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Oopsie! Hannity Tries And Fails To Erase His Promotion Of Ivermectin

Posted by Ellen -7859.80pc on April 12, 2022 · Flag

Now that ivermectin has been proven completely ineffective for treating COVID-19, Sean Hannity is trying to erase his record of cheerleading for the treatment. Unfortunately for him, Media Matters has receipts showing otherwise.

Last week, Media Matters published research showing that Fox News, which had promoted ivermectin nearly 300 times since December, had failed to tell its viewers the news about a major study showing the drug’s ineffectiveness. In keeping that important information hidden from its viewers, I wrote that the Murdoch-owned network would rather let them die from COVID.

Hannity, however, wants his fans to think he never promoted ivermectin in the first place. Unfortunately for him, there's a video record showing otherwise.

From Media Matters:

“People wrote this story, by the way, that I had been telling people [to use] ivermectin. Linda, is that not the one thing that I kept saying, there’s not a single study that I’ve seen that shows that it works?” he asked his producer on his nationally syndicated radio show on Friday. “One hundred percent,” she replied. He later suggested that his discussion of the drug was limited to hosting “guests on this program [who] mention it as part of their protocol; anecdotally they say it works.”

Hannity’s claim that he had waved his audience away from ivermectin is a bald-faced lie. In reality, last summer he sold his Fox and radio audiences out to the right-wing hucksters promoting the drug as a treatment for COVID-19. He repeatedly and recklessly touted the drug’s “incredible” promise as a COVID-19 therapeutic. While he claims now that he consistently said that not “a single study” shows that ivermectin works, at the time, he said that “numerous studies” proved that it did. 

In fact, “Hannity was one of ivermectin’s most fervent proselytizers to the Fox audience,” Media Matters notes. “The drug was mentioned at least 25 times on Hannity from December 2020 through early April 2022, good for the fourth-most mentions of any Fox broadcast.”

This is not the first time Hannity has tried to rewrite his own history. In 2011, he laughably claimed that birtherism “never was my issue” despite another long record proving otherwise.

Maybe Hannity is counting on his elderly viewers to forget what he says. And clearly, he’d like us all to do just that. But just like his empty promise to undergo waterboarding for charity, we won’t forget.

You can watch the video that shows Hannity’s real record of promoting ivermectin below, via Media Matters.

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Ellen commented 2022-04-13 22:40:06 -0400 · Flag
I should have said they want power for right-wing oligarchs. They’d be happy to bankrupt Jeff Bezos, e.g.
Ellen commented 2022-04-13 22:39:23 -0400 · Flag
Arthur Whitted, I believe they hate democracy and want to restore power to oligarchs and oligarchs, alone, as a return to the Gilded Age with a big dose of authoritarianism to go with it.
Arthur Whitted commented 2022-04-13 01:26:08 -0400 · Flag
Fox News are really tearing the USA apart why do they hate so much. Is it fear of sharing power with minority? Or just to keep high rating. We are being threaten with being Nukes and many fox staff are supporting the people making these threats.
John McKee commented 2022-04-13 00:54:02 -0400 · Flag
How insulting to his audience that he should even ATTEMPT to cover his tracks on this one. I don’t know how Merck’s share price fared over the period that Fox’s talking heads, no, talking arseholes were spruiking it (the company did its best to shut the idiot concept down), but certainly the righties’ predecessor ‘miracle’ drug hydroxychloraquine was a classic snake-oil operation. As I remember, Trump himself was said to have made a fortune out of that con job.








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