Posted on 06/12/2021 1:50:34 PM PDT by Ennis85
Right-wing commentators are pretending that thousands of newly released emails from Anthony S. Fauci represent some kind of smoking gun against the government’s top infectious-disease expert, whom they have recently decided to try to destroy.
I haven’t been nearly as excited by the emails, which are mostly full of mundane correspondence. But there’s at least one line in them that stands out.
“I genuflect to no one but science and always, always speak my mind when it comes to public health,” the normally even-tempered scientist wrote in March of last year, to an epidemiologist who had accused a number of public health officials of appeasing the science-challenged President Donald Trump.
At 80, Fauci has served in Republican and Democratic administrations since the Reagan era. And until recently, he has garnered widespread respect. The reason is in that email: He’s really not a political animal, but someone who is all about the science.
For decades, that has served him well. But not anymore.
These days, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is the right’s latest excuse for outrage-mongering.
Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York wants Fauci fired immediately. Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri expressed shock at the supposed revelations in Fauci’s emails and called for a full congressional investigation.
Tucker Carlson wants a criminal investigation. His Fox News colleague Steve Hilton claimed last weekend that Fauci lied to Congress about ties between a Chinese lab and the Obama administration.
And the fringe Gateway Pundit website published a story blaming Fauci for millions of deaths. It featured a deranged headline that recalled the fake miracle cures for covid-19 that Trump used to tout: “They CONSPIRED to Disqualify Hydroxychloroquine as a COVID treatment.”
Social media, of course, takes all of this to a much darker place, led in
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"Fauci was wrong when he advised against routine mask-wearing early in the pandemic. And he may prove to be wrong about his belief that the virus originally spread to humans from a wild animal, rather than because of a Chinese government lab leak. He says he’s keeping an open mind — waiting for more data."
“In October, Fauci told CBS’s “60 Minutes” that he and his family had received death threats and said he required a security detail to do his daily power walks. “
And Trump received and continues to receive how many death threats a day?
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Fauci is a Political Animal, and has treated a Patient in over 25 yrs.
Only in a Supreme (uncaring) Bureaucracy, can a Fauci be sold as a God by the propaganda papers.
Fauci is a Political Animal, and hasn’t treated a Patient in over 25 yrs.
Only in a Supreme (uncaring) Bureaucracy, can a Fauci be sold as a God by the propaganda papers.
Is it Opposite Day already? Or, should I say, again?
“the government’s top infectious-disease expert”
That he is not.
He’s a fifty+ year Goobermint dept head.
Maybe some folks working in the labs and analysis areas are experts. It’s been many moons since Fauci the Hillary Hound Fraud was an expert at anything.
“He’s really not a political animal, but someone who is all about the science.”
http://www.lerctr.org/~transit/healy/bull.wav
So, basically, everything that the right accused him of was true, yet the right created the “anti-truth hellscape.”
The fact that Fauci served under both Democrat and Republican administrations doesn’t make him a non-political figure. It does not excuse how his policies trashed the economy and caused hundreds of thousands of deaths, just to cover his ass over his role in the COVID calamity.
“Nothing to see here, folks, just keep moving along.”
Officer Barbrady of South Park fame.
He LIED about gain of function research. Outright denied it.
Lies by omission are lies.
Millions have died.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth can be a revolutionary act.
Kool-aide gain of function. Yep, about right.
If we want the facts to come from Wuhan and Fauci-Inc.,fly 50 American flags outside the Wuhan labs. The New York Times will go bat$hit into them as a real threat to Skipper-crats everywhere.
Ya, cuz the WaPo has proven such a great arbiter of “truth”.....
Straight from the Ministry of Truth... NOT.
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