“Dr. Fauci … he’s a great promoter. Not a great doctor, but he’s a hell of a promoter.” — Donald Trump, 6/5/21

“If you are trying to get at me, as a public health official and a scientist, you’re really attacking not only Dr. Anthony Fauci, you are attacking science.” — Dr. Anthony Fauci, “Meet the Press,” 6/9/21

Well, this is totally expected, and anyone who didn’t expect it must be wearing multiple masks. Dr. Anthony Fauci, showman extraordinaire, has a book coming: Expect the Unexpected: Ten Lessons on Truth, Service, and the Way Forward.

According to The National Pulse news site, the longtime National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [niaid] Director sat down for a series of interviews with National Geographic, from which has been crafted a handy handbook on the doctor’s “life philosophy.” (Cozily, it was NatGeo which earlier reported exclusively that Fauci found “no scientific evidence the coronavirus was made in a Chinese lab.”)

Fauci, 80, the highest paid individual in the entire federal government out of 4 million employees, according to Forbes, is about to add to his stash. His 80-page book, dropping in November, can be pre-ordered for a mere $18. So far, there have been no leaks on how many millions Fauci got for a book advance. In Democrat circles, however, that is not typically the biggest payoff. As with Hunter Biden’s art, the traditional Democrat money sluice can hugely bump up sales — and profits — via anonymous or bulk purchases.

News of the book’s upcoming release conveniently emerges just as thousands of pages of Fauci’s old emails were obtained by The Washington Post and BuzzFeed News through the Freedom of Information Act. Those emails document that Fauci was warned at the outset that covid may have been “engineered” and could have originated at a Chinese lab. (“It’s a possibility. I think it’s a very, very, very, very remote possibility — but it’s a possibility,” he now says. He continues to deny — despite all evidence — his funding of “gain-of-function” research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.) A “Disney-backed biopic” documentary on Fauci will be released on National Geographic later this year, according to National Review.

Someone has an amazing PR team, whose new book promises to provide “an intimate view of one of the world’s greatest medical minds.”

The guy who just loves dropping “virulence” and “efficacy” into his Brooklyn patter continues his viral presence all over television, while gracing multiple magazine covers in his exquisitely tailored suits. This is celebrated by leftist outlets like The Daily Beast: “Dr. Anthony Fauci Is a Fashion Magazine Cover Star — Just as He Should Be.” That, after the slick fashion rag InStyle promo-ed him on its cover sans-jacket wearing star-spangled socks and sunglasses by the pool, with the title: “Dr. Fauci Says, ‘With All Due Modesty, I Think I’m Pretty Effective.’” Meanwhile, The Washingtonian magazine revealed that Washington doyenne Sally Quinn modeled “the erotic hero” of her 1991 bestseller, Happy Endings, on Fauci. Clearly, this is a guy who long ago mastered the fever swamps of D.C. society.

A New Yorker illustration depicts Fauci as “America’s Lifeguard” — though he made his bones being self-satisfied with slow progress working on hiv/aids for 40 years. Says act up activist Maxine Wolf, “He was very arrogant and believed he had all the answers and did not admit one thing. He definitely loves being in the spotlight and loves people looking up to him.”

From the heights of 5-foot-7, cash goes a long way toward overcoming a short-man’s complex.

Illustration ©2021 William Lesniewski for The Limbaugh Letter