| Fauci's bad week The federal government initially told Americans said face masks were an ineffective measure and not to buy them, early in the pandemic, in part to prevent a shortage for first responders, Dr. Anthony Fauci admitted on CNN this week.
In an interview with NPR, Fauci also confessed it has been nearly two weeks since he had any face time with the President about the pandemic.
And to top it off, his warnings about the dangers associated with a massive indoor rally like the one the Trump campaign has scheduled are being ignored. In fact, directly contradicted by Vice President Mike Pence.
But, on that Pence pandemic post
Perhaps Fauci can take comfort in the devastating fact-check provided by CNN's Anderson Cooper on Tuesday.
"He is lying and telling authority figures to lie, too, about something that could get people killed," said Cooper, spitting straight fire.
And as for the rally, Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) warned older people and others who are at high risk to the coronavirus to just stay away.
SCOTUS Woes Rush Limbaugh went off Tuesday on what he said “may be the biggest sellout of conservatism by conservative justices in the history of the Supreme Court,” following rulings on a number of issues, including LGBTQ rights. The big surprise of that particular ruling was Justice Neil Gorsuch — one of President Donald Trump’s appointees — voting in favor of saying that LGBTQ employees are protected under anti-discrimination law. Limbaugh said he’s been wondering “what in the world happened here."
Book Report Simon & Schuster, publisher of John Bolton’s upcoming book, fired back at the Justice Department late Tuesday over its lawsuit to try and stop the book’s release. The Trump administration has been fighting to stop Bolton’s book from coming out and now the DOJ has filed a lawsuit against Bolton claiming he has not yet finished the prepublication review process. Bolton’s lawyer responded. Now Simon & Schuster is firing back.
No fair
Senator John Kennedy complained that Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) Senate amendment to remove the names of traitorous Confederate officers from the U.S. military bases “picks on the South unfairly.”
“I think history will show that in the 18th century, in the 19th century, and well into the 20th century, there were many non-Confederate generals, soldiers and others, in both the South and the North who practiced racial discrimination, anti-Semitism and misogyny,” Kennedy said for some reason.
CNN's BIG Saturday
CNN drew big weekend ratings on Saturday and Sunday night thanks to its breaking news coverage of a wave of protests this past weekend. Its audience surge came after the network had seen its recent ratings spike slowly ebb away.
Protests over the past few weeks have continued across the country, in the wake of not just the killing of George Floyd, but Breonna Taylor and — just last week — Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta.
Nielsen ratings show CNN topped all other networks on Saturday with its 11:00 p.m. special edition of Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, which earned an impressive 505,000 viewers in the coveted 25 – 54 age demographic. Still, in overall viewers, Fox News claimed victory for the entire weekend.
But that's not all...
Liars!
White House adviser Kellyanne Conway served up a verbal blizzard this morning to dismiss Trump's sinking poll numbers, including one argument in which she asserted that people lie to pollsters, as well as about paying their taxes.
Veepstakes
California Senator Kamala Harris responded to a quote from activist Tay Anderson in which he said she shouldn’t be former Vice President Joe Biden’s running mate because she “put black people in jail” by arguing that she is the right person to meet this moment.
“I know the system from the inside out,” said Harris in what was a comprehensive answer.
Late Night
Late-night hosts Jimmy Kimmeland Stephen Colbert mocked President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against ex-National Security Adviser John Bolton on Tuesday night, with the latter calling it a “pile of crap.”
Plus there was rapping. Yep. 6.5.0 | 
