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.
“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.”
Someone described it as a “death stare”. The media shot themselves in the foot...again. And Trump was right there to step on it.
Agreed.
I like Fauchi, and Birx.
Lots of fake news on the cable, local news, and the internet.
I live in Michigan, and I may not agree with the Governor of MI.
However she did not ban flags, of gardening.
I’ve been roto tilling , and working in my garden for the last week.
You may have to wait to go to the green houses to get your tomatoes, and pepper plants , but it’s still goes below freezing here at night.
So....
backtracked?
because Trump had his words and when he spoke them “on tape”, figuratively and literally.
I think you meant to respond to someone else. I never said “backtracked’.
What I hope really drove it home for Fauci was what they asked him after President Trump left the room. The blonde asked if once the economy was opened, he would stand up there and report to them exactly what he advised the President to do and whether or not he took the advice. You could see Fauci looking at her like, “...what?” I think at that point it finally started to sink in.
So to be clear, I’m not defending Fauci on everything. He’s not above criticism. I just don’t think he’s deep state. Could be wrong. I think the media was looking for some kill shot by driving a wedge between Trump and Fauci, and it didn’t work. They’re back to their usual “the walls are closing in” or “beginning of the end for Trump” language...been hearing that since 2015 lol.
Excellent article.
Pardon the nit-picking, but I did notice one very small (and inconsequential) error in your transcription:
Transcription:
Reporter: “What did he do? Did he lift the travel restrictions?”
Actual audio (what I heard):
Reporter: “What did he do? Was that the travel restrictions?”
As I said, this is just not-picking on my part - it makes no difference to the point if the article.
Thanks to these daily updates I don’t have to watch this nauseating state of affairs. My obvious question is why Trump doesn’t give time outs to stupid reporters - like a couple days suspension from the press room?
I suspect that's the case for the near future (years). I'd like to see someone challenge Fauci on his apparent confidence that a vaccine will be a reality in even 2 years time.
As far as I know, there are absolutely no vaccines for any of the 200+ viruses that cause common colds, though they've been in the works for 70 years. Many of those cold viruses are versions of the corona virus.
CS Lewis book That Hideous Strength there is a quote that says something to the likes of “Your average Briton (and he is comparing the average to the so called elites in the Universities) when they read their national paper don’t believe a word of it - except the Sports section”
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.
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Karl is the current President of the White House Correspondents’ Association. He is the one who decides which reporters get to be in the room for any and all of the pressers.
So he ain’t gonna get kicked out anytime soon.
My mother was a Hearst (and other) newspaper reporter from WWI into the 1930s. She told a story about a murder in Washington, DC she covered. She and other reporters took her shoes and made imprints outside the murdered man’s window; took photos, and then they all wrote about a mysterious veiled woman in black seen at the crime scene. They kept it up until the chief of police called them in and told them to cut it out. Her motto was “a good story’s a good story whether it’s true or not.” By the way, she said William Randolph Hearst was the best boss she ever had.
Too bad her parents never gave her a glare when she acted up, now we have a rude beotch hate filled activist at WH pressers.
Then Trump should just ignore him.
All President Trump has to do is tell his people to not let him in the interview room. This WHC thing has no governmental standing and the Presidency controls who can come and go whoever on the WH grounds and buildings period.
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