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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This is a typical left thought process where they can’t see the forrest for the trees.
The Compost would certainly know a lot about creating an anti-truth Hellscape.
The anti-truth hellscape is the doings of the Ministry of Propaganda.
Half of the country believes things that are false because they have been indoctrinated by the Ministry of Propaganda.
The wicked creep used US taxpayer money to fund Bat-Virus Research in Communist Red China, infecting hundreds of millions and killing untold numbers of perfectly innocent people with his wicked creation.
This guy should face a firing squad.
How can anybody say that seriously? Fauci is all about politics. Certainly about the "politics" of staying in power.
Clearly, Fauci also wanted the Democrats to win, but even above that, he wanted the spotlight for himself, and after a half century in Washington, he probably knows more about bureaucratic infighting than about "the science" of the disease he helped create.
Margaret lacks any intellectual honesty — but then she writes for the WP which is a requirement for their writers.
You know that he lied to you, too Margaret!
(I guess it doesn’t matter to her as long as she feeeeeeeeeeeeeels that she’s winning)
Clicked to see who wrote the story. Don’t know the reporter, but I know the Washington Compost.
Fauci’s gain-of-function experiment in the Wuhan lab directly led to a deadly global pandemic.
Fauci is the government’s top advocate of making diseases more infectious.
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