Overall, the Select Subcommittee for the Coronavirus Pandemic hearing featuring retired NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci on Monday was a dud. Many Republicans (with Marjorie Taylor Greene the notable exception) partook in some bovine excrement performative gyrations related to vaccines, the Democrats acted as we expected them to, and for the most part Saint Fauci answered questions the way he always has – lots of not-so-true statements, interspersed with weasel words.
Still, there were a few notable themes in the hearing that, in conjunction with pieces out in the media, show the direction the Democrat messaging efforts are headed. Those themes are:
- A lab leak origin for the pandemic is “possible” and “not a conspiracy theory”
- Fauci’s Senior Advisor Dr. David Morens’ efforts to avoid FOIA were undertaken in a vacuum, and nobody else at NIAID would have ever acted in such a…
