Fox News Stars Now Pretend They Never Said What They Said About the Coronavirus

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Fox News Stars Now Pretend They Never Said What They Said About the Coronavirus

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-stars-sean-hannity-and-jesse-watters-now-pretend-they-never-said-what-they-said-about-the-coronavirus?via=twitter_page


GASLIGHTING

Democrats and the media are the real downplayers of the coronavirus, claim two of Fox's biggest stars who spent weeks peddling dismissive talking points about the pandemic.

Updated Apr. 03, 2020 4:47PM ET / Published Apr. 03, 2020 1:00PM ET


After spending weeks downplaying the deadly virus that now has nearly the entire U.S. under some form of lockdown, several Fox News stars are now attempting to gaslight viewers by claiming they sounded the alarms over the coronavirus all along while it was actually the media and Democrats who dismissed it.

The network's most-viewed primetime host Sean Hannity has recently devoted much airtime to insisting he has "always taken the coronavirus seriously," despite no less than a month ago suggesting the pandemic might be a "deep state" plot to hurt the economy or, at another point, claiming concerns over the novel virus was a "new hoax" designed to "bludgeon" Trump.

Like many of his Fox colleagues, Hannity suddenly changed his tune late last month on the virus after President Donald Trump finally pivoted to treating it seriously. The Fox star and unofficial Trump adviser has since taken aim at Democrats and critics who have rightly called out his previous coverage, claiming that all along he was the one warning of the coming disaster while they were the ones turning a blind eye.

But despite Hannity's perceived confidence in his coronavirus coverage, video and audio recordings do exist. The Fox star spent weeks misleadingly comparing the deadly virus to the seasonal flu while claiming Democrats were "politicizing and actually weaponizing an infectious disease" to "bludgeon" Trump. (Those comments throughout February and March that Democrats were nearly identical to those infamously made by now-former Fox Business host Trish Regan, who, on March 9, with an on-air graphic blaring "Coronavirus Impeachment Scam," insisted the outbreak was "another attempt to impeach" Trump and "demonize and destroy the president." Weeks later, Regan was let go by Fox.)................






Brian Williams on the 11th hour tonight interviewed a former news man in Georgia who lives in an affluent retirement community
in Georgia. As you may have heard, Georgia Gov finally issued a Stay at Home order today. He said that it was a Fox news listening community--Fox was King. anyway, most in the are believed it when fox talked of Hoax and conspiracy theories but now that Fox has changed it tuned, the folks are beginning to realize that the coronavirus is a real deadly problem.
I just wanted to scream. scream.

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Laura Ingraham's false tweet about hydroxychlorquine and Lenox Hill Hospital has been deleted. Fox News had issued a correction.

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[mitch96]

1. For them why tell the truth when a lie will suffice... nt

[Windy City Charlie]

2. Figured as much

Yep, suddenly it was the Democrats calling the virus a hoax. That's because they know their viewers have faulty memories, and that they'll believe anything that gets fed to them.

I figured it was going to come to this from them.

[defacto7]

3. Are the Fox listener's memories so short

that they can't see the blatant dichotomy of the Fox message? Even when Fox switches their message from the extreme to the facts they bolster their position with another pile of new lies to smoke screen it. It's too obvious. Even a person of less than stellar intelligence can see there is something not right with these people. It doesn't take much.

[MissMillie]

4. Liberals/Progressives/Democrats don't need

any "Deep State" plots to "bludgeon" 45, make him look back, etc. We have something FAR more effective than that.


45 is in office.

That's it. Nothing secret about it. If we let 45 be 45, he'll do himself in... eventually.