Observations on the Post Fauci Reveal [Expanded]

https://ethicsalarms.com/2026/08/01/observations-on-the-post-fauci-reveal/

Observations on the Post Fauci Reveal [Expanded]
August 1, 2026 / Jack Marshall

You know…when Dr. Fauci revealed himself to be a narcissist, a coward, a 
fick, and an all-time American villain.

The Fauci Ethics Train Wreck is yet another integrity test for the 
American Left and the Axis of Unethical Conduct. It has flunked the 
others, so it is not surprising that it is flunking this one. The 
ethical course would be to admit the truth:

“Yes, they were thrilled with the pandemic lockdown, because it wrecked 
the Trump economy and gave them a chance to install a puppet President 
who could be manipulated by extreme left unelected functionaries. Yes, 
that made us especially willing to accept Dr. Fauci and Co.’s draconian 
measures, especially since it gave Democratic elected officials an 
opportunity to play dictator and constrain Americans’ civil rights in 
the name of “safety.” Yes, we sanctified Dr. Fauci beyond all reason to 
enhance our irresponsible “follow the science” grift, which has been so 
successful in the climate change policy debate. Yes, we were complicit 
in installing ruinous and unnecessary policies, based on panic that our 
media sowed, that retarded a generation’s education and social 
development, ruined businesses, permanently damaged whole industries, 
and killed people.”

Nah! That’s not how the American Left rolls in 2026. How much better it 
is to deflect, lie, ignore multiple metaphorical elephants, and maintain 
a position that has become completely untenable.

The op-ed titled “What We Really Learned From the Fauci Hearing” (gift 
link, but this is no present) from the New York Times could have been 
designed by an AI bot with the instruction, “write an op-ed denying that 
the Fauci hearing was what it was, using the topic to blame Republicans 
while avoiding inconvenient facts.”

This paragraph, near the end, is a masterpiece of dishonesty and sophistry:

“Dr. Fauci is a complicated man who has been both elevated and reduced 
to a symbol. His legacy after a decades-long career at the intersection 
of science and politics is now defined by incompatible, contested 
accounts of his pandemic-era impact. There is little hope of resolving 
that contest any time soon.”

“Complicated”! The smoking gun of brazen sophistry, prevarication and 
equivocation. There’s noting complicated about Fauci. He’s a lifetime 
bureaucrat who became intoxicated with power when the opportunity 
arrived, and abused that power for the benefit his own ego, his 
political party, and the detriment of millions. It is an old story. 
Faucis have been analyzed by historians, playwrights and novelists for 
centuries. “Complicated” is an anodyne, toothless word used to excuse 
wrong-doers.

The op-ed skirts the inconvenient fact that Fauci’s own diary, which he 
foolishly posted on a government platform, completely verifies what Dr. 
Rachael Bedard, one of the physicians in “Defend the hive!” mode calls 
“the right’s portrayal of him as a self-regarding operator who was 
flattered rather than humbled by the attention he received during a 
national crisis.” But that description is also deceit. His celebratory 
prose is trivial: what the diary reveals is that Fauci lied, knew he was 
lying, abused his influence, and didn’t give a thought to who was being 
harmed. Bedard doesn’t deal with those facts at all; it’s so much easier 
to characterize the hearing, which sought to confront the liar with his 
own words, as “theater” and “McCarthyism.”

She writes,

“But many of the entries being cited as evidence that Dr. Fauci lied to 
the public or deliberately withheld information are really reminders of 
how uncertain the context was for pandemic decision-making. Some of the 
entries, in fact, give a useful glimpse into how decisions were hashed 
out among experts with different perspectives and concerns, with Dr. 
Fauci often playing the role of convener or informal chair.”

Translation: ‘We get a useful glimpse of how health officials and other 
government officials prefer to lie to the public, saying that they are 
certain of conclusions that are speculative at best and demanding that 
“experts” and “science” be accepted without question, in order to ensure 
mindless compliance with edicts and policies that they know may be wrong.’

The op-ed is damning evidence of how Fauci’s colleagues and peers will 
abandon all principles to protect its turf, and how the New York Times 
will publish pure disinformation and propaganda to bolster the Left when 
its conduct is indefensible and accountability looms. Of course, the 
Axis broadcast news media followed suit.

Then consider this social media post from Chris Cuomo, ex-CNN sex 
symbol, aka. “Fredo.”


Don’t anyone admonish me again for using “Fredo” to mock Chris: I doubt 
that even the dimmest Corleone brother would have been dumb enough to 
post this in response to Fauci’s disgrace. I know, Chris somehow got a 
law degree, but the comment is ignorant. Congress is supposed to conduct 
hearings regarding matters of importance to the country, especially 
disasters like its response to the pandemic. Fauci had evaded and lied 
in earlier hearings, and his self-indicting diary entrees demanded 
Congressional inquiry. He was correctly called to testify, Sen. Paul 
accurately cited what the evidence appears to show, and Fauci retreated 
behind the Fifth Amendment.

That’s not Congressional “lawfare,” and Fauci had the opportunity to 
supply answers. And what relevance is it that Fauci is Fredo’s “friend”? 
Among the less obscene responses Chris’s tweet received, all noting that 
he was complicit in spreading the Left’s pandemic propaganda was this one:

“Chris isn’t it kind of stressful sticking up for a guy with this diary 
entry: “We can’t admit the shots don’t work because it will make it 
harder to force people to get them.” Right?

Bingo. The fact that an ethics-challenged fool was hired by CNN and 
allowed to make viewers dumber for so long stands as a monument to the 
Ethics Alarms mantra, “Nah, there’s no mainstream media bias.” No 
legitimate journalism organization would tolerate an idiot like Cuomo. 
True, ABC stuck with Sam Donaldson, but compared to Chris he was H.L. 
Mencken.

Then we have the elected officials who perfectly embody one of my 
father’s favorite lines, “My mind’s made up, don’t confuse me with 
facts!” Here is the long-time Democrat hack Sen. Dick Durbin (EA dossier 
here) just plain lying:


If Fauci cares so much, how is it that while extolling himself and 
crowing about how much fun it was to be beloved, nowhere in his diaries 
does he express any concern for the people his policies were harming? 
Rand Paul wasn’t trying to question Fauci about “conspiracy theories.” 
He was, again, trying to confront the man with his own words. And lies.

Nellie Bowles at the Free Press makes a reasonable assessment of what 
was going on in Fauci’s mind:

“He loved being a celebrity. The thing about it is, he really was being 
worshipped! There was a cult of Fauci. People were getting Fauci tattoos 
and dancing with images of Fauci. He really was on the cover of every 
magazine, which, if you think about it, was weird! If millions of 
Americans suddenly made me their cult leader, and I had previously just 
been an unknown short man in the back of an HIV press conference, I 
would go insane with power too. So would you. And when you see lockdowns 
in the context of a power-drunk elf getting turned on by the idea of 
canceling Easter—he’s typing so fast he can barely keep up—you can 
understand better what we all lived through. For him, the pleasure was 
canceling things, especially things he felt gave power to the right 
(sports, family gatherings, religious events).”

Translation:


No, I would not react as Nellie says she would, because power and 
position must be accompanied by humility, care, courage, sacrifice and 
perspective. I know many, indeed most, sudden celebrities abuse their 
new-found status, but Fauci was a public servant, and had a higher 
responsibility. He was a professional, and professionals must be 
trustworthy.

I did see a ray of hope from the news media. ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith, 
who was all in during the pandemic, savaging athletes who objected to 
being forced to get the vaccine shots and boosters, publicly apologized 
to NBA star Kyrie Irving for calling him “selfish.”

Smith said:

“I watched Dr. Fauci on Capitol Hill yesterday, and the person I thought 
about most was Kyrie Irving. He stood out in my mind because of the heat 
that he was taking… He refused the vaccine. New York City’s mandate made 
him ineligible for home games, and he linked his stance to people losing 
jobs over vaccine mandates. In my opinion, particularly hindsight-wise, 
it didn’t make him stubborn or selfish. It made him brave. His 
willingness to stand up and say, ‘Nah, I’m not doing that.’ It’s just a 
time for reflection — to look at things differently. Kyrie gave up 
$11,400,000 in game checks during the 21-22 NBA season and a 
$100,000,000 extension with the Nets to be unvaccinated. That cements 
his holdout as the largest financial sacrifice any athlete has ever made 
over an issue in history.”

Some people, at least, have the integrity to admit they were wrong.

An important question that needs to be answered, speaking of conspiracy 
theories: Was Fauci working for the Axis, deliberately trying to wreck 
Trump’s economy to put a Democrat in the White House, or was he a 
“useful idiot,” enabling a corrupt political party without that being on 
his agenda? The Biden pardon certainly points in the conspiracy 
direction; so does the Axis denial of Fauci’s wrongs. It is also true 
that the behavior of Democratic officials strongly suggested that they 
weren’t taking the pandemic as the serious threat that their allies were 
fearmongering to the public:


I tend to believe that Fauci’s service to the Left was indispensable, 
significant but inadvertent. Together, however, they were complicit in 
one of the great public policy disasters in U.S. history.