Fox "News": Vaccines For Me, Not For Thee

Fox "News" (a.k.a Bullshit Mountain) has been in the forefront of vaccine disinformation and fear- mongering, especially after President Biden took office and began the historic push to vaccinate Americans against COVID.  It's prime time anchors -- notably Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham -- have railed against getting vaccinated, even though they won't say whether they've been vaccinated or not (spoiler alert: they have).  Rupert Murdoch was one of the first to get a shot in his withered arm.

The disregard for the lives and well- being of their devoted audience, while making sure they're protected, is part of the Fox culture, though, as made clear by a corporate policy that none of the shitmongers is willing to discuss:

Hypocrisy, spreading lies, and fear-mongering are all well-known staples over at Fox. But Monday’s news about how Fox Corporation has already implemented a vaccine passport-type program for its own employees that is similar to what hosts like Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham have loudly railed against is a window into how little they actually care about the well-being of the people who watch their shows.

Businesses that require employees to provide proof of vaccination, commonly referred to as a “vaccine passport,” have been slammed frequently on the network. Tucker Carlson has called the idea of issuing vaccination passports the medical equivalent of “Jim Crow” segregationist laws. Another host compared the requirements to communist East Germany, and Laura Ingraham has falsely claimed that such programs are akin to tracking mechanisms.

But so far not one host has told their audience about “FOX Clear Pass,” which works for Fox employees the same way most “vaccine passports” systems do in other businesses.

An internal Fox email, which was first reported by Ryan Grim and was also obtained by Rolling Stone, spells out how Fox employees were instructed how to enter their vaccination information into the company’s passport program called “FOX Clear Pass” in order to avoid Fox’s mandated requirements to social distance and wear masks while at work.

"Vaccines for me, not for thee" is what this collection of sociopaths masquerading as a news organization is saying.  Stirring up their viewers for political points, in this case in a self- defeating effort to foil the Biden Administration's efforts to save the lives of their own audience, is what they've always been about.  It's all part of the malignant former guy's attempts to tie doubts about the vaccine, to doubts about the Biden Administration, to doubts about the 2020 election. 

But this isn't about hypocrisy and lying to score points over immigration, or the economy, etc. This is hypocrisy and lying that has deadly consequences. And every day and every night, it takes hold deeper and deeper.