Eric Boehlert: Trump has Covid-19: How Fox News infected America

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Trump has Covid-19: How Fox News infected America
Merchants of death
Eric Boehlert


News that Trump and first lady Melania have tested positive for the coronavirus means our national health emergency has taken an extraordinary turn. “If he becomes sick, it could raise questions about whether he should remain on the ballot at all,” the New York Times reported early Friday morning.

After months of purposefully downplaying the pandemic, mocking the idea of wearing masks, and waging war on scientists fighting the public health crisis, Trump instantly becomes the world’s most famous Covid-19 patient.

And Fox News made him sick.

For months, Fox has pumped poisonous, anti-science rhetoric into the airwaves, ensuring a sizeable portion of the population, including Trump, will refuse to do its part to help America heal. Fox has worked hard to divide the country and make it impossible to have a common sense conversation in times of crisis.

For nearly two decades, Fox News has been depicted by mainstream media as strictly a partisan vehicle. Refusing to address the long lasting damage that right-wing propaganda does to our democracy, Fox News has been presented as mostly a problem for Democrats. But now it's moved into the sphere of public health and the consequences are predictably disastrous as the cable channels fuels a torrent of lies about the virus.

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Trump and Fox News act as mindless sounding boards for one another, each bouncing off lies and misinformation that sound pleasing to the irresponsible ear. Thanks to Trump’s dangerous behavior, along with his age and poor physical condition, he was always a strong candidate to become infected with the virus. But even more so, considering he likely watches Fox News more than one hundred hours each month and has been polluted by the network’s blatant public health disinformation about how the pandemic is a hoax and a "Deep State" plot by Democrats to take down Trump.

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[aaaaaa5a]

1. I have never understood how anyone can consider them a credited news organization. NT

[malaise]

3. I have never understood how they were and are allowed to remain on air

They need to be locked up for criminality

[Doodley]

6. It's the obvious choice for racists.

[Earthshine2]

4. They kind of do news during the day. It looks like news. But after dark, the demons come out. nt

[dalton99a]

2. Kick

[ihas2stinkyfeet]

5. and i think both numbers are lies.

in ny, the rate was 1 in 10 dead. that means close to 1m.
and the red states are barely testing. hell, i dont think they even test all the sick ppl. just the ones that show up in the er. not testing all the dead ppl, ffs.