Comedian Bill Maher doesn’t appear to be taking sides in the war between Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Anthony Fauci.
He accused the libertarian lawmaker of trying to jail Fauci because he doesn’t “like” him, but he also had some harsh words for the former NIAID director over his diary entries.
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“And finally, new rule. Stop threatening to put everyone in jail who you just don’t like,” he said. “The way Senator Rand Paul is trying to do now with Dr. Anthony Fauci, who is back in the news because Senator Paul, formerly of the ‘privacy is everything’ wing of the Republican Party, got hold of Dr. Fauci’s personal diary and published all of it.”
“Rand babe, your entire brand is ‘Senator Right to Privacy.’ You’re the libertarian guy, the Fourth Amendment guy. It’s your family legacy. Your entire political career has been about warning us about government overreach. You printing someone’s diary is like AOC wearing a gown that says tax the poor.”
“And so we enter yet another news story that illustrates the Rorschach Test that is America. Dr. Fauci, depending on your politics, is either an esteemed, dedicated public servant or a vain, flawed bureaucrat. Well, it’s both. Life’s complicated that way,” he continued. “And you know what’s really complicated? Science. And Dr. Fauci definitely got some of that wrong. He said if you got the vaccine, it’s highly unlikely you’d get COVID or transmit it. Wrong. Okay, but that’s not because it was part of some self-dealing plot, things were changing rapidly. They just got it wrong; that’s science.”
“Reports of Fauci deliberately lying are based on lazy research, including from centrists. They got timelines wrong or transposed, but Fauci could be unforgiving too. In his diary, he described a dispute with another medical advisor, Scott Atlas, who wanted to keep the schools open, which Fauci told his dear diary ‘borders on criminal.’ No, he’s not a criminal, and you’re not a criminal, which should be obvious since only two months later, when Atlas resigned, Fauci wrote, ‘The one area where he was correct was in saying that school children are not the drivers of the outbreak,'” Maher quoted. “Okay, so can we not call people criminals just for the part they got wrong? From the beginning, there were two schools of thought on how to handle COVID. One was the model they followed in Sweden and Florida, two places that have nothing in common except the love of old people and sweaters. But both places thought it was smarter, and both did quite well, by laser-focusing on protecting the vulnerable and letting life go on for everyone else. They thought it was a good idea to get out and go in the sun for Vitamin D and fresh air. You know, crazy stuff.”
Maher also pointed out that Fauci’s diary had some really bizarre, self-important notes in it, which he compared to President Donald Trump’s quotes.
“It is not hyperbole to say I am the most famous and talked about person in the country,” the doctor wrote at one point.
“The nurses went absolutely wild to see me,” he said in another part.
“One person said that Tyra Banks was sexy, but I was even more sexy than she was,” another quote read.
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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