Andrea Tantaros at Faux "news" and Phyllis Schlafly weigh in on vaccinations...

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Andrea Tantaros Reacts To Measles Outbreak With Junk Science About Vaccines Causing Autism

The majority of the hosts of the Fox News television show Outnumbered on Monday responded to the growing measles outbreak by agreeing that parents should have the right to refuse to vaccinate their children.

Over the weekend, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) said that "a large, ongoing multi-state outbreak" of measles had been linked to cases that were reported in Disneyland in December. An advisory late last month noted that the measles had been declared eliminated in the United States in 2000, but a growing anti-vaccination movement had contributed to 644 cases last year, the most in a decade.

While discussing the latest outbreak on Monday, Fox News host Kennedy Montgomery said that she despised both "irrational progressives who don't vaccinate their children" and "government bureaucrats who tend to over blow some of these public health crises."

"Sure, it may be a parents choice whether or not they vaccinate a child, the problem is, when you get my child sick, it's not just your problem or your choice," Montgomery asserted.

But Kennedy was the only Fox News host on the panel who felt so strongly about vaccinations.

"I refuse to judge on either side," co-host Harris Faulkner declared. "Because how you choose to love, how I choose to love, we all love our kids. Our choices are different."

Faulkner pointed to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's (R) call for "balance" in allowing parents to decide which immunizations are less important.

Co-host Andrea Tantaros agreed that it was a "tough" issue, but she was more concerned about the now-debunked links between vaccines and autism.

"There is a lot of controversy especially with those vaccinations when it comes to newborn babies," Tantaros opined. "And not just about measles. I know, personally, I had a brother who was autistic, and there is a belief among many that it's not the actual vaccinations that cause autism, it's the proximity of the vaccinations, that their teeny-tiny little immune systems can't handle those vaccinations so soon after the other."

http://crooksandliars.com/2015/02/andrea-tantaros-reacts-measles-outbreak

Eagle Forum: The GOP's Favorite Anti-Vaccine Group

Submitted by Brian Tashman on Monday, 2/2/2015 2:45 pm

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s comments on “balance” in vaccine requirements raised eyebrows today, as critics noted that Christie pushed anti-vaccine claims back in 2009.

But Gov. Christie isn’t the only possible Republican presidential hopeful to have flirted with anti-vaccination conspiracy theories or happily promoted groups that do the same.

The episode is reminiscent of the 2012 GOP presidential nomination contest, when candidates piled on Rick Perry for mandating that female students in Texas receive an HPV vaccine, a stance for which he has since apologized. Rep. Michele Bachmann took the criticism of Perry even farther, baselessly charging that the vaccine causes mental retardation.

In addition, a number of top GOP presidential contenders, including Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum have promoted Eagle Forum, the conservative organization founded by right-wing icon Phyllis Schlafly, which regularly pushes false claims about vaccines.

Eagle Forum is such a favorite of the Republican establishment that Schlafly received a lifetime achievement award — presented by Bachmann — at the 2011 Conservative Political Action Conference.

An entire section of Eagle Forum’s website is devoted to criticizing vaccines. The group has repeatedly promoted the myth that vaccines are linked to autism, featuring articles on its website about how efforts to vaccinate children are a form of government control that jeopardizes the freedoms of parents and families.

Along with its own misinformation, Eagle Forum refers members to anti-vaccine groups such as the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, National Vaccine Information Center and the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, which counted Rand Paul as a member for over two decades. Back in 2000, the group promoted a letter [PDF] to the Department of Health and Human Services from then-Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., which suggested that vaccines are responsible for an increase in autism diagnoses.

In 2012, Schlafly praised California parents who refused to vaccine their children, attacking a member of the state assembly who wanted to pass a law requiring parents consult with a pediatrician before they make a decision on whether their child receives a vaccination.

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/eagle-forum-gops-favorite-anti-vaccine-group#sthash.9yiI9RYv.dpuf

[Rhinodawg]

1. Tantaros is a lying pos.

[Still Sensible]

2. Phyllis was a know-nothing, fundy tea partier long before

the Kochs paid to launch the "grass roots" tea party of today. It was one thing when these asshats were on the fringe, but now that they have co-opted the media, gathered the sheep, and elected some of these morans.... they are the tail wagging the GOP dog.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

3. Opposing vaccinations is a way to oppose....ready for it? Are you ready? are you sitting down?

the BLACK president.

You see vaccinations are seen as a government run operation, mandated, etc., the current government is run by that Muslim from Kenya, so it must be bad.


The larger picture is these are dumb people, low IQ, immature, dumb people.

And they fear government the way they should fear Wall Street, but are too fucking stupid to understand.

[virgogal]

6. Ridiculous statement---the anti-vaccine movement has been around for many years.

How on earth did you come up with that conclusion?

[hifiguy]

4. I wish there were a vaccine against blithering stupidity.

If only...

[randr]

5. I have the right to be free of ignorant people and their disease bearing children

[smirkymonkey]

7. It's a good thing we have the greatest minds of the century working on this.

We would be so lost without them.