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1. Speaking of masks, Dr. Anthony Fauci just took the lead in the race
to be the Ethics Alarms Asshole of the Year. Yesterday, smirking,
untrustworthy and partisan MSNBC talking head Rachel Maddow hosted Fauci
on her program, and in an example of the hard-hitting, objective
journalism for which she has become famous, fawned all over him in an
interview that began with the assumption that poor Fauci is being
cruelly ganged up upon by right-wing Neanderthals. Nah, there’s no
mainstream media bias! Her very first question signaled I’m on your
side, poor baby!: “First of all, let me just ask if I’m being fair. Am I
building you up to be thicker-skinned about this than you are? You’re
actually worried about this new sort of re-upping of attacks on you?”
Given his cue, Fauci responded in part, “Well, I’m concerned about that
more because it’s really very much an attack on science…What is the
thread going through, what’s happening now, is very much an anti-science
approach. So that’s a big, big difference. I mean, it is what it is, I’m
a public figure, I’m going to take the arrows and the swings, but
they’re just, they’re fabricated.”
It could have been worse, I guess; he might have said that the criticism
of him was racist. His despicable answer settles any questions about
Fauci’s character in my mind; he’s a manipulative creep and an ethics
villain. “Attack on science” !? We have smoking gun proof that Fauci was
mistaken about his conclusions, frequently lied or withheld information,
and had unrevealed conflicts of interest. He allowed himself to be used
as a partisan weapon to shut down the economy.
Come to think of it, Fauci’s answer to Maddow was exactly the same as a
policy-maker-of-color playing the race card. Because he’s a scientist,
he should be above reproach. No opposition is in good faith or
justifiable. Any criticism of him is really anti-science bigotry.
Asshole of the Year.
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