{"id":2258877,"date":"2024-06-03T18:19:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T22:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shame-on-you-gop-rep-torches-fauci-over-comments-about-making-people-get-vaccinated\/"},"modified":"2024-06-03T18:22:14","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T22:22:14","slug":"shame-on-you-gop-rep-torches-fauci-over-comments-about-making-people-get-vaccinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shame-on-you-gop-rep-torches-fauci-over-comments-about-making-people-get-vaccinated\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Representative Criticizes Fauci for Vaccine Mandate Comments"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fshame-on-you-gop-rep-torches-fauci-over-comments-about-making-people-get-vaccinated%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=2258877&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>Rep. Rich \u2062McCormick of Georgia delivered a powerful critique against Dr. Anthony Fauci during the House \u200bsubcommittee on\u2062 COVID. McCormick, a seasoned \u2063emergency room physician and congressman, challenged Fauci on his handling of the pandemic, highlighting the medical community&#8217;s struggles \u2062and asserting the importance of individual healthcare decisions. His stark words to\u2064 Fauci\u200d resonated: &#8220;Shame on you.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/commentary\/\">  Commentary <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/mlandry\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/mlandry\/%20\"><span>Mike Landry<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   June 3, 2024 at 2:42pm <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>Rep. Rich McCormick of Georgia leveraged his credentials and experience to provide perhaps the best summary of so many things many of us figured out about the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>During Monday\u2019s House subcommittee on COVID, the 55-year-old freshman Republican congressman went after the man responsible for so many of the nation\u2019s pandemic woes, retired director of the National Institutes for Health, Dr. Anthony Fauci.<\/p>\n<p>Fauci once said an attack on him was an <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/557602-fauci-attacks-on-me-are-really-also-attacks-on-science\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attack on science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>McCormick was having none of it.<\/p>\n<p>McCormick is not only a congressman, but he\u2019s also known as Dr. Richard McCormick, a practicing emergency room <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/rand-paul-issues-blistering-12-word-statement-anthony-fauci-accuses-lying-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">physician<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s one of many doctors Fauci &#038; Co. went after in their attempts to control <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fauci-finally-admits-everyone-already-knew-6-feet-covid-rule-humiliating-testimony\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">medical practices<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-faucis-former-nih-boss-finally-admits-covid-lockdown-another-mistake-made\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">narratives<\/a> in the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Congress grilled Fauci Monday, and when he had the floor, McCormick was livid.<\/p>\n<p>And merciless.<\/p>\n<p>Townhall posts on X showed how McCormick\u2019s experience with COVID was enmeshed in literal flesh and blood, not the statistics and computer models and, for that matter, public relations efforts of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/testimony-top-public-health-official-covid-made-public-undermines-everything-fauci-said\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bureaucratic doctors<\/a> like Fauci.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Rep. McCormick, who is a physician and helped treat patients at the beginning of the pandemic, recalls how he was censored for daring to question Fauci and other bureaucrats:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2020, I was censored, my medical license was threatened, because I disagreed with bureaucrats.\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nR90pghZYy\">pic.twitter.com\/nR90pghZYy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/townhallcom\/status\/1797671586717487554?\">June 3, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been insinuated that only politicians, only bloggers, only conspiracy theorists are disagreeing with you,\u201d he told Fauci.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to point out that I\u2019m probably the only member of Congress that actually treated patients during the pandemic from the very beginning to the very end of the pandemic during night shifts in the ER,\u201d McCormick continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThousands of patients during that time. In 2020, I was censored, my medical license was threatened because I disagreed with bureaucrats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiterally taken off the internet, as a person who was treating patients with leading edge technologies, developing theories, doing my very best, but being censored by the United States government, for the first time stepping in and taking the place of medical professionals as the \u2018experts\u2019 in healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny dissent surrounding COVID-19 treatments, mask mandates, and any public policy surrounding the pandemic was immediately labeled as \u2018anti-science.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI watched as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-lost-all-credibility-on-social-distancing-after-biden-celebrations\/\" title=\"Dems Lost All Credibility On Social Distancing After Biden Celebrations\">public health officials<\/a> and politicians told my patients what treatment options were best for them, regardless of their comorbidities or their medical history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite my education, and my training, and my experience, my opinions were relegated to conspiracy and misinformation by so-called healthcare experts who had never treated a patient throughout the entire pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He played a clip from an interview that is part of an audio book, \u201cFauci\u201d by Michael Specter, in which Fauci said institutions should <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/rand-paul-fires-off-really-thinks-fauci-deserves-frankly-go-prison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">make life hard<\/a> for people who refused to take the COVID shot.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>WARNING: The following video contains vulgar language that some readers may find offensive.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Rep. McCormick plays an interview in which Fauci said institutions should make it hard for people to live their lives to force them to \u201close their ideological bullsh*t\u201d and get vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>McCormick: Are all objections to COVID vaccinations \u201cideological bullsh*t?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fauci: No,\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aUUZ1XWhi5\">pic.twitter.com\/aUUZ1XWhi5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/townhallcom\/status\/1797673941990805757?\">June 3, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI have to say that I don\u2019t see a big solution other than some sort of mandatory vaccination,\u201d Fauci is heard to say on the recording. \u201cI know federal officials don\u2019t like to use that term.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chest-binders-and-packing-underwear-featured-in-targets-new-pride-month-collection\/\" title=\"Chest Binders And Packing Underwear Featured In Target\u2019s New Pride Month Collection\">people feel empowered<\/a> and protected, legally, you are gonna have schools, universities, and colleges [that] are gonna say: \u2018You want to come to this college? Buddy, you\u2019re gonna get vaccinated! Lady, you\u2019re gonna get vaccinated!\u201d Fauci continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBig corporations, like Amazon, and Facebook, and all those others are gonna say: \u2018You wanna work for us? You get vaccinated!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it\u2019s been proven,\u201d Fauci is heard to say on the recording, \u201cthat when you make it difficult for people in their lives, they lose their ideological bulls***.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd they get vaccinated!\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>After playing the recording, McCormick asked \u201cAre all objections to COVID vaccinations ideological bulls***, Dr. Fauci?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, they are not,\u201d Fauci responded. \u201cAnd that\u2019s not what I was referring to \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell,\u201d McCormick interrupted. \u201cIn reference to making it hard for people to get education, traveling, working \u2014 I\u2019d say it very much was in context. And I take very great offense to this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCormick recounted testimony before the committee from Allison Williams who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bidens-vaccine-mandates-suffer-another-blow-appeals-court-sides-federal-workers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lost her job<\/a> despite a doctor\u2019s recommendation that while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/just-like-rape-lesbian-couple-sues-fertility-clinic-for-alleged-embryo-mix-up-say-they-wanted-a-girl-but-got-a-boy\/\" title=\"\u2018Just Like Rape\u2019: Lesbian Couple Sues Fertility Clinic For Alleged Embryo Mix-Up, Say They Wanted A Girl But Got A Boy\">undergoing fertility treatment<\/a> and due to her young age she not take the COVID shot.<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\">\n<p>Should Fauci be punished?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cBut she was fired,\u201d he said, looking at Fauci, \u201cbecause you made it hard. Just like you said in your statement, because you wanted to make sure the ideological bulls*** got in the way of her working, of living her life, of making a healthcare decision with her healthcare professional.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think America should take great offense to this,\u201d McCormick continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s exactly what you meant,\u201d he told Fauci, \u201cwhen you said making it hard for people to live without getting the vaccination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou affected people\u2019s ability to work. Travel. Be educated. To actually flourish in American society. To self-determine, as well as (their) God-given rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Looking down, shaking his head, McComick said: \u201cShame on you.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>An Important Message from Our Staff:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>In just a few months, the world is going to change forever. 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He has been a journalist, broadcaster and church pastor. He writes from Northwest Arkansas on current events and business history.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>  Mike Landry, PhD, is a retired business professor. He has been a journalist, broadcaster and church pastor. He writes from Northwest Arkansas on current events and business history. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a compelling commentary on June 3, 2024, at 2:42 pm, Rep. Rich McCormick of Georgia skillfully encapsulated key insights on the pandemic. 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