When a massive treasure trove of Anthony Fauci’s diary entries and emails were released recently, thanks to Sen. Rand Paul, it caused a tremendous amount of embarrassment for the 85-year-old former public health official.
Fauci came across as a remarkable narcissist, someone obsessed with his own instant and surprising fame. He chronicled each and every media appearance, celebrating each instance a legacy outlet published yet another glowing, reverential profile. He spoke excitedly about his friendships with celebrities like Joan Baez and Barbra Streisand, even stating that he and Baez were made for each other.
More importantly he also said completely different things privately than he was stating publicly:
He acknowledged in his diary that the lab leak was not only possible, but likely.
He admitted that he wanted masks mandated because people were wearing them anyway and the CDC had pushed it.
He knew closures weren’t working, saying that cases were rising and falling irrespective of policy.
He even fretted about potentially contracting Covid-19 at an event that required proof of vaccination.
He then went on to demand more vaccine mandates and passports afterward anyway.
Fauci ultimately appeared to be pretty appalling, to put it mildly.
The only entity that came out looking worse? That same legacy media.
CNN Ignores Its Own Failures, Demands More Ineffective Mandates
CNN’s Jake Tapper is mentioned several times, including having shared multiple dinners with the doctor.
One was in October 2020, just before Fauci demanded that Americans shut down Thanksgiving.
I reached out to Tapper’s PR rep to see if that “friendship” impacted his coverage, and despite his public demonstrations of concern over “transparency,” they declined to comment.
Another person mentioned? CNN’s Dana Bash.
Bash, according to Fauci, had texted him to say that he was “a better man” than Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) after their heated exchange, adding that CNN compatriot Wolf Blitzer believed nobody would have blamed Fauci if he’d said “go f— yourself” in response to Jordan’s questions.
Bash has essentially ignored this, because as a highly concerned source of journalistic integrity or something, it’s important that she maintains never actually taking accountability for anything.
She also had current Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on her show Sunday. She then took that opportunity to misrepresent how poorly she, CNN, and legacy media performed their jobs during the pandemic.
When asking Kennedy if President Trump deserves the blame for the policies that Fauci recommended, Kennedy brought up that Trump almost immediately wanted lockdowns to end.
“President Trump, as you recall, wanted to end lockdowns,” Kennedy said. “I think the thing that did the most damage to our country was the lockdowns, the lockdown that shut down 3.5 million businesses in our country with no due process, no just compensation. All of our churches closed, our schools, and our children are still paying the price for that. And yet we had the worst outcome of any country in the world. We have the highest death rate from Covid of any nation on earth.”
Hellbound and Down 