My best spin for Birx

[Tom Rinaldo]

Well, for starters, she is an actual scientist so she doesn't spout babble and total lies that directly contradict the real science and known evidence. OK, that's a fairly low bar for someone who works in public health, but some times she does actually communicate facts. Maybe of greater significance, she has now positioned herself to retain credibility not so much with folks like us here, but with Trumpster FOX viewer types, and that matters because there are tens of millions of them. And my body will not politically differentiate between potentially getting infected from exposure, directly or indirectly, to an environmental activist Covid-19 carrier rather than from a Trump loving gun hugging racist Covid-19 carreir. Either way my life will be equally at risk. So someone has to be able to make the case to Fox viewers that the threat from Covid-19 is real and exists now in real time, regardless of how she may fudge about the future, without them muting the volume when they see someone with actual knowledge about the virus talking on their screen.

[exboyfil]

1. Nope no break

“He’s [Trump] been so attentive to the scientific literature and the details and the data,” Birx said. “I think his ability to analyze and integrate data that comes out of his long history in business has really been a real benefit during these discussions about medical issues.”

[MoonRiver]

2. Yep, from the very beginning she's been a Chump sycophant.

No break from me.

[dalton99a]

3. Like the scientific data behind the Clorox warning labels

Shit, the chemical dangers are known to every Chemistry 101 student

[SammyWinstonJack]

5. What a pant load. Bet even she doesn't believe what she spewed there

[Polly Hennessey]

4. Sorry, no break.

She may be a scientist but she is a complicit one. For all we know she may be a climate change denier. The good doctor may not be so good after all.

[lark]

6. She doesn''t tell the truth, that's why she is being kept around.

She lies to cover for drumpf so is acceptable to Faux - which makes her totally unacceptable for our real lives. She is part of his killing cabal and is furthering his efforts at no testing and opening up in an unsafe way so that we are in another total breakdown by election time - that is 1/2 of what this is about. The rest is pure profiteering, stealing vital supplies from Americans, killing us and the blue states on purpose.

[bullwinkle428]

7. She has decided that being famous is more important than saving the lives of

millions of Americans.

[LAS14]

9. How is this a response to the OPs point? Don't you care whether Trumpsters social distance or...

.. use face masks?

[LAS14]

8. I think your take is correct, and I think that makes her amazing! I really feel...

... for how draining it must be for both her and Fauci to work in that environment. And I'm VERY GRATEFUL, that they manage not to get removed. Although Fauci seems to have been pretty much muzzled. Has anyone seen him on TV lately?

[mercuryblues]

10. She said this after trump suggested injecting disinfectants in the body

as a cure.

Dr. Birx defended President Trump's comments on disinfectants, saying 'he gets new information, he likes to talk that through out loud and really have that dialogue.' Dr. Birx defended Trump promoting unfounded and harmful coronavirus treatments by saying, “He gets new information, he likes to talk that through out loud and really have that dialogue … I think he just saw the information at the time immediately before the press conference and he was digesting that information.'

[malaise]

11. The only spin I'd give her would be in Isadora's car

She so wants that HHS Secretary job

[Tom Rinaldo]

12. OK, that's genuinely funny

[malaise]

13. LOL - Check this from JHB's cartoon thread

[dalton99a]

14. +1. Evidently she doesn't care about her reputation anymore

[malaise]

15. Sad to watch

I've stopped trying to figure out most human beings.

[rurallib]

16. best i can figure, she drank the disinfectant.

[Demsrule86]

17. The next Democratic president should fire Birx on day one.

She is lying for the Trump and now attacking the media ...who are telling the truth ...not like her and Trump. Scientist can be politically motivated just like anyone else and are also at time liars while promoting themselves.

[librechik]

18. Abuse victim. n/t

[GeorgeGist]

19. I hope you're right ...

but personally I distrust her.

[Tom Rinaldo]

20. I don't completely trust her either

I fear she can be an enabler by cleaning up after Trump. But Trump does what he does regardless of whether or not anyone tries to give him any partial cover, and his bleach drinkers listen to him anyway. There are millions who only trust Trump and those who appear to have his blessing. Right now she seems to be in that latter grouping, so they don't shut down when she starts to talk. And as subservient as she may seem to have become, she still provides a much saner view of this pandemic than anything that Trump is capable of grasping or personally accepting. At best she is a mixed blessing, and this is a time when we should count our blessings, mixed as they might be.

[Boomerproud]

21. No chance. After what I saw on the Sunday gabfests

She is not trustworthy. I am 100% all OUT.