{"id":2636042,"date":"2026-07-27T14:13:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignhere-are-all-the-media-hacks-who-got-shoutouts-in-faucis-diary-for-giving-him-tongue-baths\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T14:15:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:15:24","slug":"utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignhere-are-all-the-media-hacks-who-got-shoutouts-in-faucis-diary-for-giving-him-tongue-baths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignhere-are-all-the-media-hacks-who-got-shoutouts-in-faucis-diary-for-giving-him-tongue-baths\/","title":{"rendered":"Here Are All The Media Hacks Who Got Shoutouts In Fauci&#8217;s Diary"},"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\">24<\/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%2Futm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignhere-are-all-the-media-hacks-who-got-shoutouts-in-faucis-diary-for-giving-him-tongue-baths%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=2636042&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>The article reveals that prominent journalists and media figures heavily praised and protected Dr. Anthony Fauci during the COVID-19 pandemic, often seeking his approval and receiving guidance from him behind the scenes. Fauci\u2019s diaries show he enjoyed relationships wiht media personalities such as Jon LaPook, Jake Tapper, Dana Bash, George stephanopoulos, Andrea Mitchell, and Jimmy Kimmel, who reportedly helped shape narratives and avoided critical questions. These interactions demonstrate that many mainstream reporters acted less as objective journalists and more as propagandists, promoting Fauci\u2019s image and shielding him from scrutiny. Fauci also intervened to suppress stories critical of China\u2019s role in the pandemic, highlighting his influence over media coverage. The diary entries expose a close, favor-driven relationship between Fauci and the propaganda press, undermining the integrity of public information during a critical health crisis.  <\/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<div>\n<p>For years, the propaganda press assured Americans that Anthony Fauci was an honest broker and beyond any criticism. Those who <em>did<\/em> criticize him were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/tv\/jake-tapper-blasts-white-house-for-going-after-fauci-deranged-and-irresponsible-to-attack-someone-trying-to-save-our-lives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">raked over the coals<\/a> for being \u201cderanged\u201d and \u201cdishonest.\u201d Questions about Fauci\u2019s role in the deadly pandemic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/cnn-tapper-dismisses-rand-paul-154127668.html?guccounter=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">amounted<\/a> to disseminating \u201cmisinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But new diary entries from Fauci himself reveal that many of the so-called \u201cjournalists\u201d reporting on Fauci were nothing more than highly paid propagandists. Fauci appears to have relished the tongue baths so much that he memorialized them in his diary, dutifully reporting which propagandists praised him, protected him, and apparently sought his approval.<\/p>\n<p>(Sen. Rand Paul <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenRandPaul\/status\/2081093786185171131?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">released<\/a> the diaries ahead of Fauci\u2019s slated appearance before Congress).<\/p>\n<p>Take CBS News\u2019 chief medical correspondent <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tomselliott\/status\/2081375359518302651?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jon LaPook<\/a>, who apparently solicited help from Fauci about how to prepare for an interview and then mentioned Fauci several times during that interview, which apparently flattered Fauci enough that he noted it in his diary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJon laPook was interviewed on CBS Morning News and mentioned me several times since he e-mail[ed] me over the weekend to prep him for his interview on Universal Flu vaccine and HIV vaccines.\u201d LaPook, a supposed journalist, relied on Fauci to prepare him for television and then kept citing Fauci in his report while viewers had no idea that the government official had helped him shape the segment. <\/p>\n<p>That dichotomy worked both ways, too. Take CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper, who apparently was told by Fauci what questions to ask Brett Giroir, then a member of Trump\u2019s coronavirus task force.<\/p>\n<p>One <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tomselliott\/status\/2081385251692064941?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">entry<\/a> shows Fauci admitting he gave Tapper \u201csome questions to ask\u201d Giroir. In other words, one government official was telling a \u201cjournalist\u201d what questions to ask another government official.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile NBC\u2019s Chuck Todd was apparently running a media strategist company on the side, giving advice to Fauci as he faced mounting criticism. Fauci wrote that <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/emilyjashinsky\/status\/2081471003218047488?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Todd<\/a> helped advise him on whether or not to respond to criticism from Fox News and Tucker Carlson:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I had a really nice conversation with Chuck Todd this morning. He had texted me to ask what I thought of the interview yesterday. I told him that I thought it was absolutely terrific, but I wanted some advice from him. I asked him whether he thought that I should pull back from publicly defending myself against the slanderous attacks since that might call more attention to them. He completely agreed and said that Fox News and people like Tucker Carlson would use anything I say as the theme for their next show. Chuck is really an excellent journalist and although he must maintain his objectivity and reporting it is very clear that he is really being a friend in understanding the difficult position that I am in.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But in no sense of the word was Todd being \u201cobjective.\u201d He was advising Fauci on how to handle criticism as if Fauci were beyond criticism, tacitly showing Todd and NBC News had no desire to get to the bottom of the Covid cover-up, or possible lab leak, or shutdowns pushed by Fauci that caused innumerable damages.<\/p>\n<p>Tapper was also similarly <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tomselliott\/status\/2081385251692064941?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">worried<\/a> about Fauci\u2019s thoughts on an interview, allegedly calling Fauci to make sure \u201cthe interview did not cause me any problems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPhone call with Jake Tapper. Jake wanted to make sure the interview did not cause me any problems,\u201d the entry read. Notably, it is completely inconsistent with the principles of journalistic objectivity for \u201cjournalists\u201d to call government officials to make sure they didn\u2019t create \u201cproblems\u201d for them during an interview since. By Fauci\u2019s account, Tapper was merely pining for Fauci\u2019s approval (as any good propagandist would want).<\/p>\n<p>The professional fawning made sense though, because Fauci apparently had a steady friendship with multiple members of the propaganda press.<\/p>\n<p>CNN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tomselliott\/status\/2081375356112572636?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dana Bash<\/a> allegedly texted Fauci \u201cpointing out that Vanity Fair recently had a headline that said: Jim Jordan trips over his own a\u2013hole trying to debate Anthony Fauci.\u201d Tapper mocked Fox News\u2019 Laura Ingraham for doing what <em>he<\/em> was supposed to be doing too: being critical and inquisitive about Fauci and Covid.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tomselliott\/status\/2081375365973368899?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tapper<\/a> reportedly texted Fauci a sarcastic note about how it\u2019s \u201cHard to beliee [sic] Paura [sic] Ingraham went to Dartmouth, isn\u2019t it. All of us alumni are very proud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A few months later, Fauci apparently went over to Tapper\u2019s house for dinner, noting in his diary that Tapper and his wife are a \u201cterrific couple. Friendship building.\u201d (Notably, Fauci wrote that Tapper \u201cclearly believes that Trump is totally nuts\u201d after another dinner with the Tappers.)<\/p>\n<p>In other words, Tapper was privately trashing Fauci\u2019s critics (who have been proven right), worrying about whether interviews hurt Fauci, and hosting him for dinner \u2014 all while CNN was pretending to be objective in its coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Fauci also beamed at praise from George Stephanopoulos, writing in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tomselliott\/status\/2081375368871624707?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">July 28, 2020<\/a>, entry that: \u201cOn GMA, George Stephanopoulos brought up that the POTUS has retweeted a tweet from a Breitbart based group that said I was misleading the American public and thsat [sic] I was a fraud. George asked me to respond and I blew it off saying that I do not tweet or even read tweets. After the interview, George texted me saying: \u2018Thank you, Tony. So impressive.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NBC News\u2019 Andrea Mitchell allegedly called Fauci on his cellphone to apologize for not booking him, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tomselliott\/status\/2081375371765706975?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">July 4, 2020<\/a>, entry: \u201cAndrea Mitchell called my cell very apologetic about not being able to have me on the show since they already booked a couple of governors who were giving exclusives to NBC. I mentioned to her my concern about them keeping me off the air. She was shocked and thought that when I did not come on after requests that it was because I did not want to go on a show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fauci also saved a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tomselliott\/status\/2081375374944989381?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">clip<\/a> from Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s TIME 100 entry celebrating Fauci.<\/p>\n<p>Taken together, the messages show that the propaganda press writ large did not think that Fauci was a government official who deserved the same level of scrutiny they used on members of the Trump administration or any other Republican official but instead a friend who needed to be praised, protected, and helped.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most egregious example of how Fauci\u2019s relationship with the propaganda press had severe effects is that he <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tomselliott\/status\/2081375362429145118?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claimed<\/a> he helped kill a Washington Post story about whether China pressured then World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus not to declare an international emergency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCall from Lena Sun (Washington Post) trying to verify (I said I knew nothing of this) that people in the USG were saying that the Chinese got to Tedros to convince him not to declare a PHEIC since it would harm their reputation. I told her that was nonsense and I probably stopped her from writing the story. She said since I am in all the important meetings that I would know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fauci understood the influence he had, and apparently his simple refutation was enough to kill a story. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/exclusive-cia-believes-china-tried-stop-who-alarm-pandemic-1503565\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Notably<\/a>, the CIA later revealed that China pressured the WHO from declaring a global health emergency.<\/p>\n<p>These entries help explain why the propaganda press fawned over Fauci and criticized anyone who <em>didn\u2019t<\/em> as purveyors of \u201cmisinformation\u201d or \u201cderanged.\u201d For this work, they received honorable mentions in Fauci\u2019s diary at the cost of any legitimacy they may have had left.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. 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