An Industry of Untruth
American Greatness,
by
Victor Davis Hanson
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
7/6/2020 5:08:22 AM
The current revolution is based on a series of lies, misrepresentations, and distortions, whose weight will soon sink it. Viral confusion- Unfortunately few in authority have been more wrong, and yet more self-righteously wrong, than the esteemed Dr. Anthony Fauci. Given his long service as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and his stature during the AIDS crisis, he has rightly been held up by the media as the gold standard of coronavirus information. The media has constructed Fauci as a constant corrective of Trump’s supposed “lies” about the utility of travel bans, analogies with a bad flu year, and logical endorsement of hydroxychloroquine as
Victor Davis Hanson - on the “Mt Rushmore” of The great modern conservative socio/economic political essayists (aside Thomas Sowell, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin) - but the list goes on.......
Thank you, Patriots
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DWIM 7/6/2020 5:43:18 AM (No. 468512)
Wow. IMHO, best succinct article ... (to me, so good, just don't know how to even finish this sentence).. Should be required reading of every sentient voter intending to make a difference. Thank you so much for so much in a single source.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
franq 7/6/2020 6:07:11 AM (No. 468532)
Excellent article. There is none so blind as those who will not see.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
OBX Pete 7/6/2020 7:40:44 AM (No. 468592)
What a great article. Finally someone to say it like it is.
What I want to see is an investigation to find out how many payrolls Fauci is on.
Is he receiving money from China, WHO, pharmaceutical companies or ALL of them ?
The only thing he is "expert" at is convincing people that he is an expert.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Johneboy2 7/6/2020 7:48:02 AM (No. 468601)
This article should absolutely be at the top of the "Must Reads".
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
cor-vet 7/6/2020 8:31:24 AM (No. 468674)
I don't know why he's an expert for his work during the AIDS crisis? It's not cured, is it? Like the coming Covid-19 treatment, there's a lot of very expensive medicine, but no cure. And for some reason, taxpayers underwrite the costs, like they're going to do here.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Clinger 7/6/2020 8:39:00 AM (No. 468682)
VDH at his best covering a lot of ground. Everything the left tells us is a lie, I'm sure Mr. Hanson could have gone on and on.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 7/6/2020 9:05:19 AM (No. 468706)
Fauci should be ridiculed and reviled for his inability to keep his promises. He promised a vaccine for AIDS about 34 years ago. Where is it Doctor? The man is a jumped up lab rat and a bureaucrat who hasn't been right about anything. He is a tool of the Left, used to stop our economy and hurt this nation. He is evil and so is the Left.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 7/6/2020 9:18:06 AM (No. 468726)
Who declares a person an 'expert'? Is the expert voted on and chosen with what background? Did Fauci wake up on day put a white lab coat on and declare himself as such a man because he's so scatter brained he comes off as a mad scientist to me.
President Trump tried to keep us calm but the two nitwits, including the scarf lady, couldn't make sense of anything it was like the doctors were winging it all along. From now on President Trump should keep those two from appearing with him.
Fauci did it for me when he appeared on CNN that should have got him fired.
This was too easy for VDH to write about and could have much more script on the subject of Fauci the non-expert.
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"Why we have let this happen to our country is the only mystery left."
This country is fueled by estrogen these days. Our current social order is how female society operates. The hive has queens (Oprah, Hillary, Pelosi...) and drones, and one either complies with the hive's norms or is expelled, if not proverbially stung to death. Abortion, single motherhood, and "successful" career woman childlessness are celebrated.
Children are the core of expansion. Boys are drugged if they act boyish. A male child without some "special need" is the exception, as is the mother who demands the need be met and accommodated by the public. Men have been reduced to nebbishes, economic junior partners. Boys given dolls; punished for any sign of aggression. Girls now overrun the colleges and universities, particularly professional schools. They have special programs to prepare them...boys, not so much. (Watch the TV advertising to see this as males become foils and fools.)
The social propaganda flows 24/7 from all around. That's how we let this happen, Victor. We were just being fair. Americans do that. Don't you think the water in this pot is getting warmer than ever?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
czechlist 7/6/2020 9:49:13 AM (No. 468753)
Fauci is an example of the political corruption of science. Government funded (controlled) science is considered "expert". Private funded or independent science is "skeptical" or "denier".
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/6/2020 9:58:03 AM (No. 468767)
One can not help but notice the similarities between this supposed "pandemic" and the Weather industry. How can something as common as the weather attract attention? Every storm is now "severe." Every flood is "disastrous" or "destructive." They all salivate when a hurricane begins to form off the southern coast of Africa because it means ten days of anticipation, fear-mongering and graphic displays on the big screens of the march across the Atlantic to Miami. Hurricanes have been pounding America for centuries yet each one is a unique, panic-inducing event by the time it reaches our coast. Then when the Katrina-du-jour is finally over and the winds have subsided we get comments from "authorities" like "heck of a job, Brownie." Now we can breathe until the next time.
You get the picture. Every COVID-19 flare-up is the big one, the Second Wave, the result of the sheep not obeying the shepherd. Little Fauci is given the stage so he can provide additional fright. It's all so manufactured that it practically screams hollywood Grade B script. The CDC was dead wrong, Fauci was wrong, focus on that.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
pinger 7/6/2020 9:58:42 AM (No. 468769)
If there was ever an article that I wish didn't warrant being written...it's this one. VDH sees everything through a crystal-clear lens.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
HotRod 7/6/2020 10:02:43 AM (No. 468772)
Anyone who agrees with the democrat lies is deemed an expert, especially if they are a celebrity or a person of some stature. Fauci pushes a drug that costs over $2000 per dose, instead of hydroxychloroquine, which costs less than a dollar per dose, and has been proven to be effective by doctors and researchers on the front lines! Fauci is a fraud!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
mathman 7/6/2020 11:25:45 AM (No. 468860)
Dr Fauci was wrong in 1984. I heard him (personally) refuse to speak out against anal sex between consenting adults. The evidence was that HIV was transmitted by this means. But he was not on board with this conclusion. How does that qualify him to be the most significant authority on COVID-19? Could it be his significant ownership of the company making Remesdivir? Could it be that he will get some of the $3500 per patient for this unproven treatment?
Fauci is a Hilary-worshiping acolyte in the NeverTrump brigade. He will do what it takes to assist BLM and Antifa in taking over this country.
He must go.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 7/6/2020 12:51:15 PM (No. 468975)
Good commentary.
A week or more ago Mr. Hanson wrote, IIRC, that Mr. Floyd was "killed by police" in one commentary.
I took the opportunity to try to contact Mr. Hanson via email, taking several efforts, one address was not active, but one seemed to go through. I thanked him for his excellent commentaries and gave him a link to the excellent investigative journalism article by Gavrilo David on the death of Mr. Floyd.
Today, Mr. Hanson uses the phrase, "...the tragic death of George Floyd." in this commentary. Perhaps he got my email and read Mr. David's excellent article. I hope so. Mr. Hanson is such a beacon of sanity in these crazy times, I hate it when he gets misinformed by the media.
In case you haven't seen this article, it is well worth the time spent reading it:
https://medium.com/@gavrilodavid/why-derek-chauvin-may-get-off-his-murder-charge-2e2ad8d0911
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 7/6/2020 3:44:47 PM (No. 469171)
"There is no logic ..." "We know this because the ignorant rioters and protestors cannot explain why ..."
But there IS a why. To make the kind of changes the Left wants, America must be torn down. When all the contributors to America have been torn off their pedestals, then you can tear down their works as well; the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, our Presidency, our Congress, our Court structure, etc. They have been stealthily chiseling away at these things for decades but got too greedy under BO and exposed themselves and their true goals. There was a backlash and Trump's election has ripped apart a lot of their work done in the past decades. Further, it has shown the American People that the Left's solutions are fake and failed and that the American way that Trump champions works very, very well.
So, being upended and desperate, the Left goes for their last chance; to encourage domestic terrorism and riots to overthrow society. Of COURSE, there is no reason for this. It is an exercise of shear power to get the control they want. Only a superior effort to counter them is the answer. We cannot "reason" our way out of this type of confrontation. We must hold them accountable and apply the law. We cannot afford to do otherwise.
"The brand of all cultural revolutions is untruth about the past and present in order to control the future."
Yes. We must not look for the "mistakes" we are accused of; for most intent, they don't exist or are minor. The purpose is to gain control. We need to stop them unless we want to witness the death of America. If the Left is not massively confronted, it WILL happen.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Folsomguy 7/6/2020 5:48:37 PM (No. 469309)
For what it's worth #7 he has PhD from Stanford. Usually I reserve the term Dr, for MD's, DDS's and such but in this case he deserves the title of Dr.
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