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Watch the Corrupt Reporters Turn on Dr. Fauci in Real Time
DB Daily Update ^ | David Blackmon

Posted on 04/14/2020 4:17:06 AM PDT by EyesOfTX

The immutable truth about today’s corrupt news media is that it operates on a narrative coordinated with the Democrat Party. Reporters are not the legendary – probably imaginary – intrepid souls of black and white noir films from the 1930s and 1940s, dogged pursuers of the truth in their role as the people’s watchdog over those in power. What we call “reporters” today are actually narrative engineers, individuals corrupted by those in power who are given an overarching, politically-motivated narrative by their editors and the people who control their editors, and who go out every day to look only for information that can be used to support that preconceived narrative.

We see this played out in real time every day on our TV screens in the question and answer sessions that take place during the White House Coronavirus Task Force updates. The reporters in the room, with a few exceptions, are not there to actually gather information about the Wuhan Virus that might be useful in the lives of their readers and viewers; they are there to argue with the President, the Vice President and the medical experts in a way that they hope will elicit responses that fit the day’s narrative.

Thanks to his stupid statements made over the week on CNN and MSNBC, yesterday’s narrative coming into the update was all about Dr. Anthony Fauci. Fauci, in his boundless search for media attention, had decided it would be a great idea this past weekend to do interviews with execrable hacks like CNN’s Jake Tapper and MSNBC’s Al Sharpton. During those interviews, he agreed with leading questions from both hacks whose premise was that lives could have been saved if only the evil Orange Man in the White House would have acted sooner.

Which is, logically, unarguable. Hell, if only the President had ESP and had shut down the most prosperous economy the world has ever seen in, let’s say, 2017 in anticipation of this virus, then all those people who the virus has killed might be alive today. Or maybe half of them would have died by suicide or deprivation after losing their jobs, homes and ability to purchase food. Or maybe they and millions of others would have all died because we would be living the real-life version of Mad Max and/or the Hunger Games right now had that taken place in 2017. Who knows?

But the narrative was set, and all Fauci had to do was to stay silent while the narrative engineers pounded on the President in order to keep it going. But, to his credit, the overly-loquacious Doctor chose not to do that. Instead, he made a point of attempting to clarify those weekend remarks in a way that not only killed the “Trump acted too late” narrative, but also decimated the corrupt media’s “Trump never listens to the experts” narrative that they have repeatedly attempted to mount over the past three months.

In the clip below you will see Fauci state categorically that President Trump not only listens to the advice of the “experts,” but has responded to each and every one of their recommendations. Watch:

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Transcript:

Fauci: I had an interview yesterday that I was asked a hypothetical question, and hypothetical questions can sometime get you into some difficulty because it’s what would have, or could have. The nature of the hypothetical question was, if in fact we had mitigated earlier, could lives have been saved?

And the answer to my question was, as I always do, and I’m doing right now, perfectly honestly say ‘yes.’ Obviously, mitigation helps. I have been up here many times telling you that mitigation works. So, if mitigation works, and you instigate it and initiate it earlier, you will probably have saved more lives. If you initiated it later, you probably would have lost more lives. You initiate it at a certain time.

That was taken as a way that maybe something somehow was at fault here. So, let me tell you from my experience, and I can only speak from my own experience, is that we had been talking before any meetings that we had about the pros and the cons, the effectiveness or the not, of strong mitigations. So the discussions were going on, mostly among the medical people, about what that would mean.

The first and only time that Dr. Birx and I went in and made a formal recommendation to the President to actually have a “shutdown,” in the sense of not really a shutdown but to really have strong mitigation, we discussed it. Obviously there would be concern by some that in fact that might have some negative consequences. Nonetheless, the President listened to the recommendation and went to the mitigation.

The next, second time, that I went with Dr. Birx into the President and said, 15 days are not enough: We need to go 30 days, obviously there were people who had a problem with that because of the potential secondary effects. Nonetheless, at that time, the President went with the health recommendations, and we extended it another 30 days.

So, I can only tell you what I know, and what my recommendations were. But clearly, as happens all the time, there were interpretations to that response to a hypothetical question that I just thought would be very nice for me to clarify because I didn’t have a chance to clarify. Thank you.

[He thinks he’s done here: Boy, was he in for a rude awakening. He had just decimated not one, but two narratives almost all of those reporters had carried into that room with them, and they were not going to let him get away so easily.]

Reporter: [As Fauci tries to leave the podium] Do you remember the date?

Fauci: No, I, to be honest with you, I don’t even know what the date was. But I can just tell you that the first and only time that we went in and said that we need to do mitigations strongly, the response was ‘yes, we’ll do it.’

Reporter: What did he do? Did he lift the travel restrictions?

Fauci: No, the travel restriction is separate. That was whether or not we want to go into a mitigation stage, of 15 days of mitigation. The travel was another recommendation, when we went in and said we probably should be doing that, and the answer was ‘yes.’ And then another time was we should do it with Europe, and the answer was ‘yes.’ And the next time, we should do it with the UK, and the answer was ‘yes.’

Reporter: In this interview, you said there was pushback. Where did that pushback come from?

Fauci: No, that was the wrong choice of words. You know what it was? When people discuss, not necessarily in front of the President, when people discuss, they say, ‘well, this is going to have maybe a harmful effect on this, or that. So, it was a poor choice of words. There wasn’t anybody saying ‘no, you shouldn’t do that.

Reporter: [Now clearly angry that the guy has destroyed her directed narratives, which might force her to actually engage in independent thought processes she hasn’t used in years.] Are you doing this voluntarily, or did the President advise you…

Fauci: No, I’m doing it….everything I do is voluntarily. Please. Don’t even imply that.

[End]

Wow, that look on Fauci’s face at the end for the hack reporter just reeks of contempt and disgust. It was his best public moment during this entire three-month process.

Now, I’m trying hard to be charitable this morning, and the most charitable thing that can be said for Dr. Fauci is that he is an attention hog who does too many media appearances for his own good. Making matters worse, he obviously doesn’t understand the nature of today’s corrupt corporate news media operations, and stupidly thinks people like Al Sharpton, Jake Tapper and the hack reporter from CBS who was peppering him with slanted questions in that clip are his friends and have his best interests at heart.

Let’s go with that charitable assessment of Fauci, and let’s further say that his naivete’ about the nature of the media leads him to believe that if he just answers their questions as honestly as he can that all will be sweetness and light with his world.

If that bit of charity is indeed an accurate description of Fauci and his mindset, then the best thing anyone can do for him would be to counsel him to keep his mug off of the nation’s TV screens, except for these daily Task Force updates. Because what he has been doing for the past three months, repeatedly creating these media-generated dust-ups that undermine the efforts of the Task Force, has been incredibly counterproductive, not just for him and the President, but for the entire country.

Enough.

That is all.


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Humor; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: fakenews; fauci; media; mediabias; msm; shutdown; trump; trumpwinsagain
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1 posted on 04/14/2020 4:17:06 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
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To: EyesOfTX

I saw the Sharpton interview..Fauci admitted he was serious back in January and TRUMP DIDN’T HEED HIS ADVICE....Sp Fauci admitted Trump let people die...Monday Fauci backtracked...WHY??? Anyone can go see the Sharpton interview


2 posted on 04/14/2020 4:26:39 AM PDT by Hambone 1934
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To: EyesOfTX

During those interviews, he agreed with leading questions from both hacks whose premise was that lives could have been saved if only the evil Orange Man in the White House would have acted sooner. >>>>>

And Fauci was hauled on the carpet for it.

The man had carpet burns on all visible surfaces of his skin.

He bounded to the podium to explain right at the start of the presser.

IMHO he narrowly escaped a quick exit stage left.


3 posted on 04/14/2020 4:32:49 AM PDT by Candor7 (Hydroxy-chloroquine, she isss jour fren ! Know the Zelenko Protocol)
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To: EyesOfTX

Jonathon Karl should be banned from any further briefings. He and the rest of the hacks aren’t interested in gathering information of facts. They are there to promote their, and their network’s (or newspaper’s) agenda to get Trump.


4 posted on 04/14/2020 4:37:59 AM PDT by Russ (I)
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To: Hambone 1934

What has happened is that Fauci’s own public statements from January and February have been bombarding social media. In trying to paint Trump as guilty, it’s been revealed that Fauci was yielding the brush.

I don’t like Fauci. I think he lives in a myopic bubble that shows no concern for ruining Americans’ livelihoods simply because his own job is secure within that bubble. Furthermore, he’s a media hog who too often preens before the cameras.

I have no doubt that had his earlier advice to President Trump been private instead of public, he would not have bothered to correct the media jackals.


5 posted on 04/14/2020 4:41:40 AM PDT by LateBoomer
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To: EyesOfTX
Fauci: I had an interview yesterday that I was asked a hypothetical question,

Only a fool answers a hypothetical question.

6 posted on 04/14/2020 4:41:43 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Mocking Liberals is not only a right, but the duty of all Americans.)
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To: Hambone 1934

I didn’t see the Sharpton one, but the Tapper one, Fauci answered a hypothetical question with a theoretical answer and Tapper’s narrative was built as Factual (falsely).

Objectively Fauci was a naive idiot. Yesterday, the glare he gave that CBS Blonde hack was worth the price of admission.


7 posted on 04/14/2020 4:41:45 AM PDT by time4good
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To: time4good

I correct myself - I think she was CNN. That’s why Trump called her a loser.


8 posted on 04/14/2020 4:43:38 AM PDT by time4good
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To: time4good

Nope. I correct myself correcting myself. Someone just posted that she’s Paula Reid of CBS.


9 posted on 04/14/2020 4:47:43 AM PDT by time4good
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To: Cowboy Bob

He’s used to dealing with niche health and science reporters who probably are fairly honest, since it’s a back section of the newspaper kind of thing 99% of the time and not front page. I may be in the minority here on FR or other right wing sites but I don’t view Fauci as a bad dude, just totally unprepared for national TV and the fake news.

Either way, it’s hilarious to watch them call him “America’s Doctor” over the weekend news cycle, and on Monday when you could tell they were going for some kind of kill shot, nope didn’t happen. Lol.


10 posted on 04/14/2020 4:48:06 AM PDT by ksm1
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To: time4good

The Sharpton questions were direct and pointed and Fauci answered them a number of times...Yes,I had serious concerns in January and Feb and Trump wasn’t listening....


11 posted on 04/14/2020 4:53:05 AM PDT by Hambone 1934
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To: time4good

Nope. I correct myself correcting myself. Someone just posted that she’s Paula Reid of CBS..

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I hope he has a little video bio of her and her husband if she shows up at the pressure today.


12 posted on 04/14/2020 4:56:48 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Be still, and know that I am God...Psalm 46:10)
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To: Candor7

“IMHO he narrowly escaped a quick exit stage left.”

Yes Falci seem eager to avoid additional carpet burns. He did his backtracking and was not as center stage as much as in the past. Still don’t trust him.


13 posted on 04/14/2020 5:00:18 AM PDT by DOC44
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To: Hambone 1934

Monday Fauci backtracked...WHY???

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Like bureaucrats everywhere he says whatever is convenient or self-serving at the moment. They are all professional liars.


14 posted on 04/14/2020 5:26:13 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: ksm1

I may be in the minority here on FR or other right wing sites but I don’t view Fauci as a bad dude, just totally unprepared for national TV and the fake news.

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Don’t be fooled. He’s a lifelong bureaucrat. Been in his post for 36 years and currently oversee’s a budget for fiscal year 2020 of $5.9 billion.

He’s been around long enough (too long actually) to know what the media does and how to interact with them. Like all bureaucrats he says what’s convenient at the moment and can parse words with the best of them.


15 posted on 04/14/2020 5:35:13 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: EyesOfTX

Fauci got a taste of what trump has been dealing with, at one point he bit back “don’t put words in my mouth”


16 posted on 04/14/2020 5:41:35 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: EyesOfTX

Trump blew up their narrative, so they are switching to “mean Trump”


17 posted on 04/14/2020 5:45:19 AM PDT by Fido969 (In!)
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To: EyesOfTX

I don’t like Fauci and think he has done much harm to our nation with his doom and gloom approach to this.

But yesterday, he did the right thing. The President has been following this guy’s advice religiously. For him to have stabbed the President in the back on Sunday, even unwittingly, was truly ugly.

And yesterday was yet another example of why this President is such a strong leader. He recognizes what our media is and he is piece by piece locking them down and quarantining them. Yes, there are two diseases he is battling here and while CV-19 may never have a vaccine, the other disease just might.


18 posted on 04/14/2020 5:51:03 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: Hambone 1934

“Monday Fauci backtracked...WHY???”

Trump retweeted the “fire Faucci” tweet with no comment. Clearly a message.

Likely at the same time Pence, or someone else close to Trump, had a quiet private conversation with Faucci explaining he would straighten up or go.

No leader of any organization can tolerate a subordinate undercutting him in public. Trump clearly reached the point where the cost of keeping Faucci was greater than the political price he would pay by firing Faucci. It appears Faucci determined keeping his high profile job was preferable to being fired, enjoying a week of television show interviews, and then passing into permanent anonymity.


19 posted on 04/14/2020 5:54:52 AM PDT by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on i)
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To: EyesOfTX

Wathing an old British tv show last night involving a priest detective there was a line: “I’m a journalist, I don’t believe in anything”.


20 posted on 04/14/2020 5:55:09 AM PDT by TalBlack
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