As approximately zero of us have noticed, government pandemic expert Dr. Anthony Fauci has been strikingly absent from Fox News in the last half-year or so. While the Fox News evening lineup continues to do their level best to stoke death threats against him, comparing him to infamous Nazi torturers and propagating bizarre conspiracy theories about him, the man the Murdoch family is blithely putting in the crosshairs of delusional Trumpian mobs is rarely—if ever—himself appearing on the network's supposed «news» programs. Politico brings us a mini-scoop of sorts: It isn't because Fox News hasn't been asking him. Politico reports that Fox programs have been «trying to book Fauci for months but he's been turning them down.» Read more