Fauci's Testimony: 'It Wasn't Me'
Monday's hearing was a four-hour reminder of the problem with putting politicians and bureaucrats in charge of people’s personal lives.
One of the catchiest tunes that came out during my college days was “It Wasn’t Me,” a single released by Jamaican-American reggae musician Shaggy in 2000.
The song describes a guy who gets caught by his girlfriend having sex with his beautiful neighbor on the bathroom floor (and apparently the counter, shower, and sofa). Instead of confessing, however, he receives some advice: deny everything.
“Say it wasn’t you,” Shaggy advises his distressed friend.
The rest of the song describes the busted philanderer’s effort to avoid responsibility for his actions by offering a simple defense: “It wasn’t me!”
In a column for the Washington Examiner, I explain how the song relates to Anthony Fauci’s testimony on Monday. (The article got a tweet from Rutgers scientist Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist who is well worth following.)
The column contains a very important lesson about the nature of bureaucracy, which was on full display during the hearings.
One of the keys to making great film is finding the perfect match of music to scene: for example, at the end of the “Dawn of Man” scene from “2001: A Space Odyssey”, where the hominid throws his bone in the air, rotating in slow motion, followed by a jump cut to a satellite and then a space station rotating to the “Beautiful Blue Danube”. Now Jon has done it again with Fauci and Shaggy.
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