Althouse: "Pence Blocks Fauci, Birx from Appearing on CNN after Network Stops Airing Full White House Coronavirus Briefings."

April 10, 2020

"Pence Blocks Fauci, Birx from Appearing on CNN after Network Stops Airing Full White House Coronavirus Briefings."

National Review reports.

UPDATE: "White House reverses position after blocking health officials from appearing on CNN" ("After this story was published, Pence's office allowed for the booking of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield for CNN's Thursday night coronavirus town hall. Dr. Anthony Fauci was also booked for Friday on 'New Day.'"). Good call.

44 comments:

rhhardin said...: Bad editing avoided.; 4/10/20, 8:49 AM
Buckwheathikes said...: CNN's viewer is going to be pissed.; 4/10/20, 8:51 AM
gilbar said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 4/10/20, 8:51 AM
gilbar said...: Buckwheathikes WINS! saying...
CNN's viewer is going to be pissed.; 4/10/20, 8:52 AM
Some Seppo said...: Already rescinded. See the update:
https://pjmedia.com/trending/report-pence-bars-coronavirus-task-force-members-from-appearing-on-cnn/; 4/10/20, 8:53 AM
Dude1394 said...: Hillary Clinton for President National Review no thanks.; 4/10/20, 8:54 AM
stevew said...: Identifying those that sneak around and operate in bad faith. I love it.; 4/10/20, 8:55 AM
rcocean said...: Update: WH allows health officials on CNN. Old news.; 4/10/20, 8:58 AM
rcocean said...: I wish the WH would've stuck with their ban. But I'm sure so Federal Obama Judge would've ruled that the Constitution requires WH officials to appear on CNN. Really.; 4/10/20, 9:00 AM
rcocean said...: Trump needs to cut down on the questions from CNN and the other snarky, clown, MSM reporters. BTW, I noticed that the Daily Mail has been investigating and publishing dirt on the ONE reporter from OAN news network who supposedly is "Trump's favorite reporter". Man, they don't disguise their bias. Nor do they disguise the fact that they want EVERY reporter to march in left-wing lockstep.

So, do the stupid moderates understand the MSM is NOT objective? Unlikely.; 4/10/20, 9:02 AM
traditionalguy said...: There he goes again. Trump guy is dividing the country into the honest and fair Group and the totally corrupt Big Liar Propagandist Group.

We need a Uniter. All Trump does is win. Big show off.; 4/10/20, 9:04 AM
Bay Area Guy said...: Both Fauci and Birx need to shape the fuck up.; 4/10/20, 9:11 AM
wild chicken said...: Meanwhile, America's health care workers are mostly sitting on their hands.; 4/10/20, 9:11 AM
stevew said...: Message sent, mission accomplished.; 4/10/20, 9:14 AM
rcocean said...: Odd that NR is now publishing straight news that you can get anywhere on the net. Just more evidence of their decline and overall uselessness. I'm waiting for their "Joe Biden is the Conservative Choice" article.; 4/10/20, 9:15 AM
Chuck said...: This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.; 4/10/20, 9:16 AM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: Good move.

CNN is hot Hack-D garbage.; 4/10/20, 9:16 AM
Sebastian said...: "Meanwhile, America's health care workers are mostly sitting on their hands."

To save healthcare, we have to destroy it.

To save lives, we have to sacrifice others.; 4/10/20, 9:17 AM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: Watching CNN whine and moan and seethe with rage = frosting.; 4/10/20, 9:17 AM
William said...: If Trump looks good, it's not news....I watch the pressers on CSPAN. CSPAN and CNBC are the nearest you'll get to unbiased coverage.... I enjoy the give and take between Trump and the media. They don't get the better of him and what their questions reveal is not the President's incompetence but their own bias....The media have to some extent managed to keep the President's approval numbers down but at the cost of their own credibility.; 4/10/20, 9:18 AM
Chuck said...: This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.; 4/10/20, 9:19 AM
Howard said...: Social media is a effective check on president power.; 4/10/20, 9:19 AM
narciso said...: cnn is as contagious as t 4 or andromeda,; 4/10/20, 9:20 AM
Amadeus 48 said...: I sold my AT&T stock on Monday. CNN (owned by Warner, which is owned by AT&T) is out of control. They clearly are helping Trump, but in a horrifying way.; 4/10/20, 9:21 AM
RigelDog said...: Have a beautiful Easter. In a big, big, filled-up church.}}}

Would that we could.; 4/10/20, 9:25 AM
Inga said...: “Both Fauci and Birx need to shape the fuck up.”

By doing what?; 4/10/20, 9:30 AM
Gusty Winds said...: The one viewer comment is hilarious. But seriously, with the Airports empty, it has to be a really small audience. They just say shit and hope someone views it on realclearpolitics, twitter, or youtube. Virtue Signaling Clowns.; 4/10/20, 9:32 AM
Xmas said...: I wonder if Fauci and Birx were told to preface every answer with "We discussed that during Xday's briefing were I said..."; 4/10/20, 9:37 AM
Gusty Winds said...: So when Chris "Fredo" Cuomo was diagnosed with COVID-19, and after Don Lemon cried on air, Fredo of course continues to broadcast from his basement.

I don't believe he has it. Or if he does, he's just playing it for what it's worth. On the second day, Cuomo was on air saying he had a 103 fever through the night, and was hallucinating. But miraculously he was feeling much better by airtime.

If any adult here has had a 103 fever, it is debilitating. Kids can handle it. Adults can't.

More CNN propaganda.; 4/10/20, 9:39 AM
Greg the class traitor said...: It's a shame that Trump wiped out.

CNN refusing to carry the high rating press briefings in full tells us that CNN doesn't actually care about public health. (If they were low rating, CNN could use the excuse that "we're a business, showing them costs us too much".)

They are free, high rating, important news events, that CNN is refusing to cover because their are a political operation, not a news source. They are an arm of the DNC, nothing more

No Administration individual should ever go on their network; 4/10/20, 9:48 AM
Doodad said...: Shoulda stuck to their guns. That's the only way unruly children understand....tough love. The worst part of the daily updates is seeing Acosta all the time again. He truly is a useless SOB.; 4/10/20, 9:56 AM
tommyesq said...: I would like to think that Fauci and Birx have better things to do with their time than act as talking heads on CNN (or Fox, OAN, whoever) and repeat things that they said at their brifeing that CNN refuses to air. Don't Fauci and Birx both have important day jobs?; 4/10/20, 10:02 AM
traditionalguy said...: IIR as athletes we often played big games with Flu and 103 fever. Funny thing was it focused our minds and bodies to make us play our best performances of the year. Collapsing came later.; 4/10/20, 10:02 AM
Birkel said...: CNN is not a news organization.; 4/10/20, 10:02 AM
Martin said...: Fauci and Birx will regret going on CNN this way because they will be the victims of "gotcha" questions and eventually will get tripped up and embarrass themselves and their boss.

I appreciate that forbidding them to take such interviews looks bad and was not sustainable, but it would have been to their benefit, to protect them.

This will not end well, least of all for the doctors.; 4/10/20, 10:08 AM
JPS said...: Gusty Winds,

"If any adult here has had a 103 fever, it is debilitating. Kids can handle it. Adults can't."

Not necessarily. I've gotten sick a couple of times under prolonged high-stress situations, and crashed only after the situation permitted. Not trying to brag about how tough I am (I'm not) but each time I didn't know I was that sick until the pressure was off. The worst of these was 104.7, I was so relieved to be getting help I felt downright chipper, and the nurse didn't believe the reading the first time.; 4/10/20, 10:09 AM
reader said...: If I have a fever it is either under a 100 or over 103. My son is the same way. Our doctor was aware of this and told us how to manage it with acetaminophen and ibuprofen. It usually only lasts for a day or two and by doing this we can typically keep it from spiking.

My son's first trip to the ER was for a 104 fever. He didn't have the flu or an infection. In my mom's terms, "He had the crud".; 4/10/20, 10:28 AM
Gusty Winds said...: Cuomo claimed to have a 103 fever and said he was hallucinating all night. He's not Walter Peyton who could play football with the flu..he's lying.; 4/10/20, 10:31 AM
narciso said...: and how is that different than how he behaves on cnn.; 4/10/20, 10:37 AM
Browndog said...: Via Gateway pundit-

On Thursday night CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield joined CNN where he was asked if he would administer life-saving hydroxychloroquine treatment on coronavirus victims.

Dr. Robert Redfield: Yeah, I’m not going to recommend it and I’m not going to not recommend it. I think that you and I are very similar. We’re probably similar to my friend, Dr. Fauci. We-we-we we’re very comfortable to responding when we have data.; 4/10/20, 10:39 AM
Oso Negro said...: Dr. Fauci should be replaced by a Magic 8-Ball. At least the 8-Ball is occasionally correct.; 4/10/20, 11:41 AM
Darrell Harris said...: Pence should have kept the embargo in place. CNN refuses to cover Trump's daily press conferences, when the reporters have the opportunity to ask Fauci all the questions they desire. I thought that this was an elegant way to force CNN to go back to covering Trump live, unedited, and without CNN 'analysis'.

Besides, when they have the chance to interview Fauci, they would take it as an opportunity to drive a wedge between the president and Fauci, and spin that for a couple more news cycles.; 4/10/20, 1:13 PM
n.n said...: What's next, The Jerry Springer Show, perhaps The View?; 4/10/20, 1:28 PM
Kirk Parker said...: "By doing what?"

Kegel exercises.; 4/11/20, 12:17 AM