Matt Gertz from Media Matters is preemptively calling out Fox News’ Tucker Carlson over the decision by the Biden administration’s CDC and FDA to pause the use of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine.
You see, Gertz is “extremely skeptical of the ability of public messaging to disaggregate ‘the J&J vaccine is under review as a precaution’ from ‘the J&J vaccine is not safe and the others may not be either’ in the minds of normal people”. . .
I am extremely skeptical of the ability of public messaging to disaggregate "the J&J vaccine is under review as a precaution" from "the J&J vaccine is not safe and the others may not be either" in the minds of normal people. An incredibly crucial, high-stakes test for the press.
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) April 13, 2021
. . .and he’s predicting what Tucker Carlson will say about it on tonight’s show:
Tune in to Fox News tonight when Tucker Carlson interviews Alex Berenson about how they were right all along, the government and the media were lying about the vaccines which are not safe.
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) April 13, 2021
You know, maybe direct more critique at the Biden administration than instead of trying to blame Tucker for Americans who are hesitant to take the vaccine and who might have trouble desegregating “‘the J&J vaccine is under review as a precaution’ from ‘the J&J vaccine is not safe and the others may not be either'”:
All of which is to say that I am not a public health expert but this seems like a pretty massive risk to take over a one-in-a-million risk against a virus with a U.S. body count of more than 550,000.
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) April 13, 2021
But he won’t do that. The CDC and FDA just did more damage to vaccine acceptance than anything Fox News could do yet Fox News will be their story over the coming days and weeks:
Anyway when this guy shows up in Fox primetime tonight remember that he wants all the vaccines shut down. pic.twitter.com/93hXdoftc9
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) April 13, 2021
Anyway, tune in tomorrow to hear from Alex Berenson!
Actually I'm supposed to be on @tuckercarlson tomorrow but thanks for the pitch!
Lying is not exactly the word I would use, though.
Apparently @mattgertz's preferred solution to vaccine side effects is to pretend they don't exist. Why should the peasants have the facts? https://t.co/FHFVa61XWR
— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) April 13, 2021
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