{"id":1077041,"date":"2021-12-02T14:59:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T19:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1077041"},"modified":"2021-12-02T14:59:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T19:59:14","slug":"its-not-hard-to-figure-out-msnbc-analyst-says-republicans-hate-fauci-because-they-dont-want-covid-to-go-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-not-hard-to-figure-out-msnbc-analyst-says-republicans-hate-fauci-because-they-dont-want-covid-to-go-away\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s Not Hard To Figure Out\u2019: MSNBC Analyst Says Republicans Hate Fauci Because They Don\u2019t Want COVID To Go Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fits-not-hard-to-figure-out-msnbc-analyst-says-republicans-hate-fauci-because-they-dont-want-covid-to-go-away%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1077041&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>MSNBC analyst John Heilemann claimed Thursday that Republicans are only critical of Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden\u2019s chief medical adviser, because they believe they have a political advantage if COVID-19 does not ever go away.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/watch-worst-msnbc-2018-ashe-schow\/\">Heilemann<\/a> made the comments during an appearance on \u201cMorning Joe,\u201d saying that he believed Republicans were doing the \u201cpolitical math\u201d and reaching the conclusion that the continued spread of COVID-19 and each new variant helped them because they thought it reflected poorly on Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Host Mika Brzezinski began the segment with a clip of Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) claiming that <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/biden-fauci-urge-americans-to-get-vaccinated-as-omicron-concern-grows\/\">Fauci<\/a> had been part of the politicization of COVID-19, keeping people scared and pushing them toward vaccines while ignoring therapeutics.<\/p>\n<p>Host Joe Scarborough responded to Johnson\u2019s comments by saying he didn\u2019t understand why anyone would attack <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/desantis-targets-d-c-elites-no-accountability-how-the-hell-else-does-fauci-still-have-a-job\/\">Fauci<\/a>, who he claimed had \u201ccommitted his entire life\u201d to public health.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFauci, certainly, he just became the symbol of the anti-science movement and also just need to have a villain, to have a bad guy of government control, and it was \u2014 Speaker Pelosi played that role for a while for the people of the right, then we had last year they tried to make President Biden it, you know there was Kamala Harris and the socialists were \u2018controlling him\u2019 and now Dr. Fauci, who of course clashed with Trump at times \u2014\u201d Jonathan Lemire replied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan I suggest something more, something darker?\u201d Heilemann asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would love it,\u201d Scarborough replied.<\/p>\n<p>Calling the Republican Party a \u201cdeath cult,\u201d Heilemann argued that top Republicans were seeing the political advantage \u2014 especially going into the 2022 midterm elections \u2014 of allowing COVID-19 to continue to spread. \u201cThey know it hurts Joe Biden,\u201d he said. \u201cTheir sense of the politics of this is dark. They think if Covid goes on longer, it puts them in a better position. They are right about that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Co-host Willie Geist claimed that prominent figures in right-leaning media were \u201ccomparing Fauci to a Nazi,\u201d adding, \u201cThat\u2019s been a story for a long time that Fauci is profiting to from the vaccine, all these things that are not true. That then moves into the mainstream of conservative media and becomes gospel, that he\u2019s a villain and that somehow he\u2019s asserting his power by trying to get people vaccinated and protect the American public from this disease that\u2019s killed 700,000 people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Heilemann\u2019s conclusion was simple:&nbsp;\u201cIt\u2019s because if people follow Fauci, there\u2019s a likelier chance that COVID will go away. And if COVID goes away, it\u2019s bad right now for Republicans. It\u2019s just the math on this, the political math on this, it\u2019s not hard to figure out,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">MSNBC\u2019s Heilemann: Republicans trash Fauci because they don\u2019t want Covid to go away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf people follow Fauci, there\u2019s a likelier chance that Covid will go away. And if Covid goes away, it \u2019s bad for Republicans. The political math on this, it\u2019s not hard to figure out.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1mbWygeXQS\">pic.twitter.com\/1mbWygeXQS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1466389021828034563?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is fighting Joe Biden\u2019s vaccine mandate in federal court.&nbsp; Join us in this fight by <a href=\"https:\/\/lp.dailywire.com\/osha-petition\/\">signing our petition<\/a> to OSHA, telling them that you will not comply with this mandate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC analyst John Heilemann claimed Thursday that Republicans are only critical of Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden\u2019s chief medical adviser, because they believe they have a political advantage if COVID-19 does not ever go away.Heilemann made the comments during an appearance on \u201cMorning Joe,\u201d saying that he believed Republicans were doing the \u201cpolitical math\u201d and reaching the conclusion that the continued spread of COVID-19 and each new variant helped them because they thought it reflected poorly on Biden.Host Mika Brzezinski began the segment with a clip of Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) claiming that Fauci had been part of the politicization of COVID-19, keeping people scared and pushing them toward vaccines while ignoring therapeutics.Host Joe Scarborough responded to Johnson\u2019s comments by saying he didn\u2019t understand why anyone would attack Fauci, who he claimed had \u201ccommitted his entire life\u201d to public health.\u201cFauci, certainly, he just became the symbol of the anti-science movement and also just need to have a villain, to have a bad guy of government control, and it was \u2014 Speaker Pelosi played that role for a while for the people of the right, then we had last year they tried to make President Biden it, you know there was Kamala Harris and the socialists were \u2018controlling him\u2019 and now Dr. Fauci, who of course clashed with Trump at times \u2014\u201d Jonathan Lemire replied.\u201cCan I suggest something more, something darker?\u201d Heilemann asked.\u201cI would love it,\u201d Scarborough replied.Calling the Republican Party a \u201cdeath cult,\u201d Heilemann argued that top Republicans were seeing the political advantage \u2014 especially going into the 2022 midterm elections \u2014 of allowing COVID-19 to continue to spread. \u201cThey know it hurts Joe Biden,\u201d he said. \u201cTheir sense of the politics of this is dark. They think if Covid goes on longer, it puts them in a better position. They are right about that.\u201dCo-host Willie Geist claimed that prominent figures in right-leaning media were \u201ccomparing Fauci to a Nazi,\u201d adding, \u201cThat\u2019s been a story for a long time that Fauci is profiting to from the vaccine, all these things that are not true. That then moves into the mainstream of conservative media and becomes gospel, that he\u2019s a villain and that somehow he\u2019s asserting his power by trying to get people vaccinated and protect the American public from this disease that\u2019s killed 700,000 people.\u201dHeilemann\u2019s conclusion was simple:\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s because if people follow Fauci, there\u2019s a likelier chance that COVID will go away. And if COVID goes away, it\u2019s bad right now for Republicans. It\u2019s just the math on this, the political math on this, it\u2019s not hard to figure out,\u201d he said.MSNBC\u2019s Heilemann: Republicans trash Fauci because they don\u2019t want Covid to go away.\u201cIf people follow Fauci, there\u2019s a likelier chance that Covid will go away. And if Covid goes away, it \u2019s bad for Republicans. The political math on this, it\u2019s not hard to figure out.\u201d pic.twitter.com\/1mbWygeXQS\u2014 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) December 2, 2021The Daily Wire is fighting Joe Biden\u2019s vaccine mandate in federal court.\u00a0 Join us in this fight by signing our petition to OSHA, telling them that you will not comply with this mandate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1077041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}