It's still like this every night -- wealthy and almost certainly vaccinated Fox hosts doing everything in their power to limit vaccination among their viewers.
If you're a doctor or nurse wondering over the next few weeks why your patients and/or family members are calling you a liar for saying your hospital is overstretched and you're exhausted, here's a clue as to why.
Fox hosts could be encouraging its viewers to take the safe, effective, free vaccine that protects you from the deadly pandemic rather than losing their jobs, but they're doing this instead.
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When I checked this afternoon, all of these shows had still ignored the Eastman/Trump coup memo. But surely the Sunday morning political talk shows will be all over it, I mean what are they for if not this? Right?
Excited for what I’m sure will be tons of great coverage of the Eastman coup memo and related news across the broadcast Sunday morning political shows, surely ABC/CBS/NBC have just been holding fire to let those shows do it. Right??
Meet the Press was the only one of the Sunday broadcast political talk shows to cover the literal presidential coup memo. Face the Nation and This Week both skipped, still a blackout on CBS and ABC News nbcnews.com/meet-the-press…
1. On the evening of Jan. 6, while the violent mob that drove Congress out of its joint session to count electoral votes still held the U.S. Capitol, Trump lawyer John Eastman was on Steve Bannon's show denouncing Mike Pence. mediamatters.org/fox-news/trump…
2. Pence had to flee to an undisclosed location as Trumpist rioters, convinced he should overturn the election, chanted “Hang Mike Pence.” Eastman says Pence ignored his “constitutional obligation not to allow our Constitution to be shredded."
3. Eastman went on to say that while he does not “in any way endorse any violence” at the Capitol, it happened because the supposed election fraud went unaddressed, and as a result, “some of the people think they've got no other option.”
Jim Nolte was one of Breitbart's first hires, and made his bones writing anti-media screeds defending Trump’s most indefensible comments. He has credibility with and insight into the right. So it's interesting how he's trying to get his readers vaccinated. mediamatters.org/coronavirus-co…
What Nolte is telling his readers is that the "organized left," including Biden, is using "reverse psychology," pushing Trumpists to get vaccinated knowing that that will make them refuse to do it.
Their aim is for more Trumpists to die so it's easier for Dems to win elections.
This is wrong, and crazy. But it's based on what I think is a pretty good read on the Trump base -- they're so brain-poisoned by reflexive partisanship and conspiracy theories that they'll refuse lifesaving meds if they think that will allow them to own the libs.
That Breitbart column arguing the left is using reverse psychology to keep Trumpists from getting vaccinated for political gain is pretty close to my theory of a maximally effective message to get them to take the shots from a couple months ago. mediamatters.org/fox-news/anti-…
Basically we agree that his readers are so brain-poisoned by reflexive partisanship and conspiracy theories that they’ll refuse life-saving medicine for a chance to own the libs.
Of course, that isn’t an accident: He and his colleagues have meticulously stoked that right-wing paranoia for years. And now it’s literally getting their readers killed.
A lot of high-powered TV cameras on the ground for the rally for insurrectionists at the Capitol today.
Fox's sole coverage of today's rally as of 10 a.m. is a single newsbrief. On the morning of Jan. 6, Pete Hegseth was doing segments on the scene, basically serving as that event's hype man.
Turnout looks pretty meager an hour before the event starts.