{"id":1125792,"date":"2021-12-16T16:14:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T21:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1125792"},"modified":"2021-12-16T16:14:11","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T21:14:11","slug":"that-wasnt-an-impersonator-kayleigh-mcenany-mocks-faucis-boss-for-somewhere-after-the-pandemic-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/that-wasnt-an-impersonator-kayleigh-mcenany-mocks-faucis-boss-for-somewhere-after-the-pandemic-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018That Wasn\u2019t An Impersonator\u2019: Kayleigh McEnany Mocks Fauci\u2019s Boss For \u2018Somewhere After The Pandemic\u2019 Performance"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fthat-wasnt-an-impersonator-kayleigh-mcenany-mocks-faucis-boss-for-somewhere-after-the-pandemic-performance%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=1125792&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>Fox News host and former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany mocked retiring National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins for his performance of a COVID-19 version of \u201cSomewhere Over the Rainbow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/watch-nih-director-sings-over-the-rainbow-to-praise-himself-health-officials-insist-pandemic-isnt-over\/\">Collins<\/a> performed the tune, which he titled \u201cSomewhere Past the Pandemic,\u201d accompanying himself on a guitar \u2014 and McEnany said on Thursday\u2019s broadcast of \u201cOutnumbered\u201d that she had initially thought it was intended to be a joke.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Director of the NIH, Dr. Francis Collins\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tUKqkK84td\">pic.twitter.com\/tUKqkK84td<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/1470862234192474114?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 14, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Collins sang:<\/p>\n<p><em>Somewhere past the pandemic, masks will come off \u266a<\/em><br \/><em>\u266a No more need for a nose swab every time we cough<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWow. Yeah, so I think I first saw this clip on \u2018Gutfeld!\u2019 last night and I thought to myself, \u2018Wow, that is a really good impersonator of Francis Collins, the head of the NIH \u2014 and then I woke up and I see \u2018America\u2019s Newsroom\u2019 and I see this again and I go, \u2018Wait, that wasn\u2019t an impersonator, that was literally the head of The National Institutes of Health,&#8217;\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/kayleigh-mcenany-sounds-off-on-don-lemon-after-cnn-host-says-opposition-to-crt-rooted-in-privilege\/\">McEnany<\/a> continued. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t necessarily inspire confidence in public officials.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, it reminds me of Fauci, who never met a camera he didn\u2019t like,\u201d McEnany added. \u201cWho, when we were in the White House working on COVID-19, he is posing for In Style magazine poolside \u2014 there\u2019s a picture of it \u2014 sending emails about how he looks like Brad Pitt and \u2018it looked exactly like me\u2019 when Brad Pitt impersonated him on \u2018SNL,\u2019 saying that statement \u2018made my year.\u2019 These are our public health officials, America. Do you have faith?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If the comments that circulated on Twitter were any indication, Collin\u2019s performance did not inspire the confidence he might have hoped it would.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConfidence-inspiring or cringeworthy? My vote: The latter,\u201d physician <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StevePhillipsMD\/status\/1470918301912023041\">Steven Phillips<\/a> tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Newsmax National Correspondent <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeCarterTV\/status\/1471133873035792386\">Mike Carter<\/a> added, \u201cHere\u2019s the outgoing NIH Director Francis Collins singing \u2018Somewhere Past the Pandemic,\u2019 while playing the guitar. Totally normal thing nbd.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Collins had announced several weeks earlier that he intended to leave his position as the head of the National Institutes of Health \u2014 which oversees a number of other organizations including the&nbsp;one headed up by White House Chief Medical Advisor <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/how-do-you-overhype-that-fauci-objects-to-ron-johnson-claim-that-he-wants-to-keep-people-scared-of-covid\/\">Dr. Anthony Fauci<\/a>, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.<\/p>\n<p>The NIH shared some of the accomplishments made under Collins\u2019 leadership in a Wednesday tweet, saying, \u201cUnder his leadership, Dr. Collins helped establish several #NIH initiatives to address pressing biomedical research and public health issues. A few of these include the #BRAIN Initiative, @AllOfUsResearch, #nihHEALinitiative, and #AMP. #ThankYouDrCollins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Under his leadership, Dr. Collins helped establish several <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NIH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NIH<\/a> initiatives to address pressing biomedical research and public health issues. A few of these include the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BRAIN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BRAIN<\/a> Initiative, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AllofUsResearch?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AllOfUsResearch<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/nihHEALinitiative?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#nihHEALinitiative<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AMP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AMP<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ThankYouDrCollins?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ThankYouDrCollins<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NIH (@NIH) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NIH\/status\/1471219770209054731?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Collins shared his farewell interview video Thursday, adding, \u201cI\u2019m truly grateful for the sendoff I received today from my #NIH family and friends and colleagues from over the years! I couldn\u2019t have had a nicer farewell, thank you all!\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I\u2019m truly grateful for the sendoff I received today from my <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NIH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NIH<\/a> family and friends and colleagues from over the years! I couldn\u2019t have had a nicer farewell, thank you all! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/o4uhgXQ7pW\">https:\/\/t.co\/o4uhgXQ7pW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Francis S. Collins (@NIHDirector) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NIHDirector\/status\/1471558749458509826?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News host and former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany mocked retiring National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins for his performance of a COVID-19 version of \u201cSomewhere Over the Rainbow.\u201dCollins performed the tune, which he titled \u201cSomewhere Past the Pandemic,\u201d accompanying himself on a guitar \u2014 and McEnany said on Thursday\u2019s broadcast of \u201cOutnumbered\u201d that she had initially thought it was intended to be a joke.Director of the NIH, Dr. Francis Collins\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/tUKqkK84td\u2014 Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) December 14, 2021Collins sang:Somewhere past the pandemic, masks will come off \u266a\u266a No more need for a nose swab every time we cough\u201cWow. Yeah, so I think I first saw this clip on \u2018Gutfeld!\u2019 last night and I thought to myself, \u2018Wow, that is a really good impersonator of Francis Collins, the head of the NIH \u2014 and then I woke up and I see \u2018America\u2019s Newsroom\u2019 and I see this again and I go, \u2018Wait, that wasn\u2019t an impersonator, that was literally the head of The National Institutes of Health,&#8217;\u201d McEnany continued. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t necessarily inspire confidence in public officials.\u201d\u201cYou know, it reminds me of Fauci, who never met a camera he didn\u2019t like,\u201d McEnany added. \u201cWho, when we were in the White House working on COVID-19, he is posing for In Style magazine poolside \u2014 there\u2019s a picture of it \u2014 sending emails about how he looks like Brad Pitt and \u2018it looked exactly like me\u2019 when Brad Pitt impersonated him on \u2018SNL,\u2019 saying that statement \u2018made my year.\u2019 These are our public health officials, America. Do you have faith?\u201dIf the comments that circulated on Twitter were any indication, Collin\u2019s performance did not inspire the confidence he might have hoped it would.\u201cConfidence-inspiring or cringeworthy? My vote: The latter,\u201d physician Steven Phillips tweeted.Newsmax National Correspondent Mike Carter added, \u201cHere\u2019s the outgoing NIH Director Francis Collins singing \u2018Somewhere Past the Pandemic,\u2019 while playing the guitar. Totally normal thing nbd.\u201dCollins had announced several weeks earlier that he intended to leave his position as the head of the National Institutes of Health \u2014 which oversees a number of other organizations including the\u00a0one headed up by White House Chief Medical Advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.The NIH shared some of the accomplishments made under Collins\u2019 leadership in a Wednesday tweet, saying, \u201cUnder his leadership, Dr. Collins helped establish several #NIH initiatives to address pressing biomedical research and public health issues. A few of these include the #BRAIN Initiative, @AllOfUsResearch, #nihHEALinitiative, and #AMP. #ThankYouDrCollins.\u201dUnder his leadership, Dr. Collins helped establish several #NIH initiatives to address pressing biomedical research and public health issues. A few of these include the #BRAIN Initiative, @AllOfUsResearch, #nihHEALinitiative, and #AMP. #ThankYouDrCollins\u2014 NIH (@NIH) December 15, 2021Collins shared his farewell interview video Thursday, adding, \u201cI\u2019m truly grateful for the sendoff I received today from my #NIH family and friends and colleagues from over the years! I couldn\u2019t have had a nicer farewell, thank you all!\u201dI\u2019m truly grateful for the sendoff I received today from my #NIH family and friends and colleagues from over the years! I couldn\u2019t have had a nicer farewell, thank you all! https:\/\/t.co\/o4uhgXQ7pW\u2014 Francis S. Collins (@NIHDirector) December 16, 2021The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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