Only Superhuman Endurance Kept That ‘What A Moron’ Inside Anthony Fauci For Nearly Two Years

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Dr. Anthony Fauci has had a long and illustrious career. Decades before he was the nation’s COVID safety messenger we know and love today, Fauci was taking on the AIDS epidemic, at a time when almost no one else in government gave a damn. Fauci is personally responsible for medical breakthroughs in a series of important fields that have saved and improved countless lives. Fauci has advised seven U.S. presidents on domestic and global health issues. The dude has an impressive bio.

I mean, Rand Paul notwithstanding, doctors in general hardly have a reputation as lackwits. Fauci, though, is really a cut above the rest. Between 1980 and January 2021, in the field of immunology, the guy ranked ninth out of 2.5 million authors by total numbers of citations. In a 2021 analysis of Google Scholar citations spanning all fields, Fauci ranked as the 35th most-cited living researcher. If you’re not an insider in academia, you might not know what a huge deal that is. It means he’s said a whole lot of really smart, really groundbreaking things that other smart, innovative people have found to be very compelling.

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Had someone suggested to me that a person like Anthony Fauci would become a right-wing punching bag before I’d lived through the past six years, I wouldn’t have believed it. Fauci is a hero doctor. Before Donald Trump came along, the only possibility more absurd than Anthony Fauci becoming a villain on the right would have been patriotic war hero John McCain sharing the same fate.

But here we are. In front of what passes for a conservative crowd these days, trashing Anthony Fauci has become a sure applause line.

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I having trouble understanding why Fauci keeps it up. He is 81 and could retire comfortably at any time. The only thing I can figure is that he cares so much about making a difference that he’ll go in front of Congress for undeserved periodic tongue lashings from idiot lawmakers just on the off chance that something he is able to say by keeping his platform might save somebody’s life.

After nearly two years of this crap though, there was finally a rare crack in Anthony Fauci’s typically Zen-like façade. U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall (a Republican, of course) was grilling Fauci about his financial disclosure information. Marshall claimed his congressional staff had been unable to locate Fauci’s financial disclosures despite the fact that Fauci’s financial disclosure information is publicly available and many media outlets have obtained it over the past few years. It apparently did not occur to Marshall that his staff is as dumb as his line of questioning was.

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Following the terse exchange, Fauci could be heard quietly (though audibly) saying, “What a moron. Jesus Christ.”

After which I could be heard saying, “Huzzah, Anthony Fauci.”

I don’t know how long a person can be expected to sit there and be treated with an utter lack of respect by his intellectual inferiors who are unfit to polish his microscope before striking back a little. But it’s apparently somewhere in the neighborhood of two years.

There was a time when I would’ve said that having a “Senator” in front of your name on its own entitled you to a certain level of respect. But that time ended right around when being John McCain stopped entitling you to a certain level of respect. Given the times we find ourselves in, I, for one, dig the new, feistier Fauci. I’m guessing so does everyone else who has not already been fooled into thinking Fauci is part of some big conspiracy to microchip people or whatever.

So, if you feel compelled to do so, go right ahead and keep on calling morons morons, Dr. Fauci, especially the ones in Congress. Someone’s got to.

Jonathan Wolf is a civil litigator and author of Your Debt-Free JD (affiliate link). He has taught legal writing, written for a wide variety of publications, and made it both his business and his pleasure to be financially and scientifically literate. Any views he expresses are probably pure gold, but are nonetheless solely his own and should not be attributed to any organization with which he is affiliated. He wouldn’t want to share the credit anyway. He can be reached at [email protected].

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Anthony Fauci, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Finance, Government, Health Care / Medicine, Roger Marshall


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