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TomCADem

(17,378 posts)
Wed Jul 14, 2021, 12:08 AM Jul 2021

Newsmax vouches for vaccines after host Rob Schmitt says shots are 'against nature'

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Source: Washington Post

Rob Schmitt, a primetime host for conservative television network Newsmax, has raised eyebrows after claiming in a television segment that vaccines “kind of [go] against nature.”

Schmitt, a former co-host of the Fox News early morning show “Fox & Friends First,” made the comments during a Friday night episode of his new show “Rob Schmitt Tonight.”

During an interview with cardiologist Peter A. McCullough, Schmitt declared himself to be vaccine-agnostic, neither “anti-vaxxer” or “pro-vaxxer.”

But, he said, “I feel like a vaccination in a weird way is just generally kind of going against nature. Like, I mean, if there is some disease out there — maybe there’s just an ebb and flow to life where something’s supposed to wipe out a certain amount of people, and that’s just kind of the way evolution goes. Vaccines kind of stand in the way of that.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2021/07/13/newsmax-rob-schmitt-vaccine-against-nature/



Wow, I thought they were kidding that right wing host would actually say that getting vaccinated and living was against nature, but then Isaw this WaPo article about Newsmax having to walk back these comments.

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Newsmax vouches for vaccines after host Rob Schmitt says shots are 'against nature' (Original Post) TomCADem Jul 2021 OP
Hopefully he gets it rpannier Jul 2021 #1
Wouldn't be surprised if he's vaxxed. Pinback Jul 2021 #7
Yep. That's what I think, too. CrispyQ Jul 2021 #15
They certainly took their time on this. Eugene Jul 2021 #2
Fascist-variant Darwinism. David__77 Jul 2021 #3
might not be far from the truth if trump supporters die of covid at high rates, lol AlexSFCA Jul 2021 #4
This guy seriously needs psychotherapy. colorado_ufo Jul 2021 #5
That may not be the stupidest thing I've ever heard. ShazzieB Jul 2021 #6
Vaccines 'go against nature', it's just that there's like 100 other 'unnatural things' I could list Hugh_Lebowski Jul 2021 #8
"Let them die," sneered the sociopath. Grokenstein Jul 2021 #9
It harkens back to Grayson's presentation in Congress over a decade ago BumRushDaShow Jul 2021 #12
That was on Stephen Colbert's show tonight! Rhiannon12866 Jul 2021 #10
Ask him about hydrochloroquine bucolic_frolic Jul 2021 #11
Said man broadcasting from brightly-lit, air-conditioned studio. tanyev Jul 2021 #13
RW media might have fewer viewers soon IronLionZion Jul 2021 #14
After a review by forum hosts....LOCKING Omaha Steve Jul 2021 #16

rpannier

(24,304 posts)
1. Hopefully he gets it
Wed Jul 14, 2021, 12:24 AM
Jul 2021

and then nature decides

Pinback

(12,134 posts)
7. Wouldn't be surprised if he's vaxxed.
Wed Jul 14, 2021, 03:59 AM
Jul 2021

I think virtually all these Republican blowhards railing against vaccines take their own health seriously and have eventually gotten vaccinated.

CrispyQ

(36,221 posts)
15. Yep. That's what I think, too.
Wed Jul 14, 2021, 09:39 AM
Jul 2021

The Fox News hosts? Vaxxed.

Loren Boebert & Majorie Taylor Greene? Vaxxed.

This Newsmax asshole? Vaxxed.

Repubs are masters of hypocrisy.

Eugene

(61,592 posts)
2. They certainly took their time on this.
Wed Jul 14, 2021, 12:31 AM
Jul 2021

David__77

(23,214 posts)
3. Fascist-variant Darwinism.
Wed Jul 14, 2021, 01:14 AM
Jul 2021

AlexSFCA

(6,137 posts)
4. might not be far from the truth if trump supporters die of covid at high rates, lol
Wed Jul 14, 2021, 01:27 AM
Jul 2021

evolution

colorado_ufo

(5,715 posts)
5. This guy seriously needs psychotherapy.
Wed Jul 14, 2021, 02:53 AM
Jul 2021

ShazzieB

(15,952 posts)
6. That may not be the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
Wed Jul 14, 2021, 03:59 AM
Jul 2021

But if it isn't, it's probably at least in the top 5.



 

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)
8. Vaccines 'go against nature', it's just that there's like 100 other 'unnatural things' I could list
Wed Jul 14, 2021, 04:07 AM
Jul 2021

off the top of my head that humans 'do in order to not die', and I'm certain I'd barely scrape the surface of ALL such things.

Ergo, my problem with this attempt at 'a point' is that 'vaccines' aren't really all THAT special of a thing in this regard.

Grokenstein

(5,707 posts)
9. "Let them die," sneered the sociopath.
Wed Jul 14, 2021, 05:57 AM
Jul 2021

"He's obviously mentally ill, but we'll continue to provide him a platform," chuckled the disinformation peddler.

BumRushDaShow

(127,270 posts)
12. It harkens back to Grayson's presentation in Congress over a decade ago
Wed Jul 14, 2021, 08:18 AM
Jul 2021

Rhiannon12866

(202,970 posts)
10. That was on Stephen Colbert's show tonight!
Wed Jul 14, 2021, 06:04 AM
Jul 2021

One of their best - er, horrifying - ones!

bucolic_frolic

(42,655 posts)
11. Ask him about hydrochloroquine
Wed Jul 14, 2021, 06:45 AM
Jul 2021

tanyev

(42,356 posts)
13. Said man broadcasting from brightly-lit, air-conditioned studio.
Wed Jul 14, 2021, 09:26 AM
Jul 2021

IronLionZion

(45,252 posts)
14. RW media might have fewer viewers soon
Wed Jul 14, 2021, 09:30 AM
Jul 2021

Omaha Steve

(99,055 posts)
16. After a review by forum hosts....LOCKING
Wed Jul 14, 2021, 10:36 AM
Jul 2021

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