Dr. Immanuel became the dominant voice on that stage, distracted from everyone else there, and turned a presidential press conference into an embarrassment of questions over demon sperm.

Doctors with good backgrounds and practical views got overshadowed by someone with views so fringe even those of us who literally believe in Adam and Eve have to blush.

Shame on the conservative movement for doing that. We have to do better.

The real front line doctors, like Joseph Costa, are dying of this virus and conservatives are putting up cranks.

Yes, it is true that conservatives are always more likely to be forced to distance ourselves from bad people than the left. If a Republican city councilman in Nowheresville, TX says something stupid, every Republican pundit and the President is confronted by the press and expected to renounce him. If Louis Farrakhan says something inflammatory about Jews, all the Democrats can still go fundraise with him next week.

It is a double standard, but we know it exists and has existed and yet Stella Immanuel got to stand behind that microphone.