I'm fed up with the MSM baiting Fauci and Birx.

[LAS14]

They're so fixated on the conflict that generates profits that they don't use their time with F and B to find out stuff about the pandemic. Instead they push and push and push, trying to get them to say something that will probably get them knocked off the stage, if not out of their jobs. When they're being interviewed, don't ask their opinions about Trump!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lots of DUers are angry at them for "enabling" Trump. How ridiculous. Trump doesn't need them to "enable" him. If they fell off that narrow path, who do you think would disappear? It wouldn't be Trump.

Leave them alone so we can hear what they want to tell us!!

Google news headline. "Trump is driving Birx to a tough spot. It's about to get even toughter." Jake Tapper is the co-pilot.

[msongs]

1. their roles are to jack up trump, echo trump, appease trump. toadies nt

[old guy]

2. Yup.

[LAS14]

3. Their roles are to give us information about the pandemic. Leave them alone and let them do it! nt

[elleng]

5. Yes

[USALiberal]

6. I will when they counter trumps BS! Nt

[coti]

7. I agree, but it's also their responsibility to be clear in correcting the record

when Trump fouls things up.

[elleng]

4. Thanks

[jcgoldie]

8. Having watched more of those "briefings" than I care to admit...

Fauci seems to do a remarkable job walking the tightrope of getting out meaningful information and keeping his job to fight another day while maintaining his scientific integrity. Birx not so much. She's a Trump apologist at the expense of the truth.

[LAS14]

10. So, trained as a scientist, she should be over the top gifted in this sort of...

... public diplomacy? I agree that Fauci is amazing. But, come on, how can you require that kind of gift of every scientist we count on? She's never given us false information.

[jcgoldie]

12. She goes out of her way to normalize and explain away Trump's nonsense

That isn't public diplomacy and it isn't science, its politics.

[handmade34]

15. ...

[Takket]

9. Still like Fauci but Birx was dead to me the moment she said

The media was “slicey dicey” in their headlines.

[TreasonousBastard]

29. But isn't that what everyone here is saying?

[dem4decades]

11. So every one is to look the other way as Trump suggests people take poison?

That's the fucking problem, no one says there's a 1000 pound gorilla in the room.

[LAS14]

13. No! NOT everyone. Just not our top scientists who have to work closely with him!!!

MSM should do their jobs, not ask Fauci and Birx to give them juicy headlines.

[Voltaire2]

17. their job is to question authority, literally.

[LAS14]

21. Where did you get that idea?? nt

[Voltaire2]

25. Oh I don't know, from like all over the place.

For example:

The role of the press is to ask hard questions and refuse to be deterred even when someone powerful claims, “Nothing to see here.” At first glance, it might seem as if the press is a destabilizing force: It can undermine the credibility of our elected officials and ultimately our confidence in government. It can drive down stock prices and embolden our nation’s critics and enemies. It can uncover inconvenient truths and stir divisions within our society. But our Founders understood that long-term accountability is more important than short-term stability. Where would America be without the muckrakers of the progressive era, like Ida Tarbell, who uncovered the perfidy and immorality of the Standard Oil monopoly under John D. Rockefeller; without The New York Times’ publication of the Pentagon Papers, which exposed the lies around the Vietnam War; without the dogged work of The Boston Globe in documenting sexual abuse within the Catholic Church? Because of the press, powerful institutions were held accountable for their actions, and we became a stronger nation.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/08/why-a-free-press-matters/567676/

[LAS14]

26. I thought you meant "their" was Fauci and Birx. nt

[LAS14]

27. In the sense of "authority" in this article, Trump is the one to go after.

Asked by CNN’s Jake Tapper if Trump’s comments from the Thursday White House briefing bothered her, Birx said, “I think it bothers me this is still in the news cycle.”

How about, "Dr. Birx, what are the effects of injecting or injesting disinfectants?"

[Raine]

14. Thanks

[Voltaire2]

16. I support any effort by the free press to call this administration AND ITS MINIONS to account. nt.

[Shermann]

18. I tried to straighten Jim Acostas out here

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213350332

*chirp chirp*

[LAS14]

20. Excellent post. I totally agree! nt

[SlimJimmy]

19. I agree with you. But I doubt most will.

We here at DU seem to be conflicted sometimes. We know that the Orange Man is stupid, but we want everyone to fight him. As you said. It's not F and Bs job to do that.

[Sneederbunk]

22. A reason why MSM should send medical/science reporters to pressers.

Not political reporters.

[LAS14]

23. Excellent idea!! nt

[stillcool]

24. they get the story they want..

not what the public needs to know. Typical. Their priorities, as a whole, are in-line with the GOP. Influence and power.

[Hortensis]

28. Part of distracting from the villains in the Republican senate.

The focus makes it clear Trump is the intended fall guy if they have to have one, concentrating all blame on him, while Republicans remain in power in congress and state governments. Fauci and Birx make great targets because they're outsiders whose ruin would not only cost the Republican leaders absolutely nothing but further their anti-science, anti-reason agenda.