America's top anti-vax, pro-Putin TV host incited his audience against me last night, I see from the morning load of hate mail. Just remember everybody: the Fox hosts are all vaccinated themselves. It's only their audiences that they are urging toward illness and death.
Many mocked Dennis Prager for intentionally seeking COVID infection to acquire "natural immunity" (if he survived). thedailybeast.com/dennis-prager-…
But at least Prager led from the front. Led stupidly, yes, but not dishonestly. Almost everybody else encouraging anti-vax resistance on TV, Facebook, Rumble, etc.? Vaccinated all, to protect themselves and their families from the dangers they urge upon their followers.
Ask anti-vax media figures apart from Prager whether they themselves have been vaccinated, and they turn sly, evasive, even abusive - anything to avoid the hypocritical truth businessinsider.com/tucker-carlson…
But you can't enter Fox studios - or attend the Fox shareholders' annual meeting - unless you have been vaxxed. mediamatters.org/coronavirus-co…
The suffering is intended entirely and only for the audiences deluded into trusting TV, Facebook, and Rumble hosts whose attitude to their fans is: "You fucked up. You trusted us."
Anti-vax media personalities teach their audiences to think of themselves as victims. But it's not the CDC or the Biden administration or even journalists who try to tell them the truth who are victimizing them. Those are the people trying to *help.*
The people victimizing the unvaccinated are the media personalities and politicians who willingly sacrifice their deceived fans to enrich and advance themselves.
Bill O'Reilly often used the slogan, "Who's looking out for you?" It's still a good question. The politicians and Fox/Facebook/Rumble hosts who try to dissuade their audiences from the vaccines they took for themselves - they flunk the O'Reilly quiz. And their fans suffer for it.
PS I forgot this item from a few days ago that may also explain why Carlson incited his audience against me last night

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