Chris Hayes highlights Rupert Murdoch’s role in spreading COVID vaccine misinformation through Fox News
Hayes: “You are not in Rupert’s club. You’re not in Rupert’s social circle. You viewers out there in TV land are where they throw out the chum for the common people”
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From the March 16, 2021, edition of MSNBC's All In with Chris Hayes
CHRIS HAYES (HOST): Rupert Murdoch does not want to die a premature death. But that is not the message the rest of us are getting from the multi-billion dollar enterprise Rupert Murdoch owns, and has made him so wealthy.
Because you see, you are not in Rupert's club. You're not in Rupert's social circle.
You viewers out there in TV land are where they throw out the chum for the common people. Where they disingenuously stoke skepticism and fear in the most cowardly way possible, by posing as brave truth-tellers in the guise of just flinging nonsense at people and leading to more people getting sick. This has been true throughout the pandemic.
There is a nightly drumbeat on Fox News, specifically from Tucker Carlson, that is undermining our best chance to get out from under this disease.
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Obviously, Tucker knows there are easily accessible answers to these questions about the vaccines. He's not stupid. He just thinks his audience is, and so he feeds into fears by lying that shadowy people are refusing to answer these legitimate questions that are out there.