Anthony Fauci Has Become More Rorschach Test Than Man
And it's making it hard to learn from Covid
Congressional hearings might be the dumbest thing Congress does, which is saying something. Hearings ostensibly exist to give insight on important topics, but they actually exist to give Members of Congress a chance to go viral. Members of both parties have adopted the annoying tactic of asking unanswerable questions (e.g. “Who’s your favorite Nazi — yes or no”) and then talking over the reply. Tuesday’s grilling of Anthony Fauci was dumber than most, led by Marjorie “Dumber Than Most” Taylor Greene:
What Taylor Greene is doing there — besides affirming her status as a beaming supernova of a jackass — is theorizing that Dr. Fauci personally got rich from the vaccine. Dr. Fauci denied the charge, but I have to say: What a scandal that would be if true! Imagine if someone made money from saving millions of lives! HOW DARE THEY?!?!?! It’s very strange that it now falls to me, a liberal, to say: “Yeah, dumbass: If you want people to invent medicine, then you have to let them make money off of inventing medicine.” That’s supposed to be something that Republicans say to me.
Incredibly, that wasn’t the dumbest accusation Republicans levied against Dr. Fauci. They peppered Fauci with questions about National Institute of Health grants to a group that later partnered with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Fauci says that the viruses NIH studied were different than Covid, but Republicans managed to cram the words “Fauci”, “virus”, “lab”, “money”, and “Wuhan” into the same sentence, which was surely their goal. They’re implying that the NIH and perhaps even Dr. Fauci himself created Covid, and when you add that to their belief that Dr. Fauci got rich off the vaccines, you have to admit: All the stupid pieces of their idiotic puzzle fit together.
Why do Republicans hate Anthony Fauci so much? You can disagree with some of his decisions — and I do — without believing that he’s hatched plans that make your average Bond villain look like a kid stealing gum from 7/11. And though I think that Republicans are dishing out 99 percent of the crazy here, I’ll admit that I’m also turned off by the left-wing Cult of Fauci. Fauci is so revered on the left that I’m surprised no liberal has claimed that he’s appeared to them in toast. It seems clear that a person’s opinion of Fauci has become a way of signaling political allegiance, which is making it a lot harder to learn anything from Covid.