Fox News host calls head injury to Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa a “conspiracy” being overhyped by “uninformed hysteria and lunatics”
Dagen McDowell: “This is Twitter hysteria. It is uninformed hysteria and lunatics going off in the blue checkmark world”
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From the September 30, 2022, edition of Fox News' The Five
DAGEN MCDOWELL (CO-HOST): This is Twitter hysteria. It is uninformed hysteria and lunatics going off in the blue checkmark world.
JESSE WATTERS (CO-HOST): It's not anything about Twitter. Everybody in the NFL, everyone on ESPN, former players and agents are saying, "This was horrible."
MCDOWELL: I will tell you what -- you have to believe that on Sunday, Tua lied, the team lied, the league lied. And --
WATTERS: It doesn't matter what Tua says. It doesn't matter what Tua says. If you see him not able to stand like that, you automatically sit him.
MCDOWELL: You have to believe there's a conspiracy, including the independent concussion protocol doctor who lied about the reason that he was wobbly on Sunday and allowed him back in the game.
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MCDOWELL: I am not excusing what the NFL has done in the past, with a billion dollar concussion settlement. But this is uninformed hysteria by ESPN and by these jerks on --
WATTERS: No, you are wrong. It's not uninformed.
MCDOWELL: Yes it is.
WATTERS: People are really upset with what happened.