UPDATED, with Greene comment and Newsom response: California Governor Gavin Newsom called out Tucker Carlson and other figures on the right specifically for spreading vaccine misinformation and urg…
and other figures on the right specifically for spreading vaccine misinformation and urged others to do so., Newsom said that the 25% of California residents who remain unvaccinated was due to an “overwhelming majority of misinformation by right wing pundits. Period, full stop. Time to be a little bit more specific. The Ron Johnsons of the world. The Marjorie Taylor Greenes of the world. The Tucker Carlsons of the world. I watch them. I listen. I pay attention. They are misinforming.
Newsom added that he recognizes that there are good people who have “real hesitancy and real concerns, and we are working in California in leading the way in addressing those issues, and getting family doctors and providers to address those concerns.”“But let’s call it out. There has been a right wing talking point here, and it is overwhelmingly coming from certain networks, and it is having an impact on getting this disease behind us,” Newsom said.
Newsom made similar remarks earlier in the afternoon on CNN, when he also cited Carlson and said, “These guys on the right have been misinforming the public, and now people’s lives are at risk and the economy in our country is at risk and the ability to educate our kids is at risk. We need to be more direct about this. We need to call this out much more succinctly. We have life saving vaccines.
Carlson has said that he is pro-vaccine, but he’s also featured a number of vaccine skeptics as guests. In a May commentary, he claimed that more people “have died after getting the shot in four months during a single vaccination campaign than from all other vaccines combined over more than a decade and a half.” But fact checking sites challenged that claim as wildly misleading. “The bottom line is that it’s wrong to suggest that reported deaths in the VAERS database were all caused by vaccines.
A network spokesperson pushed back against claims that the network was a spreader of vaccine misinformation, pointing to recent
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