Brianna Lyman writes for the Federalist about “media hacks” appearing in former federal health official Anthony Fauci’s newly released diaries.
For years, the propaganda press assured Americans that Anthony Fauci was an honest broker and beyond any criticism. Those who did criticize him were raked over the coals for being “deranged” and “dishonest.” Questions about Fauci’s role in the deadly pandemic amounted to disseminating “misinformation.”
But new diary entries from Fauci himself reveal that many of the so-called “journalists” reporting on Fauci were nothing more than highly paid propagandists. Fauci appears to have relished the tongue baths so much that he memorialized them in his diary, dutifully reporting which propagandists praised him, protected him, and apparently sought his approval. …
… Take CBS News’ chief medical correspondent Jon LaPook, who apparently solicited help from Fauci about how to prepare for an interview and then mentioned Fauci several times during that interview, which apparently flattered Fauci enough that he noted it in his diary.
“Jon laPook was interviewed on CBS Morning News and mentioned me several times since he e-mail[ed] me over the weekend to prep him for his interview on Universal Flu vaccine and HIV vaccines.” LaPook, a supposed journalist, relied on Fauci to prepare him for television and then kept citing Fauci in his report while viewers had no idea that the government official had helped him shape the segment.
That dichotomy worked both ways, too. Take CNN’s Jake Tapper, who apparently was told by Fauci what questions to ask Brett Giroir, then a member of Trump’s coronavirus task force.
One entry shows Fauci admitting he gave Tapper “some questions to ask” Giroir. In other words, one government official was telling a “journalist” what questions to ask another government official.
Meanwhile NBC’s Chuck Todd was apparently running a media strategist company on the side, giving advice to Fauci as he faced mounting criticism.
