“The Daily Show” has created a supercut video of what Fox News hosts and some other Republicans really said about the coronavirus:
These Fox Newsers and Republicans are now generally dealing with their commments in two differnent ways:’
1. I never said it.’
or
2. Move along, there’s nothing to see here.
Still, in a sign that they know they have problems, Fox News is reportedly stockpiling lawyers bigtime to fend off an expected slew of lawsuits based on what their network broadcasts told viewers (and what Fox management may have said or done while the network pooh-poohed the coronavirus to its millions of viewers).
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.