White House adviser Dr. Birx presents an optimistic overview of the current situation. Naturally, liberals have turned on her.
On Wednesday, they were upset that President Trump called her "Deborah" after calling her male counterpart "Dr. Fauci." By Thursday, they started turning on her because she decided to use some of her screen time at the daily Coronavirus task force briefing -- which, astoundingly, many of them want partially censored -- to caution against hysteria based on worst-case-scenario modeling and projections.
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But the knives had already started to get unsheathed, as lefty Twitter decided that because she wasn't engaging in sufficiently alarmist pessimism -- and was politely scolding the media and other doomsayers -- she'd gone in the tank for Trump. This is an extraordinarily ridiculous and insulting accusation, given her profound expertise and long, impressive career spanning administrations of both political parties. "Listen to the experts," they scream, "unless and until one of those experts says something we don't like." When the prevailing orthodoxy is threatened, the smear machine gets revved up. Here's a CNN commentator and Clinton comms alum misspelling her name while peddling a conspiracy about Birx:
And here's an Obama comms alum, best known for hurling hyper-partisan rhetorical grenades, telling Birx -- the actual expert -- what she should be saying and how she should be doing her job. I do believe this is what his ilk would refer to as textbook 'mansplaining:'
"Listen toots, let me tell you a few things about doctorin'...you need to stop 'lecturing' people and start doing your job the way I want you to. Got it?" I'm flabbergasted...
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Birx's admonitions about models versus observed data and counter-productive sensationalism are fair and reasonable. And this is literally her area of expertise. She's not infallible, and even good-faith experts can get things wrong, but I'm far more inclined to listen to a woman of her stature and experience than the political hyenas slandering her. She and Dr. Fauci are doing exhausting, critical yeoman's work; they deserve to be thanked, not fed through partisan meat-grinders.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guyben...-birx-n2565845
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But the knives had already started to get unsheathed, as lefty Twitter decided that because she wasn't engaging in sufficiently alarmist pessimism -- and was politely scolding the media and other doomsayers -- she'd gone in the tank for Trump. This is an extraordinarily ridiculous and insulting accusation, given her profound expertise and long, impressive career spanning administrations of both political parties. "Listen to the experts," they scream, "unless and until one of those experts says something we don't like." When the prevailing orthodoxy is threatened, the smear machine gets revved up. Here's a CNN commentator and Clinton comms alum misspelling her name while peddling a conspiracy about Birx:
Joe Lockhart: "Dr Birk has drunk the Kool Aid"
And here's an Obama comms alum, best known for hurling hyper-partisan rhetorical grenades, telling Birx -- the actual expert -- what she should be saying and how she should be doing her job. I do believe this is what his ilk would refer to as textbook 'mansplaining:'
Dan Pfeiffer: "Instead of lecturing the Governors, nurses, and doctors on the front lines, Dr Birx could use her position and platform to push the President to his power to invoke the DPA to make more ventilators.
"Having too many ventilators would be a high class problem."
"Having too many ventilators would be a high class problem."
"Listen toots, let me tell you a few things about doctorin'...you need to stop 'lecturing' people and start doing your job the way I want you to. Got it?" I'm flabbergasted...
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Birx's admonitions about models versus observed data and counter-productive sensationalism are fair and reasonable. And this is literally her area of expertise. She's not infallible, and even good-faith experts can get things wrong, but I'm far more inclined to listen to a woman of her stature and experience than the political hyenas slandering her. She and Dr. Fauci are doing exhausting, critical yeoman's work; they deserve to be thanked, not fed through partisan meat-grinders.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guyben...-birx-n2565845
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