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Fox News reports, “The National Institutes of Health (NIH) admitted Thursday that it funded gain-of-function research on bats infected with coronaviruses at a lab in Wuhan, China despite repeated denials from Dr. Anthony Fauci that U.S. tax dollars were used.
Journalist Drew Holden, who is known for pointing out media hypocrisy in lengthy Twitter threads, brought receipts proving mainstream news organizations were wrong when they declared that accusations against Fauci and the NIH over the funding were false.
'I hope that outlets will correct the record,' he wrote before sharing the evidence.
🧵THREAD🧵 The NIH announced a bombshell: despite what Dr. Fauci said under oath, US taxpayers paid for gain-of-function research in Wuhan. I hope that outlets will correct the record from when they assured us this wasn’t happening. If they’ve forgotten, I’ve got screenshots⤵️ — Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) October 21, 2021
🧵THREAD🧵 The NIH announced a bombshell: despite what Dr. Fauci said under oath, US taxpayers paid for gain-of-function research in Wuhan. I hope that outlets will correct the record from when they assured us this wasn’t happening. If they’ve forgotten, I’ve got screenshots⤵️
'You may remember a dust up in July between Dr. Fauci & [Rand Paul] around precisely this point. It seems inarguable that what Fauci told Congress isn’t true. And the press uncritically helped him convince the American people otherwise,' Holden wrote, referring to Fauci's July congressional testimony in which he clashed with Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., while claiming that no NIH money went towards gain-of-function research in Wuhan.”
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Fox News reports, “Despite repeated denials by NIAID Director Anthony Fauci that his agency used American taxpayer money to fund Chinese gain-of-function research on bats infected with coronaviruses, the National Institutes of Health – which oversees NIAID – admitted in a letter to House Oversight Committee ranking member James Comer, R-Ky., that a 'limited experiment' was indeed conducted.
Comer's fellow Kentuckian, Sen. Rand Paul, joined 'Fox News Primetime' to react to the bombshell, as well as further reflect on his often-viral sparring with Fauci during Senate hearings on the matter...
'I don’t know if they have time to go after Dr. Fauci for lying. He should be held accountable because what we have developed as a system of health care in our country where doctors are afraid to speak out because they will cut out their research funding, doctors who have talked about innovative treatment to try to help people survive COVID are being lectured and told we will take your license. This is the kind of thing, this top-down centralization of medical authority, it’s not good for our country and it’s not good for innovation.'
Paul said he fears that an apolitical doctor will stumble across a life-saving treatment to another disease or virus – but instead discard or not publicize his work for fear of retribution from the medical establishment and people like Fauci, whose office allocates millions of dollars in grant monies.”
FEE’s Aadi Golchha writes, “One of the reasons that nearly all high-income countries keep capital-gains taxes low is to help ensure that investors and entrepreneurs are incentivized to take the risk of committing time and resources to relatively risky start-up ventures, typically reliant on the type of scientific and technical innovation that fuels job growth and progress in the long run.
Although startups comprise less than one percent of all companies, they generate 10 percent of new jobs in any given year. https://t.co/KCLzyUUYsC — FEE (@feeonline) October 22, 2021
Although startups comprise less than one percent of all companies, they generate 10 percent of new jobs in any given year. https://t.co/KCLzyUUYsC
According to Census Bureau data, although startups comprise less than one percent of all companies, they generate 10 percent of new jobs in any given year. The Kauffman Foundation's Tim Kane pointed out that ‘without startups, there would be no net job growth in the U.S. economy."
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Enough said.
The water sip at the end of this exchange with Dr. Fauci is still legendary.@RandPaul knew. Sometimes you just let the suspect dig their own hole. pic.twitter.com/PU9VFTokhe — Reed Cooley (@JReedCooley) October 21, 2021
The water sip at the end of this exchange with Dr. Fauci is still legendary.@RandPaul knew. Sometimes you just let the suspect dig their own hole. pic.twitter.com/PU9VFTokhe
Both Democrats & Republicans are after #Section230 & claim it's for your protection against Big Tech. But guess who is also lobbying regulations....Big Tech. You're being played. My latest:https://t.co/wtYk1OgcBw — Hannah Cox (@HannahDCox) October 21, 2021
Both Democrats & Republicans are after #Section230 & claim it's for your protection against Big Tech. But guess who is also lobbying regulations....Big Tech. You're being played. My latest:https://t.co/wtYk1OgcBw
FEE’s Hannah Cox writes, “Why would Facebook lobby for its own regulation, especially for regulations that enforce what they’re mostly already doing? Easy. Zuckerberg and the rest of his team know that competitors and start-ups would have a much harder time positioning themselves for success under the new regulatory framework. Such systems would be expensive to develop and maintain, after all.”
National Review’s Isaac Schorr has a solid collection of “many in the media who reflexively sided with Fauci.”
–CNN’s Brianna Keilar, May 2021: “Nothing brings out Senator Paul’s propensity to act like an ass like a congressional appearance by Fauci... Rand Paul’s COVID BS keeps pouring down..."
–Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler, May 2021: “We wavered between Two and Three Pinocchios..."
CNN’s homepage does not presently acknowledge the NIH letter all-but-admitting to funding gain of function research, instead leading with the story “Liberal Backlash Against Sinema Grows.” https://t.co/cscQgVzth8 — Isaac Schorr (@isaac_schorr) October 21, 2021
CNN’s homepage does not presently acknowledge the NIH letter all-but-admitting to funding gain of function research, instead leading with the story “Liberal Backlash Against Sinema Grows.” https://t.co/cscQgVzth8
–CNN’s Jake Tapper, July 2021: “I want to start with another kind of misinformation... Fauci was confronted with an accusation basically from Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul… Trump allies in Congress and governor’s offices and the media trying to make Fauci a COVID boogeyman."
–MSNBC’s Ari Melber, July 2021, concurring with Fauci’s characterization of Paul’s comments: “Slanderous."
–MSNBC’s Steve Benen, July 2021: “Rand Paul keeps doing this, apparently under the impression that there’s some value to the pointless exercises… Is it any wonder that Anthony Fauci seems exasperated with Rand Paul?”
–White House press secretary Jen Psaki, September 2021: “NIH has never approved any research that would make a coronavirus more dangerous to humans.”
FEE’s Jon Miltimore writes, “There is little debate that the supply chain issues are a serious problem, and shifting to a 24-7 operation may indeed help alleviate some of the supply chain issues—though the problem is unlikely to be solved so easily.
Biden: Los Angeles ports will begin operating 24 hours a day, 7 days a week just like "most of the leading countries in the world." Union leaders 24 hours later: “There’s no timeline when suddenly we will wake up and everything will be 24/7.”https://t.co/ukCv5AS7ha — Jon Miltimore (@miltimore79) October 20, 2021
Biden: Los Angeles ports will begin operating 24 hours a day, 7 days a week just like "most of the leading countries in the world."
The obvious question, however, is this: why weren’t these ports already operating around the clock 'like most of the leading countries in the world'?
The answer can be found in the very unions Biden thanked.”
Spiked-Online reports, “There are signs that the woke progressive model may be losing its appeal, even among some liberals. The bulk of public opinion is not in progressives’ favour. In the US, activist progressives, notes a recent study, represent eight per cent of the electorate – barely half the size of moderates and barely a third of the size of conservatives.
The woke crowd makes up only 8% of the electorate, but--surprise, surprise--they are the most intolerant group towards other political viewpoints.https://t.co/OoS3IC0bEn — Glenn Jacobs (@GlennJacobsTN) October 20, 2021
The woke crowd makes up only 8% of the electorate, but--surprise, surprise--they are the most intolerant group towards other political viewpoints.https://t.co/OoS3IC0bEn
What they lack in numbers, however, they make up for with single-minded determination; progressive whites, notes the Atlantic, are the most intolerant of all Americans, led by those in the Boston area, while people in smaller towns and cities seem far more open.”
FEE’s Brad Polumbo writes, “Pope Francis recently made a statement on World Food Day that in effect blamed markets and capitalism for the persistence of world hunger.
'The fight against hunger demands we overcome the cold logic of the market, which is greedily focused on mere economic profit and the reduction of food to a commodity, and strengthening the logic of solidarity,' he tweeted.
With such a massive platform, the pope has an obligation to better inform himself before wading into economics affairs. https://t.co/nuFYR1u1rD — FEE (@feeonline) October 20, 2021
With such a massive platform, the pope has an obligation to better inform himself before wading into economics affairs. https://t.co/nuFYR1u1rD
'We must adapt our socio-economic models so they have a human face, because many models have lost it,' the pope continued. 'Thinking about these situations, in God’s name I want to ask… The big food corporations to stop imposing monopolistic production and distribution structures that inflate prices and end up withholding bread from the hungry.'
In Pope Francis’s telling, the 'cold logic of the market' is the main barrier to eliminating world hunger. But this argument betrays a woeful misunderstanding of how markets operate and how past achievements in reducing global poverty have been achieved.”
Billboard reports, “The country singer says he's 'not against the vaccine,' but he is 'against forcing people to take medicine that they may not need and may not want.'
Country singer Travis Tritt is ready to take a hard stance against COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates at concerts, and announced Monday (Oct. 18) he's even going so far as to cancel four shows making those requirements.
Travis Tritt is opening up about canceling four stops on his fall tour because they require masks, proof of a negative COVID-19 test or vaccination. https://t.co/MqbkUN4iZ1 — billboard (@billboard) October 19, 2021
Travis Tritt is opening up about canceling four stops on his fall tour because they require masks, proof of a negative COVID-19 test or vaccination. https://t.co/MqbkUN4iZ1
Tritt says the negative comments he received after performing shows with COVID-19 safety protocols on the Brooks & Dunn Reboot Tour convinced him to do things differently for his solo dates.
'I got literally hundreds of comments and direct messages from people on all social media platforms, which basically told me how disappointed they were,' Tritt says. 'They were heartbreaking.”