This week in (phony) right-wing outrage
Right-wingers are lining up to take cheap shots at Democrats nowadays.
They don无毛视频檛 have anything better to do, I suppose.
The folks over at Fox & Friends spent a recent morning broadcast implying that the newly discovered COVID-19 variant 无毛视频� Omicron 无毛视频� is a Democratic invention.
无毛视频淵ou can count on a variant every October, every two years,无毛视频� predicted Pete Hegseth, to bolster the Fox & Friends conspiracy that Democrats need new variants to boost their vote totals.
If you think that无毛视频檚 some over-the-top fishing for a reason to attack Democrats, consider the words of Rep. Ronny Jackson of Texas.
Jackson used to be Donald Trump无毛视频檚 presidential physician. He无毛视频檚 now slinging far-fetched conspiracies as a U.S. House member representing Texas无毛视频� 13th district.
无毛视频淗ere comes the Midterm Election Variant,无毛视频� tweeted Jackson.
无毛视频淭hey NEED a reason to push unsolicited nationwide mail-in ballots. Democrats will do anything to CHEAT during an election,无毛视频� said Jackson.
If Democrats are so good at creating viruses, or variants, how come Republicans can无毛视频檛 figure out how to prevent them?
That无毛视频檚 MY (phony) outrage for the day.
Lara Logan used to be a highly respected member of CBS News.
Not anymore.
She无毛视频檚 now a Fox Nation/Fox News host.
That means she无毛视频檚 free to make up stuff that doesn无毛视频檛 quite pass the un-phony outrage test.
Her current outrage? Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Fauci had the gall to have disagreed with Donald Trump when he was in office.
That opened him to endless (phony) right-wing outrage.
Logan无毛视频檚 contribution to that outrage is most notable for the response it got from some highly respected folks.
Here无毛视频檚 her outrage: 无毛视频淲hat you see on Dr. Fauci 无毛视频� this is what people say to me: that he doesn无毛视频檛 represent science. He represents Joseph Mengele. Dr. Joseph Mengele, the Nazi doctor who did experiments on Jews during the second World War.无毛视频�
First, she made use of that tired old 无毛视频渢his is what people say to me无毛视频� nonsense. What people? When? Why?
But the entire tirade launched at Fauci caused the good people at the Auschwitz Memorial to say, loudly 无毛视频� ENOUGH!
无毛视频淓xploiting the tragedy of people who became victims of criminal pseudo-medical experiments in Auschwitz in a debate about vaccines, pandemic, and people who fight for saving human lives is shameful,无毛视频� they shot back.
Fox News无毛视频� premiere purveyor of (phony) right-wing outrage, Tucker Carlson, added his Fauci attack.
He claims Fauci 无毛视频渋s an even shorter version of Benito Mussolini.无毛视频�
Nobody knows why he made that silly comparison.
Then there was a highly questionable attack on the Biden administration that was leveled by GOP Congresswoman Elise Stefanik of New York.
Stefanik tweeted that, 无毛视频淥ver 800 pounds of fentanyl were seized at our Southern Border in October. This is Biden无毛视频檚 Border Crisis.无毛视频�
Take a moment to digest that.
In Stefanik无毛视频檚 view, stopping 800 pounds of fentanyl at the border is worthy of some (phony) right-wing outrage directed at the Biden administration.
That one sure fanned the Twitter flames. One fellow tweeted, 无毛视频淒o you want him to stop it or let it in? Serious question.无毛视频�
Another tweeted, 无毛视频淭hank you for standing up for the constitutional rights of all that fentanyl, Elise.无毛视频�
There was more (phony) right-wing outrage hurled at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, when the spokesperson for Florida governor Ron DeSantis, Christina Pushaw, attacked.
无毛视频淣ancy Pelosi just bought a $25 million mansion in Florida,无毛视频� Pushaw tweeted.
That would indicate Pelosi is about to become a hypocritical elite.
The fact is, Pelosi isn无毛视频檛 buying a house in Florida. That story was made up.
Finally, the governor of Mississippi, Tate Reeves, is all for getting people vaccinated.
But he reserves his (phony) right-wing outrage for mandates by Democrats.
He says he believes it无毛视频檚 the various mandates that are getting people to resist getting vaccinated.
无毛视频淪o, I actually think it无毛视频檚 the president无毛视频檚 policies that have made it more difficult in rural states like Mississippi to get more and more people vaccinated,无毛视频� said Reeves on 无毛视频淢eet the Press.无毛视频�
Reeves should probably know who else doesn无毛视频檛 want people to follow Biden 无毛视频� COVID-19!
Edward A. Owens is a multi-Emmy Award winner, former reporter, and anchor for Entertainment Tonight, and 40-year TV news and newspaper veteran. E-mail him at freedoms@bellatlantic.net.