Fauci says his remarks were taken out of context in Trump ad

[J Town]

3 minutes ago, PattayaJames said:

I looked at it, it added NOTHING to the Reuters report in the OP (did you read that?).

NOW we're done. Thanks

“In my nearly five decades of public service, I have never publicly endorsed, nor do I now endorse, any political candidates,” Fauci said in a statement reported by NBC News. “The comments attributed to me without my permission in the GOP campaign ad were taken out of context from a broad statement I made months ago about the efforts of federal public health officials.” ~ Dr. Fauci

 

I admire your dedication to be able to ignore that paragraph. 

[PattayaJames]

7 minutes ago, J Town said:

“In my nearly five decades of public service, I have never publicly endorsed, nor do I now endorse, any political candidates,” Fauci said in a statement reported by NBC News. “The comments attributed to me without my permission in the GOP campaign ad were taken out of context from a broad statement I made months ago about the efforts of federal public health officials.” ~ Dr. Fauci

 

I admire your dedication to be able to ignore that paragraph. 

 

From the OP:

 

"In my nearly five decades of public service, I have never publicly endorsed any political candidate," Fauci said in a statement.

 

"The comments attributed to me without my permission in the GOP campaign ad were taken out of context from a broad statement I made months ago about the efforts of federal public health officials," his statement added.

[J Town]

5 minutes ago, PattayaJames said:

 

From the OP:

 

"In my nearly five decades of public service, I have never publicly endorsed any political candidate," Fauci said in a statement.

 

"The comments attributed to me without my permission in the GOP campaign ad were taken out of context from a broad statement I made months ago about the efforts of federal public health officials," his statement added.

So which version of evidence don't you understand? This is very clear that Dr. Fauci was misquoted.

[ChouDoufu]

9 hours ago, nobodysfriend said:

" words from Fauci "are accurate, and directly from Dr. Fauci’s mouth. "

Are accurate , ok , but in what context ? Is that part of the presidential ' fake news ' campaign ?

 

the campaign ad:

 

"President Trump is recovering from the coronavirus, and so is America," the ad's narrator says. "Together we rose to meet the challenge, protecting our seniors, getting them life-saving drugs in record time, sparing no expense."

The ad then flashes to an interview with Fauci in which he says, "I can't imagine that anybody could be doing more."

 

text of fauci's interview in march:

 

"We've never had a threat like this. The coordinated response has been...There are a number of adjectives to describe it -- impressive, I think is one of them. We're talking about all hands on deck. I, as one of many people on a team, I'm not the only person," Fauci said at the time. "Since the beginning, that we even recognized what this was, I have been devoting almost full time on this. I'm down at the White House virtually every day with the task force. It's every single day. So, I can't imagine that under any circumstances that anybody could be doing more."

 

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/11/politics/fauci-trump-campaign-ad-out-of-context/index.html

[PattayaJames]

2 minutes ago, J Town said:

So which version of evidence don't you understand? This is very clear that Dr. Fauci was misquoted.

I have addressed this previously, please feel free to re-read my earlier comments.

I really am not responding further on this.

Good evening to you. Thanks

[J Town]

1 minute ago, PattayaJames said:

I have addressed this previously, please feel free to re-read my earlier comments.

I really am not responding further on this.

Good evening to you. Thanks

Good.

[Morch]

3 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Wow!

Does that mean that now Trump will call fox news fake news?

 

He already had complaints in the past. Wanted that reporter who confirmed the 'losers' story sacked. As for Fox - the news section isn't as bad as the Fox & Friends part.

[pomchop]

Trump tells MORE LIES.

 

[candide]

28 minutes ago, ChouDoufu said:

 

the campaign ad:

 

"President Trump is recovering from the coronavirus, and so is America," the ad's narrator says. "Together we rose to meet the challenge, protecting our seniors, getting them life-saving drugs in record time, sparing no expense."

The ad then flashes to an interview with Fauci in which he says, "I can't imagine that anybody could be doing more."

 

text of fauci's interview in march:

 

"We've never had a threat like this. The coordinated response has been...There are a number of adjectives to describe it -- impressive, I think is one of them. We're talking about all hands on deck. I, as one of many people on a team, I'm not the only person," Fauci said at the time. "Since the beginning, that we even recognized what this was, I have been devoting almost full time on this. I'm down at the White House virtually every day with the task force. It's every single day. So, I can't imagine that under any circumstances that anybody could be doing more."

 

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/11/politics/fauci-trump-campaign-ad-out-of-context/index.html

So they not only took it out of context, but also truncated the sentence.

Edited October 12, 2020 by candide

[Morch]

1 hour ago, PattayaJames said:

Seems like a personal insult there.

 

I think it's more of a general one.

 

[ChouDoufu]

3 minutes ago, candide said:

So they not only took it out of context, but also truncated the setence.

 

that's the beauty of quote mining.

 

you take something someone actually said, remove the context, and can often get it to appear to mean something exactly opposite what was intended.

 

you'll often see that in movie reviews.  the critic says "incredible flaming pile of poop!", and on the back of the dvd cover is printed "incredible"

[PattayaJames]

6 minutes ago, candide said:

So they not only took it out of context, but also truncated the setence.

Hmmm well the context is conveniently not given in the quoted text.

The context was the question to which this was the answer.

[candide]

41 minutes ago, PattayaJames said:

Hmmm well the context is conveniently not given in the quoted text.

The context was the question to which this was the answer.

It was an answer to a specific question (I just read your previous posts), I don't formally disagree with it. He was asked whether he has witnessed "this big of a coordinated response by an administration"

 

However -you may try to twist it in any way you want- it was not an answer to, or a comment on:

"President Trump tackled the virus head-on, as leaders should,"

So yes, it has been definitely used out of context!

Edited October 12, 2020 by candide

[johnnybangkok]

The problem is this is just one of the many, many false and misleading (if not downright lies) the Trump re-election campaign is fond of spouting. From digitally altering Biden to make him look much older to replacing the original song Biden was listening to to “F&ck Tha Police” https://www.snopes.com/news/2020/09/16/trump-fake-video-biden, the Trump campaign never lets the real truth get in the way of their 'truth'. Twitter, Facebook and Instagram are continually calling Trump out on his lies but it's all just fake news and 'lamestream media' to his devoted supporters who just simply don't want to hear the truth.

Confirmation bias is very real and as long as his base swallow it all without a question, his campaign will continue unabated and without any remorse. It's going to be an interesting 3 weeks.

 

[ChouDoufu]

13 minutes ago, candide said:

It was an answer to a specific question (I just read your previous posts), I don't formally disagree with it. He was asked whether he has witnessed "this big of a coordinated response by an administration"

 

However, you may try to twist it in any way you want, it was not an answer to, or a comment on:

"President Trump tackled the virus head-on, as leaders should,"

So yes, it has been definitely used out of context!

so here's the video:

 

note leading up to fauci's quote, the narrator says "president trump tackled the virus head-on, as leaders should", and immediate cut to dr. fauci's comments concerning himself and other members of the task force.

 

 

official trump website    https://youtu.be/emnCFyi5cuQ

 

and here's a clip from the interview with fauci where he discusses the amount of time he and the rest of the task force are spending while trump is golfing:

 

 

https://youtu.be/HT7Y2ceMLng

 

 

 

 

Edited October 12, 2020 by ChouDoufu

[pomchop]

Trump tv ads also take biden out of context and delete the parts that don't fit the trump lies...

 

ad has biden saying if u elect me i will raise your taxes....he was talking to a guy who had just told him he was making a LOT of $$.....and correctly Biden pointed out that he would indeed raise taxes on people making more than 400 K a year...how many regular trumpers do u suppose make over 400 K a year? how many of them cheer when trump gives cuts to the super wealthy and corporations?  

 

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/08/republican-group-selectively-edits-biden-tax-remark/

[J Town]

I said "Alexa, list 45's lies."
She hasn't stopped for four days.