Dr. Fauci’s “Push Back” Comments Mean He Should Stay Off CNN
931.1 WIBC Blog,
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Tony Katz
Original Article
Posted By: shsmith,
4/13/2020 11:19:09 AM
America’s infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, appeared on CNN and told Jake Tapper that “obviously” fewer people would have coronavirus if we had shut down the country earlier. He punctuated it by saying there was “push back” to the idea.
A full listen to his answers show Dr. Fauci wasn’t aggressively laying blame anywhere, and he repeatedly warned against second guessing. He stated clearly, for example, that comparisons to South Korea were illogical. He admitted that he looks at things from a, “pure health standpoint,” meaning that he doesn’t concern himself with your job or your neighbor’s small business.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Jean123 4/13/2020 11:32:51 AM (No. 378182)
The media is trying to goad Trump into trashing or firing Fauci. I hope he doesn't take the bait. Fauci and Birx are very popular and it would cause an unnecessary uproar if Trump allowed himself to be manipulated by the media. At the next briefing, Fauci and Trump should stand together and put all these rumors to rest.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
aasilver 4/13/2020 11:33:06 AM (No. 378183)
An accurate description of what Fauci said according to the transcript of the interview.
Fauci isn't the problem - the media, including the Breitbart headline, put their own spin on the interview and Fauci came up the villain.
For those of you that still think that Fauci stabbed Trump in the back - read the transcript of the interview.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
halfnorsk 4/13/2020 11:37:02 AM (No. 378187)
Brought to you by the unassailable Dr Fauci, who assured us on January 21 that the Coronavirus was “not a major threat.”
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Alecto2 4/13/2020 11:45:15 AM (No. 378204)
Fauci is a lying sack of excrement. Back in late Feb., he was saying it's impossible to keep out the whole world using travel restrictions. Two weeks later, he says shutting out Europe was the right call.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
spacer 4/13/2020 11:59:48 AM (No. 378218)
#1..Fauci and Birx are very popular? With the leftest media ,WHO and the frauds that made up their models that are total crap, maybe, but anyone that knows Faucis' back ground knows him to be a bureaucrat first, and a Trump hater. President Trump ought to fire both..... yesterday.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
LeeBertie 4/13/2020 12:03:15 PM (No. 378220)
Off CNN?
OFF CAMERA, OFF TV, OFF RADIO, OFF THE INTERNET
BACK TO HIS LAB WITH HIS COMPUTER MODELING AND HIS MOUTH SHUT!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Rama41 4/13/2020 12:12:40 PM (No. 378225)
The article is right. Fauci is not blaming Trump, but the press is. It's the stated goal of the NYT to blame everything on Trump. Looking backwards is always 20-20. You decide what to do (e.g., "Blame Trump"), graze through the smorgasboard of past events, and choose whatever supports your position. Roberta Wohlstetter's Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision points out how difficult it is for decision-makers to separate "signals" from the background "noise" of raw and often conflicting facts. Regardless of how Trump decides whether or when we go back to work -- or not --, look for the NYT to tell us what he should have done...after the fact.
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I believe VP Pence told his Coronavirus Task Force team that they were not to appear on CNN because the network cuts away from the daily briefings.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Highvoltage 4/13/2020 12:28:39 PM (No. 378241)
Keep him on because he will diminish himself. Trump is aware that risk is a balancing act. We all balance risk every day. Is it the economy vs the virus or can we manage both? We can and must do both - now. Ignore the pundants. The only have mouth organs that work - no brains.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
rockeysroomie 4/13/2020 12:35:47 PM (No. 378246)
Let the good doctor dig his own grave.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 4/13/2020 12:40:20 PM (No. 378248)
False is a Hillary lover and a deep state creep who has that stupid grin on his face always, until the President speaks! Fire him now!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
lgplgp 4/13/2020 12:59:48 PM (No. 378267)
Drs Fauci, Birx and the Surgeon General Adams are discovering that the Fake Media is indeed, FAKE. It is quite a political lesson for deep staters that their (in their eyes) open, honest and balanced comments (and indeed Dr. Fauci's transcript is honest in admitting that there are considerations beyond just medical that have to be balanced against the medical ones) will be mined and twisted by the Fake Media to engender dissension within the Trump administration. Hopefully The Drs will now show more political savvy in their interviews.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Smart11344 4/13/2020 1:12:52 PM (No. 378278)
Before COVID-19, I had never heard of Dr. Fauci. My guess, he is elderly, and currently doing his swan song to become well known before he passes.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 4/13/2020 1:13:13 PM (No. 378279)
FTA:
"A full listen to his answers show Dr. Fauci wasn’t aggressively laying blame anywhere, and he repeatedly warned against second guessing.
IMO, Fauci is more of a down-in-the-weeds bureaucrat with a really limited grasp of how his words can be taken out of context, and a very narrow world view after decades in the labs and managing labs rather than someone with a particular political agenda. He needs to be consulted but NOT IN CHARGE, way too narrow a view.
He gets a lot of hate, but I think he really is more a "dweeb", also he has been called a "lab rat" and too unguarded in his speech. Really easy to take parts of what he says and get all cranked up.
But his entire statements are less inflammatory, by far.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Saryden 4/13/2020 1:43:13 PM (No. 378300)
It appears there are lots of people who do not do their homework. Google Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx and read about their connection to Bill Gaetz and globalism (that is if you do not already know and are merely joining in the leftist mob). They have lied to us. We did not deserve this ruination of the economy, being 'jailed' at home, and termination of 401K values via the stock market crash.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
bad-hair 4/13/2020 1:45:24 PM (No. 378302)
Dr. Fauci's beginning to think his opinions (scientific opinions included) are facts.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Shmowry1 4/13/2020 2:39:01 PM (No. 378334)
His work and advice are helpful and important. His media appearances are anything but. When this is over its time to seek out a replacement.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
XCenturion 4/13/2020 2:49:57 PM (No. 378341)
Jake Tapper should ask Nancy Pelosi why she encouraged people to visit China Town in SF on January 27th, weeks after Trump's travel ban. But then again that would require a reputable journalist, which Tapper isn't.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
nina584 4/13/2020 2:55:50 PM (No. 378346)
Fauxi needs to be send fishing.
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Maybe an enterprising reporter will ask the great, all-knowing, all-powerful Dr. Falsi which animal will inherit the earth after the China virus kills off mankind. The coyote? The hyena?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 4/13/2020 3:51:44 PM (No. 378370)
Doctor Hindsight is always 100% correct. Doctor Fauci is trying to approach that marker. Doctor Fauci has been guessing about the Wuhan virus all along. Doctor Fauci is going to be Schiffty's whistle blower in Impeachment 2.0 that begins shortly. Doctor Fauci is the marionette being guided by the Hildebeast.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
MickTurn 4/13/2020 3:56:52 PM (No. 378375)
Rush took on this today and tore Fauci a new one. Seems back then on numerous occations Fauci said this Virus was no big thing. Now he's trying to rewrite history to say he told Pres. Trump it was and the US needed a lock down etc. This is all a BIG FAT LIE, Rush played the weasel's own words and they were damning!
He should be held to account and put in a hole so he can't do any damage!
I would tell him privately, IF you talk to the press without specific authorization you will be terminated and your pension will be forfeit!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 4/13/2020 4:47:22 PM (No. 378425)
I'll reiterate my belief that Fauci is a foremost expert in his field, and in that regard Trump needs him on his team. But I also believe that Fauci lacks the skills to keep himself from being rolled by the enemedia, and in that respect he should have learned by now to decline one-on-one interviews with them. If he hasn't learned that yet, then Trump needs to put his foot down and order the doctor to stay off the airwaves.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
red1066 4/13/2020 5:13:10 PM (No. 378462)
A lot of people see Fauci as their granddad, so they like him for that. Your grandad wouldn't lie to you. Only problem is, Fauci/granddad doesn't know when to shut up. Doesn't know what his role is on the task force. He constantly interjects his opinion in matters that are not part of his job.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/13/2020 6:18:18 PM (No. 378516)
Could the "pure health standpoint" keep the country closed down for the entire Summer because the Sun will be getting more intense soon and there is a significant danger of sunburn? (White people affected disproportionately).
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/13/2020 6:40:33 PM (No. 378527)
To be fair to Fauci, we all thought back in February that this thing was no big deal and some of us still do. People like Fauci are conditioned to believe their computers and those computer models produced some shocking numbers. Answers to some of the important questions may never come, like how many of those who died since January would have died anyway from their other maladies and how early in 2019 was the virus brought into this country? We saw the explosive growth in a few areas where a few people infected many but was it a few or was the virus already circulating through nursing homes and the high rises of New York. There were very few test kits available at that time. Hundreds of thousands traveled back and forth from China in short periods of time. The problem might been dismissed in Wuhan for months until somebody figured out that something was wacky and then the government delay began. How many hospital patients infected other hospital patients here when nobody knew what they had other than the flu?
I would hate to lose an elderly loved one but I saw a program on lion prides that puts things into perspective. When an old lion gets sick or crippled it is left behind because its presence would risk the safety of the entire pride, restrict its movement and drain food resources that the cubs need. Just sayin'. Native American tribes here practiced the same method when it was time to pack up and follow the Buffalo herd. In the modern world, we have come to expect that every day a human life is extended is a good day but even many of the elderly do not agree with that. The fact that we allow modern people to kill their babies by the thousands blows that argument out of the water.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
or gate 4/13/2020 7:40:21 PM (No. 378565)
I hope this clown is a better Doctor than a judge of character.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
YorkieMom 4/13/2020 8:11:55 PM (No. 378586)
It seems some here are siding more with the NYT and CNN than with Trump and Fauci. By now, everyone should know the media pick and choose what they say and write. Hello, it’s always putting on the worst spin for Republicans and hiding the evil things the democrats do. Fauci isn’t media savvy. BTW, #18, brought up Pelosi and China Town in today’s presser.
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