They fired Steve Cortes, best known for his Trump sycophancy and anti-vax militancy:
Tensions between Cortes and the MAGA cable network had long been simmering, sources suggested, but it was the Trump loyalist’s vehement disagreement—which he wasn’t shy about publicly voicing—with Newsmax’s company-wide vaccine rules that was the final straw…
Earlier this month, Newsmax instituted a rule that all employees must either be vaccinated or submit to weekly COVID testing. The news of such a policy, which was in compliance with the Biden administration’s policy for businesses with more than 100 employees, pushed Cortes to unequivocally declare on Twitter that he wouldn’t have any part of it.
“I will not comply w/ any organization’s attempt to enforce Biden’s capricious & unscientific Medical Apartheid mandate,” he blared in one tweet. “I will not be forced into the injection, nor will I disclose my vaccination status. No one should be pressured to choose between medical privacy & their job.”
He’s gone but you never really know the reasons someone gets fired. So, how about this?
I truly hope this is a trend. Newsmax doesn’t get the audience that monsters like Fox News’ Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson get, but they do get some and it’s all wingnuts. Every little bit helps.
We still don’t know a lot about Omicron but whatever happens it has had one positive effect:
Maybe a few recalcitrant MAGAs are finally seeing the light? I hope so for everyone’s sake.
But this problem is not going away. These are selling briskly on Amazon:
They really seem to think that stuff makes sense. .