Rep. Garamendi: NIH official canceled on five Sunday talk shows after Pence's office 'took over'

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Source: The Hill

Rep. Garamendi: NIH official canceled on five Sunday talk shows after Pence's office 'took over'
BY JOE CONCHA - 02/28/20 11:51 AM EST

Rep. John Garamendi (D-Calif.) on Friday said the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases was told to "stand down" and not appear on five Sunday morning talk shows to discuss the coronavirus.

Garamendi told MSNBC's Hallie Jackson that Anthony Fauci was scheduled to do all five major Sunday talk shows, but says Fauci canceled the appearances after Vice President Pence took over the administration's response to the disease. ... Trump on Wednesday named Pence as the official overseeing the government's response.

"I can repeat what he said, he said, 'I was not muzzled. However, I was to go on the Sunday talk shows five of them. The vice president's office then took over the control of this situation, and told me to stand down, not to do those shows,'" Garamendi said, quoting Fauci.

"Now, you can draw your own conclusions whether he was muzzled or not, but clearly he was scheduled to do Sunday talk shows and he was not to proceed with that," the congressman added.

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Hat tip, Joe.My.God:

Top NIH Official Made To Cancel All TV Appearances
February 28, 2020

https://www.joemygod.com/2020/02/top-nih-official-made-to-cancel-all-tv-appearances/

[Canoe52]

1. Will Mikey come talk instead?

[Pachamama]

2. Let's ask Mrs. Stephen Miller who will do the scheduling

[2naSalit]

25. Well, if he does

He's likely to spill the beans and tell us to get over it.

[sandensea]

28. Only if Mother says it's ok.

[hlthe2b]

3. Then they should put on State Health Officials and Epidemiologists instead of WH flunkies

No network should book administrative officials to speak in lieu of CDC, NIH, WHO officials (or academic infectious disease specialists)

[juxtaposed]

31. ditto

[Totally Tunsie]

36. Precisely!

There is no way the American public is going to receive unadulterated, timely, and full information on COVID-19 as long as the current administration is in control. What little correct info they disseminate will be a fraction of what we should know in order to be prepared and protected.

They're all liars to the core, and they're already refusing to allow those who may be "in the know" to speak out in video or print.

This is NOT an open administration. We will not hear the truth.

[Jarqui]

4. Maybe the House should bring them in to testify

That will blow the lid off whatever they're suppressing

Even some MAGAts will get their eyes opened

[Talitha]

5. +1

[empedocles]

8. Yes. Next week!

[MFGsunny]

6. Let's keep revealing bright lights focused on these cockroaches!

"Truth crushed to earth will rise again."

[empedocles]

7. Be constructive if each talk show host pounded home the TRUMP CENSORSHIP

problem, and then used UN, other credible sources - some of whom could be encouraged to complain of trump problems.

[YOHABLO]

9. They may have jurisdiction over NIH, but not WHO.

[Delphinus]

10. That may be our

only saving grace.

[Sgent]

16. And state officials

CA, WA, and NY state epidemiologists / health department directors may not have a nationwide view, but they certainly know what is going on in their states.

[MyOwnPeace]

24. May be even BETTER to hear from them......

since they have to "work" with the federal organization and are not being controlled as to what to say in public - certainly in a better position to give us all insight as to the, well, you know, truth.................

[DENVERPOPS]

11. I'm beginning to think

that even die hard Republicans are going to begin to revolt at all this shit, now that THEIR leaders are doing things that will effect THEM, and not just all us on the bottom 99%........

'I was not muzzled. However, I was to go on the Sunday talk shows five of them. The vice president's office then took over the control of this situation, and told me to stand down, not to do those shows,'"

This hardly surprises any of us..........Classic Trump & minions........

WE should be displaying that old three monkey image on every comment we write....See no Evil, hear no evil, etc

[louis-t]

21. I was NOT muzzled...

However, I was muzzled.

[beachbumbob]

12. obvious effort to censure info from OUR CDC, oh well, not unexpected was it?

[SunSeeker]

13. This is insane. If there is anyone who should be the spokesperson, it's Fauci.

He knows what he's talking about, unlike the clowns in the Trump administration.

[YOHABLO]

14. Fauci has been around since the Reagan administration.

I'm surprised he's not speaking out anyway. But then he may like his position and salary too much. He is the head of the NIH: the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases. They want to muzzle him?

[Sgent]

17. He would make more money

at Johns Jopkins or most other private positions.

He feels he can do more good for more people in his current position -- as head of the NIH ID.

[juxtaposed]

32. he may care enough about use to stay in there and hope he can still do good.

[wnylib]

15. We need some credible, reliable medical

people to defy Trump and go public with factual information in the rates of transmission, rates of death, methods of transmission, how to protect yourself. Also what to expect when it hits your community, advice on school and business closings and stocking up on supplies, etc.

Let the media give them all the time they request. Have open dialogues on air, with Q & A sessions.

If none have the courage and conscience to come forward, then news anchors and frequent public service announcements should update people from foreign sources and name reliable domestic and foreign sources of info to bypass government blockage.

[mountain grammy]

18. Sounds like Russia. Oh wait...

[shanti]

34. Putin's been silent, hasn't he?

What are the numbers there?

[mountain grammy]

35. Ha, that's the question of the month.

Hell, they tried to keep Chernobyl a secret.

[lagomorph777]

19. If we pretend there's no pandemic, it will just go away, right?

[SammyWinstonJack]

27. It will just be an ordinary flu season like the Maggot trying to make it out to be

[juxtaposed]

33. in the spring

[EarthFirst]

20. This is fucked.

This is beyond anything remotely associated with normal.

[paulkienitz]

22. I live in Garamendi's district, across town from the airbase full of quarantinees

and the amount of carelessness in this clusterfuck is becoming steadily more unbelievable. Imagine air-quotes every time you hear them say the evacuees are quarantined.

My partner got interviewed by the Washington Post yesterday -- they were out here looking for local reactions. They put her in a video clip.

[muriel_volestrangler]

23. Meanwhile, Boris Johnson has banned ministers from talking on the major morning news shows

in the UK - not just about COVID-19, but about everything. This is because the piece of shit thinks they're biased against him. So we can't get the proper government response on the major public health concern of this time.

So this morning, the BBC Radio 4 presenter had to explain "Number 10 refuses to allow any government minister to come in this programme to talk to our listeners". Instead, they interviewed Jeremy Hunt, former health and foreign secretary, and now chairman of the Commons health committee, who, for all that he was a budget-cutting bastard at Health, at least doesn't hold petty paranoid grudges. He talked perfectly sensibly and informatively.

[wnylib]

29. Surprised to hear this. BBC and

the Guardian have been my online "go to" sources of info.

[muriel_volestrangler]

30. It's like Republicans attacking CNN as "left wing"

The actual facts don't really matter; they just want to pick off information sources that might hold them to account. This keeps the field clear for their right wing allies like the Daily Mail (which would love for the BBC website to be closed down).

[McKim]

26. Time to Complain to the Media En Masse

Time to start emailing and calling the media. Better yet, show up at their headquarters and make them very uncomfortable. We deserve the scientific truth!

[CountAllVotes]

37. K&R

& recommend !!!