COVID PROPAGANDA IS WEAPONIZED MISINFORMATION
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Do you have friends or family who have been harmed by vaccine misinformation? Talk show host Dean Obeidallah wants everyone to ask the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Fox News for pushing dangerous Covid mistruths. But-- after all the lies, why the GOP has suddenly switched to supporting vaccination?
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| 0:00.0 | this is the Tom Hartman program my old buddy Dino Badala my colleague on |
| 0:18.0 | serious XM radio on this on this very channel the progress channel which |
| 0:22.3 | show is every night six p.m. to nine p.m. each and time but I'm moving to noon |
| 0:27.0 | I'm kidding. My heart comes out of my mouth and each and time and if you |
| 0:37.1 | play a different time of course it's on demand that's what I'm there. Cool okay |
| 0:40.5 | my yeah and Dean you are a lawyer and I remember when Congress passed the |
| 0:45.3 | COVID-19 Consumer Protection Act that was back in December of last year and |
| 0:48.5 | there was a couple of actions that they took against somebody who is |
| 0:53.2 | pedaling hydroxychloroquine or something like that they have gone after some |
| 0:57.3 | online hustlers around COVID-19 but you're taking this a whole big step |
| 1:02.6 | forward so first of all if I got in that wrong correct me and then tell us what |
| 1:06.6 | you're up to. What we're seeing is everyone is watching this happen Fox News |
| 1:11.7 | has made a business decision because they're a for-profit business so they made a |
| 1:14.8 | choice to sell misinformation to their viewers about the Cova vaccine and we |
| 1:22.1 | all know that the media matters on Friday came out with a great report |
| 1:24.9 | quantifying it in between June 28 and July 11th nearly 60 percent of their |
| 1:30.0 | segments were designed to convince people not to get the vaccine. It arranged |
| 1:33.8 | from literary Janine Puro saying they're coming to your door to find out |
| 1:37.3 | of you taking the vaccine but then they're gonna take your gun like literally |
| 1:39.9 | saying that to it's about your freedom to try to heighten fears about the |
| 1:45.2 | vaccine or saying it was unnecessary like Laura Ingram's touting natural |
| 1:49.2 | immunity and the like so it made me say what more can I do than just write about |
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