Politico reported on Wednesday that Dr. Anthon Fauci is refusing to appear on Fox News:
Politico Playbook: Dr. Fauci has almost entirely stopped appearing on Fox since July. Shows have been trying to book Fauci for months, but he's been turning them down. @playbookdc
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 2, 2021
“Shows across the channel including w/ Bret Baier and Neil Cavuto, have been trying to book Fauci for months but he’s been turning them down”:
NEW: Starting in August, Fauci stopped appearing on Fox News almost entirely
Shows across the channel including w/ Bret Baier and Neil Cavuto, have been trying to book Fauci for months but he’s been turning them down
w/ @owermohle @TinaSfon on Fox & Faucihttps://t.co/xJYjv5OTMS— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) December 1, 2021
The other thing going on here is Fauci is a really bad messenger, as evidenced at the briefing yesterday, and we expect he doesn’t want to answer even lightly-confrontational questions from Baier or Cavuto:
There's another thing going on. As we saw in the briefing yesterday, Fauci can't or won't answer simple questions like on the Omicron travel ban or a testing mandate at the border. He isn't challenged on other networks. https://t.co/75bknXvhvc
— Greg Pollowitz (@GPollowitz) December 2, 2021
What a baby. Think about all the instances where team Biden has accused Fox News of spreading Covid or vaccine misinformation, but Fauci won’t go on the network and fight back?
It's not exactly a surprise. Just in the past 48 hours, Tucker called him a “a shorter version of Benito Mussolini” and Lara Logan said "people" are comparing him to infamous Nazi doctor Joseph Mengele. https://t.co/MJDk3cYoAV's cartoon of the day yesterday was this pic.twitter.com/Yr5IVQxa4e
— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) December 1, 2021
And Fox News *is* the most-watched cable news channel in the U.S.:
But Fauci’s absence from Fox also means the Biden administration’s most public-facing figure in the effort to contain Covid-19 is not a presence on the country’s most watched cable news network, w/ an audience that has many of the ppl the Biden team is trying to get vaccinated.
— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) December 1, 2021
Well, “limited effectiveness” is better than no effectiveness, right?
Fauci likely has limited effectiveness with Fox News’ audience anyway (in part because of Fox)
the WH's frequent go-to for Fox News, Francis Collins, is retiring, meaning the Biden team has few go-to communicators for conservative audiences who remain hesitant about the vaccine
— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) December 1, 2021
According to Politico, Fauci soured on Fox News after his spat with Sen. Rand Paul:
Fauci began turning down Fox appearances soon after the tense July exchange w/ Rand Paul in the Sen. An official familiar w/ his thinking said that Fauci has had good interviews on Fox but that they needed to put “daylight” b/t accusations from Paul & comments like Lara Logan’s
— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) December 2, 2021
Welp. Maybe Fauci won’t come on Fox News because he knows Sen. Paul was right:
"His degree of arrogance is astounding," @RandPaul says of Dr. Fauci.
Gain-of-function research is "Russian roulette for the world" and Fauci should be fired & prosecuted, he tells @DLoesch.
"We're still doing it, Fauci is still for it, and on that alone he ought to be fired." pic.twitter.com/UM4p3928yy
— The First (@TheFirstonTV) December 1, 2021
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