CNN's Brianna Keilar calls out Fox News for spreading vaccine denialism
Keilar on Fox's vaccine disinformation: “Americans, whether they are Fox viewers or not, will pay for it with their health or their livelihoods or their lives”
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BRIANA KEILAR (HOST): When it comes to the vaccine, the scientific achievement for which he demands credit, [Trump] and the former first lady got their vaccines secretly before they left office in January. Didn't tell anyone. Didn't signal to his supporters that it was okay even as the death toll climbed, skyrocketed.
And on propaganda TV it was back to politics about something apolitical as if somehow the health and well-being of all Americans is a political issue. The other night when Fox discovered the 1990s TV feature picture-in-a-picture and slapped Tucker Carlson's smug mug in the tiny box, he raised his eyebrows when Biden discussed the safety of the vaccine -- once again, reinforcing the skepticism of his audience. Though, that was hardly the first time.
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KEILAR: No, Fox viewers are guinea pigs in a huge disinformation experiment conducted on humans. And Americans, whether they are Fox viewers or not, will pay for it with their health or their livelihoods or their lives because no price is too high for Fox to right its rating ship.