Re: Observations on the Post Fauci Reveal [Expanded]

Loose Cannon wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Aug 2026 18:42:07 -0700, Michael Ejercito
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> 
> The fault for COVID lies directly with the untermensch with
> slant-eyes. That you found a simpleton coon to place the blame
> elsewhere is immoral.
> 
     That is quite a claim. What evidence is there that people with 
slant eyes caused COVID?


  Michael