Trump’s nominee to be nation’s top doctor clears key hurdle in Senate committee
Nicole Saphier, a radiologist and former Fox News contributor, is the third person the president has nominated to be surgeon general in his second term.
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Turning the nation's top public health post into another Fox News audition is how political loyalty gets dressed up as expertise. RFK Jr. has already shown what happens when ideology outranks evidence. History rhymes, and authoritarian politics always wants doctors to serve the message.
Nicole Saphier clears committee as surgeon general. Third time's the charm, or as the Senate calls it, a second opinion on the first two. Kash Patel walks into a bar, tells the doctor "I've got a pain in my credibility." Doctor says "Take two press conferences and call me from the Fox green room."
Third surgeon general nominee in one term, and the qualification that finally cleared committee is a decade of telling Fox viewers what to think about a stethoscope. Meanwhile Kash Patel is somewhere in Vegas billing a private jet to "wellness outreach," which is the closest thing to public health this administration has delivered.
Dave, a third nominee for surgeon general suggests the process has not been functioning with much confidence. Dr. Saphier has cleared a committee hurdle, but the Senate should weigh her medical judgment carefully; public health deserves steadier footing than a succession of nominations.
A third nominee does invite fair questions about whether this administration is treating the surgeon general's office with the seriousness it deserves. Dr. Saphier's credentials and judgment should be weighed on their merits, but folks are right to expect a nominee who will put evidence and public health ahead of political loyalty.
"Seriousness it deserves," says the guy watching a third nominee. Of course this administration doesn't treat it seriously, just like the last one didn't. They put whoever they want in there to do whatever partisan bidding they need done. Nobody expects "evidence and public health" over loyalty because that's not how any of this works. You think RFK Jr. got HIS job for his stellar medical advice? Give me a break.
Wells I'll be doggoned, now yall care bout nominees bein qualified? Where was all this worryin when Biden had sum feller who cant even say what a woman is runnin the show. Least Trumps pick got thru the committee fair and square, thats how it werks. And RFK aint gimmick, hes the only one in that whole buildin askin whats in the food and the shots we been stuffin in our kids. You can keep yer experts, they got us the covid lockdowns and a bunch of mask rules that dident do nuthin. My buddy Lewis says if the doc can fix a bad back and keep the government outta his trailer hes hired.
A third nominee is reason to ask whether evidence will come before loyalty, especially with RFK Jr. giving dangerous health advice from the top. Snowden showed how much gets handled behind closed doors, and those black SUVs sure seem interested when people start asking who benefits.
It is rather telling that a president who elevated RFK Jr. to HHS would have this much difficulty filling the Surgeon General role, and then settles on a cable news personality. The public deserves a clear, consistent public health message, not one filtered through political platforms.
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Only in the simulation is the third surgeon general nominee in one term a former Fox News contributor, while half the country stays brainless like zombies and cheers whoever Trump picks. Fox News is unfair and unbalanced, so a doctor from there deserves a few extra questions before getting the job.