a way.
I Googled her name along with “Clinton Foundation”, and no funny business showed up that I could see.
is little Fauci supplying adrenochrome to the Clintons
through his endless love for the witch?
FIRE THE OBSTRUCTIVE PRO-CLINTON DEEP STATE LIAR
I think the love letter to shillary brings his behavior into clarity.
“Was it not enuf that Italy held the cure for 1 1/2 months to kill the most men possible?”
Killing Italian men? I don’t like the sound of that. Italian men are the best.
Trump is like a general trying to win a war. He has to employ whatever weapons are available to him NOW. Waiting for the perfect weapon to be developed and delivered at the perfect time is not an option. If something is available that can be used in the short run, with minimal apparent risk, he must use it to defeat the enemy as quickly as possible.
Real world solutions are not always perfect or optimal. The theorists and bureaucrats are never on the front lines.
Re: Hillary’s “Performance”
Yep! That’s the right word for it **performance**! Pure kabuki theater.
I think there’s a prophylactic pill — perhaps taken daily — that our military takes when going to areas where malaria is possible. Would that be chloroquine or in its family? If the risks are so great, they wouldn’t do that.
” he’s on TV arguing with the President at the encouragement of the Leftist press. “
And yesterday he upped his game from just arguing to eye rolling. Are these the “professional” people we want running the show.
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