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Fox News host Laura Ingraham’s interview with Anthony Fauci goes sideways
Fauci repeatedly dismissed Ingraham’s dodgy premises in an interview that reinforced how punditry like Ingraham’s has flown in the face of what health officials are saying.
"Fox News host Laura Ingraham’s interview with Dr. Phil is getting all the attention this morning. But it might have been her interview Thursday with an actual medical doctor, Anthony S. Fauci, that best spotlighted conservative media’s odd, speculative and suspect coverage of the coronavirus.
Ingraham has been one of the leading conservative skeptics of health officials’ response to the virus. She has repeatedly attacked the models used to project death tolls and argued that those officials have oversold the threat and ruined the economy by hijacking public policy.
So welcoming Fauci to her show would have seemed a good opportunity to press perhaps the most preeminent figure on these issues. For Ingraham, though, it didn’t turn out so well."
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In order to understand the dynamic here, in other words what Faux was trying to achieve, we need to put aside how Fauci turned Laura inside out with the responses to her questions.
Because this interview was never about getting to the truth. Faux has little interest in that. The purpose of the interview was to reinforce the notion of Fauci as the foil to re-opening the economy. Something Trumpworld has been trying to achieve ever since Tony began contradicting the infallible Supreme Leader weeks ago. Trump needs the minions to have a target of their ire. It can't be him for dropping the response ball. So he needs to find an alternative. Entire Fauci.
For an added theatrical touch Fauci's interview was put in stark contrast by using one of Faux's favorite ploys, giving equal weight to the opinions of non-experts compared to those of real ones. Enter (Dr?) Phil........who offered quite a few suspect analogies but no factual information. Who cares! That wasn't his job. His job was to throw shade on Tony. To leave gullible pawns with the misguided notion there are experts who disagree on the efficacy of doing what Trumpleton #1 is trying to goad governors in to doing. How is Don planning to achieve that end? By getting members of the The Following to hit the streets and put pressure on state and local governments to do the wrong thing too quickly.
'Work conquers all': Protests erupt in state capitals nationwide over coronavirus restrictions
I'll say this. Team Trump are master manipulators. They have cultists wrapped around their fingers.
Fauci repeatedly dismissed Ingraham’s dodgy premises in an interview that reinforced how punditry like Ingraham’s has flown in the face of what health officials are saying.
"Fox News host Laura Ingraham’s interview with Dr. Phil is getting all the attention this morning. But it might have been her interview Thursday with an actual medical doctor, Anthony S. Fauci, that best spotlighted conservative media’s odd, speculative and suspect coverage of the coronavirus.
Ingraham has been one of the leading conservative skeptics of health officials’ response to the virus. She has repeatedly attacked the models used to project death tolls and argued that those officials have oversold the threat and ruined the economy by hijacking public policy.
So welcoming Fauci to her show would have seemed a good opportunity to press perhaps the most preeminent figure on these issues. For Ingraham, though, it didn’t turn out so well."
.................................................................................................................................
In order to understand the dynamic here, in other words what Faux was trying to achieve, we need to put aside how Fauci turned Laura inside out with the responses to her questions.
Because this interview was never about getting to the truth. Faux has little interest in that. The purpose of the interview was to reinforce the notion of Fauci as the foil to re-opening the economy. Something Trumpworld has been trying to achieve ever since Tony began contradicting the infallible Supreme Leader weeks ago. Trump needs the minions to have a target of their ire. It can't be him for dropping the response ball. So he needs to find an alternative. Entire Fauci.
For an added theatrical touch Fauci's interview was put in stark contrast by using one of Faux's favorite ploys, giving equal weight to the opinions of non-experts compared to those of real ones. Enter (Dr?) Phil........who offered quite a few suspect analogies but no factual information. Who cares! That wasn't his job. His job was to throw shade on Tony. To leave gullible pawns with the misguided notion there are experts who disagree on the efficacy of doing what Trumpleton #1 is trying to goad governors in to doing. How is Don planning to achieve that end? By getting members of the The Following to hit the streets and put pressure on state and local governments to do the wrong thing too quickly.
'Work conquers all': Protests erupt in state capitals nationwide over coronavirus restrictions
'Work conquers all': Protests erupt in state capitals nationwide over coronavirus restrictions
Rallies organized through Facebook and Twitter cropped up this week across the country with a message to governors: Relax coronavirus restrictions.
www.usatoday.com
I'll say this. Team Trump are master manipulators. They have cultists wrapped around their fingers.
