What a pitiful human being. He could encourage his viewers to get vaccinated and reduce their risk of serious illness or death, but he does this instead. time.com/6080432/tucker…
Republican leaders spent decades telling their supporters to ignore the mainstream press and patronize the avowed ideological media they created in its place. They succeeded. That right-wing media is opposed to or apathetic about the vaccine, even if it kills their audience.
Conservative vaccine hesitance is evidence of the victory of the GOP media project. Their supporters are in a bubble of right-wing social media, radio, digital, and TV, none of whom carry a message that getting vaccinated is a good idea.
These are all from the last few days. That's the message conservatives get from the TV hosts they've been told they should trust. Mission accomplished.
Fox hosts are relentlessly attacking the vaccination campaign against the coronavirus. Their nightly effort to delegitimize the vaccines is a big problem. mediamatters.org/fox-news/foxs-…
The vaccines are miraculously safe and effective against the virus and its variants. But if you watch Fox, you hear a stream of stories about how they may not work and may kill you if you take them, along with aggrieved rants about the Biden administration effort.
It didn't have to be this way. It’s easy to imagine a world in which Fox hosts relentlessly talked up how Donald Trump had made the vaccines possible and how if viewers got vaccinated, the dreaded masks and lockdowns would be gone forever.
It’s hard to assess Tucker Carlson’s NSA claim because he's a huge liar and often offers grandiose, conspiracy-minded claims about the forces arrayed against him that subsequently fall apart under scrutiny or die away. mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-w…
Can't trust U.S. intelligence agencies, it's totally plausible that something untoward or illegal happened, but also you can't trust Carlson because of the aforementioned lying.
One possibility experts have pointed to is that Carlson was communicating with a legal foreign NSA target and his communications were swept up in the agency’s routine surveillance of that person.
I’m starting to think that the maximally effective strategy for getting Republicans vaccinated is for Democrats to gloat about how we’ll be able to do Marxisms after more of them they die of COVID. Negative partisanship is just too powerful.
Scolding and empathy both appear ineffective, but maybe they’d get shots out of spite. Fox might get more invested in keeping its viewers from dying under that theme.
Gotta “leak” secret audio of the Clintons and Obamas chortling over how dumb Republicans refusing to get vaccinated and dying of covid will allow them to bring about the fundamental transformation of the country or reparations or what have you.