MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace referred to herself as a ‘Fauci groupie’ during a segment recently, and I am at a loss for words. First off, you’re supposed to be covering the news. How can we trust you to cover the news fairly when you’re calling yourself a ‘groupie’ and rallying behind a health professional? You can watch the clip here, as she says, “I’m a ‘Fauci groupie.’ I’m a thrice-vaccinated, mask adherent.” For those of you that don’t know, a groupie is slang for someone who devotes themselves to a celebrity.
When will people learn that idolizing and worshiping these politicians, celebrities, and health professionals will ultimately get us nowhere? We have to stop putting the people that serve us on this huge pedestal. When we idolize these people, it creates a barrier to criticism. It takes away the credibility because you immediately admit to having a bias and work to protect said, individual.
They always say that people on the right are in a cult, but this is clear cult behavior. The worshiping of the CDC and taking every word they say for face value is ridiculous. We can go decade to decade analyzing how the CDC has gotten things wrong, and we all can agree on this. But the second we bring up COVID, all of a sudden, the CDC is 100% right on everything? It’s pure lunacy.
We’ve got to do better than this. We’ve got to get to a place where we stop praising the people that serve us and instead question them even harder. This is the exact reason why people are losing faith in the media because the anchors are a hot mess. If they actually showed the real science instead of tripping over their feet with hypocrisy, more people would actually listen, but instead, they double down. It’s a shame, but again, we’re going to see a shift in mass media and the way people trust the things they watch.
