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Matthew Dowd: Republicans Demonizing Fauci Are Attacking ‘Science and Data’
Breitbart ^ | April 15,2021 | PAM KEY

Posted on 04/16/2021 5:36:39 AM PDT by Hojczyk

Former George W. Bush campaign strategist Matthew Dowd said Thursday on CNN’s “OutFront” that Republicans demonizing National Institutes of Health expert Dr. Anthony Fauci were attacking “science and data.”

Discussing Republican’s demeanor while questioning Fauci at congressional hearings, Burnett said, “This is far from the first time we’ve seen Republicans try to beat up on Dr. Fauci. They love these moments. We saw it from Jim Jordan today and Rand Paul not long ago. That’s how it’s been. Why is the GOP so obsessed with going after Dr. Fauci?”

Dowd said, “Well, I think this is fundamentally about the attack on science and data, and if it doesn’t agree from many of the GOP perspective as science or data or knowledge or information doesn’t agree with basically their emotional stand, they want to ignore it. And I think that’s the problem, I think, Dr. Fauci has here because Dr. Fauci is trying to take a rational approach against people who have an emotional place in this.”

He added, “The idea that this is about liberty and freedom, that somehow wearing masks — I would ask Jim Jordan, does he wear a seatbelt? Did he get his kids vaccinated when they went to school? All of these sorts of things have nothing to do with liberty or freedom, but that’s where we are when we have reason and rationality on one side and emotional reactions and ideology on the other.”

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To: Hojczyk

What would most politicians know about science? For that matter, how many of them have expertise in anything other than self-promotion, double-speak, and fund-raising? (Yes, many are attorneys, but they aren’t practicing as such, and it’s an irrelevant background with regards Covid etc.)

Fauci has been flying by the seat of his pants on Covid since the beginning. Further, his NIH agency is responsible for the ‘gain of function’ research that most likely is responsible for Covid 19 (would be more than happy to chronicle why that is).


21 posted on 04/16/2021 5:53:20 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: Hojczyk

Foolish actor Will Smith: “I’m the last man on earth.”
Dr. Fauci: “You should still wear a mask.”


22 posted on 04/16/2021 5:54:39 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (GOP-free since 10/9/20)
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To: a fool in paradise

From day one, there wasn’t even any consensus on WHERE the virus originated. THAT ‘data’ is not absolute and is still debated.

After that debate... it all went straight down hill from there: remedies, incubation period, numbers of actual cases (still debated), recovery, outcomes, ultimate and potentially grave side effects, direct and openly criminal interference with procedures in the US Presidential election, shifty and laughably incompetent personalities in and out of the ‘virus debate’...etc.

How the he@! could a rational adult accept THAT as ‘science and data’ .... even if it DIDN’T change every half hour of every day???


23 posted on 04/16/2021 5:55:30 AM PDT by SMARTY ( "Force always attracts men of low morality. " Albert Einstein)
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To: a fool in paradise

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/faucis-flip-flops-how-americas-doctor-has-continuously-reversed-himself-during


24 posted on 04/16/2021 5:56:29 AM PDT by budj (Combat vet, 2nd of three generations.)
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To: Hojczyk

A Bushite. What more needs to be said.


25 posted on 04/16/2021 5:56:46 AM PDT by tennmountainman ( Liberals Are Baby Killers.)
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To: Hojczyk

Meadows gave Fauci a chance to present data, asked him for it repeatedly, but Fauci either didn’t have any data or would not admit it.

My conclusion from his behavior as a witness was that Fauci is either not a scientist or is a liar.


26 posted on 04/16/2021 5:56:53 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them wthaith a pitchfork!)
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To: Hojczyk

These are the same science lovers that probably blame climate change for Biden’s windy fall.


27 posted on 04/16/2021 5:57:51 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: Hojczyk

Rules, people! Rules! Wait, what? MATTHEW Dowd?! Sorry, never mind.
28 posted on 04/16/2021 5:59:01 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Hojczyk

Fauci’s “science and data” changes weekly.


29 posted on 04/16/2021 6:00:04 AM PDT by Renkluaf
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To: Hojczyk

Down is a sob. Jordan is my rep. He totally reflects our frustration with the “science” that has NO data to support it. Tired of Politicians/Expert Class lying and moving the goal posts every turn.
Like Rand Paul says, Give people the correct information and they will make the right decisions.


30 posted on 04/16/2021 6:03:46 AM PDT by griswold3
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To: SMARTY

science and data and scenes out of a horror film with people falling over dead in the streets and ponds and stacked like wood in hospitals with staff wearing hazmat suits, spray brigades putting chemicals in the air on every street, elaborate stargates that you walk through with misting sprays.

Emergency brick and mortar and wired hospitals being erected in a week’s time.

We are supposed to forget all of that.


31 posted on 04/16/2021 6:04:14 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: Hojczyk

This is the new narrative from...
1-the brainwashed left, who bought into the fear narrative
2-those who got the jab and now have buyer’s remorse, or feel like fools for being tricked
3-those who traded common sense for a little freedom that they always had anyway. Gotta be able to travel, see a concert, visit grandma...

The narrative is “science deniers”

How cute and blind they are in being willing followers of the propaganda from their slave masters.

“Science denier” claims are even showing up on FR by these minions. Orwell couldn’t have scripted it better than how this is unfolding in real life. Normally sensible, reasoned, conservative minds falling victim to the hive mind propaganda.


32 posted on 04/16/2021 6:05:14 AM PDT by SheepWhisperer (My enemy saw me on my knees, head bowed and thought they had won until I rose up and said Amen!)
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To: Hojczyk

Who is this professional liar and why does anyone care what this
Dem op thinks ?


33 posted on 04/16/2021 6:05:23 AM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists )
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To: Hojczyk

Dr. Mengele Fauci. The son of Josef Mengele the German SchutzstaffelS Officer and Physician . Known for Human experimentation. His son has followed in his foot steps. Creating a Virus in Wuhan that has crippled the world. Josef would be proud.
He should be hung!


34 posted on 04/16/2021 6:05:43 AM PDT by spincaster (hat )
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To: a fool in paradise

Right-I’ve had traffic tickets that were processed more professionally


35 posted on 04/16/2021 6:06:40 AM PDT by SMARTY ( "Force always attracts men of low morality. " Albert Einstein)
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To: cnsmom

The same science lovers who believe there are 57 genders and that a baby is not alive until it is out of the womb AND the mother wants to keep it.


36 posted on 04/16/2021 6:08:43 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: SheepWhisperer

“science deniers”

Harris County Texas is at 10% of the new cases per day that it had in January 2021 and yet the Democrat millennial county judge still insists that it will forever be in covid level RED.


37 posted on 04/16/2021 6:11:06 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: Hojczyk

Yes, not being permitted to attend church services is equivalent to wearing a seat belt...

Stay out da Bushes, Matt..


38 posted on 04/16/2021 6:12:48 AM PDT by MCEscherHammer
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To: Hojczyk

Psyence.


39 posted on 04/16/2021 6:13:31 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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To: Hojczyk

The basic premise of science is that the data is NEVER “settled” and that questioning things is part and parcel with discovery and advancement of the sciences.

We do not elect a Science Pope.


40 posted on 04/16/2021 6:13:33 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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