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Media Push Fake News About FDA Official Supposedly Fired Over Opposing Hydroxychloroquine, Then the Real Story Comes Out
Red State ^ | 04/23/2020 | Bonchie

Posted on 04/23/2020 9:03:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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Christine Blasey Ford takes a break in her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018 on Capitol Hill in Washington. Lawyers seated are Debra Katz and Michael Bromwich. (Saul Loeb/ Pool Image via AP)

 

It’s almost like The New York Times is nothing but a partisan gossip rag.

Yesterday, a story was put out by Maggie Haberman that made a rather convenient claim that just so happened to reinforce every media narrative. Namely, that an FDA official named Rick Bright was fired for selflessly sounding the alarm on the supposed vast dangers of hydroxychloroquine.

Breaking News: A doctor who led a U.S. agency helping to develop a coronavirus vaccine says he was removed because he questioned the promotion of hydroxychloroquine, a drug endorsed by President Trump without rigorous vetting https://t.co/WShFySmZuv https://t.co/LeiAnBnUXS

— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 22, 2020

But, like all stories that appear in the Times and other mainstream outlets, it’s always best to give them a few hours. In this case, it didn’t take long for the real story to start coming out and you’ll be shocked to learn that Haberman’s original piece was completely wrong.

For example, Bright himself requested the FDA give emergency approval for hydroxychloroquine.

In March, Rick Bright requested the FDA issue an "Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for emergency use of oral formulations of chloroquine phosphate and hydroxychloroquine sulfate for the treatment of 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19)…" https://t.co/ZKZJB17v32 pic.twitter.com/uFB6Ymkq1k

— jerylbier (@JerylBier) April 23, 2020

Does that sound like someone deeply skeptical of the drug who’s just attempting to stop that dastardly orange man from harming people?

It gets worse, though.

The Trump administration has been working to oust Bright since last year, as officials battled with him over his management and leadership.

With permission, sharing this time-stamped text from individual with knowledge of those fights. pic.twitter.com/ExYILm1pQI

— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) April 22, 2020

Not only was Bright not fired for anything to do with hydroxychloroquine, his ouster has been in the making long before anyone was even concerned with the Wuhan virus. Apparently, Bright has a history of insubordination and believing he has more authority than he does. Knowing that he was going to be fired anyway, he’s now spinning a fake narrative that he was simply a hero trying to save lives.

But are you ready for the best part? He’s now hired Christine Blasey Ford’s lawyer, so you know this is totally legit.

BRIGHT is being represented by Debra Katz and Lisa Banks, who have a whistleblower practice (and who also repped Christine Blasey Ford) https://t.co/V7Vbxg1qxk

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 22, 2020

Yes, Bright is hiring Debra Katz, whose malfeasance during the Kavanaugh hearings is well known. No doubt this is an attempt to push Bright as a “whistle-blower,” either for money or via another Congressional farce. It’s also not a coincidence that Haberman knew Bright was hiring Katz almost immediately. The likely explanation is that this entire story came from Katz in the first place and Haberman either got worked over or willingly chose to be her mouthpiece.

There’s a reason the Hillary campaign described Maggie Haberman as a reporter they can count on. She and the Times continue to put out half-baked, false stories knowing they can hide behind the idea that they were simply reporting what they were told. Apparently, verifying information isn’t within their purview.

Take this deflection of responsibility for example.

The NYT story about Bright was not structured as a story, it was more like a gossip item, forthrightly saying the whole item was “he claims.” Ppl still read it as something other than it was, which is not NYT fault. What was it exactly? It should’ve been obvious:

— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) April 23, 2020

It’s not the Times’ fault for making such a serious charge in the form of a gossip item, failing to check even the most basic facts? Yeah, I’m gonna have to disagree on that one. This is absolutely the Times’ fault and they continue to show themselves to be a totally worthless rag.

 


TOPICS: Government; Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: beijingmaggie; brightisnotadoctor; coronavirus; fakedoctor; fakedoctorbright; fda; hoax; hoaxnews; hydroxychloroquine; liarbright; media; msm; newxitimes; notadoctor; phoneydoctor; phoneydoctorbright; resumefraud; richardbright; thenewxitimes
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To: SeekAndFind
NY Times writes:

"Breaking News: A *** doctor *** who led a U.S. agency helping to develop a coronavirus vaccine says he was removed ..."

A previous poster on another thread posted to me that Bright was not an MD but a PhD.

So I checked it out and found this:

"Dr. Bright received his PhD in Immunology and Molecular Pathogenesis from Emory University (Atlanta, GA) and his BS in Biology (Medical Technology) and Physical Sciences from Auburn University (Montgomery, AL)."

https://www.who.int/blueprint/about/Rick-Bright/en/

So it appears true, Rick Bright is no MD/

But nevertheless he is highly educated and I call into question why he didn't attend medical school under an MD-PHD program.

Is it important that he never attended medical school, never trained and achieved board certification, never practiced medicine?

The answer really depends on 'character', 'insight', 'ethics', 'values', 'humanitarianism'. in short whether or not there exists a grounded outside society of those in admiration of Rick Bright. Does he have a solid following of people that attests to how good a person he is?

High credentials do not tell the full story even for MDs. They are only part of the story.

So I looked for such a society and all I could see was a background in government bureaucracy. To me, this means he could be one of those bureaucrats that we all learn to abhor because they hide within government corridors and develop a mutual network of like-minded bureaucrats whose mission is to protect themselves first before climbing the ranks where they are able to enrich themselves at our expense.

For example, PEPFAR.

PEPFAR was mentioned by the President a few days ago in a press conference as having a budget of more than 30 BILLION dollars for doing not a whole lot. IOW it's a slush fund.

When looking at who Bright hobnobs with, we find he hangs with a like-minded bureaucracy clique reaching into a globalist grifter network including the WHO crowd led by Tedros who is also not a doctor, not an MD. but is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, born in Egypt, moved as a boy to Ethiopia where he became a Marxist and joined a terrorist group. This is the network of Rick Bright.

To be fair, Donald Trump as a Casino Builder and investor in Atlantic City had partnerships with people who were not too far removed from mobsters. But there's a difference. Trump fed one of the greatest crime fighters of the 20th Century named Rudy Giuliani, a NY prosecutor, Trump fed him information received from others about the Mob and Giuliani took down the Mob.

When thorough research of Trump's background is conducted from when he was a boy to a man of incredible achievements and talents, an astonishing picture emerges of someone who has helped thousands selflessly from the heart for no other reason other than it was the right thing to do. His good heart was known by many long before he ever became a candidate for President.

I researched Trump in 2015 expecting to find all manner of darkness and ties to the dregs of society. What I found shocked me to my core toward the opposite view. Here's a tiny snippet of what was found from posts of that time:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3330070/posts?page=86#79

Little by little from 2015 on there was a warm relationship forming with Candidate Donald Trump that became an avalanche of support culminating in mega rallies never seen before. He earned the trust of tens of millions (and still growing).

Can we see even a glimmer of earned trust in Rick Bright, PhD? As a highly educated PhD, is Bright an admirable human being and humanitarian?

I don't see it. Tell me if I've missed it.

21 posted on 04/23/2020 10:43:09 AM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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Debra Katz, whose malfeasance during the Kavanaugh hearings is well known.

I must have missed those stories. Anybody happen to have a link to the details of this malfeasance?

22 posted on 04/23/2020 11:03:53 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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Yes, she later admitted that support for abortion motivated the attempted railroading of Kavanaugh.

Blasey Ford Attorney Admits Abortion Support ‘Motivated’ Anti-Kavanaugh Accusations
https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/04/blasey-ford-attorney-admits-abortion-supported-motivated-anti-kavanaugh-accusations


23 posted on 04/23/2020 11:14:42 AM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: SeekAndFind
Yesterday, a story was put out by Maggie Haberman that made a rather convenient claim that just so happened to reinforce every media narrative. Namely, that an FDA official named Rick Bright was fired for selflessly sounding the alarm on the supposed vast dangers of hydroxychloroquine.

That isn't true.

The story said Bright claimed that's why he was fired.

I'd rather have NYT's standard of journalism than Red State's.

24 posted on 04/23/2020 11:18:03 AM PDT by semimojo
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To: Hostage
Thanks!
25 posted on 04/23/2020 11:30:21 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Yesterday, a story was put out by Maggie Haberman that made a rather convenient claim that just so happened to reinforce every media narrative. Namely, that an FDA official named Rick Bright was fired for selflessly sounding the alarm on the supposed vast dangers of hydroxychloroquine... and you’ll be shocked to learn that Haberman’s original piece was completely wrong. For example, Bright himself requested the FDA give emergency approval for hydroxychloroquine.

26 posted on 04/23/2020 5:31:05 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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The democrat dipshit is addressing Congress right now.Now he’s saying thousands died because Trump ignored warnings from him. He also has Blasey Ford’s lawyer. Just more bullshit to try and label Trump an incompetent dunce.


27 posted on 05/14/2020 7:25:15 AM PDT by NKP_Vet ("Man without God descends into madness”)
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