Don't listen to those maniacs. Everybody loves you," Jimmy Kimmel told Dr. Anthony Fauci on his ABC show May 5, shortly after mocking the Fox News Channel's Tucker Carlson for criticizing colleges that mandate students get a coronavirus vaccine.
Last week, singer Trisha Yearwood was so giddy over meeting Fauci she said she was tempted to have him autograph her vaccine card. Last year, actress Julia Roberts called Fauci her "personal hero." There's also a children's book set for release June 28 called Dr. Fauci: How a Boy From Brooklyn Became America's Doctor, and Disney's National Geographic is working on a presumably laudatory documentary about Fauci.
Oh, how the worm has now turned:
"Fauci has lied about everything—masks, herd-immunity threshold, the origins of the virus. Things he's saying now, I'd have been thrown off of social media for saying," said Steve Deace, author of Faucian Bargain: The Most Powerful and Dangerous Bureaucrat in American History. The book from Post Hill Press was recently atop bestseller lists at Amazon and The Wall Street Journal, offering further proof of Fauci's waning influence in many circles.
