Even Fox's 'Hard News' Shows Don't Want to Book Trump's Favorite New COVID Adviser

[Nevilledog]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/even-foxs-hard-news-shows-dont-want-to-book-trumps-favorite-new-covid-adviser-scott-atlas

Dr. Scott Atlas, a neuroradiologist and fellow at the conservative Hoover Institution, joined the White House in August as one of President Donald Trump’s top coronavirus advisers. He was tapped largely due to the president’s affinity for what the doctor said during Fox News appearances, in which he espoused views that made him—as one White House official characterized—the “anti-Fauci” in Trump’s eyes.

Though Atlas is ascendant in Trumpworld, his views are considered scientifically unsound—if not dangerous, according to some critics—enough that he’s become increasingly unwelcome on various shows at the very network that helped get him his influential new job.

According to three people familiar with the situation, Fox News producers have been instructed to take extra care when inviting Atlas onto the network to discuss the pandemic, which is rapidly approaching a U.S. body count of 200,000. Some Fox staffers involved in the network’s more straightlaced daytime news programs have been increasingly reluctant to book him altogether.

Among the “hard-news” division shows at Fox, Atlas is viewed with skepticism by senior staff at many of the programs, as they view him as lacking credibility during the coronavirus crisis, and as someone who isn’t even a medical expert in the relevant field.

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[mr_lebowski]

1. Anyone put into his/her job by Trump should be viewed as lacking credibility to an extreme

by anyone, anywhere, anytime.

The entire lot of them are compulsive liars, confabulators, gaslighters, and gish-gallopers.

Period. That's why they HAVE their jobs.

Getting interviewed on any actual news program should be impossible for anyone from Trump on down. Non-appointed people excepted.

[Nevilledog]

2. But, but....he's a neuroradiologist.

[mr_lebowski]

3. OH SHIT!?! Why didn't you say so?

That's up there with being a Limo Driver in my book ...