As Fox News Stokes Death Threats Against Fauci, Fauci Is Telling The Network's Bookers To Pound Sand

[appalachiablue]

- The Murdochs removed Glenn Beck from Fox after the host's conspiracy theories became dangerously unhinged. Fox host Tucker Carlson, however, has received broad protection even as the show promotes conspiracies about masks, vaccines, & health experts themselves.
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- Daily Kos, Dec. 2, 2021. - Ed. (Fox latest- Dr. Fauci is now 'Dr. Mengele').

Dr. Anthony Fauci has been strikingly absent from Fox News in the last half-year or so. While the Fox evening lineup continues to do their level best to stoke death threats against him, comparing him to infamous Nazi torturers & propagating bizarre conspiracy theories about him, the man the Murdoch family is blithely putting in the crosshairs of delusional Trumpian mobs is rarely—if ever—himself appearing on the network's supposed "news" programs. Politico reports that Fox programs have been "trying to book Fauci for months but he's been turning them down." Is Dr. Anthony Fauci right in refusing to appear on a "news" network that has incessantly stoked conspiracy claims against him & turned him into a top national target for anti-mask, anti-vaccination crackpots & thugs? Yes! Absolutely yes!

Not only is Fauci making the right move. There is a very good case to be made that govt. health agencies should refuse bookings with the network en masse as long as they continue to promote pandemic conspiracy theories.

That does not mean that the federal government should be freezing Fox News out of the pandemic information loop.

But individual govt. health experts are well within their rights to demure on giving personal, on-camera interviews to a network that has chosen to demonize govt. health experts as a matter of corporate policy. No public servant should be putting themselves out as the next target for Tucker Carlson or Sean Hannity to spread hoaxes about. As hosts & guests lie relentlessly about the pandemic in ways that endanger public safety for the sake of boosting partisan talking points, network heads have repeatedly refused to step in. There are now uncountably many Fox News viewers who, because of the conspiracy theories stoked by Carlson's show alone, believe Dr. Fauci & other govt. experts to be conspirators seeking to do them harm. Some believe he & other doctors "engineered" the pandemic in order to take "freedoms." Some believe health experts mean to "prolong" the pandemic in order to gain unclear personal powers.

Just as partisan "news" hosts were a prime source through which absolutely fraudulent information about voting machine companies were laundered, partisan hosts are now the megaphones for fraudulent pandemic information that is killing Americans. Dr. Fauci is now a top target of the nation's most violent and unhinged conspiracy theorists—and Fox News continues to giddily target him. He is absolutely within his rights, even as a federal government official, in preventing the network from collecting new videoclips that the network's conspiracy heads will assuredly use to stoke new rounds of misinformation. Fox hosts have relentlessly mocked pandemic safety measures. They have mocked those who would mask even in places masking is not mandated.

They have mocked the notion of masking at all. They have spread countless conspiracy "questions" promoting false vaccine dangers. The network has, indisputably, caused deaths.

The COVID-19 pandemic is now primarily a Republican disease ravaging Republican regions. It spreads in the places Americans have resisted vaccination, based on "conservative" pundit urgings that they do so. It did not have to be this way; it was done intentionally. It was done on purpose, for the sake of creating a new cultural divide that could be used as election fodder. The Fox News board has been steadfast in allowing their hosts to promote fraudulent, dangerous hoaxes that have helped kill untold numbers of their own viewers...

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/2/2067243/-As-Fox-News-stokes-death-threats-against-Fauci-Fauci-is-telling-the-network-s-bookers-to-pound-sand
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- Dec. 2, 2021. Fauci 'Astounded' By Fox Silence After Host Compared Him To Nazi Doctor - All In - MSNBC. https://democraticunderground.com/1017696731

[Frustratedlady]

1. Good for Dr. Fauci. He has endured tremendous objection from the MAGAs...

and doesn't deserve any of it. With all the presidents he has worked under and all the contributions he has given to the people, FOX should be grateful, not critical. It is all for ratings, I would guess.

[appalachiablue]

4. He's the best. It's disgusting

how low Fox's program hosts will sink to mislead and frighten the public and demean a major health expert like Dr. Fauci - recently saying he was like Nazi concentration camp monster Dr. Joseph Mengele, most known for experimentation on twin children.

I've respected Fauci and appreciated his scientific efforts since the early 1980s at the start of the AIDS crisis. At the time I was working in health info. at an organization for the visually impaired near NIH where he was with NIAIDS.

In the new film on Fauci by Natl. Geo. and Disney, I read that he became emotional when seeing an AIDS patient who he was working with had gone blind blind from cytomegalovirus/CMV which can attack the retina of the eye. At work we assisted several NIH- Natl. Eye Inst. referred AIDS patients with the same condition. I was glad to help two of them who wanted large print bibles.

I didn't know then that my younger brother would become ill and die of AIDS in NY some years later. In addition to receiving first rate care, he traveled to France for further treatment and would have had access to newer meds earlier and made it if not for the Reagan-Bush regime's obstruction, and research and treatment delays.
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- 'Fauci recalls the terrifying early days of the AIDS epidemic. 40 years ago this month, 5 mysterious deaths perplexed the young scientist—and launched his long battle against HIV/AIDS.' National Geographic, June 3, 2021.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/fauci-recalls-the-terrifying-early-days-of-the-aids-epidemic

[Frustratedlady]

6. Interesting background and story. Sorry about your brother.

I can't understand the hatred and defamation these clowns use as though it's a game. Dr. Fauci could have easily thrown up his hands and walked away, but he didn't and we are the better for it.

Defamation charges would stop (or, at least slow down) some of these garbage comments.

[Mike Nelson]

2. Yay!

... they can book Dr Oz, Dr Atlas, Dr Laura, Dr Drew, Dr Phil, and Dr Evil... or just keep the "My Pillow" guy on after the ads; he'll probably say the Pillows, Sheets, and Slippers cure all ailments.

[dalton99a]

3. +1. And Dr. Trump

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

5. In the OP, we see the word "demure".

It should be "demur". As Mark Twain said, "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug."

[BeckyDem]

7. Anything goes at Fox as long it will keep low man dumber and down and corp leaders winning.

They are a menace to society.

Fauci, hang in there, we need you.