{"id":50474,"date":"2021-08-21T15:16:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T22:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50474"},"modified":"2021-08-21T15:21:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T22:21:47","slug":"rachel-maddow-fractures-fox-news-for-hawking-a-horse-dewormer-as-a-covid-cure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50474","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Maddow Fractures Fox News For Hawking a Horse Dewormer as a COVID Cure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently it wasn&#8217;t bad enough that Fox News contributed to tens of thousands of deaths, and even more severe illnesses, by downplaying the severity of the coronavirus as a flu or a hoax. And apparently they weren&#8217;t satisfied with the suffering they&#8217;ve caused by convincing their glassy-eyed viewers that vaccines either aren&#8217;t necessary, or don&#8217;t work, or are constraints on their freedom imposed by autocrats intent on enslaving them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/FoxNews\/foxnews-covaid.jpg\" alt=\"Fox News, Cov-Aid\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-49154\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fox&#8217;s efforts have led to what can now be accurately designated <em>&#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50197\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Pandemic of Fox News<\/a><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/em> Their primetime purveyors of pandemic bullpucky are clearly determined to propagate even more pain.<\/p>\n<p>To that end Fox News began prescribing another phony cure for the plague that they&#8217;ve been reluctant to admit exists. Despite the potential for having a positive impact on their audience, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50270\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fox continues to prove that they just don&#8217;t care<\/a><\/strong>. Previously they tried hype hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malarial drug for which there is no evidence of efficacy treating COVID, other than the grossly misinformed word of Donald Trump. But now they&#8217;ve moved on to Ivermectin, a horse dewormer.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, you read that right. And you aren&#8217;t the only one to be stunned by the sheer idiocy of this media quackery. When MSNBC&#8217;s Rachel Maddow heard about it she launched into a righteous condemnation of both the reckless advice and the Fox News advisors <em>(video below)<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Mississippi State Department of Health confirming today that &#8216;At least 70% of the recent calls to poison control in Mississippi have been related to livestock or animal formulations of Ivermectin, purchased at livestock supply centers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why are people taking livestock formulations of Ivermectin Mississippi? That&#8217;s a horse dewormer. Literally, people won\u2019t take the vaccine because they\u2019re super suspicious of that, but they\u2019re taking horse deworming medication that they\u2019re buying at a feed store? For COVID? Why, on top of everything else Mississippi has to deal with right now, why are they dealing with this? I don&#8217;t know, but I have a guess.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whereupon Maddow plays clips of the three Fox News primetime hosts peddling Ivermectin to their viewers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Laura Ingraham:<\/strong> We know that our FDA has in many ways failed us by not allowing for the use of Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, both of which are used around the world to reduce COVID hospitalizations and death.<br \/>\n<strong>Sean Hannity:<\/strong> I pelted them with questions about COVID-19 and the vaccine and therapeutics hydroxychloroquine, Ivermectin &#8230; as well as other proactive treatments and practices that are already helping COVID -19 patients all across the country.<br \/>\n<strong>Tucker Carlson:<\/strong> On June 5th [Bret] Weinstein discussed the benefits of a drug called Ivermectin, which can and is used around the world to treat and prevent the spread of the coronavirus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maddow then points out that there has only been one <em>&#8220;significant&#8221;<\/em> study connecting Ivermectin to COVID, but that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2021\/jul\/16\/huge-study-supporting-ivermectin-as-covid-treatment-withdrawn-over-ethical-concerns\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it was withdrawn<\/a><\/strong> <em>&#8220;because the data in it was apparently faked and the introduction to it was apparently plagiarized.&#8221;<\/em> To date, no one on Fox News has withdrawn their advocacy of the drug. As Maddow noted in her closing&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Nevertheless, Fox News is busy saying, \u2018Don\u2019t take the vaccine, but do take this horse deworming medication, trust us, it is proven.&#8217; You could trust them or you could trust the FDA that says &#8216;Do not take Ivermectin for COVID.&#8217; Or the NIH that says &#8216;Do not take Ivermectin for COVID.&#8217; Or the WHO that says &#8216;Do not take Ivermectin for COVID.&#8217; Even the company that makes the drug that says &#8216;My god, seriously people. Do not take Ivermectin for COVID.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You might think that that would finally be enough for Fox News to step back and retract their potentially lethal <em>&#8220;reporting.&#8221;<\/em> If so, you just know Fox News.<\/p>\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 class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Literally people won&#39;t take the vaccine because they&#39;re super suspicious of that, but they&#39;re taking horse deworming medication that they&#39;re buying at a feed store?,&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maddow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Maddow<\/a> on increased reports of people digesting ivermectin, a horse dewormer, to treat Covid-19. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JZgmhTN6qE\">pic.twitter.com\/JZgmhTN6qE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; MSNBC (@MSNBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MSNBC\/status\/1428903827273654285?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 21, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/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>Apparently it wasn&#8217;t bad enough that Fox News contributed to tens of thousands of deaths, and even more severe illnesses, by downplaying the severity of the coronavirus as a flu or a hoax. And apparently they weren&#8217;t satisfied with the suffering they&#8217;ve caused by convincing their glassy-eyed viewers that vaccines either aren&#8217;t necessary, or don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,684,1200,16],"tags":[1397,554,33,43,22,120,129,25],"class_list":["post-50474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-wankery","tag-coronavirus","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-laura-ingraham","tag-msnbc","tag-rachel-maddow","tag-sean-hannity","tag-tucker-carlson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-covaid.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-d86","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51651,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51651","url_meta":{"origin":50474,"position":0},"title":"Fox News and Their Partisan Shills Attack Rachel Maddow for Being Right About COVID Vaccines","author":"Mark NC","date":"12\/29\/2021","format":false,"excerpt":"The COVID pandemic in America is surging again thanks to the Omicron variant that began circulating a few weeks ago. 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