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SouthernCal_Dem

(852 posts)
Mon Aug 10, 2020, 01:36 PM Aug 2020

Fox's Ainsley Airhead SHOCKED That Children Can Get Coronavirus Infections

Stop slurping up Trump's lies and maybe you won't be shocked in the future, dumbass.

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Fox’s Ainsley Earhardt Shocked By Rate of Child Coronavirus Infections: ‘I Heard Kids Really Don’t Get It’

By Charlie Nash

Fox & Friends co-host Ainsley Earhardt expressed shock over the rate of child coronavirus infections on Monday, stating that she had heard children didn’t get the virus.

According to a new report — that comes as a debate rages over whether to send children back to school — nearly 100,000 kids tested positive for coronavirus in the last two weeks of July.

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“We’re all worried about sending our kids back to school, what that’s going to look like for our country, and for our elderly grandparents and things like that. 97,000 kids have tested positive? That was such a shock to me because I heard kids really don’t get it, if they do they’re all going to be okay,” admitted Earhardt during an interview with Texas emergency medicine physician Dr. Natasha Kathuria. The Fox host then asked, “Do you know any details about that percentage of kids that did get it? Are they all doing okay? Do you have any deaths?”

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/foxs-ainsley-earhardt-shocked-by-rate-of-child-coronavirus-infections-i-heard-kids-really-dont-get-it/

It must hurt to be that stupid.

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Fox's Ainsley Airhead SHOCKED That Children Can Get Coronavirus Infections (Original Post) SouthernCal_Dem Aug 2020 OP
It doesn't hurt to be that stupid, unfortunately. The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2020 #1
On FOX News, stupid is a job requirement... Aristus Aug 2020 #7
It's actually invigorating, apparently. dchill Aug 2020 #9
It Does Not Seem Too, Sir, Unfortunately --- It Damned Well Ought To The Magistrate Aug 2020 #2
This is how Fox corrects their lies and introduces new information underpants Aug 2020 #11
No wonder she's the perfect woman for Sean hannity FoxNewsSucks Aug 2020 #3
The Price is Right! Wellstone ruled Aug 2020 #4
They're immune to any pain caused by their own stupidity Blecht Aug 2020 #5
Did she just wake up from a six month nap? Cracklin Charlie Aug 2020 #6
She knows about kids getting the virus. slater71 Aug 2020 #8
The interviewee should have said FoxNewsSucks Aug 2020 #17
She's not shocked; she's feigning shock for the audience StatGirl Aug 2020 #10
I totally read it that way, too obamanut2012 Aug 2020 #12
Yes. They are performers. nt. Mariana Aug 2020 #15
So she isn't that stupid, but the Fox audience is DBoon Aug 2020 #16
Good grief. She's a performer following a fucking script. Mariana Aug 2020 #13
It's worse than stupid... N_E_1 for Tennis Aug 2020 #14
Not even that - as others have pointed out upstream, she knows exactly what she's doing HotTeaBag Aug 2020 #18
One must have a brain in order to feel pain liberaltrucker Aug 2020 #19
In the Fox Bubble... budkin Aug 2020 #20
It does hurt! BadGimp Aug 2020 #21

underpants

(182,829 posts)
11. This is how Fox corrects their lies and introduces new information
Mon Aug 10, 2020, 01:54 PM
Aug 2020

It’s new! No one knew this!

They’ve drilled it into the cults heads about kids being immune. There has been some official language (knowledgeable) that kids COULD be less susceptible but that never made sense to me. How can a human body being less than a certain age really effect what every other human body gets?

Okay. This is Fox News correcting themselves and covering for months of lying.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
4. The Price is Right!
Mon Aug 10, 2020, 01:46 PM
Aug 2020

Amazing how anyone for a big Pay Check would Prostitute Themselves as acting this Dumb. But,Media is full of Whores for a buck.

Blecht

(3,803 posts)
5. They're immune to any pain caused by their own stupidity
Mon Aug 10, 2020, 01:46 PM
Aug 2020

All the pain goes to those unfortunate enough to be within earshot.

slater71

(1,153 posts)
8. She knows about kids getting the virus.
Mon Aug 10, 2020, 01:51 PM
Aug 2020

She never expected the person that was being interviewed to come with the statement she did. So she played stupid to cover but then again, she does not have to go to far the act stupid. Hey, lying pays for the FOX talking heads.

FoxNewsSucks

(10,434 posts)
17. The interviewee should have said
Mon Aug 10, 2020, 02:20 PM
Aug 2020

"Gee ainslee, if you DIDN'T know, why haven't you sent your kids back to school and why are you guys all still broadcasting from home?"

StatGirl

(518 posts)
10. She's not shocked; she's feigning shock for the audience
Mon Aug 10, 2020, 01:53 PM
Aug 2020

This is interesting, because it suggests that Fox wants to get the word out to their audience that Trump has flung them a heap of BS on the issue of children and Covid.

(It's like Gretchen Carlson pretending to be stupid and ignorant when she in fact has a Stanford degree. That's what she gets paid for. Jon Stewart once did a nice piece on this.)

Mariana

(14,858 posts)
13. Good grief. She's a performer following a fucking script.
Mon Aug 10, 2020, 01:59 PM
Aug 2020

Do you really believe she's expressing her own personal thoughts or opinions? Please. Of course she's been told what her character is supposed to say today on this show. She performs her role, the viewers tune in and watch the ads, and she gets paid very well.

 

HotTeaBag

(1,206 posts)
18. Not even that - as others have pointed out upstream, she knows exactly what she's doing
Mon Aug 10, 2020, 02:25 PM
Aug 2020

and knows quite well that children can and do get the virus and die.

It's a cynical act for an audience that doesn't want to believe.

I'm kinda surprised that Fox would allow this medical/scientific truth to be broadcast on any of their shows.

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