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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,972 posts)
Mon Jul 13, 2020, 02:17 PM Jul 2020

Trump retweets game show host Chuck Woolery's baseless claim 'everyone is lying' about coronavirus

Donald Trump retweeted a post by game show host Chuck Woolery that baselessly claimed "everyone is lying" about the coronavirus pandemic in a possible effort to thwart Trump's re-election chances this fall by harming the economy.

The conservative Woolery, who hosted shows such as "Love Connection," wrote on Sunday evening, "The most outrageous lies are the ones about Covid 19."

"Everyone is lying. The CDC [federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention], Media, Democrats, our Doctors, not all but most, that we are told to trust," Woolery wrote.

"I think it's all about the election and keeping the economy from coming back, which is about the election. I'm sick of it," he added.


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He should change his name to Chuck Foolery
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Trump retweets game show host Chuck Woolery's baseless claim 'everyone is lying' about coronavirus (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2020 OP
snark on: Every day my first sources for news are tRUMP and Woolery. snark off abqtommy Jul 2020 #1
Maybe they should check in with Herman Cain peggysue2 Jul 2020 #2
I love this saying too. The other one is by the now dead 30 year old... SWBTATTReg Jul 2020 #5
It's a sad testament to the power of propaganda peggysue2 Jul 2020 #10
I thought Woolery was already dead... Moostache Jul 2020 #3
Well then... Newest Reality Jul 2020 #4
137k dead people and 3+ million infected people are not lying, chuck. yonder Jul 2020 #6
You have $75 left. Okay Chuck I'll take the porcelain Dalmatian for $50. underpants Jul 2020 #7
It's musclecar6 Jul 2020 #8
Must be Windy City Charlie Jul 2020 #9
Little Donny Two and Two Scoops Blue Owl Jul 2020 #11

peggysue2

(10,828 posts)
2. Maybe they should check in with Herman Cain
Mon Jul 13, 2020, 02:30 PM
Jul 2020

Another Covid-19 denier who the last time I checked was on 'cruise control' in an ICU. The term 'cruise control' apparently = ventilator use.

I keep going back to one of the best tweets I've read on the matter:

If you don't like wearing a mask, you're really not going to like wearing a ventilator.

SWBTATTReg

(22,118 posts)
5. I love this saying too. The other one is by the now dead 30 year old...
Mon Jul 13, 2020, 02:49 PM
Jul 2020

30-year-old dies after attending 'COVID party' thinking virus was a 'hoax'

Source: ABC News

"I think I made a mistake. I thought this was a hoax, but it's not."

Those were the final words of a 30-year-old patient who died at Methodist Hospital in San Antonio, Texas, this week after attending a so-called "COVID party," according to the hospital's chief medical officer.

Dr. Jane Appleby, chief medical officer for Methodist Hospital and Methodist Children’s Hospital, said in a recorded statement that the unidentified patient told nurses about the party, which she said is hosted by someone diagnosed with coronavirus.

"The thought is people get together to see if the virus is real and if anyone gets infected," Appleby said.

peggysue2

(10,828 posts)
10. It's a sad testament to the power of propaganda
Mon Jul 13, 2020, 04:17 PM
Jul 2020

In this case lethal propaganda that cost this individual their life.

Btw, I read this morning that Covid-19 deniers are claiming this story about the 30-year old is a hoax.

It never ends!

Moostache

(9,895 posts)
3. I thought Woolery was already dead...
Mon Jul 13, 2020, 02:32 PM
Jul 2020

He is dead to me now for sure, but seriously, why does the POTUS have TIME during the current crises to find and retweet the bizarre conspiracy theories of a washed up, never-quite-was, has-been game show host?

Seriously.

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
4. Well then...
Mon Jul 13, 2020, 02:34 PM
Jul 2020

Just let all the dead people know that so they can get up now and realize they just made a big mistake. It happens.

underpants

(182,800 posts)
7. You have $75 left. Okay Chuck I'll take the porcelain Dalmatian for $50.
Mon Jul 13, 2020, 03:09 PM
Jul 2020

Back when Check hosted the Wheel you had to go shopping with the money and spend all of it that you could. I wonder how many of those porcelain Dalmatians are still around.

Windy City Charlie

(1,178 posts)
9. Must be
Mon Jul 13, 2020, 03:28 PM
Jul 2020

For as much as I've been seeing this going around, it must be the new campaign strategy talking point that's come out in the last 24 hours. That everything about the Coronavirus has been a lie in order to destroy the economy and keep it from recovering.

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