Don't Shoot The Messenger

"Don't shoot the messenger.  Don't blame the person who brings bad news." This idea was expressed by Sophocles as far back as 442 B.C. and then later by Shakespeare in 'Henry IV, Part II'.

Secretary Alex Azar, Department of Health and Human Services.

Why is Azar's name important? Many reasons, but for my purposes here, it's because Uncle/Daddy Donnie Drumpf's friends at Fox News are doing it... again.  What exactly?
Attacking the messenger (Dr. Anthony Fauci) with tidbits like, "Who elected Anthony Fauci?" "Who appointed Fauci to be virus czar?"  And so on, but you get the idea..
They (Fox News hosts - Tucker, Laura and Sean), like Trump, having no standards, have thus, resorted to name calling:

Tucker Carlson:  "chief buffon of the professional class."
                                "he (Fauci) wasn't elected."

Carlson complained that, "He's had the same job for nearly 40 years.  That means the majority of American voters never even indirectly picked him for the role he has now."

Mr. Carlson, you're clearly tuckered-out, so time for some warm milk and off to bed with you.  

Dr. Fauci, no, he wasn't elected to the White House Coronavirus Task Force... he was appointed.  By whom?  Remember that name?  Azar.  Yeah, that guy.  Okay, so, up to speed now -- appointed NOT elected.    Now, by the same token, I supposed Dr. Fauci could have declined to participate, but as his area of expertise IS viruses, allergies and infectious diseases, he probably wanted to lend a helping hand.

Dr. Fauci is the director of the National Institute on Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), a position that he was appointed to in 1984 under then President Ronald Reason, nearly 36 years ago.  Again, Tucker, appointed not elected.

It's really weird how those same Fox News hosts flip-flop on important issues, and this one in particular. Initially they were parroting Trump verbatim on the virus outbreak. Then, they had their individual OMG moments, and now, they're back to attacking the messenger, the one person in the room who speaks truth to power. 

So, of course, naturally, almost like a reflex action, Trump and his acolytes at Fox News don't like it.  Fauci, darn him, he's muddying the swamp waters and muddling the message(s) that Trump is feebly attempting to broadcast:

Fauci = BAD.                   Trump = GOOD.  And BIGLY.

Oh, and when the White House even suggests that, well, we may have to postpone the November elections, because... NO. FULL STOP. That's not gonna happen.  And big, flabby and orange as he is, even Trump can't do that.

He can, however, and IS, casting doubt on the Vote-By-Mail systems that are already beginning to be put in place ahead of our elections. 

"Voter fraud. Multiple ballots filled out by the same individuals.

Rigged, it's all rigged, I say!!!" 

 No, it's not rigged, Donnie.  You just can't handle the truth.

Oh and by the way, the information on Dr. Fauci, pretty easy to obtain, free of charge with a simple Google search.  That's how I got it.