Utah’s GOP Governor Spencer Cox Says Fox is Killing People With COVID Propaganda

There are immoderate Republican governors, similar Ron DeSantis oregon Kristi Noem, that don’t look to attraction if their constituents dice of COVID. Many different GOP governors, similar Jim Justice, Mike DeWine, Charlie Baker and Asa Hutchinson person pushed hard to get their followers vaccinated.

But Utah’s Spencer Cox took it up a notch connected Monday. The Republican politician was asked astir however the propaganda being dispersed by the GOP is preventing Utahns from getting their shot. Cox specifically called retired Fox News portion answering

The Salt Lake Tribune’s Bryan Schott asked, “The anti-vaccine rhetoric we’ve been seeing chiefly connected right-wing media, Fox News — however harmful has that been?”

Cox answered, “The propaganda that’s been coming out, I deliberation it’s harmful. I deliberation it’s ridiculous what’s happening. We person these — these talking heads who person gotten the vaccine and are telling different radical not to get the vaccine. That benignant of stuff, it’s conscionable ridiculous. It’s dangerous, it’s damaging, it’s sidesplitting people. I mean it’s virtually sidesplitting their supporters. And that makes nary consciousness to me.”

Wow: Utah's Republican politician says @FoxNews is sidesplitting Republicans.@SchottHappens of @SLTrib: "The anti-vaccine rhetoric we've been seeing chiefly connected right-wing media, Fox News — however harmful has that been?" @GovCox: “This propaganda that's been coming out.. pic.twitter.com/QEhc1ZZCJZ

— Kurt Andersen (@KBAndersen) July 19, 2021

Red states person been deed peculiarly hard by the caller delta variant. And the fig gets adjacent worse erstwhile it comes to Evangelicals and Trump supporters. Still, Fox isn’t apt to alteration their messaging anytime soon. After Steve Doocy pleaded with Fox & Friends viewers to get vaccinated, co-host Brian Kilmeade responded, “Make your ain decision. It’s disposable to everyone. We are not doctors.”