What changed Hannity's tune about COVID and the vaccine?

[joetheman]

Doe s he or someone in his family have Delta or some other variant that even Regeneron’s monoclonal antibody treatment doesn't handle?

[Kingofalldems]

1. Something fishy going on.

I'd say orders from the top.

[True Blue American]

2. I just heard the WhiteHouse had a talk with Fox. Attorneys, maybe?

[USALiberal]

4. Where did you hear it? Nt

[Buckeye_Democrat]

25. I heard it on CNN earlier today.

Not sure where the other poster heard it.

[True Blue American]

37. Thanks!

Same place!

[Thomas Hurt]

3. my guess...a memo from the legal department.

[Paladin]

19. That's my guess, as well.

Continued stacking-up of personal injury lawsuits, brought by the families of individuals who died of COVID---people who thought Tucker Carlson and Fuckface Hannity were somehow better medical advisors than Anthony Fauci.

[brush]

5. The morning FOX hosts also changed their tune and urged getting vaccinate.

IMO the suits at FOX are worried not just about being accused of killing people like facebook was, but about getting sued for months of irresponsible statements about vaccines and thus contributing to covid infections and even deaths.

I haven't heard if Carlson and Ingraham changed their tunes also.

[leftstreet]

6. All media feeling threatened by anti-trust/break up actions?

[IcyPeas]

7. their viewers all suffer from short attention spans

they will soon be saying they have always been pro-vaccine and pro-mask. that it is the left.... the radical left who lied.

[lame54]

8. He never said it...

That will be his narrative going forward

[Scrivener7]

22. Yep. "The Democrats don't want you to get vaccinated. They want to kill you."

[kentuck]

9. Rupert..

or one of his family.

They did it to spite Trump.

[gratuitous]

18. That's my guess

The guy who signs the checks said so.

[keithsw]

10. Litigation

Guarantee there was/is a lawsuit in the works. The only thing Fox cares about is money. That's the only reason he would do this

[S/V Loner]

11. Lawyers. n/t

[jeffreyi]

46. +++1

[Carlitos Brigante]

12. There's also Scalise today. The money people must've told them to stop fucking around before they

torpedo the economy again.

[SheilaAnn]

13. Pending lawsuits, unwinnable ones..n/t

[lagomorph777]

14. Realized that killing off his viewers is bad for ratings.

[Johnny2X2X]

15. They're worried about Republican voters and their viewers dying

Right now, close to 100% of those dying are Trump supporters. This is not good and they're looking at hundreds of thousands of dead Trump voters in the coming months.

And furthermore, with that being said, they know that their viewers are the ones getting sick and dying right now, I tell you what changes people on Covid, having a loved one dying from it, or getting it yourself. And when this happens right now, those people are all pissed off at the people who gave them bad info, namely FOX News.

Say they lose 300,00 Trump voters to Covied, each one has dozens of people who might be pissed off at FOX. And another few million people might get it and get really sick and blame FOX.

[Pobeka]

28. Just what I concluded yesterday. When you win by thin margins, killing the margin is a bad idea.

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[11 Bravo]

16. The threat of being sued into well-deserved oblivion.

I'm talking, "Would you prefer Alpo or Meow Mix tonight, honey?" oblivion.

[JHB]

17. An 800-point dip in the DOW?

[brewens]

20. Was it to test the reaction? They may realize they have gone too far and needed to see if there was

any chance of going back. They might be willing to sacrifice Tucker and Laura if they had to.

[Ohio Joe]

43. heh... The freepers are throwing him under the bus...

Your comment made me curious so I checked the cesspool out and to a person they are ready to kill him

[brewens]

44. Wouldn't that be something if Hannity end up being out of there. He owned the road and had

TFG's ear. Then he get taken down by Tucker and Laura's stupidity, and the idiocy he helped stoke.

[Wounded Bear]

21. I believe it had something to do with...

[Scrivener7]

23. A little late, though. Delta is already everywhere and it will be 6 weeks before

full immunity if they all go out and get the shot today. (For Moderna at least. I think Pfizer is less?)

[Pobeka]

29. Yep 5 weeks for Pfizer. It's too late for the unvaccinated who don't mask up though.

Their only protection is masking and social distancing, on scales that make last year pale in comparison. I don't believe the vast majority of GOP'ers have that kind of stamina.

[Xoan]

24. Probably fear of ...

a lawsuit.

[stillcool]

26. the god almighty dollar

[Willis88]

27. Republicans we're dying at high rates, impaling monetary donations & election chances for 2022, 2024

[BlueLucy]

30. Did they get word of a immanent class action lawsuit?

[kskiska]

31. Ratings, as per Carl Cameron.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/media/2021/07/19/tucker-carlson-vaccines-carl-cameron-newday-vpx.cnn?fbclid=IwAR1Y7fukGwv0TR0a5mbSsaE52apZQbbJ3QGidgzRlZVDcVzgrPmv7BIyeEU

[MurrayDelph]

32. I'm assuming lawsuits

It was 50 years ago, when as a high school senior, I made the following observation when our principal lost a lawsuit and tried to pass of the court-mandated procedures as largesse on his part:
When life kicks you in the balls you may as well take a bow.

[ProfessorGAC]

33. Interesting Experience

I've never been connected to something like what happened to your HS principal.
Can you say what the lawsuit was about?

[MurrayDelph]

45. This was a middle-class, primarily white school in Los Angeles, in 1971,

a place where the coaches all expected that we would be enlisting to go to Viet Nam.

The Hippy Movement was catching on, but the school had a dress code (My sister was once sent to the office to have her skirt measured, and my first day there I was sent to "trim" the three hairs that were sticking out from my upper lip).

One student had decided to grow his hair long, and the coaches grabbed him and forcibly cut his hair.

Student's parents sued the school and the Board, were told that the dress code was unconstitutional, and the next Monday, the principal went on the PA system to announce that he was cancelling the dress code.

[ProfessorGAC]

47. As You Said, Earlier...

...he pretended it was his largesse.

[crickets]

34. Likely in part to get in front of this story:

Fox has quietly implemented its own version of a vaccine passport while its top personalities attack them
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/19/media/fox-vaccine-passport/index.html

While the "Fox Clear Pass" is voluntary for employees, and other companies have similar tools, it is still remarkable, given how vocal Fox's top talent has been in criticizing the concept of vaccine passports.

Fox News has spent months portraying the notion that people might be asked to show vaccination status as dangerous to personal freedom and anti-American.

Fox has also hyped the rejection of vaccine passports by Republican elected officials like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Spokespeople for Fox Corporation and Fox News did not comment in response to questions Monday about why the right-wing talk channel has been so forcefully against vaccine passports while the company has itself implemented a version of one.

[TheProle]

35. Don't know, don't care

Just glad to see it happening.

[Iggo]

36. My guess is the tv company's legal dept got a talking to from the govt's legal dept.

Just a guess.

[SheltieLover]

38. Faux was caught having employee vax passport.

That is what changed.

[bluestarone]

39. THIS i believe.

Best reason for sure!

[SheltieLover]

40. Hit the news yesterday! Here are links to story:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/19/media/fox-vaccine-passport/index.html

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/fox-news-vaccine-passport-clear-pass-1199204/

[bluestarone]

41. love it love it love it!!

TY made my day!!!

[SheltieLover]

42. Hahaha! Right?

Imagine the cognitive dissonance in viewers' empty minds!



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