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Even the left-wing New York Times took aim at Dr. Fauci.
New York Times columnist Bret Stephens suggests Fauci and the Biden administration need to remember that so-called coronavirus “misinformation” can “come from the top, too.”
Stephens writes, “The impact of this misinformation on everyday life has been immense… The credibility of public-health experts depends on the understanding that the job of informing the public means offering the whole truth, uncertainties included, rather than offering Noble Lies in the service of whatever they think the public needs to hear.”
Stephen concluded, “So, by all means, let’s continue to expose and denounce misinformation coming from the fever swamps of Alternative America. But it won’t do sufficient good until the guardians of public health hold themselves to a higher standard of truthfulness and accountability. Physician, heal thyself.”
In the article, titled “Covid Misinformation Comes From the Top, Too,” Stephens brings up Fauci’s clash with Sen. Rand Paul over whether the U.S. government funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology that may have led to the coronavirus outbreak.
Pointing to a report from Vanity Fair, Stephens notes that State Department officials were told not to explore the Wuhan lab’s gain-of-function research because “it would bring unwelcome attention to U.S. government funding of it.”
“If millions feel that some public-health experts are not as heroic or as honest as their media stenographers make them out to be, there’s a good reason for it,” Stephens wrote.
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The Times columnist then called out Fauci over his comments about herd immunity, insisting he “lied” “about what he saw as the threshold figure” because, according to Fauci’s interview with the Times in December, because of “his gut feeling that tthe country is finally ready to hear what he really thinks.” He also listed the CDC’s faulty overestimation over the outdoor spread of COVID and its study that claimed Black and Hispanic children were “at greater risk of being hospitalized,” which became a contributing factor to schools being closed despite consistent evidence that schools were never a superspreader for children.
TRENDING 👇 Liz Cheney Gets Embarrased With New Nickname
Liz Cheney has been labeled a trader following her decision to turn on Trump and vote to impeach him.
Cheney says she believes some Republicans are “shameful.” Cheney explains further that she thinks Republicans are denying Donald Trump’s responsibility for the January 6 Capitol riot.
Now New York Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik has a new nickname for Cheney. According to Stefanik, Rep. Liz Cheney is working as a “Pelosi pawn” since she joined Pelosi’s Jan. 6 committee. The committee has been heavily criticized as an extremely partisan attempt to cherrypick the facts leading up to the events on Jan. 6th at the Capitol.
“And when it comes to Liz Cheney, she is a Pelosi Republican, a Pelosi pawn at this point,” Stefanik said. “She does not represent the Republican conference, or Republican voters or the American people. Pelosi bears responsibility because we know that as early as December, there was information and intelligence that there were potential security threats and that the Capitol was not going to be secure on January 6,” she said.
“Nancy Pelosi refused to act. We also know that on January 6, Nancy Pelosi was passed a note by the sergeant-at-arms, her political appointee, asking for her permission to bring in the National Guard. She hesitated,” Stefanik added.
Stefanik calls Cheney a “Pelosi pawn” pic.twitter.com/Zse7RTxw5C
— Acyn (@Acyn) July 28, 2021
