On Sunday morning, Senators Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Rand Paul (R-KY) released a second batch of texts messages from former National Institutes of Health official and far-left deity Dr. Tony Fauci about concerns in early 2021 with the Covid vaccine and pregnant women, but the “Big Three” liberal, elitist networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC saw no reason to cover them on their flagship morning or evening newscasts.
The first released text was from January 25, 2021, by a doctor working for Fauci and overseeing an NIH department dedicated to vaccine research:
MORE NEWS: Today, @SenRandPaul and I released additional context to Dr. Fauci’s message to Drs. Vivek Murthy and Rochelle Walensky expressing concerns about mRNA COVID shots “theoretically” resulting in “miscarriage in the 1st trimester.”
— Senator Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) August 16, 2026
On January 25, 2021, Dr. John Mascola,… pic.twitter.com/HWoRQUVaKs
The other was a May 2021 email from then-acting FDA Commissioner Dr. Janet Woodcock to Fauci and then-NIH Director Francis Collins:
THERE’S MORE: In addition to the texts, @SenRandPaul and I released an email from Dr. Janet Woodcock from May 2021.
— Senator Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) August 16, 2026
Dr. Woodcock emailed Dr. Fauci about personally receiving reports of patients experiencing hard to classify adverse events: “no one takes them seriously, no one… pic.twitter.com/sVG4zrNWtB
In contrast, this was covered on both Sunday and Monday by our friends at both the Fox News Channel and Newsmax.
The Fox News Channel’s Fox & Friends covered the story in its first hour, starting with co-host Ainsley Earhardt declaring there was “some more damning news for Dr. Fauci” as Johnson and Paul continue to “rais[e] red flags” about what Fauci was saying in public versus in private.
Surprise, surprise -- ABC, CBS, and NBC didn't mention on Monday morning (or Sunday night) the second set of Fauci texts/emails released by @SenRonJohnson and @SenRandPaul.@FoxandFriends had it in the first hour with @AinsleyEarhardt, @LawrenceBJones3, and @Kilmeade pic.twitter.com/0aCGCLZ6Wk
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) August 17, 2026
Co-host Brian Kilmeade chimed in and asserted that, while he never had any problems in taking the vaccine, other people did while Fauci and his friends “didn’t care.”
“So, [they] just said, ‘Well, these are unrelated under — you know, there was underlying problems. That is not that significant.’ So, they just dismissed all of it, and they would do some — they would start shadow-banning you or banning you entirely on social media,” he added.
For his part, co-host Lawrence Jones excoriated Fauci and the public health intelligentsia for their refusal to be transparent with what they said in public compared to private:
The sinister part about all of this, Ainsley, is that behind the scenes, they knew this to be true. And look, I understand there is a massive debate right now about vaccines and what does the science say, and part of the reason people are tuned off right now and not listening to the medical professionals — it’s because of things like this, instances like this. So, it’s better to get all of this out, be honest with people, give them the science, and then allow them to make a decision.
Later, he addressed those arguing that talking about Fauci in 2026 is a waste of time: “I mean, you just can’t just bypass it. People keep saying. I wish the Republicans would just move on. We’re not moving on because there’s going to be another pandemic at some point. And we need to learn from this situation so we don’t make those same mistakes again.”
Kilmeade closed by connecting these private concerns not being made public with what the rest of the Deep State was telling the country in 2020 and 2021:
Do you realize that, at the same time, while this is going on, they’re telling us the laptop’s not real? So, we’re saying, “Wait a second. This guy is dealing with Hunter’s doing all this stuff and you’re telling me it’s not real?” The FBI had it. We know the FBI thought it was real, so they’re lying to us. At the same time, we got all these medical experts telling us about this pandemic that dest — told the whole world to stop working and run for the hills, right? And most people — a lot of people got fired and never got their jobs back, and then we find out all the questions that they had about the disease, who’s really susceptible to it, and the vaccines, and who could benefit from us. That was all — all their skepticism was with each other, but to us, they — to — they criticized people for being skeptical.
“They also said the border was secure,” quipped Earhardt.
The broadcast networks chose a slew of other stories on Monday to cover instead. While ABC’s Good Morning America had multiple segments about Disney's D-23 gathering (reminding us they're corporate whores), CBS Mornings touted a new column by far-left author Molly Jong-Fast about face lifts and NBC's Today trumpeter a new attraction at Dollywood.
To see the relevant transcript from August 17, click here.