tucker is not just attempting to mainstream authoritarianism, he is playing divide and conquer for ratings. the biggest example of that might be closer to home and the pandemic. on almost a nightlybasis, tucker brings on guests that peddle anti-vaccine. these mrna vaccines need to be withdrawn from the market now. no one should get them. no one should get boosted. no one should get double boosted. they are a dangerous and ineffective product at this point against omicron. the spike that they make your body make that you then produce antibodies to is not the omicron spike. to be totally clear, what he is saying is absolute garbage. no pushback from tucker. these vaccines have been proven to be safe and highly effective, and just as tucker and the bolshevik factory are putting our democracy in peril, acting
if you ve seen my comments about fox news in the past, you are well aware of the nickname i ve given the network. it s the bullshit factory. but maybe it should be the bolshevik factory. judging by how the network allows one of its most popular hosts to spew pro-putin propaganda. why is it disloyal to side with russia but loyal to side with ukraine? they re both foreign countries that don t care anything about the united states. kind of strange. imagine if mexico fell under the direct military control of china. we would see that as a threat of course. there would be no reason for that. well, that s how russia views nato control of ukraine, and why wouldn t they? we don t get anything out of pushing ukraine into nato, so why are we doing this? you should hear how comrade tucker sounds when he s
reminder, don t miss full circle, our digital news show that gives us a chance to dig into important topics. and have in-depth conversations. you can catch it streaming live at 6:00 p.m. eastern on mondays, wednesdays, and fridays. at cnn.com/fulp circle. watch it on the cnn app or at any time on demand. news continues with democracy in peril. jim? anderson, thank you very much. i m jim acosta, and this is democracy in peril. tonight we are going on offense against the lies. and when you think about the poisonous lies undermining our democracy, trump probably first comes to mind, or social media outlets like facebook or twitter. and of course the manure spreaders like fox, news max or oan. you re going to hear tonight from a former fox on what tucker carlson has been pulling lately, sounding like a mouthpiece for the russians at the bolshevik factory, as we described it last night. another carlson, gretchen carlson, no relation, will take us on down the fox rabbit hole.
to be safe and highly effective. and just as tucker and the bolshevik factory are acting as a mouth piece for putin, they are doing something perhaps even more destructive. with the u.s. approaching 1 million deaths from covid, fox and the people ultimately in charge there, the murdock family, are inflaming a public health crisis. to the murdocks, it s your network. you own this. you own tucker s program that s putting our health care workers in peril, putting our hospitals in peril, putting all of us in peril for ratings, for money, so these american oligarchs can keep pumping out bull into our homes. now, if only there were a vaccine for all of that. and if only there were an answer to this question pushed by another trump sympathizer. a u.s. congressman is openly wondering if we ve ever seen a