Hours after calling coronavirus a hoax, Chuck Woolery's son tests positive for it.

[riversedge]

I do not wish this horrible virus on anyone--friend or foe.

Link to tweet

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[jayfish]

1. You Can't Make This Stuff Up.

No one would believe it.

[hlthe2b]

2. I'm sorry for the son, but damn... That's some instant "karma"

So, how does he explain his comments from the day before?

[Afromania]

5. It's a hoax............ somebody has covid please pray for me/them

[agingdem]

16. they're so damn self-righteous in their hate until

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their 15 year old daughter gets pregnant and then they go all pro-choice...
their son comes out of the closet and suddenly they love gays..
their daughter/son is in a relationship with a person of color and then they go all Kumbaya...damn hypocrites ..all of them

[lunasun]

37. Same behavior over and over again . Everything is relateable and only OK when it impacts MEorMINE

[Hortensis]

47. This is not true for by far most on the right.

You know those who demonize us into hate-filled monsters can't understand us, can't understand their world or their issues, can't even understand right and wrong. It goes the other way too.

[agingdem]

50. I don't want to understand their mindset...

what I do understand is they look at the world thru the lens of self-righteous hate...until the real world collides with their world and then there's a shift...not a big one but a shift none the less..abortion is murder until...gay is the work of the devil until...mixed marriage is an abomination until..think Dick Cheney and his older daughter...a shift...

[Hortensis]

64. :) Sure. If I had to choose between eternity in LW and RW hells

of self-righteous hate, of course I'd choose LW also. The Cheneys certainly do their part to make it a pleasant pastime for me as well.

But while we have practical decisions to make in this world, I feel like we should also try for good judgement. And definitely leave the demonizing and evil that comes of it to those on the right. We'll never be nearly as good at it as them anyway, so why compete in their arena instead of on our strengths? Plus, so many are genuinely awful, I really feel it does an injustice to their victims to insist that's not enough.

[agingdem]

66. because the old saw...we're better than they are..

doesn't apply in a trumpian world...fighting hate with facts has zero impact until they are affected or infected and then it's omg the sky is falling..we have to stop being nice ...we have to stop dissecting their hate and trying to understand it...no more sympathy or empathy only apathy when they find themselves sucking air through a ventilator...they have to know their depraved narcissistic debauched "hero" did this to them...and maybe then, but I doubt it, they can relate to us instead of the reverse

[Hortensis]

67. Social scientists say the left IS becoming less nice and

more like the right. They measure these things, you know. Also that increased meanness among individuals is a big danger sign of possible takeover by very, very mean governments.

You don't fight mean fire by tossing meanness on it but by dousing it with decency.

With age, I've come to realize there's not just potential of great evil in people but also such things as common decency and common wisdom in peoples. I believe that's how, at this particular point in history, we've come to choose someone generally seen as a nice and decent person as our presumptive nominee. A collective awareness that we need to recommit to decency and responsibility, to pull back from the brink that meanness growing out of control is bringing us far too close to.

[agingdem]

68. the older I get the less patience I have...

recommit to decency and responsibility after Trump is evicted from the White House...at this juncture it's fire with fire...so far Biden has stayed above the fray...you don't murder someone (Trump) while they're committing suicide... and for once we Dems are doing the unfamiliar...we are wading into the muck so Biden doesn't have to...common decency is something that will have to wait a little while longer

[Hortensis]

69. We seem to be talking about two very different levels of

meanness and what's potentially at stake.

I believe, for instance, that the Republican leadership intentionally let pandemic disease sweep this nation for purposes of their own. Actually, we know they did and are still at it. Also that the residual Republican voters are unconditionally supporting what their leaders do, becoming mean to the point of great depravity.

What we don't know, btw, is what they hoped to gain. Sure, Covid-19 is removing a lot of people retired and/or disabled from the entitlement rolls, presumably providing a bit of an excuse for future slices deep into their funding as they work to do away with them altogether.

But what else? They absolutely intended to keep and grow power, and around the planet other corrupt, ruthless authoritarians have always manipulated big disasters to consolidate power. Was that part of it and is it backfiring on them? Their ruthlessness in pursuing goals carries them a good way, but overall they've never been among even our more competent leaders. It's easy to imagine the answers, presuming we win and eventually get them, will reveal both shocking depravity and jaw-dropping stupidity.

Whatever, their voters have become so mean they're all in with jettisoning democracy and cancelling a century of equal rights advances for RW white male authoritarian rule.

Sure, go ahead and call for sharper political ads. Maybe we can adopt the Republicans' signature snide, sneering tone. But when political scientists say our entire nation has become measurably and provably dangerously "meaner" and less principled, they're not talking about just sounding meaner.

[agingdem]

70. probably right...

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I've lived through too much to be generous...I'm the child of Holocaust survivors..hate up close and personal..my mother taught me numbers using the tattoo branded on her forearm...Father Coughlin, Joe McCarthy, the Mississippi Burning murders, the LA riots, the Kent State massacre, the James Byrd lynching, Charlottesville, George Floyd, Lafayette Park, and on an on...Trump isn't a phenomenon..he is a culmination...so you're right..my definition of civility and honor is different from yours...I'm 72...my time is running out...I can no longer afford to be generous...

[Hortensis]

71. That's okay. Common wisdom is of course a group product.

What matters is that it's reflected in those we the people choose to act for us. We kept well on the right side of the line of wisdom and decency with Obama, with Hillary, and now with Biden, who's running to save the soul of America as he puts it.

[Hortensis]

45. The jerk doesn't deny there's illness, he denies it's really bad.

As for "karma," will it still be karma if his son just has a cold, the way Woollery and his sort are claiming all do instead of just a good percentage? Or no symptoms at all the way science is claiming for close to 40% who get it?

[lagomorph777]

56. I feel sorry for his son for COVID and being stuck with an idiot father.

[Nature Man]

3. What a motherfucking jagoff

[MLAA]

11. I was going to post something similar, instead I will agree with your description 🙂

[Hortensis]

46. :)

[Nevilledog]

4. ...

[Zoonart]

12. Instant Karma

I hope his son recovers completely.

[Nevilledog]

15. Maybe let Chuck have to quarantine for 14 days.

A COVID-19 timeout, if you will, to think about life.

[lagomorph777]

58. Can he be quarantined from posting on Twit?

[not_the_one]

6. oops! So sorry I was caught with my pants down.

"clarify" and "add perspective"?

What is clarified is that you are fucking stooge for the turd. Yes, we can see clearly now, thanks to the "perspective".

Idiot.

[MyOwnPeace]

38. Great catch on that STUPID follow-up!

The PERFECT response to such stupidity!

[Srkdqltr]

7. OK .. those two tweets were head spinning.

It's an outrageous lie and it's real in 2 days? I'm sorry for the son but Chuck you are a fool.

[Sanity Claws]

17. Only 14 hours, not even 2 days

[Totally Tunsie]

21. Karma is working overtime these days.

[malaise]

8. To be kind

Fuck Chucl - I have sympathy for his son since he didn't select his father.

[Nevilledog]

14. True. I'm sure that's punishment in itself.

[Leghorn21]

9. Well well

Good luck, son

Sure don’t see what’s been “clarified” here, but hey

[frazzled]

10. He's got a kind of odd understanding of

The term “clarify” and the concept of “adding perspective.” This post neither clarifies nor adds perspective to the first one. It is a full contradiction of the original.

I’m glad people are flexible enough to change perspectives. Sorry for him that it had to happen in this way.

[Sneederbunk]

13. Son must be in on the conspiracy.

[vishnura]

18. Karma!

[Maru Kitteh]

35. um no

[hamsterjill]

19. I wish the son well.

I don’t wish suffering on anyone.

Some of these people will not believe reality until they actually must live the reality themselves unfortunately. They lack empathy. Then, they want understanding from the very ones they sought to discredit by making their attention seeking comments.

Chuck has spoken out many times adding to the absurdity that is the conspiracy theories. We need to stay focused on facts.

[tavernier]

20. He lost a son years ago

I believe in an accident. I think I read that he was 16 at the time.

[Phoenix61]

28. I read something once about loss

Some people’s hearts break and some people’s hearts break wide open. I think Biden’s heart broke wide open.

[tavernier]

31. Yes.

People who have lost a child are normally very sensitive to that kind of a loss. So hard to imagine wanting to expose our children to this horror.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

22. How can someone test positive for a hoax?

Or is Woolery going to go out there and state very clearly that it's NOT a hoax and everyone needs to mask up and social distance?

I find it impossible to have any sympathy whatsoever for people like him. I'm just sorry it's his son and not him who's gotten it. Well, maybe he'll still get it himself.

[czarjak]

23. "Everyone is lying"? Further clarification, indeed, Chuckie.

[Srkdqltr]

24. I waded through the sludge on his Twitter feed and he did say this about his son.

I looked at the post... My eyes are still watering. The man needs something else to do.

[soothsayer]

27. I just did, too!

[mnmoderatedem]

25. "To further clarify and add perspective"

WHAT?!?!? You replied with the exact opposite sentiment of your original tweet! That's not "clarifying" anything.

[Baitball Blogger]

26. The new politically correct way of citing these karmic events.

Preface the comment with "I do not wish this horrible virus on anyone--friend or foe."

Second, we really don't have time to wait for Republicans to get up to speed this way, one asshole at a time.

[Hav]

29. And the Democrats' worldwide conspiracy continues

Now even his son is part of it. Blessed be Soros and Alinsky.

[Shermann]

32. Chuck is now compromised!

Updated liars list:

- The CDC
- The Media
- Democrats
- Our Doctors
- Chuck Woolery

[JI7]

33. So what was the lie ?

[uponit7771]

34. Stupid fuck Chuck Woolery ... his son gets it and now he's wanting to add perspective

[spanone]

36. Somewhat instant Karma

[lunasun]

39. Maybe his son is a liar too. Tweeted everyone is lying a day ago so maybe he should consider that

possibility.
Or in fact is Woolery himself lying when he tweets his son has it and now he said Covid19 is real?
By his own terms old man woolery is likely lying now about his son being sick

[ecstatic]

40. Typical rethug. Completely unable to feel empathy until it

hits home. So sick of them!

[lagomorph777]

59. That's still not empathy. It's self-pity.

[Ilsa]

41. Those two tweets should be added to textbooks.

Some day it will be the anthropology of our current political situation.

It's also a great example of "that didn't age well."

[peggysue2]

42. Lady Karma

She has a way of making herself known!

[RandiFan1290]

43. Kick

[GusBob]

44. Twitter twisting headline

we don't know at what point his son tested positive, it could have been days before the first tweet

yet the header says the test was hours after the first tweet without any proof

[USALiberal]

48. Are you sure this is real?? I cannot see the tweet, only an image. nt

[MrsCoffee]

57. Here you go.

https://mobile.twitter.com/chuckwoolery/status/1282499347117215745

https://mobile.twitter.com/chuckwoolery/status/1282731280614948864

[USALiberal]

61. Thank you! nt

[Deb]

49. Are tests results that fast now?

I wonder if Woolery already knew his son had the symptoms before tweeting that bullsh*t.

[LeftInTX]

74. I would not be surprised if son tested positive before his first tweet.

He was probably getting flack for his post. He then had to admit that some people actually suffer and then says, "Well my son tested positive" (he doesn't say when...kinda like when racists say, "I have a black friend".)

His second tweet is damage repair.


One of our state supreme court justices tested positive.
Two days later, she turns around and votes against expanded mail voting.

[Champp]

51. Karma kicking Republican ass

Maybe someday they will respect science. Maybe.

[Apollo Zeus]

52. People who call it a hoax are doing damage

So I don't excuse that but I would note that the pandemic has pushed many people into a state of grieving -- grieving for the loss of their illusions of safety, normalcy, etc.

Like other grief, this one takes 5 forms: Denial, anger, sadness, bargaining and acceptance.

I wish his son the best.

[Music Man]

53. One of the hallmarks of conservative thinking is a lack of perspective-taking.

Not until things affect them personally do they seem to get it.

[Mad_Dem_X]

55. Exactly. n/t

[Mad_Dem_X]

54. How quickly they change their tune

When someone they care about is affected.

[NurseJackie]

60. You're much nicer than I am.

I do not wish this horrible virus on anyone--friend or foe.

You're much nicer than I am. I am of the mindset to show the exact amount of compassion to the deniers (and the spreaders) that they show for others. Fuck them! Let 'em die. The world will be a better place without them.

I have the same amount of compassion for them as I do for the "bullet-motorcycle" idiots who zoom around the DC Beltway at 150 miles-per-hour... passing on the left shoulder... or splitting the lane and riding on the line BETWEEN cars... WITHOUT A HELMET. They're asking for death. It's just my only hope that they find what they're seeking without hurting anyone else in the process.

[HAB911]

62. thoughts and prayers

[lame54]

63. Tell us what he won

[HotTeaBag]

65. Depending on how much contact Chuck had with his son over the past week

there may be yet another Tweet.

[left-of-center2012]

72. Did Chuck Woolery Say His Son Tested Positive for COVID-19?

SNOPES : True

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chuck-woolery-son-covid-19/

[Vinca]

73. Sounds like Don's friend Chuck has met Dr. Alzheimer, too.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

75. Holy karma batman