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Fauci (1/10)

by Tony Medley

110 minutes.

NR.

Fauci (1/10)

by Tony Medley

110 minutes.

NR.

This is a no-warts, closed-minded paean to Dr. Anthony (Tony) Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Chief Medical Advisor to the President, in which never is heard a discouraging word. That’s not too surprising since it is produced by National Geographic Society (NGS) which has become a left-wing foghorn in recent years.

Directed by John Hoffman and Janet Tobias, the people chosen to be interviewed about Fauci show what little effort was made to make this even-handed. Perhaps the most shocking interviewee is Susan Rice, who could rival Joe Biden as the biggest liar in the history of our democracy. She, you will recall, is the vitriolic partisan who was ordered by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to go to every national Sunday interview show to spew lies about the attack in Libya that killed the U.S. Ambassador, resulting in the Obama Administration abandoning the American servicemen who were fighting for their lives (and losing) to save him. She disgraced herself with the lies she spun that she, and everyone else, knew were lies. Clinton and Obama didn’t have the guts to face the music. Yet here she is preaching about whom to trust; what an incongruity!

Then there’s Ampoorva Mandavilli, identified as a global health reporter for the New York Times, who disdains people like President Trump blaming China for the virus, “It’s really convenient for politicians to have a scapegoat like that because if they can blame another country; if they can blame another group of people then they can absolve themselves of responsibility.” Well, what do you expect from the New York Times? Certainly not the truth or a balanced opinion because there is now no doubt in anyone with at least half a brain that the virus was developed in the Wuhan Lab by China. In sworn testimony before Congress, Fauci denied financing gain of function research in the Wuhan lab but there seems to be ample evidence that this testimony was false. But NGS chooses to completely ignore this and doesn’t even mention the gain of function controversy.

While the Covid debacle is covered, more time is spent regaling about Fauci’s efforts to fight AIDS. Again, all is praiseworthy with some carefully chosen AIDS activists talking about what a saint Fauci is. Not mentioned, however, is the fact that not all AIDS activists view Fauci as a savior. Here’s what Sean Strub wrote in the Feb. 21, 2014 Huff Post, certainly no conservative publication:

“Dr. Anthony Fauci is rewriting history. He is doing so to disguise his shameful role in delaying promotion of an AIDS treatment that would have prevented tens of thousands of deaths in the first years of the epidemic…In 1987, pioneering AIDS activist Michael Callen begged Fauci for help in promoting the use of Bactrim as PCP prophylaxis and issuing interim guidelines urging physicians to prophylax those patients deemed at high risk for PCP…Had Fauci listened to people with AIDS and the clinicians treating them, and responded accordingly, he would have saved thousands of lives. In the two years between 1987, when Callen met with Fauci, and 1989, when the guidelines were ultimately issued, nearly 17,000 people with AIDS suffocated from PCP. Most of these people might have lived had Fauci responded appropriately…

Whether Fauci personally had this authority or not isn't the point. His excuse would be laughable if it wasn't so tragic; he was constantly traveling and speaking to the media and opining about everything related to AIDS research and treatment. In Arthur Kahn's book, Winter Wars, Larry Kramer pointed out that to get an appointment with Fauci, one didn't call his secretary but his press officers, ‘who book [his] talks and interviews... like movie stars.’ He could easily have advocated awareness of the preventive treatment as the de facto federal AIDS Czar, his influence was and is enormous.”

Just remember this quote while watching all the fawning adulation poured on Fauci for his work on AIDS in this film.

There’s a lot more. For one, it barely mentions Fauci’s flip flop on wearing masks, first saying they were useless then saying they were necessary. He merely gives one of his inane excuses that makes no sense, “Early on the White House Coronavirus task force was told we really didn’t have a shortage of masks and we didn’t know at the time that there was a lot of asymptomatic spread. We didn’t know that. Under those circumstances I said we really shouldn’t be wearing masks. and then when we found out that nearly 50% of the transmission occur from someone without symptoms. Then it became clear that, holy smokes, we really should be wearing masks.”

What? The overwhelming evidence is that these silly dime store masks that Fauci is mandating everyone to wear are worthless in preventing the spread of the virus. On March 30, 2020, the executive director for the World Health Organization’s Health Emergency Program stated, “there is no specific evidence to suggest that the wearing of masks by the mass population has any particular benefit.”

Rather than a “documentary,” this is akin to agitprop.