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Some Douthat interviews are insightful, often because interviewees feel safe enough to say stuff they usually only say in group texts. They are revealing while also normalizing some nutty stuff. His interview of Marc Andreessen was a good preview of DOGE donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-dange...
I don't think its a dis on Douthat to point out a) he does not do journalism, and b) his on camera profile is chatting to other conservatives whose circles he runs in. The problem is Weiss is not a journalist, the Free Press is not a news operation. Its opinion. Fine. But thats not 60 Minutes.
In another victory for intellectual diversity, the NY Times conservative opinion person hired by the billionaire Trump supporters has hired another NY Times conservative opinion person as actual journalists keep getting shoved out.
Oliver DarcyScoop: I’m told that Ross Douthat is exiting The NYT and is expected to take a role at “60 Minutes.” News expected to be announced soon.
MUST READ Deep Dive: How Russia and Iran Are Draining the West’s Best Defenses www.onestnetwork.com/how-russia-a...
How Russia and Iran Are Draining the West’s Best DefensesCheap drones are reshaping war — and Ukraine may be building the answer.www.onestnetwork.com
Check out this article from USA TODAY: Anthony Fauci lets loose on 'infinitely lying' Trump in COVID diary www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Anthony Fauci lets loose on 'infinitely lying' Trump in COVID diaryDr. Anthony Fauci called President Trump "out of control," a "true embarrassment" and "an idiot" in his diary, according to newly released documents.www.usatoday.com
www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/... All of this is because Tony refused to lie for Donald Trump. This should read “the vilification of Anthony Fauci”. The small unintelligent minds that seek to attack him with made up, non-evidence are the real criminals.
The Unmaking of Anthony FauciHe built an empire. It did not last.www.theatlantic.com
Jake Tapper Omits Fauci’s Diary, But Diary Admits Feeding Him Questions - News Busters, #MediaBias
Jake Tapper Omits Fauci’s Diary, But Diary Admits Feeding Him QuestionsCNN via SnapStream
Over the weekend, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul (R) released Dr. Anthony Fauci’s diary from during the COVID pandemic, exposing his egotism and deep connections with the liberal media elites who worshiped him. Featured predominantly in the writings was CNN’s Jake Tapper, who conveniently omitted any mention of the major breaking news during his two-hour time slot for The Lead, on Monday. Interestingly, the diary exposed how Fauci was feeding interview questions to Tapper.In an entry dated “July 26, 2020 (Sunday),” Fauci wrote: “Brett Giroir on Tapper (State of the Union) talking bullshit about testing with Jake pressing him. I gave Jake some questions to ask him.”As NewsBusters reported at the time, Tapper was incredibly hostel toward the Coronavirus Task Force’s Admiral Brett Giroir, MD. At one point, Tapper claimed he was having audio problems and rudely interrupted Giroir, as he was answering a question clearly, and assailed the Admiral (Click “expand”):TAPPER: Are you happy where testing is right now?GIROIR: I'm never going to be happy until we have this under control. And we're going to continue to push every single day to improve the testing, the type of testing that we have, and the rapidity of turnaround. Where we see the growth here is in point of care. We will have about 50 million tests available in August, about 65 million in September.TAPPER: Hold on one second, sir. I'm having audio problems. But let me -- let me -- I'm while I'm fixing my audio, let me ask this to you. The Harvard Institute of Global Health says that the U.S. should be conducting three to five million tests per day, three to five million tests a day. We're doing, as you noted, less than 800,000.Experts also note that the Trump administration has not fully activated all of the labs available, including hospital labs, commercial non-clinical labs, academic labs, veterinary labs.I know that you're saying that things have improved a lot. And they have. But you also concede that they're not where they need to be. Why is the Trump administration not doing everything it can to get testing where it needs to be?GIROIR: So, every one of those things examples that you said, we're - we're absolutely doing. So, I'm not quite sure why you're saying we're not doing them. Just this week, I had a call with over 500 university presidents, provosts, and vice presidents, and we have been talking to governors for at least a month, maybe two months, about activating the university labs.It’s unclear which questions Fauci fed to him, but Tapper would go on a diatribe against Giroir and accused him and others on the task force of being afraid to upset President Trump (Click “expand”):TAPPER: The Trump administration has invoked the Defense Production Act. True. They have done so with to -- for swabs, to get N95 masks, to get ventilators. Accurate. Has the Trump administration, has the President invoked the DPA to get labs up to speed, lab hiring and lab equipment? And you don't even need to do the DPA to do that for federal labs. That's what I'm talking about.There seems to be this reluctance to push the President to do what he needs to do to get the testing up to speed. I know that he's under the misguided impression that more testing is bad and makes him look bad, which, as you know, is completely false.And I'm wondering if you and others are just afraid to do this because you don't want to upset him, afraid to ask him to do what he needs to do, to invoke the DPA, to force the federal labs to get up to speed to where we need to be, so that we can isolate the virus.As you know, when you say people who need a test can get a test, there's a huge percentage of people who have the coronavirus who are asymptomatic, and they, quote, unquote, "don't need to be tested," according to this standard.But the point is, in order to identify and isolate the virus, it needs to be much more widespread, the testing, so we can see people who are carriers who don't have symptoms. That's the point.Are you afraid to bring this up to President Trump because it will upset him? At one point, Tapper got into one of his infamous screaming matches with a guest (Click “expand”):TAPPER: But it's not enough!GIROIR: Of course, it's enough. Tell me one thing that we should be doing with any of these private labs that we're not doing or they're not doing on their own, and I'm happy to do it. I talk to hundreds of people each week, academics, the Rockefeller Foundation, really smart people that we're working with. We have a national implementation forum for testing that we're going to be getting together this week. I talk to ACLA, APLU, universities, private labs, hospitals, you name it. We're getting input on a daily basis. If there's a stone that needs to be turned that is left unturned, you tell me what it is. But, from my vantage point -TAPPER: I just told you!GIROIR: - we have invoked all the authorities.TAPPER: Get federal labs -- get federal labs to hire more people and get more equipment, so you can increase turnaround times. Invoke the DPA, so that commercial labs all over the country, ones that you're not using -- five veterinary labs is not impressive to me, sir.GIROIR: No, no, no.TAPPER: Get all of those labs up to speed.GIROIR: I didn't say that. No, no, no. No, I said five veterinary labs have their CLIA certification to officially test human patients. There are a lot of labs who are doing surveillance testing that don't need the CLIA certification. And maybe I will nuance this a little bit. Surveillance testing is a way that -TAPPER: But no one thinks that testing is up to speed where it needs to be. No one - no one thinks it's where it needs to be. And yet you have spent this entire interview talking about how great and perfect everything is.GIROIR: No, I - I - TAPPER: But this is the weakest part of the response to this virus, is testing and where it is not -[Crosstalk]GIROIR: I started out -- I started out by saying that we are never going to be happy with testing until we get turnaround times within 24 hours. And I would be happy with point-of-care testing everywhere. We are not there yet. We are doing everything we can to do that.Later in the diary entry, Fauci recounts getting a message from Tapper about the interview. “Jake Tapper woke me up at 11:23 AM (I went to bed early) furius [sic] at POTUS for tweeting about the fact that Jake severly [sic] questioned Brett Giroir on SOTU CNN show today. Jake was really pissed at the craziness of it all,” he wrote.That wasn’t even the first time they commiserated about Giroir.In entry labeled “April 19, 2020,” Fauci documented: “Had conversation with Jake Tapper who is asking where the 27 million tests by end of March came from (Brett Giroir). Fact is I have no idea how he got that number. Deb Birx has no confidence in Giroir, nor do I.”
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The name “Tapper” appears 41 times throughout Fauci’s diary.Two mentions were particularly revealing as they showed Fauci had repeatedly dined with Tapper and his wife Jennifer at their home, during the pandemic, during a time he was demanded people be isolated, during a time when he demanded the sick die alone and scared in hospitals.“Had dinner over Jake Tapper and Jen Tapper’s home in DC. Terrific couple. Friendship building,” he gushed on “July 1, 2020” like a high school girl writing about her crush while laying on her beg and kicking her legs in the air. Again, on “October 23, 2020,” he fondly noted: “Had dinner at my home with Jake and Jennifer Tapper. Relaxed, good time. Jake clearly believes that Trump is totally nuts.”Having others feed him and steer his questions seems to be something Tapper enjoyed. A revealing New York Times story in 2017 exposed how then CNN boss Jeff Zucker was actively in Tapper’s ear from the booth during an infamous and contentious interview with then-Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway.Tapper may not mention it on his show, but he knows we all see his dirty laundry.Click here to read the transcript.dlvr.it
I found this article to be snarky, especially the part about Fauci, writing in his diary, describing his excitement in meeting Barbara Streisand, Julia Roberts, Joan Baez, and other stars due to his unanticipated fame. What Rand Paul doesn't seem to realize is that ANYONE would feel
It must take some sort of breach of ethics (and/or sanity) to release someone's personal diary entries to the public. That said, #Fauci's entries as shown here support my confidence in him. www.cbsnews.com/news/anthony... #ScienceVsWishfulThinking @cbsnews.com
Fauci diaries, released by Sen. Rand Paul, touch on COVID origins and tense relationship with TrumpRepublican Sen. Rand Paul released more than a thousand pages of journal entries from Dr. Anthony Fauci, teeing up what is likely to be a contentious hearing on Wednesday.www.cbsnews.com
“Donald Trump spent the morning of Lindsey Graham's memorial services embarking on a social media frenzy, firing off posts on everything from rappers and shirtless soccer players to self-soothing opinion polls.
The Daily BeastAs mourners gathered at Capitol Hill to pay their respects to Lindsey Graham, the 80-year-old president embarked on a social media frenzy.
The institutional corporate media wonders why it keeps losing the trust of the American public. The White House Correspondents' Dinner is a prime example. "Donald Trump is putting on a hat saying he's running in 2028, and you're sitting there eating a dinner," @marcelias.bsky.social says.
