This is a picture of science in a losing battle with the very bad combination of total blind ignorance and raging arrogance.
I spend Sunday mornings watching the big three — Meet the Press, Face the Nation and This Week — and shouting at the TV. Dr. Anthony Fauci played the trifecta and appeared on all three this morning.
Dr. Fauci’s day job is head of Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984, he’s a member of the administration’s task force on Covid-19, and was introduced by Jonathan Karl on ABC’s This Week as “the nation’s top expert on infectious diseases”.
And I have to confess that Karl did a better job than normal, sitting in for Stephanopolous, but that’s still not saying much.
The problem is that the MSM is owned and controlled by the oligarchy. They can’t have a talking head capable enough of critical thinking that the commentator will realize that, and folks like Karl and Stephanopoulus are more concerned with the presentation than the content.
Even if they are on the ball just a bit, they’re usually too busy thinking of their next question to bother to listen to what their guests are actually saying, and we got a perfect example of that today on This Week.
Near the end of the interview, while Karl is teasing Fauci for touching his face at a press conference with Trump, Fauci uttered a profound statement that went right over Karl’s head. He missed it completely — an epic fail in my opinion.
Quoting Fauci — “I’m working on getting the boss to do this. I may not be successful”, he says with a nervous chuckle. I don’t think he was just talking about 45 touching his face. Can you think of a few pointed questions that might follow such a comment?
But Karl has one more question on his list to ask. The interview is almost over, so let’s just move on and ignore the fact that the nation’s top disease expert might have just expressed concern over being able to convince the president to do what’s needed to combat the crisis.
Later in the broadcast Karl interviews Mnuchin and would have had an opportunity to use Fauci’s own comment to put Mnuchin on the spot. How about…
“We just had Dr. Fauci, the country’s top disease expert on the program, and he alluded to anticipating difficulty convincing the president to do what’s needed. Why is that? Is the president more interested in appearances and numbers than the welfare of the American public? Does he have a problem understanding and believing science, as he’s demonstrated with respect to climate change, which he’s on record as labeling a hoax?” You get the idea.
Even when there’s full awareness of the situation, more or less decent folks are just too nice to say it like it is. That doesn’t stop 45, because he’s anything but decent.
In between the two interviews, ABC played a clip of Madam Speaker discussing her frequent contact with the Treasury Secretary regarding measures to combat the crisis, and she is asked if she’s been in contact with Trump. She says she has not and is asked why.
She stops for a second. You can see the answer she would love to blurt out. You just know she would love to say, “Because he an ignoramus incapable of forming a cogent thought”. She knows this just from her dealings with him. It’s a statement of fact and nicer than some of the things he’s said about her, but she stops herself. “There’s no need for that” is all she says in a cordial tone, perhaps answering her own impulses as well.
Epic fail as usual on both the Dem’s and the MSM’s parts, but what do you expect? Their failure to call these scoundrels on their bad acts is the reason 45 was elected in the first place. I blame outfits like CNN and the Democratic Party elite as much as I blame the Russians.
