{"id":1142838,"date":"2021-12-22T16:04:56","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T21:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1142838"},"modified":"2021-12-22T16:05:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T21:05:00","slug":"joy-reid-says-fox-news-hosts-want-viewers-and-fans-to-die-this-is-fun-for-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joy-reid-says-fox-news-hosts-want-viewers-and-fans-to-die-this-is-fun-for-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Joy Reid Says Fox News Hosts Want Viewers And Fans To Die: \u2018This Is Fun For Them\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjoy-reid-says-fox-news-hosts-want-viewers-and-fans-to-die-this-is-fun-for-them%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1142838&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>MSNBC host Joy Reid claimed Tuesday that Fox News hosts were intentionally spreading misinformation about COVID-19 and the available vaccines, and she argued that they were doing it because it was \u201cfun for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/joy-reid-seems-to-ignore-jussie-smollett-verdict-tweets-about-karens-who-made-false-claims\/\">Reid<\/a>, joined on her daily show \u201cThe Reidout\u201d by New York Times editorial board member Mara Gay and presidential historian Michael Beschloss, said that <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/cnn-doctor-fox-news-leads-authoritarian-conspiracy-to-incite-violence-against-scientists\/\">Fox News<\/a> personalities were willfully misleading their own viewers and fans for \u201cclicks\u201d and that they didn\u2019t care how many of them might die because of that.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Another one for the \u201cRepublicans are using Covid to kill people for fun\u201d column <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CT3fd0MDsk\">pic.twitter.com\/CT3fd0MDsk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1473709716387807233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, God bless Joe Biden for \u2014 you know, he\u2019s not perfect,\u201d Reid began, and Beschloss nodded emphatically as she continued, \u201cYou know, there are a lot of things we can complain about about President Biden, but he actually is a caring human being who does want the whole country to survive this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd there are just people there who have decided to turn him into the devil,\u201d Reid continued, appearing to refer to Fox News. \u201cJust because they would rather hear Tucker and all those \u2026 clowns, in a vaccinated \u2014 probably the most vaccinated company in America is Fox News \u2014 they\u2019re all vaccinated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re going to live through this and let their viewers and their fans die,\u201d Reid added as Gay and Beschloss continued to smile and nod along. \u201cThey don\u2019t give a damn. It\u2019s just clicks to them. It\u2019s just \u2014 they don\u2019t care what happens, it\u2019s \u2014 this is fun for them. You know? God bless Biden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd are hundreds of thousands of people supposed to die to undermine Joe Biden and help the Republicans?\u201d Beschloss asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s sad,\u201d Reid agreed. \u201cYeah. It\u2019s what they think. Let \u2019em die. If it gets them power again, they\u2019ll let as many people die as are gonna die, they don\u2019t care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/stop-it-now-biden-scolds-cable-tv-and-social-media-purveyors-of-lies-on-vaccines\">Joe Biden<\/a> made a similar \u2014 if somewhat watered down \u2014 statement during his Tuesday address on the rise of the Omicron variant and the continued spread of COVID-19 in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>As the Daily Wire reported:<\/p>\n<p><em>[Biden]&nbsp;went on to note that people became more resistant to the vaccine as the summer approached, blaming their hesitance on cable news \u2014 although he did not name a specific network \u2014 and social media.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cLook, the unvaccinated are responsible for their own choices, but those choices have been fueled by dangerous misinformation on cable TV and social media. You know, these companies and personalities are making money by peddling lies and allowing this information that can kill their own customers and their own supporters. It\u2019s wrong. It\u2019s a immoral. I call on the purveyors of these lies and misinformation to stop it. Stop it now,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Biden notes that many Americans remain unvaccinated because of \u201cdangerous misinformation\u201d on cable TV and social media: \u201cI call on the purveyors of these lies and misinformation to stop it, stop it now\u2026\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UqawLeScSI\">pic.twitter.com\/UqawLeScSI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/oliverdarcy\/status\/1473382714397048839?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Biden had previously accused Facebook of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/facebook-on-bidens-vaccine-claims-theyre-looking-for-scapegoats-for-missing-their-vaccine-goals\/\">killing people<\/a>\u201d by not doing a more thorough job of policing what people were saying about the effectiveness and safety of the available COVID-19 vaccines more tightly<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC host Joy Reid claimed Tuesday that Fox News hosts were intentionally spreading misinformation about COVID-19 and the available vaccines, and she argued that they were doing it because it was \u201cfun for them.\u201d Reid, joined on her daily show \u201cThe Reidout\u201d by New York Times editorial board member Mara Gay and presidential historian Michael &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1142838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}