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A Senate committee held hearings on Wednesday featuring Dr. Anthony Fauci, who headed up America’s COVID response, only to see him plead his 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination 111 times. National Public Radio science reporter Ari Daniel’s Thursday takeaway from Fauci’s embarrassing non-performance? “Anthony Fauci hearing could lead to ‘chilling effect’ for public health."

On Wednesday, Dr. Anthony Fauci sat before the Senate Homeland Security Committee, where the pre-pardoned former COVID czar pleaded the Fifth 111 times. Lawrence O’Donnell on MS NOW’s The Last Word wondered how a saint like Fauci could ever be doubted about anything, while also labeling the hearing “the most disgraceful Stalinist tribunal the United States Senate has ever seen.”

Dr. Anthony Fauci’s newly released journals have cast light onto the glory seeking nature of his response to the COVID pandemic, and in response the Senate brought him to testify for his lies and possible perjury. With a major chunk of their credibility tied to their defense of pandemic practices, the media has been quick to portray the hearing as a show trial and political prosecution. This…

One can’t accuse the PBS News Hour of ignoring the Anthony Fauci hearing. The first 12-plus minutes of Wednesday’s show were devoted to the hearing. Fauci, knighted as a health savior by the elitist press, has come in for condemnation for overzealous guidance (mandatory masks, closed schools and stores, isolation of the elderly) and hypocrisy (rubbing shoulders with the elite and throwing out…

This week, the “Big Three” Networks and News Apps shielded fellow elitist liberal, Dr. Tony Fauci, largely ignoring bombshell revelations from his pandemic-era diaries released Saturday by Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) before Wednesday’s Senate hearing and, following the proceedings, promulgating Fauci’s preferred framing of a “deep, partisan,” and “fiery” affair foisted upon him by Republicans.

Comedy Central’s The Daily Show host-of-the-week Jordan Klepper and NBC’s Late Night host Seth Meyers finally acknowledged the existence of the Fauci Hearings on their Thursday shows and eagerly stepped up to defend him. According to Klepper, the hearings featured Republicans trying to reduce a complicated topic to “a performative partisan filter," while Meyers blamed President Trump for any…

Thursday’s CNN This Morning was forced to cover the aftermath of Dr. Anthony Fauci pleading the Fifth Amendment in a Senate hearing focused on Fauci’s actions during the pandemic and diaries released by Senator Rand Paul (R-KY). But the network continued to minimize the diaries and the hearing overall, as Democratic CNN commentator Maria Cardona called it a politicized “sham” and fill-in host…

When Chris Cuomo was still with CNN and purportedly had COVID, he would call Dr. Anthony Fauci nightly and they’re still buds to this day. So, it was no surprise that Cuomo would take up a ridiculous position to defend his friend from accountability for his harmful lies and deceit of the American people. According to the NewsNation host on his eponymous Wednesday night show, Republicans who…

On Thursday, the major broadcast networks used their flagship morning news shows to throw a pity party for one of the dearly beloved overlords, former public health official Dr. Tony Fauci, bemoaning the “deep, partisan divisions” illustrated in the behavior of Republicans in discussing the COVID-19 pandemic and “a sign of the times” someone like Fauci could be ridiculed.

The contentious Hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs forced the Elitist Media Evening News to devote something more than a brief to the ongoing swirl of scandal surrounding the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci. And in so doing, they reverted to an all-too-familiar playbook: Republicans Pounce. 

Before Dr. Anthony Fauci pleaded the Fifth Amendment at a Senate hearing after the release of his diaries from the pandemic, Wednesday’s Morning Joe gave a preview of the hearing where 8 AM host Jonathan Lemire defended Fauci and called much of it “taken out of context.”

Wednesday’s CBS Mornings spent seven minutes and 18 seconds previewing the Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing by defending Dr. Tony Fauci on everything from closing schools to gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China, to Fauci dwelling on his stardom in 2020. All the while, accountability or admission of even a modicum of mistakes from the pandemic were nowhere to be found.

MS NOW Reports host Antonia Hylton brought on The Bulwark’s senior national correspondent Jonathan Cohn on Wednesday to help her make sense of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s appearance before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. In a frustrating display of someone trying to have it both ways, Cohn admitted that there are legitimate questions that could be asked of Fauci but…

CNN’s coverage of Fauci’s diary omits mention of prominent journalist Jake Tapper, despite his frequent appearance in the diary and involvement with Fauci. CNN reporters whitewashed Tapper’s role, raising questions about journalistic integrity and editorial decisions regarding their own colleagues.