Fox contributor says Biden getting COVID-19 is the result of “karma”

Johnny “Joey” Jones: “I think life comes at you fast. I think when you're pretending to have cancer one day and you've got COVID the next, you might want to recalibrate how you treat things”

Written by Media Matters Staff

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From the July 21, 2022, edition of Fox News' Outnumbered

JOHNNY "JOEY" JONES (FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR): I hate to be that annoyingly optimistic guy, but there is no better time in the world to be sick than right now, today in history, because we have more opportunity to heal from it now than we've ever had. And there's no better place than probably the White House to be when you get sick when you get sick, I mean, you have all the resources in front of you.

My experience with COVID, the two times I've had it: the first time I had a little bit of a fever and the second time I had a cold. And I think that is what everybody has been saying over and over again. So I hope and pray that that's what the president experiences. I don't want any bad health on him.

I think life comes at you fast. I think when you're pretending to have cancer one day and you've got COVID the next, you might want to recalibrate how you treat things, and how you talk. But I'm not going to — you know, I don't wish bad luck on him and I'm not gonna say that that's the reason why. It's just, maybe it's a good opportunity for him to have a reality check. I get so frustrated with these politicians that think they have to connect themselves to every dire thing that happens in an American's life. I think President Biden, his little statement on cancer yesterday is proof of that, that politicians have taken that too far. So what I hope is, he recovers fast and it doesn't hurt him that well — that much at all. And then when he recovers he reconsiders, you know, just how politicians work on stuff like this. Because saying he had cancer the way he did and backtracking it the way they did, that's karma man. You don't want to fool with that. You don't want to put into the universe something like that.