The Incredible Disappearing Fauci
Selwyn Duke

Though Dr. Anthony Fauci maybe fancies himself a god, he nonetheless had to have that omnipresence would elude him and settle for mere media ubiquity. Just fifty-fifty this has now changed, as the man whose last name means "jaws" has disappeared from mainstream media like a baby elephant seal down a Great White's gullet.

It'southward not considering Ukraine is dominating the airwaves, either, as Fauci'south vanishing act predated the Russian invasion.

Filling in on Tucker Carlson Tonight Fri, guest host Will Cain noted this demotion. "Tony Fauci was everywhere, no matter what happened in America," he said — "BLM riots, Jan 6, presidential ballot — Tony Fauci was still on idiot box effectually the clock."

For certain, the mainstream media made him a staple despite his ever-shifting positions (and perhaps because of them as it always provided a "new story"). In fact, Cain pointed out via a clip of Tucker Carlson'southward commentary (expanded version of which is beneath), the diminutive doctor was worshiped every bit "a living god" in D.C., with politicians erecting piffling shrines to the Chiliad Mufti of Co-operative COVIDianism.

Only no more. A '90s TV show asked children, "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?" but even she's easier to detect than Fauci at present on mainstream media. In fact, the bureaucrat has been reduced to actualization on shows such as the "Woke AF Podcast" (the "F" actually does correspond the f-word), where two budding rocket scientists asked Fauci why nosotros don't we vaccinate bats instead of people. (Apparently, they still oasis't gotten the memo that the coronavirus likely emerged from the Wuhan lab.)

It all must be quite deflating for the, as many narrate him, "egotistic" Fauci. But the doctor just can't say no to a media invite unless it'southward from someone who'll actually ask tough questions. This is even as Democrat politicians now say no, tacitly, to him.

For example, Cain showed two side-by-side video captures from unlike time periods of Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D-Mich.), sometime Branch COVIDian extraordinaire. They prove Whitmer in the aforementioned room with the same background, except for one notable deviation: The older capture shows a flick of Fauci prominently displayed to her right.

In the contempo one, though, simply like Stalin airbrushing fallen-from-commie-grace characters from history, it's gone — poof.

So at present it's "two weeks to flatten Fauci'south ego," as Cain put it (video beneath).

What'southward not funny at all is why this is happening. Democrats have seen the polling for the Nov midterms and realized that their "woke" policies accept them poised to take a shellacking. Hence did Joe Biden's handlers have him sounding a bit like Trump at the Land of the Union speech. Gone were the (Odd) Squad talking points, replaced with utterances about border security, how we take to "fund the law!" and in one case again build products in America (the MAGA hat was missing, though). And hence, also, accept the Democrats decided to run from masking, vaccine mandates and passports, and all Prc virus restrictions various and sundry.

Some wondered how the leftists were going to issue this transition from COVID tyranny to mail-COVID blarney without being held answerable for visiting on America scientifically obscurantist policies that wreaked economic, social, psychological, and health-oriented havoc. But apparently they're just going to tout Omicron's relative mildness and past policies' purported effectiveness, claim victory, and so distract us with the Ukraine war (which is a large deal — but it's also a convenient deal.)

That is, until and unless they retain power in November, in which instance they tin employ the regular wintertime season respiratory affliction miracle to resume the scam.

More interesting, nonetheless, than Fauci's (temporary?) fall is how not just the whole political sphere, but likewise the entire mainstream media, act as a monolith in freezing the doctor out as much every bit Star Trek'south Borg "Collective" ever could. My, it's about as if they get marching orders.

Apropos to this, citizens with memories a scrap longer than demagogues might like may remember the JournoList scandal in 2010. It had emerged that 400 left-fly journalists, academics, and others had been coming together since early on 2007 in a private Google Groups forum — and shaping the news was part of the discussion. Put differently, they were behaving like gangsters agreeing on what concocted tale they'd tell the government.

JournoList was shut downwards after the scandal broke, only this didn't alter the establishment collective's character. In fact, that information technology is a collective is the point: Non very much has to exist stated explicitly when all members found a hive mind, bound together by simpatico passions and ideology. They'll all act in substantially the aforementioned way, quite naturally, because they're as conformist politically as they boast about existence diverse superficially.

This doesn't hateful upper-echelon Democrats and media moguls don't communicate. Ane could just imagine Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer casually remarking to ABC president Kim Goodwin on the cocktail-political party circuit, "Yeah, nosotros're de-emphasizing COVID — Fauci'south chore is done. We've moved on." That'south all that need exist said.

Meanwhile, some theorize that Fauci's days at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, of which he'south been a part since 1968, are numbered. He's 81 years old now, so the instance for new blood tin easily be made. So he may find out that, as with the Soviets' dispatching of Leon Trotsky, there'south no more than honour (or loyalty) amidst leftists than there is among thieves.