{"id":50999,"date":"2021-10-20T14:42:48","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T21:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50999"},"modified":"2021-10-20T14:42:48","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T21:42:48","slug":"finally-fox-and-friends-host-acknowledges-the-strict-vaccine-mandate-at-fox-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50999","title":{"rendered":"FINALLY! Fox and Friends Host Acknowledges the Strict Vaccine Mandate at Fox News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month President Biden announced his plan<\/a><\/strong> to relieve the suffering and tragic loss due to the COVID pandemic. The plan included proposals aimed at getting more Americans vaccinated in the workplace, in schools, and in government agencies.<\/p>\n

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Biden’s plan was received with overwhelming popular support by the American people. That popularity was even affirmed in a poll by Fox News<\/a><\/strong>, the nation’s most staunchly pro-COVID network<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Ever since Biden’s plan was made public, and in stark contrast to the results of their own poll, Fox News doubled down on their anti-vaccine rhetoric. They went particularly hard on the concept of mandates, which they maligned as communist decrees and instruments of tyranny. Never mind that the corporate policy at Fox News contained an even stricter mandate<\/a><\/strong> than the one in Biden’s plan.<\/p>\n

Undeterred by reality, the squawking heads at Fox News lashed out Biden and any of the companies that were implementing vaccine mandates ahead of his initiative, which has not yet gone into effect. But for some reason, they never bothered to mention the “oppressive”<\/em> mandate under which they themselves were forced to toil. It was always some other enterprise that was abusing its employees.<\/p>\n

Well, that error of omission officially ended on Wednesday morning when the “Curvy Couch”<\/em> potatoes of Fox and Friends brought up the subject. Co-hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade had a bit of a testy exchange:<\/p>\n

Doocy:<\/strong> Our company, like a lot of companies have vaccine requirements. We either had to have gotten the shot or get tested every day. And when we’re in common areas everybody needs to wear a mask. There are a lot of companies coast to coast – I was just looking at brand new ones, General Electric, Union Pacific – are requiring their employees to get the shots. They joined Tyson Food, Walmart, Boeing, IBM, Raytheon, already on board.
\nKilmeade:<\/strong> So they’re saying get the shot or you\u2019re fired.
\nDoocy:<\/strong> Essentially.
\nKilmeade:<\/strong> Fantastic. Be prepared to lose 10 to 15 percent of your workforce. I hope that’s okay.
\nDoocy:<\/strong> Well, people are getting accommodations in certain circumstances.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Fox News hosts admit the network has a strict COVID-19 vaccine and testing policy \u2014 while they celebrate job walkouts over such mandates elsewhere https:\/\/t.co\/oKo8KM9QZ6<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/6IjlfeSID7<\/a><\/p>\n

— Media Matters (@mmfa) October 20, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n