Absurd Truth: PBS' Fauci Fluff Piece

Today is a combination of so many different things. It's kind of a diffusion of an incredible amount of pent-up tension and holding back of despair. When it comes, we ask ourselves, where can we find light in this never-ending shade? The loss we carry, a sea we must wade, we've braved the belly of the beast.

So many secrets, how sweet... The stress of the fact that you're responsible for something that's killing a lot of people. 400,000 individual people. I'm going to choke to death on the cringe. People were seeing their loved ones dying without even being able to be near them.

This is part of this documentary. He's sitting here watching Biden's inauguration, and he's crying. He's crying. I was on Jesse Watters about this last night, and I really had to catch myself because few things make me angrier than this. This glorified medical hoggle, and he claps. It's in his living room. He is so high on his own farts, this guy. Welcome back to the show.

Dana Lash here with you. This is at the Fauci doc. Keep in mind, this is back in January of 2021, right?

Back in January 2021. I don't know if you've watched some of this. You don't have to. I did it for you.

Just let me clue you in. First off, the whole documentary is just an adulation of him. The one thing that struck me as weird is in the past couple of years, whenever he's been in his office and he's given interviews, we've made fun of him because he has all kinds of stuff about himself. It's just kind of weird because he's a doctor, right? And he's really bought into all this hype.

People liked him because they thought that he was an opponent of Trump, which he was, but that's why the left liked him so much, really. And he gave that authority to their fear. And he was in his office in previous interviews and he would have one of those little bobblehead dolls. He had little bobblehead dolls of himself. He had a couple of other things and we're like, that's so weird.

Y'all, his house. There's this, this is going to be a weird, I'm going to bring this tugboat in, but hang on. One of my favorite movies, and my kids were terrified of it when they were younger, is Coraline. It's a fabulous movie.

It's really good. It's creepy, creepy, not for all kids. And there's a scene when the main character meets these two older women that are living in the basement of this home that's been turned into this old Victorian home that's been turned into multiple housing, like apartments. And these two old women, they were, I guess, opera stars at one point. So the title character Coraline goes and meets them and she sees that they have all these pictures of themselves everywhere, all kinds of things set all around their house as a little memorials to their heyday.

And when I saw Fauci in his house, it immediately brought to mind that those those characters in that scene. Because I think it represents two things simultaneously. First that he was a cult of personality, number one.

And number two, this is all fleeting. He's only as relevant so far as there is something that justifies calling him out to give his expertise on. As long as the fear rages, he has influence.

When that goes away, so does this worship of this bureaucrat. And he's in his house and he has pillows of himself, pictures of himself. Guys, it was weird. I mean, I have people who send me stuff. And I love all everything I get, but I can't, I would look like a psycho if I put everything of myself, I would look nuts, Cain can attest, it would be weird, man. It would look nuts.

I can't do that. He does not have any such. He does not have any such hesitation. So he's in his house and he's got all these things about Fauci, Fauci, he really bought into this. Don't you think that this is, they made this almost like they had to rehabilitate, not rehabilitate him, but sort of stake his place in this cultural narrative of hysteria.

That's what I got from this. The other part of it, and we played this audio yesterday, we were talking about how he was going around in Washington DC. Also, by the way, another quick sidebar, he's standing there crying at the inauguration. How many times was he's like, Oh, I'm not political.

I'm, you know, I don't get, you know, Republican or Democrat, you know, I'm not any. Yes, he is. He showed everyone that he is. I remember the early days when he was taking to the stage.

Burks, I thought was a little bit more soft spoken or Redfield was weird, and I liked him. But Fauci, I mean, I, at first I thought, Oh, this is nice. He wants to explain everything in such detail. None of us knew who this guy was, except maybe some like old AIDS activists, you know. But then it just seemed a little, it started to become condescending, did it not? Especially because he immediately started getting interviews. He took the media's bait, and the media wanted, I've said this, you can go back in my archives, I've said it, I've written about it.

They wanted to really emphasize this rift between Fauci and Trump, and Fauci helped them. So he's walking around in this documentary, and this is in January of 2021. Barely a year.

Not even a full year after all the restrictions and everything else. People were still doing the distancing and the masks and all this stuff. He's walking around first, he's in a car with other people. He's not even wearing a mask, but then he gets out and then he's going to put his little theater mask on his little cloth mask.

It just everything that he did made a mockery. And all the camera people, nobody were six feet apart. That's one of the things that he was pushing at the time. Everyone stay six feet apart.

Everybody do this. He wasn't observing any of this stuff. Because it was never about containment. It was about control. So he goes and he's talking to these residents in DC, and then he has the audacity to step aside and say something to Muriel Bowser about, oh, well, it's these Republican states, that's really what's going to keep perpetuating this.

It's just going to smolder the pandemic and everything. He's staying this as he's getting pushed back in a Democrat neighborhood. And then he just gave up talking. As soon as if you notice in any of the clips you've seen, you don't even have to watch the full thing. Anytime he got pushed back from anybody, he just would say a couple of things and he'd give up. It angers me because of everything that everyone was put through based on what this guy said. And Jesse said, I know he was being funny.

He said, you know, it's amusing. And I every time I see this guy walking around, it just it angers me because people lost their livelihoods. People lost their lives. Do you realize, let me pull the story up.

I think I had this as a headline. The amount of deaths due to cancer skyrocketed. Because people weren't getting cancer screenings.

They were they I mean, I think what almost 10 million screenings left undone. University of Kansas Medical Center has a study, one of them, massive negative impact. Of COVID on cancer screenings. Cancer screenings declined during pandemic. Reduced cancer screening due to lockdowns. COVID reversed important strides made in cancer screenings.

Story after story after story. The COVID cancer effect. First line, there's little doubt that the chaos ushered in by the pandemic has led to more cancer deaths. 10,000 more NBC 2020 10,000 more cancer deaths predicted because of COVID. Millions missed cancer screenings at the start of pandemic. I mean, study after study from health centers, universities, CNN even, New York Times, Nature Journal, Scientific American, UPI, American Cancer Society, Oncology Society, all kinds. Because of stuff this guy laid out.

To say nothing of any other diseases that people struggled with and missed screenings for. Due to the guidelines of whom? This guy and the task force that he led. It's why I think it is such a bad taste for this documentary to treat him like he is some sort of besieged hero. Especially when it ignores the hand he played and creating the very thing that we all had to lock down from. So it makes me angry.

I get really angry about this. Our kids have been impacted. The results of which I think we're I don't even I think it's still too soon to even measure. We were irrevocably damaged as a nation.

It decimated us. And they're doing a documentary about this guy. Showing him standing in his living room crying and applauding. At Biden's inauguration. Showing his condescension and disregard for black residents in D.C. because they push back on his B.S. And they ask him questions that you and I have been suspended on social media for even stating. People telling him, well, this is in 2021.

January. Well, it doesn't prevent transmission. Fauci didn't have anything to say to that. He had to deflect to Bowser and these other officials there who had to pick up the slack for him. He was done. He thinks he's such a badass and he wants to enter that realm.

But when he does, he can't hold it. You know what also angers me? Instead of talking about this.

Instead of talking about how they're trying to lionize this guy who helped ruin. Who have an economy and helped destroy part of a nation. I've some of you I hear from you people all the time. I hear from all you out there. There's some of your family members that you all don't even talk to because you'll disagree about the restrictions and regulations this dude proposed. So we all lost your jobs.

Your businesses were closed. People were arrested for trying to do their work in Texas, of all places. And instead of. Paying attention to what they're trying to do with this guy. Instead of paying attention to what Jim Jordan, God love him, he's trying so hard in house oversight to get the nation to pay attention to what they're doing. And guess what?

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It's time for Dana's Quick 5. So this is kind of wild. Apparently, amateur radio hobbyists have caught the Russians talking about recovering pieces of that US Reaper drone that they destroyed over the Black Sea. Russia raced to recover the wreckage hours after the drone crashed on March 14th. Apparently, they want to reverse engineer it, obviously. It said radio intercepts reveal conversations about recovering pieces of the drone.

For instance, one of it said, one of the clips said, we have brought up three parts of the frame. So, and that was hours after hobbyists caught that radio traffic. So, very interesting. So in Hong Kong, because you know you have Winnie the Pooh, the horror film that's coming out because he, the trade with the copy right now is just public.

Well, at least without the red shirt on it is. So the Winnie the Pooh horror film, the screening was cancelled in Hong Kong. Now there's a reason why. Because during the Hong Kong protests against Chinese expansionism, they were going to take over Hong Kong. They, the protesters were comparing Xi Jinping to Winnie the Pooh and Xi Jinping got really mad and they banned Winnie the Pooh. Winnie the Pooh is banned.

So that's why, of course that's why they banned it. It's hysterical. Biden's approval rating sits at just 41% and just 36% back. Kamala Harris in a new poll as they gear up for what looks like will be a 2024 White House run, maybe. She still is, I mean her negatives, even with her own party are actually really, really high. She's almost a drag more than a boon to him.

But I don't know who else they would put on the ticket because they can't have anyone overshadow Biden. And that's. Yeah, that says it all. And apparently this is kind of crazy. According to this particular story, there was JP Morgan Chase thought they had one point three million dollars worth of nickels stored in a warehouse.

And an examination revealed it was just a bag of stones. Spotify has only spent a tiny amount of its one hundred million dollar diversity fund on diversity stuff. They're very upset. They had, after what, everything with Rogan, they had the one hundred million dollar creator equity fund designed to promote diversity in music and podcasts. So stupid. Following controversial comment.

They weren't controversial. That's been reported. And now they're being hit because it says they spent less than 10 percent of that money on that work as it rounded off its first year.

They said that Spotify declined to comment on specific spending numbers for the equity fund. A spokesperson said that it backed a number of initiatives in its first year, including GLOW, which highlights music from alphabet artists, which I'm going to go ahead and wager sounds. I don't know.

That's probably it probably sucks nailing it. A podcast hosted by three black women. Did they did they specifically work on creating content from people who could actually drive a program? Think out loud without. No. OK. Yeah. OK. I just know it because, you know, whether or not what comes true and what comes really through an audio podcast is, you know, the color of people's skin and what genitals they like.

I mean, that really, guys, that's what it's all about. Content. Jiminy. So they this was the fund that they announced after Neil Young had a tantrum.

Remember? And then they had employees speak out because they hate diversity of thought. They're a bunch of little whiny fascists. So I don't care. Spotify is a private company. They can do what they want to do. They can do it.

They can they can do whatever it is that they want to do. I don't care. This is so crazy. So another thing. That is apparently I this almost sounds like a horror film. It is the trends day of vengeance.

Have you heard about this, Kane? The trends day of vengeance. So they're upset because they say Governor Youngkin's policies have made Virginia schools less safe for transgender students. Interesting because I thought it was a girl that was raped by a transgender student by a male cosplaying as a woman in the female bathroom of a school. And I thought it was another girl that was sexually assaulted by the same man cosplaying as a girl.

So I'm just not quite sure. What about the woman's day of vengeance against trans harassment? Where's that at? They said we want more than visibility. Trans day of vengeance.

Stop trans genocide. Who were the hell are they getting this from? So they're meeting at SCOTUS on April 1st, which is totally appropriate.

April Fool's Day. So they said and I love how they're not they're not even using words correctly. Vengeance means fighting back with eminence. We're fighting back against false narrative. These are I'm going to put some buzzwords in a poorly created graphic. We're fighting its criminalization of eradication of our existence.

What? And then they keep saying that. I mean, they're using some pretty violent language here. They also say it's a call to our allies to stand up and fight with us, to bring down the forces that try to divide us and subjugate us all. So you want to fight people in front of SCOTUS? OK. You guys are violent. What is it? I don't even know.

Yeah, it is April Fool's Day, which is hysterical. No one cares if you exist. The problem is that you're trying to you're trying to do a lot more than that, which is the issue.

And you keep trying to tell people, people's kids about how you do it and nobody cares. So I just. I'm not I don't know, I don't get this whole they said they're there, they have speakers and and they're doing all this stuff. It sounds like an insurrection, Kane. Totally sounds like an insurrection. They say they're going to go right in front of the Supreme Court.

But even more so, I think that this perfectly encapsulates exactly what it is that we have criticized different movements on the left for for over the years. It's not about justice. It's about vengeance. Trans day of vengeance.

Where's the woman's again, women's day of vengeance against trans harassment? I want to see that. It's his life mission to make bad decisions.

It's time for Florida man. So a quick just side note, a little correction to myself from last segment when I was talking to Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, I fused two personal injury attorneys in St. Louis into one personal injury attorney. So the dude from Brown and Crouppen is the guy who looks like the Morton's fisherman. The eyepatch dude is a different dude, Ed Brown. And he unfortunately, like, off to himself a couple of years ago.

About two and a half years ago. How do you think I was like, can we confuse my attorneys? I mean, I see you see one course, you see them all. One was Brown and Crouppen. The other one is Brown and Brown. So, yeah, it's easy to get the confusion going like Brown and Brown. Can't you just be like the Browns? It has to be Brown and Brown.

All right. Oh, let's see if Florida man slaps his woman with a slice of pizza. For real Brevard Times. Can I just say this is 21 hours ago and this is reported Marion County, Florida.

Florida man allegedly slapped his wife with a slice of pizza. Talk about a domino effect. Thank you, guys. Thank you. When the deputy, it's not funny, Dana, you're talking about assault.

Shut up. When Marion County Sheriff's deputies arrived with the residents in response to a 911 call, the wife stated that 39-year-old Ortello Alfonso of Summerfield slapped her in the side of her face with a slice of pizza. Now, they did, I like how the sentence, it's very Marion County deputies observed pizza sauce on the wife's clothes and hair along with the kitchen walls and ceiling.

They arrested him for domestic violence battery. Can I just say, if you were going to get hit with something, that's a pretty tasty hit. You know, I had to count that midair with my mouth. I'd have been like, yeah, I thought you were going to get me, didn't you? Come, come, come. I love pizza. Come at me again. Come on, I'm your huckleberry. I catch it like a dog with a Frisbee mid slap. Just chew that pizza up. Golly, I want pizza right now.

All right. What is, what is this in Slack? What is little skiers? Little skeezers. Caesar's. Did you just put little skeezers? It's what you call the place that hits you in the face with pizza.

Little skeezers? Is that a thing? It is now.

Now it is. So this 60-year-old Florida man is better than you. He did three. He doesn't even look 60.

I think he's a vampire. He did 3,264 pushups in an hour and broke a world record. Yeah, so what did you do today?

I ate some yogurt with some granola. You know, lifted some laundry. I don't know. Just, you know. Oh, man. So, wait, there's more. This, godly, this is actual headline. I love it.

It's Coral Springs talk. Walmart employee takes rollback prices too seriously and is charged with grand theft. Yeah, you can't, you can't be doing that. A Walmart employee was arrested and charged with grand theft after his co-workers discovered he'd been operating an elaborate scheme, very elaborate, to defraud the store thousands of dollars. So just a couple of days ago, well, not more than that, on March 12th, the Coral Springs Police responded to a call regarding grand theft at Walmart and the alleged suspect was a current employee. They found Angelo, 19 years old, systematically defrauding Walmart through a variety of employee-only known codes used at the cash register to discount products much less than their actual retail price. So he was using this price override feature. He was changing all these items and then, so they said that the provable total loss was over $3,000 in one month alone. And they were primarily high dollar electronics.

Only a few of them were actually grocery items. And so they had a folder. Every time he did it, they were targeting it. So he's arrested. He's now in Broward County Main Jail. I mean, how do you think that you're not going to get caught doing that?

My heavens. So this Florida man, let's pull this up here, 40-year-old Kenneth Emery. Man, he looks older than 40. They said, Pinellas County says they tracked down a man who was eluding deputies since Monday. He was wanted for petty theft. They tried to arrest him. Somehow he got away on foot and he had one hand cuffed on his wrist. They did find him finally and took him into custody. He's a transient. He's got all kinds of stuff. Drug paraphernalia, fentanyl, all kinds of things. So they did get him.