Neil Cavuto is a hard core right winger. But apparently, he’s not entirely cynical or totally brainwashed. That’s a rarity at Fox News:
Cavuto had only given a written statement until today. And this is how his comrades at Fox News dealt with it:
On Tuesday, Fox Business host Neil Cavuto informed the public that he has contracted COVID-19—an announcement he used to advise others to get vaccinated. “While I’m somewhat stunned by this news, doctors tell me I’m lucky as well,” Cavuto, who underwent an open-heart surgery in 2016, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1997, and has previously been treated for cancer, said in a statement released by the network. “Had I not been vaccinated, and with all my medical issues, this would be a far more dire situation. It’s not, because I did and I’m surviving this because I did.” He then expressed his hope that everyone who is still unvaccinated “gets that message loud and clear. Get vaccinated, for yourself and everyone around you.”
While Cavuto’s statement on his health and the vaccine has been frequently discussed on his network’s rivals MSNBC and CNN, Fox News and Fox Business did not immediately discuss his remarks on-air, according to a search using media-monitoring service TVEyes, or on their home pages. Even with Cavuto suddenly absent from the Tuesday and Wednesday editions of Fox Business’s Cavuto Coast to Coast, the program’s fill-in host, David Asman, failed to mention his COVID-19 diagnosis or otherwise explain his absence to the audience. His situation was not discussed until the Wednesday airing of Cavuto’s later show on Fox News, Your World with Neil Cavuto. “Neil Cavuto has tested positive for COVID-19,” said the program’s fill-in host, Charles Payne. “I want everybody to know that he’s feeling fine. He’s a fighter and we look forward to getting him back in his chair as soon as possible.”
A number of Cavuto’s colleagues at Fox have made pro-vaccine endorsements of their own, including Dana Perino, Greg Gutfeld, and Bill Hemmer. Rupert Murdoch is, of course, also vaccinated, and the COVID-19 safety protocols instituted at the Fox News offices are actually more stringent than those outlined in the Biden administration’s employee vaccine mandate. But over the past six months, Fox News has been a nightly destination for anti-vax rhetoric, with Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, and Sean Hannity using their prime-time shows to characterize vaccine and mask mandates as attacks on constitutional liberties; allege that Joe Biden is utilizing the vaccine to force Christians out of the military; and boost misinformation claiming that the COVID-19 vaccine is linked to thousands of deaths.
As recently as Monday, Carlson used the coronavirus-related death of Colin Powell to suggest that getting vaccinated is all but pointless. “Like almost everyone his age, Colin Powell was fully vaccinated against COVID, and yet according to his family and doctors, Colin Powell died of COVID,” said Carlson, failing to note that Powell, 84, suffered from multiple myeloma cancer and Parkinson’s disease and therefore had a severely weakened immune system. This fact was not acknowledged by Carlson, who went on to say that Powell’s death shows Americans that “you’ve been lied to. Vaccines may be highly useful for some people, but across a population, they do not solve COVID.”
Carlson failed to note that Powell must have gotten the virus from someone and the most likely culprit was an unvaccinated person. (Studies are showing that vaccinated people who get exposed do not easily transmit the virus.) I would imagine the unvaccinated person who spreads this killer virus around is also likely to be a person who refuses to wear masks.
Vaccines are “highly useful” to the entire human race and if Carlson would stop telling his deluded followers not to get them, we wouldn’t be losing as many people as we are. He has blood on his hands. But, of course, that too is a selling point to the Death Cult he speaks for.