Then-SoS Hillary, Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Francis Collins.
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.
“Fauci is a serious, intelligent infectious disease expert, an accomplished research scientist who understands the scientific method.”
He may be all of those things, but he is a politician first, having been in his political post for almost 40 years.
I can’t help but wonder how much influence Tony had on the “15 Days to Slow the Spread” guidelines. It sounds like a very compressed time and an unnecessary time constraint that could seriously backfire if the guidelines should have to be extended.
Tony had to know that 15 days was very aggressive and therefore potentially subject to revision(s) which would call into question the president’s strategy. Hope I’m wrong about that.
The female doctor is Deborah Birx. I’m inclined to like her, and she’s done hands-on immunology work more recently than Fauci. She’s got a good style and presentation, but I’m not sure if she could handle the onslaught of the press bullying.
“the President set forth ‘Compassionate Use’”
That, along with his “Right To Try” policy, is enough to get the ball rolling on this.
“He is an arrogant little weasel.”
I was calling him “goblin” and “troll”, but I do like “weasel”!!
Which is why it remains a PRESCRIPTION DRUG.
Every Drug has side effects. It is up to a Doctor to make the decision that best suits the Patient involved. A Medical Doctor passing this Drug out like Candy would obviously be dangerous and inept.
As I have heard and read, the Malaria Drug is used alongside the typical Z Pak Medication currently prescribed for Flu and Pneumonia and according to some Doctors it is very effective. It is being used when other Treatment regimens are not effective.
When the choice is life or death, you do what you have to do.
” quinines are not pure miracle drugs.”
At this point, we don’t need “miracle drugs”. We need existing drugs that will mitigate the symptoms and contagion WuFlu, and perhaps prevent it, immediately. That will give time for immunologists to create an actual miracle vaccine for the long term.
But that isn’t even possible, most likely. We have flu vaccines but they’re only about 50% effective, and often aren’t effective at all for the Flu Of The Year. People are expecting too much; they’re expecting perfection. “Perfect is the enemy of good.”
“Trump is keeping Fauci from the media”
Yeah; that’s pretty funny. As if anyone could keep Fauci from a TV camera. Broken glass, you know.
“the plan of the elites is to cull the population ... No worries. No problem. Just virus them off the planet in a ‘normal’ breakout of illnesses.”
There might be a problem with their idea, considering that those in rural America and flyover states live their lives social distancing, and they’re the patriots. So the patriots survive, and the elites’ ghetto supporters croak. Sounds like a plan.
“If he gets CV, what will he beg to be treated with?”
My bet is that he won’t get CV. I figure he takes a chloroquine pill every single day, as the overseas military men to. HE knows it works, but he doesn’t want us to know.
The Fauci family needs looking into.
“His wife has a different last name....I wonder if she INVESTS in PHARMACEUTICALs?....she gave HILLIARY $1000.00....hmm. .”
Forget his wife. That would be too obvious. With the Ukraine-Biden situation, we now know to look farther out in the family tree to find corruption. What about the kids, siblings, etc.?
I just posted that the Fauci Family needs looking Into.
:) Thank you! (GMTA?)
Hillary once claimed, "Nine million people have lower-cost HIV/AIDS
meds because of my husband's work at the Clinton Foundation."
Yet, NOT ONCE during her 2016 campaign did she mention the "wonderful work" of Bill and the C/F.
I’d like to know if she’s in touch with the Fauci family!!
Then-SoS Hillary, Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Francis Collins.
No one with a normal, functioning brain.
Have to remember it’s liberals talking to liberals.
The drug has been used for 65 years. The risks are well known. It’s to a patient and doctor to discuss those risks.
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