{"id":50008,"date":"2021-07-09T17:01:13","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T00:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50008"},"modified":"2021-07-09T17:01:13","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T00:01:13","slug":"psaki-to-gop-failure-to-provide-accurate-public-health-info-is-literally-killing-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50008","title":{"rendered":"Psaki to GOP: Failure to Provide Accurate Public Health Info&#8230;is Literally Killing People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week President Biden discussed his administration&#8217;s outreach program aimed at getting more people vaccinated against the coronavirus. The details were presented by Press Secretary Jen Psaki at the Daily Briefing on Tuesday. And that discussion <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=49971\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">triggered an ongoing freak out<\/a><\/strong> by Republicans and their mouthpieces on Fox News.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Dem\/psaki-cheers.jpg\" alt=\"Jen Psaki\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48699\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The frantic freaking is still in effect as Brian Kilmeade of Fox and Friends <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50002\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">babbled deliriously about government goons<\/a><\/strong> who are <em>&#8220;gonna knock on your door. They&#8217;re gonna demand that you take it. And they&#8217;re gonna give you a third shot.&#8221;<\/em> Needless to say, that crackpot conspiracy exists only the minds of Kilmeade, his Fox confederates, and their dimwitted viewers.<\/p>\n<p>But it doesn&#8217;t stop there. Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-QAnon) attended the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas on Friday and told an interviewer that Biden&#8217;s door-to-door informational effort is really just a prelude to the wholesale confiscation of every American&#8217;s guns and bibles:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Madison Cawthorn says today that Biden\u2019s plan to send people door to door to offer vaccines is really a plot to confiscate people\u2019s bibles and guns. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/h6CPdJwv9t\">pic.twitter.com\/h6CPdJwv9t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RonFilipkowski\/status\/1413595082238873607?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 9, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>If Cawthorn thinks that the <em>&#8220;mechanisms&#8221;<\/em> that would be in place to send the feds to every home in the country is an evil plot, I hope nobody tells him about the Census or the Post Office, who have been doing that for decades.<\/p>\n<p>In the interest of providing a definitive rebuttal to this avalanche of asininity, posted below is Jen Psaki&#8217;s response (video and transcript) to a question on this subject by ABC News White House correspondent, Karen Travers. Psaki spells out precisely what the outreach program is and isn&#8217;t. Not that it will will satisfy the glassy-eyed cult followers of Donald Trump, but at least it can be referenced when needed to rebut the right-wing crazy:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Psaki: The failure to provide accurate public health information including the efficacy of vaccines and the accessibility of them to people across the country including South Carolina is literally killing people so maybe they should consider that\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tXdwNurZaP\">pic.twitter.com\/tXdwNurZaP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Acyn (@Acyn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/1413550181438525442?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 9, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Travers:<\/strong> There&#8217;s still pushback about the President\u2019s comments about going door-to-door to encourage vaccination. The South Carolina Governor said today that &#8220;enticing, coercing, intimidating, mandating, or pressuring anyone to take the vaccine is bad policy that will deteriorate the public trust and confidence in the state&#8217;s efforts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And Gov. McMaster said he\u2019s going to prohibit the state health agencies from using the administration\u2019s targeted tactics. Can you respond to the Governor and explain what is being done and what is not being done in this outreach?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Psaki:<\/strong> Sure. Let me first say that the failure to provide accurate public health information, including the efficacy of vaccines and the accessibility of them to people across the country, including So. Carolina, is literally killing people. So maybe they should consider that.<\/p>\n<p>But I would say that what this is, and what this is not, it is not federal employees going door-to-door. This is grassroots volunteers. This is members of the clergy. These are volunteers who believe people across the country, especially in low vaccinated areas, should have accurate information; should have information about where they can get vaccinated; where they can save their own lives and their neighbors&#8217; lives and their family members&#8217; lives.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s exactly what this is. It&#8217;s something that&#8217;s been going on since April. And it&#8217;s something where we&#8217;ve seen an impact in states where there are lower vaccination rates. So it&#8217;s something that we will continue to work with local groups to do. And it&#8217;s a disservice to the country, and to the people who may lose their lives, may lose family members, to provide inaccurate disinformation at a moment when we&#8217;re still fighting a pandemic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"color:blue;\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> Twitter suspended the News Corpse account after 11 years without giving a reason. So if anyone wants to tweet articles <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">from my website<\/a><\/strong>, please feel free to do so often and repeatedly. Also, Be sure to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newscorpse\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">visit and follow News Corpse on Instagram<\/a>.<\/strong> Thanks for your support.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week President Biden discussed his administration&#8217;s outreach program aimed at getting more people vaccinated against the coronavirus. The details were presented by Press Secretary Jen Psaki at the Daily Briefing on Tuesday. And that discussion triggered an ongoing freak out by Republicans and their mouthpieces on Fox News. The frantic freaking is still in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,684,1200,8],"tags":[870,1397,725,879,33,1410,377,301],"class_list":["post-50008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-propaganda","tag-brian-kilmeade","tag-coronavirus","tag-cpac","tag-fox-friends","tag-fox-news","tag-jen-psaki","tag-joe-biden","tag-republicans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/psaki-cheers.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-d0A","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52534,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52534","url_meta":{"origin":50008,"position":0},"title":"Fox News is STILL Pushing the Deadly Lie that COVID Vaccines Don&#8217;t Work","author":"Mark NC","date":"4\/8\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"After more than two years of accumulated scientific research and field studies on literally billions of subjects worldwide - and more than 200,000,000 in the U.S. - Fox News is continuing to put the lives of their gullible viewers at risk by lying to them about the safety and efficacy\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"Fox News, Vaccine","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-vaccine.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-vaccine.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-vaccine.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":50002,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50002","url_meta":{"origin":50008,"position":1},"title":"Fox News Can&#8217;t Keep Its Lies Straight About Biden&#8217;s Vaccine Outreach Initiative","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/9\/2021","format":false,"excerpt":"As the nation continues to battle the deadly coronavirus pandemic that Donald Trump so badly mismanaged, Fox News continues to mislead their viewers and foment irrational fears based on outright lies. 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