After the senator called him and his companions, Tucker Carlson continued to attack Senator D-Ill. Fox News Opinion moderator Laura Ingraham Monday’s “anti-vaxx rattle”.
“There are two presenters fox Prime time can only be described as an anti-vaxx quack,” Durbin said in a speech Senate ground. “Of course, I mean Tucker Carlson And Laura Ingraham. They have been disseminating information about vaccines across the United States and the country’s efforts to respond to vaccines that I consider irresponsible. “
In one episode Tucker Carlson tonight Aired a few hours later, Carlson retaliated against Durbin by accusing the senator of trying to “further divide the country along a partisan line” while insisting that he was not opposed to vaccination but was concerned about finding “basic questions” about COVID-19 vaccines. The answer is especially.
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“Pay attention to what he didn’t say,” Carlson told the audience. “Durbin did not accuse us of spreading false information. He did not accuse us of being wrong in fact. Of course, we did not and did not oppose vaccines. Few Americans oppose vaccines. Almost every American has a ton of vaccines for vaccines. And look forward to adopting this approach.”
“But when you refuse to answer basic questions about vaccines, and use such partisan remarks to avoid these questions, it makes people nervous,” he added. “Americans have the right to answer basic questions before taking medicine. It is their right. But Durbin and hackers like [Dr. Anthony] Fauci insisted on pretending that anyone with problems is a right-wing theorist, which is a lie. “
Although Durbin said that Carlson and Ingraham were “irresponsible” for the vaccine, he did not mention all the content of Fox News in his speech.The senator pointed out that the vast majority of people who are currently sick or dying from COVID-19 are not vaccinated, and then particularly praised Steve Doocy, Harris Faulkner and Sean Hannity Positive comments on vaccines in the past.
Carlson claimed that he “never” attacked the vaccine on his show. He did not specify which “fundamental questions” he thought needed to be answered about vaccines, although he had repeatedly questioned whether vaccines are dangerous in the past. Carlson also stated that college students “should not be affected”, claiming that it was “not good for them”.
Carlson went on to say that “people like Durban” are “attacking anyone with party or racist issues” and then citing statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from December 2020 to July 2021, which show Black Americans are the least racial or ethnic group. You may have been vaccinated against COVID-19.
Carlson said: “It turns out that it is African-Americans. They are the most loyal voters in the Democratic Party. They are still the most hesitant to get vaccinated.” “Now they tell us that anyone who opposes mandatory vaccination is a white supremacist. .”
Ingraham also responded to Durbin’s comments on her show, calling the senator a “fossil” and a “wind sock”, while insisting that his criticism was aimed at “suppressing speech before next year’s midterm exam”. Rather than fighting against vaccine misinformation.
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