[See NewsBusters for more.] On Thursday, CNN Newsroom hosts Jim Sciutto and Bianna Golodryga, political analyst Jackie Kucinich, and politics reporter Chris Cillizza took some fairly tame GOP campaign ads criticizing Dr. Fauci and declared that such attacks were "angry," "dangerous," "below the belt," and contribute to Fauci and his family's need for security.
Sciutto teed up the ads by declaring, "Dr. Anthony Fauci is not on any ballots for polls coming in November. That is not, however, stopping Republican midterm candidates from making him the focus of their campaign ads. Some of them angry."