Earlier this week, outgoing Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard released a batch of declassified documents which alleged that Dr. Anthony Fauci may have had a role in the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, including funding gain-of-function research at the Chinese Wuhan Institute of Virology and suppressing the likely laboratory leak of COVID-19. Given the seriousness of the evidence against Fauci, it’s worth noting the elitist media’s years-long track record of blindly celebrating and defending the now-disgraced former NIAID Director.
TV journalists threw a fit back in 2024 when Congressional Republicans compelled Fauci to testify on about the origins of COVID-19. MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell took particular umbrage at Republicans’ question of the doctor, proclaiming:
Dr. Anthony Fauci has saved millions and millions of lives… The first thing we should all say to Dr. Fauci is always, ‘Thank you.’
CNN host Kasie Hunt bemoaned that while Fauci had “started out a national hero to all,” he had become “a villain for half the country.” Fauci was also described as a hero by NBC’s Hallie Jackson and CNN’s Kaitlan Collins.
As he often does, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough stuck his neck out a bit too far in his defense of Fauci, specifically denying the very claims that DNI Gabbard’s document dump appears to have substantiated. While praising Fauci’s performance during that 2024 hearing on Capitol Hill, Scarborough remarked smugly:
There is an email that was presented yesterday … where Dr. Fauci said, ‘Well if you have evidence of [a lab leak] and you believe that, please present it to the FBI immediately.’
Does that sound like somebody who is trying to cover up the possibility of a lab leak?
For seemingly the millionth time, the media threw their support behind a questionable figure because they liked that he was a thorn in Donald Trump’s side. And for seemingly the millionth time, their poor judgment has blown up up in their own faces in light of new evidence.
