Fauci's Pandemic Memoirs Read Like a Hollywood Audition With a Side of Public Health

While Americans were wiping down groceries, homeschooling kids, closing businesses, canceling funerals, and wondering whether standing six feet apart from grandma was enough to survive the apocalypse, Dr. Anthony Fauci apparently had another pressing concern.

His fan mail.

Newly released private diary entries, published ahead of Fauci's Senate testimony after being subpoenaed by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), paint the portrait of a man who seemed just as fascinated by his exploding celebrity status as by the virus consuming the world.

Instead of reading like the journal of a wartime physician carrying the weight of a global pandemic, the entries tend to resemble the diary of an aspiring influencer who suddenly found himself trending.

"Press still hot and heavy about me," Fauci wrote on April 7, 2020. "Multiple stories per day directly or indirectly involving me."

What a dork.

At the time, thousands of Americans had already died, hospitals were scrambling for supplies, and families were saying goodbye to loved ones over FaceTime. Fauci, meanwhile, appeared to be tracking media mentions like they were stock prices. [Dud I mention he's a dork?]

By May, the self appreciation had only intensified.

"Big front page article abut me appeared in the Washington Post. Very flattering. The situation with my national and international fame is explosive and really unimaginable. It is not hyperbole to say that today I am the most famous and talked about person in the country and one of the most recognizable person in the world," Fauci wrote as he looked in his full-body mirror.

Not content to stop there, he added, "Countless profiles on me in multiple media. I cannot even read all the things that are written about me since I am so busy … seriously. POTUS seems to be enamored of me even though I am taking the spotlight away from him. We are developing a very unique and interesting relationship."

Look at me--I'm Mister Cool

So, while the globe is suffering from a raging pandemic, our humble servant is depicting himself as one of the most recognizable people on Earth.

The diaries also suggest Fauci viewed television appearances less as an opportunity to inform the public than as oxygen.

After complaining that White House officials were limiting his media access, he proudly recorded a conversation with then Vice President Mike Pence.

"I told him that I am being blocked from TV and I needed to get on TV to give the 'risk reduction' message and that I would avoid being pitted against him or the POTUS merely by not playing that game," Fauci wrote. "He did promise that he would get me out there on TV since he really liked my message. First time anyone ever spoke that way to VP. He truly likes me a lot (and vice versa)."

Dork.

Apparently, flattening the curve was important. Keeping Fauci off cable news was the real emergency. The people needed him; the world needs him.

At another point, Fauci admitted privately that the administration's contact tracing strategy was a "f*cking disaster and an abject failure."

Then, almost seamlessly, he noted he had been invited to appear on "Dancing With The Stars."

It's obvious that when the nation's pandemic response is collapsing, your next thought is ballroom choreography.

The celebrity obsession did not end with television.

The diaries feature a cast list worthy of the Oscars. Julia Roberts hosted him on Instagram Live, sent him flowers, and presented him with an award. Vogue editor Anna Wintour, comedian Trevor Noah, NBA star Steph Curry, actors Sean Penn and Matt Damon, rapper Lil Wayne, billionaire Larry Ellison, and numerous media personalities all wandered through Fauci's journal.

CNN's Jake Tapper appears repeatedly through calls, dinners, and text messages. Dana Bash congratulated Fauci after his exchange with Rep. Jim Jordan, even telling him that Wolf Blitzer joked nobody would have blamed him if he had told Jordan to "go f--k yourself."

When journalist Peter Nicholas suggested Fauci had been "humiliated" over a canceled CNN appearance, Fauci's diary recorded his response in two concise words.

"F--- you, Peter."

Apparently, social distancing did not apply to grudges [nor to certain state governors].

The journals also reveal Fauci becoming increasingly irritated with White House officials who threatened to reduce his television appearances. Mark Meadows allegedly argued with him over messaging, while Fauci praised communications director Alyssa Farah for helping restore his media bookings. He described Michael Caputo as "a con man who is completely full of sh-t."

His relationship with President Trump, however, began warmly. Fauci recalled Trump calling him "the smartest person in the world," telling him, "We are counting on you," and appearing "enamored" with him before the relationship later deteriorated after more information came forward.

Perhaps the most unintentionally revealing entries involve Fauci marveling that Secret Service agents no longer bothered checking his credentials because they recognized him. That made him a bit moist.

"Everyone is worried about my health and welfare, probably because it is all over the place that I am almost 80 years old," he wrote.

Some people measure success by lives saved; Fauci measured it by the number of his tv appearances and whether security waves them through the front gate by recognizing him.

The diaries conclude with yet another celebrity cameo. At the 2022 Kennedy Center Honors, Fauci hugged Hunter Biden, who joked the internet "would explode" if someone photographed them together because they were both "being attacked by the far right GOP."

One almost expects the next page to include an acceptance speech thanking his agent, his stylist, and everyone who made his rise from bureaucrat to pandemic superstar possible.

Rand Paul argues the journals reveal a public official more concerned with his personal brand than the crisis facing the country. After months of negotiations broke down, Paul subpoenaed Fauci to testify before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

"He’s been slow-walking information to us for six months or more," Paul said. "We’ve been negotiating over the date for several months. He agreed, then he said he wouldn’t. So, I think it’s time that we bring him in."

The American people spent the pandemic wondering whether the science was settled.

The diary suggests at least one thing certainly was.

Anthony Fauci never missed an opportunity to check whether the spotlight was still shining on Anthony Fauci.

What a dork!

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Vulgar attempts at humor fall flat at DC dinner

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A writer for "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah" performed at the White House Correspondent's Dinner on Saturday night. Little known and less talented Michelle Wolf predictably went after the Trump administration, but where it had been done somewhat tastefully in the past, Wolf's so-called comedy had no taste. It was disgusting, vulgar and not funny. And her voice was as annoying as Jessica Tarlov's.

Now we know why Trevor Noah isn't funny.

Some members of the White House press corps refused to stay for the extremely offensive and crude display. They got up and walked out.

"President Trump isn't here, if you haven't noticed," Wolf began. "I would drag him here myself, but it turns out the president of the United States is the one p**sy you're not allowed to grab."

That reference was to the notorious "Access Hollywood" tape from 2005 which went public just prior to the 2016 election. Many in the audience didn't appreciate that anemic attempt at humor.

Like he did last year, President Trump skipped the dinner but White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was invited as a guest of honor and was seated at the dais.

Wolf, who is definitely no feminist, attacked Sanders for her job performance, her looks, and even for her Southern roots, effectively attacking all southerners by so doing. 

Photo: Reuters

She later took to Twitter to defend her leftist humor against Sanders after New York Times' Maggie Haberman commended Sanders for remaining at the dinner despite her taking the [cowardly] "intense criticism of her physical appearance, her job performance, and so forth."

What courage leftists have when attacking conservatives while their cohorts look on and cheer.

Wolf responded to Haberman on Twitter: "Hey mags! All these jokes were abut her despicable behavior. Sounds like you have some thoughts about her looks though?"


Perhaps it's time for this administration to call it quits with these dinners. If Hillary Clinton was the president instead of Trump, and some comedian told the same jokes, he or she would have hell to pay.

There are plenty of places for conservatives to get their news and the mainstream media is the worst place. 

One thing is certain: the president of the White House Press Corps owes Sarah Huckabee Sanders a heartfelt apology.


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Our 'Uniter in Chief' calls US: racist, slave-holding colonialists

Our "Uniter in Chief" President Barack Hussein Obama, appeared on "Comedy Central" (aka Comedy Left Side). He pontificated that America continues to struggle to overcome its "legacies of slavery, Jim Crow, colonialism and racism." 

Unfunny, anti-Zionist host Trevor Noah, asked Obama on "The Daily Show," how he speaks to people about race. How does he "skirt the line between speaking your mind and sharing your true opinions on race whilst, at the same time, not being seen to alienate some of the people you rare talking to," Noah asked.

"You know, my general theory is that, if I was clear in my own mind about who I was comfortable in my own skin, and had clarity about the way in which race continues to be this powerful factor in so many elements in our lives," Obama stuttered. "But that it is not the only factor in so many aspects of our lives, that we have, by no means overcome the legacies of slavery and Jim Crow and colonialism and racism, but that the progress we've made has been real and extraordinary, if I'm communicating my genuine belief that those who are not subject to racism can sometimes have blind spots or lack of appreciation of what it feels to be on the receiving end of that, but that doesn't mean that they're not open to learning and caring about equality and justice and that I can win them over because there is goodness in the majority of people."

In a laughable moment, Obama attacked the media for focusing on the hacked DNC emails during the campaign. It was as if he wasn't the president of the United States for the past 8 years.


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