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Fauci’s Fall from Grace Began a Year Ago Today
American Thinker ^ | March 21, 2021 | Peter Barry Chowka

Posted on 03/21/2021 7:13:15 AM PDT by Kaslin

One year ago today, an article of mine at American Thinker became a flashpoint of mainstream media coverage and criticism. Before two weeks had passed, my article was referenced, including with links to it and me in four major articles at the Washington Post, two in the New York Times (one of them on page one – which I exposed as Fake News here), Politico, Vanity Fair, Buzzfeed, New York Magazine, and others. Many of these articles were syndicated and went around the world.

The reason for all this fuss was that I was the first one in the national media to challenge the media-driven image of Dr. Anthony Fauci as a sage and a savior, a man whose commands to shut down the nation must be obeyed. You see, I had studied Fauci’s handling of AIDS starting almost 40 years ago, and I knew how he operated, and that he was far from politically neutral. The constant media adoration at the start of the “fifteen days to bend the curve” got to me, and I titled my article: “Anthony Fauci, the NIH's face of the coronavirus, is a Deep-State Hillary Clinton–loving stooge.”

In the first article that took me on in the Washington Post (March 26, 2020), national political reporter and former Rhodes Scholar Isaac Stanley-Becker confirmed the impact of my American Thinker item:

Chowka’s piece has generated nearly 20,000 interactions on Facebook alone — more than the typical well performing story in the mainstream media.

That WaPo story was only the beginning, however. It was followed in quick succession by three more in Bezos’s outlet and by two in the New York Times. Subsequent articles implied that I should be blamed for alleged threats to Dr.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; US: California; US: District of Columbia; US: Illinois; US: New York
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

“Highest paid government employee...

Why ?”

His position is classified for the top rung of the pay chart. At 81, he has also maxed out seniority, and he gets the additional premium pay bonus for Doctors.


21 posted on 03/21/2021 8:04:45 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: thirst4truth

“My county right now is in total lock down, no restaurants or gyms or small stores are open at all.”

Really? I didn’t think there were any left in full draconian lockdown. Even here in Santa Clara County, California (ground zero for extreme COVID fear and obeisance to liberal government), we are back open. The only restrictions seem to be reduced capacity in restaurants and every store requires you to wear a mask. But all the stores from very small to very big are open. The freeways are jammed again and driving anywhere has become a pain in the neck again. Having the roads, freeways and parks largely to myself the past year was sure nice while it lasted!

Where are you located? I’m guessing Michigan.


22 posted on 03/21/2021 8:05:55 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (The Weak Never Started, The Cowards fail along the way, Only the Strong Survive)
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To: Kaslin

If three masks are good today, why weren’t they a year ago?


23 posted on 03/21/2021 8:06:29 AM PDT by depressed in 06
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To: Kaslin
Foh Xi fell from grace very early IMHO, when he undercut the President Trump's initiatives to make repurposed drug therapy available to the general public so we would not have had such extended lock downs.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Foh Xi is a traitor and a fascist, a totalitarian struggling to hide the fact that he is a genocidal maniac who does not know the concept of freedom or liberty.

He should be indicted.

24 posted on 03/21/2021 8:10:00 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: KeyLargo

Most important if you develop complications from the vaccine or get cancer or some other disease that is later discovered was caused by the vaccine the drug company is bullet proof. They can’t be sued or held accountable after they make untold billions! Nice work if you can get it!


25 posted on 03/21/2021 8:11:17 AM PDT by Boardwalk (Lets)
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To: Fred Nerks

Ping to Dr. Death Demise.


26 posted on 03/21/2021 8:11:25 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: Kaslin

One day they will be interviewing him from behind bars. He will be saying how he likes the world listening to him and the control he had. It had him on a high.


27 posted on 03/21/2021 8:20:50 AM PDT by glimmerman70
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To: Kaslin

His fall from grace began the day he contradicted Joseph Stolen and kept pushing his ‘COVID will never end’ narrative. They wanted that narrative when they could blame Trump for it. Now they only want COVID as a thing so they can keep their boot on our neck but not so much that they can’t selectively reward just their supporters with easing restrictions. By defying the Xiden narrative he went from golden boy to mud overnight and for once I agree with Xiden: Fauci is a self serving POS that needs to be humiliated.


28 posted on 03/21/2021 8:40:49 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: The Sons of Liberty
American Thinker again wins the award for worst reporting.

Fauci was being called a putz wayyyy before this guy joined the party. Peter Navarro for one was anti-Fauci early on. And while Chowka may have been attacked by a few publications, for him to claim that HE started it reminds me of another "journalist."


29 posted on 03/21/2021 9:01:29 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: thirst4truth
MOVE!!!

Hugh Hewitt will NEVER ask Dr. Fraus a tough question.....sad.

30 posted on 03/21/2021 9:07:20 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
This is one of those times where I've been offline for a few days, and now that I've got my belly full from some new information, I just want to go offline again for a while, right after I do the GGG Digest for this week. Have a great Sunday!

31 posted on 03/21/2021 9:08:34 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: cdcdawg

“If you start looking for the people responsible for the idea that everyone is equally at risk for AIDS, Dr. Fauci will pop up. “

Yes! Fauci freely tells lies for his version of “The Greater Good.” Which is expansion of government, run by bureaucrats who need to be in charge, because they are “expert.” He’s a classic Wilsonian. The world would be utopia if we put benevolent experts like him in charge.

He’ll do and say anything, no matter how deceptive, to advance The Administrative State.

Unfortunately, Trump’s achilles heel was his germophobia, and he bonded with Fauci early on over it. Blinded him long enough untill Fauci dug in and then, well, you know, the thing.


32 posted on 03/21/2021 9:28:11 AM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Convention Of States is our only hope now!)
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To: Basket_of_Deplorables

Trump trusted Pence and that got him Fauxi. Neither Fauxi or Pence can be trusted.


33 posted on 03/21/2021 9:32:44 AM PDT by Boardwalk (Lets)
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To: cdcdawg

Dr. Fauci believes — genuinely believes — in the utility of the “noble lie” and in his supreme authority to use the noble lie to compel the obedience of the hoi polloi to the edicts of the State.

His insistence upon universal risk of AIDS is the same sort of noble lie that he has employed over and over during the Wuhan virus panic.

In a 1983 JAMA paper, the esteemed Dr. Fauci even claimed that AIDS could be spread by ordinary interaction among family members.

One does well to avoid “profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called”.


34 posted on 03/21/2021 9:53:07 AM PDT by Skepolitic ( )
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To: Kaslin

Fauci. So typical of a bureau rat that gets rewarded for being wrong time and time again.


35 posted on 03/21/2021 10:49:30 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: Boardwalk

“Neither Fauxi or Pence can be trusted.”

Agree 100%. Never trusted Pence at all. His body language and facial expression around Trump gave him away early. He always stood a little too far away, stone faced, while Trump and everyone else was animated. Looking like he’d rather be anywhere else, trying to disappear.

Sessions also. What a trap he was. Snapped shut as soon as he was confirmed. Heck, the setup came during confirmation hearings, when they got him to agree, on camera, to recuse “if the russians...” Al Franken was in on it.

They were always 3 steps ahead. Not Trump’s fault. Surrounded by weak quislings.


36 posted on 03/21/2021 12:28:37 PM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Convention Of States is our only hope now!)
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To: Kaslin

BTT


37 posted on 03/21/2021 12:41:59 PM PDT by GailA (Constitution vs evil Treasonous political Apparatchiks)
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To: Kaslin
I've been saying it for awhile now.

He's on his way to going full Avenatti.

38 posted on 03/21/2021 2:03:01 PM PDT by lewislynn ( )
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To: cdcdawg
"If you start looking for the people responsible for the idea that everyone is equally at risk for AIDS, Dr. Fauci will pop up. You know, a nun and a queer who goes to a “standard f party” and has butseks with 30 other queers are equally at risk ... because SCIENCE!"

The Fearpers will be here shortly to (a) attack you because SCIENCE! says 'wear your mask'; and (b) attempt to explain that because HIV did cross over into the heterosexual population -- downstream of injection drug abuse -- at such an abysmally low percentage that statistical scientists refer to it as "pushing a string", that Fauci was still correct and Reagan was wrong.

39 posted on 03/21/2021 2:10:55 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress)
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To: Kaslin

During one of the Covid press briefings I am thinking last summer, A reporter actually ask if the virus could have escaped form a lab. Tony answered “I can prove the virus was not man made”. He started acting scientific for a few seconds, lost his cool and stormed out of the briefing. It appeared the reporter was trying to state that was not the question but the opportunity deteriorated as Dr. F had his tantrum. You could tell he knew he blew it.

I really wish I could locate a video of that breifing.


40 posted on 03/21/2021 4:49:32 PM PDT by Neverlift (When someone says "you just can't make this stuff up" odds are good, somebody did.)
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