A Notorious COVID Troll Actually Works for Dr. Fauci
Source: The Daily Beast
The managing editor of the prominent conservative website RedState has spent months trashing U.S. officials tasked with combating COVID-19, dubbing White House coronavirus task force member Dr. Anthony Fauci a mask nazi, and intimating that government officials responsible for the pandemic response should be executed.
But that writer, who goes by the pseudonym streiff, isnt just another political blogger. The Daily Beast has discovered that he actually works in the public affairs shop of the very agency that Fauci leads.
William B. Crews is, by day, a public affairs specialist for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. But for years he has been writing for RedState under the streiff pseudonym. And in that capacity he has been contributing to the very same disinformation campaign that his superiors at the NIAID say is a major challenge to widespread efforts to control a pandemic that has claimed roughly 200,000 U.S. lives.
Under his pseudonym, Crews has derided his own colleagues as part of a left-wing anti-Trump conspiracy and vehemently criticized the man who leads his agency, whom he described as the attention-grubbing and media-whoring Anthony Fauci. He has gone after other public health officials at the state and federal levels, as wellthe public health Karenwaffen,'' as hes called themover measures such as the closures of businesses and other public establishments and the promotion of social distancing and mask-wearing. Those policies, Crews insists, have no basis in science and are simply surreptitious efforts to usurp Americans rights, destroy the U.S. economy, and damage President Donald Trumps reelection effort.
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jpak
(41,757 posts)Yup
berni_mccoy
(23,018 posts)Don't know. Do democrats have any control over his employment? He probably males Trump happy.
berni_mccoy
(23,018 posts)brush
(53,776 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)MadLinguist
(790 posts)After The Daily Beast brought those and other quotes from Crews to NIAIDs attention, the agency said in an emailed statement that Crews would retire from his position. NIAID first learned of this matter this morning, and Mr. Crews has informed us of his intention to retire, the spokesperson, Kathy Stover, wrote. We have no further comments on this as it is a personnel matter.
DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)but they should try. No place in the federal civil service for anything like this.
tblue37
(65,340 posts)brush
(53,776 posts)Blue Owl
(50,356 posts)matt819
(10,749 posts)If he's a political appointee, that's easy. All Schedule C employees are terminated as of January 20.
Extremist, i.e., right wing, conservative, or republican, civil servants who have weaseled their ways into these sorts of positions have to be rooted out in other ways. Maybe they can't be fired, but they can be relegated to positions where they don't have access to policy makers, policy making, etc. It can be a tough task, but it has to be done. De-Nazification.
DBoon
(22,363 posts)But you can reorganize them out of a job
It just takes a bit longer
matt819
(10,749 posts)But you can shift them around.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)patphil
(6,172 posts)2naSalit
(86,579 posts)iluvtennis
(19,852 posts)dalton99a
(81,475 posts)Cozmo
(1,402 posts)SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)calimary
(81,238 posts)Illumination
(2,458 posts)water cooler...YICKS!...
EarthFirst
(2,900 posts)Interesting enough.
UpInArms
(51,282 posts)LeftInTX
(25,299 posts)He's been on there a long time.