GQP Men The Core Of COVID Vaccine Resistance, With A Generous Assist From Fox News

[hatrack]

Fox News went out of its way to let its viewers know on Thursday evening that the unfiltered presence of President Biden on their screens was an aberration that would soon be rectified. The network preempted its normal programming to carry Biden’s first prime-time address to the country live, but coupled it with a Twitchesque live shot of host Tucker Carlson’s reaction to what Biden was saying. Carlson isn’t known for his emotive diversity, so Fox viewers simply saw Carlson flickering around, befuddled and bemused, as the text at the bottom of the screen assured them that it would all be over soon.

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“His plan consisting essentially of vaccines, vaccines and more vaccines,” Carlson said, summarizing one part of Biden’s speech. “By May, he said, there’ll be enough vaccines for every person in America. The military will give you that shot. And if you take that shot, things potentially could get back to normal.”

“No mention all of the people who might not want to take that shot,” he continued. “But the president said if you take that shot and wear your mask and listen to Dr. [Anthony S.] Fauci, it is possible, not assured, but possible that you might be able to gather in small groups with the ones you love for the Fourth of July.” “We might have to rescind that right,” he said. “But it’s possible, if you’re obedient, you’ll get it.” He then announced his first guest: vaccine skeptic Alex Berenson. Berenson, it turns out, agreed with Carlson.

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One question worth asking is why. Why is Tucker Carlson so hostile to a plan to distribute a vaccine that, on Friday morning, his colleagues on “Fox & Friends” were complaining that Biden didn’t sufficiently credit to Donald Trump? Why are so many Republicans similarly skeptical? It seems hard to extricate those views from Carlson’s obvious hostility to the idea that something presented as important by the government should therefore necessarily be treated as dubious. That sentiment is hardly new on the political right, and it’s one that Biden specifically tried to undercut in his speech. But on this issue, it’s also a sentiment that Fox News, Carlson and Trump all amplified repeatedly over the past 12 months. With the coronavirus pandemic raging and Trump seeking reelection, he and his allies sought to cast the spread of the virus and the burdensome efforts to contain it as the fault of other people, including Fauci.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/03/12/republican-men-are-central-part-coronavirus-vaccine-resistance/

[dawg day]

1. "The military will give you the shot."

Ooh, scary. In fact, for most of us, it's local Healthcare workers who will give us the shot. But he's calling out to the q-s that the military is going to implant a chip in you.

And you know Carlson got his shot the first moment he could.

[Shermann]

2. The problem with the vaccine solution is that some people might not want to take that shot

Therefore, you might not want to take that shot.

I looked up "circular reasoning" on Wikipedia and saw Tucker's face.

[NCDem47]

3. Biden could cure cancer...

And Republicans and FOX would say he is taking away their freedoms to be diseased.

They are working overtime to discredit ANYTHING Biden or the Dems accomplish. It's all the have!

[littlemissmartypants]

8. The irony here is that the system of gene editing,

Used to create the Covid vaccines, may also eventually be used to do just that, cure cancer.

[matt819]

4. Wanna bet the fox people are getting their vaccines?

In secret, of course.

[Shermann]

5. They are too clever and have too much to lose to get caught

No mass-vaccination arena appointments for that crowd.

[cannabis_flower]

6. Tell you what

we’ll all get the vaccine and the GQP idiots refuse it and we’ll see who’s around to vote next time. Okay!

[WHITT]

7. A Lot Of Employers

could demand their employees get vaccinated, for liability reasons alone.