The Little Lab Coat Tyrant Calls GOP Senator a “Moron”

SEN. ROGER MARSHALL: Yes or no, would you be willing to submit to Congress and the public? A financial disclosure that includes your past and current investments?

FAUCI: I don’t understand why you’re asking me that question! My financial disclosure is public knowledge and has been so for the last 37 years or so, or 35 years. (sputtering)

SEN. ROGER MARSHALL: The big tech giants are doing an incredible job of keeping it from being public. We’ll continue to look for it. Where would we find it?

FAUCI: All you have to do is ask for it! You’re so misinformed, it’s extraordinary.

SEN. ROGER MARSHALL: Why am I asking for them? This is a huge issue.

SEN. PATTY MURRAY: Senator Marshall, Dr. Fauci has answered you. It is public information, and he’s happy to give it to you. If you were to ask.

FAUCI: What a moron. Jesus Christ.

BUCK: (laughing) Welcome back to the Clay and Buck show. Fauci, the little Smurf, getting a little hot under the collar there. He didn’t like it. “Look, these financial disclosures are public information!” But you can tell Fauci… This is what this guy does, actually. This is what he lives for. He’s a make-believe scientist in so many ways. He might as well be the Bill Nye the Science Guy.

Who, if you’re wondering, has an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell but is “the Science Guy,” and here you have Fauci, Clay, getting all sassy and saucy with a Senator yesterday because obviously Rand Paul rattled him a little bit, as he tends to. But Fauci actually says — and we can play it here. He claims he’s not political after doing things like this, after these bureaucratic fights he has.

FAUCI: How do we stop the misinformation and disinformation? And anybody who really wants to be objective and look at the some of the preposterous things that are said out there that are based on no fact — just, you know, everything from wild conspiracy theories to just not really understanding. Well, to understanding by putting out something that isn’t true. Thaat’s gonna make this whole thing tough.

I wish we could reset this and say, “You have your political differences. I’m not a political person. (sputtering) You — you know that occasion you know me from decades, zero political interest. But maybe we could put the political stuff aside and say, if we want to fight politically, let’s end this outbreak first, get back to normal life and then go back to our political ideologies.”

BUCK: He is such a liar as well as such a failure. It’s remarkable.

CLAY: Well, if that were true, he would do this radio show. If he truly doesn’t care about politics at all and he’s trying to reach the biggest possible audience, he wouldn’t have declined to come on this radio show multiple times when we will have offered him that opportunity. And, by the way, having testified in Congress, it’s kind of hard to accidentally leave your mic on there. I feel like that was intentional by Fauci.

Now, he may say, “Oh, I didn’t know the mic was still on,” but you’re testifying in front of Congress. You take your mask off, so people can read your lips anyway. I think he wanted to insult that senator and then claim that he didn’t know that his mic was still on. But the larger context addressed toward Dr. Fauci there, Buck, would be he talks about all the misinformation that is out there. When will they accept the blame — meaning Fauci, the CDC, Rochelle Walensky?

So many people who are, quote, “scientific experts,” when will they accept the blame for so much that they have put out there being untrue? They told us this spring, the end of the winter, “If you get the covid vaccine, you will never spread covid. It stops with you. You will never have any covid. Breakthrough cases are exceedingly rare.” There’s a ton of people listening to us right now who are double vaxxed, maybe even boostered, and they’ve got covid — or, Buck, they know somebody who is double vaxxed and boosted and got covid.

You told us not to wear masks, then to wear masks, then we could take ’em off, then you told us we had to put ’em back on. When did they accept blame for all the messages that they’ve gotten wrong? I don’t see any of that. I don’t ever see Fauci showing up, Buck, and saying, “Hey, you know what? In retrospect, we got that wrong,” or, as you’ve said a lot, Buck, “I never see Fauci saying, ‘That’s too much. Kids outside eating lunch on buckets is too much.'”

BUCK: Clay, there’s a wine bar near me that makes you wear your mask until your drinks arrive, as if that’s a help. They have this policy in the window. It’s crazy.