Re: Observations on the Post Fauci Reveal [Expanded]

On Sun, 2 Aug 2026 16:40:36 -0700, Michael Ejercito
<[email protected]> wrote:

>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?
>
>

Wuhan



>  Michael