{"id":1529967,"date":"2022-06-27T18:20:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T22:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1529967"},"modified":"2022-06-27T18:21:31","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T22:21:31","slug":"fact-check-did-tim-allen-make-this-comment-about-covid-19-vaccination-and-mail-in-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-tim-allen-make-this-comment-about-covid-19-vaccination-and-mail-in-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did Tim Allen Make This Comment About COVID-19 Vaccination And Mail-In Voting?"},"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\">28<\/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%2Ffact-check-did-tim-allen-make-this-comment-about-covid-19-vaccination-and-mail-in-voting%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=1529967&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>A post <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/gMS8e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> claims actor <span class=\"il\">Tim<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Allen made a remark negatively comparing proof of vaccination to mail-in voting.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7459375\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7459375\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook\/Screenshot<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><span>Verdict: False<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is no record of the actor making such a statement. Allen\u2019s publicist denied he made the comment.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Facebook post features a photo of Allen with a purported quote attributed to him comparing vaccination to mail-in voting. \u201cYou want me to take the damn vaccine? Mail it to me &#038; I\u2019ll vaccinate myself &#038; mail back the paperwork stating I\u2019m fully vaccinated. You trust me right? Just like mail in voting,\u201d the quote reads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRIGHT ON \u2013 Tim- and i hear since Disney made Captain America the voice of Buzz Lightyear- the new movie was a flop in the box office,\u201d reads additional text included in the post, seemingly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/why-tim-allen-doesnt-voice-buzz-in-lightyear\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">referring to the decision<\/a> to not have the actor voice Buzz Lightyear in the new film \u201cLightyear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement is misattributed to Allen. No such quote appears on the actor\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=vaccine%20(from%3A%40ofctimallen)&#038;src=typed_query\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile\/100044096873316\/search\/?q=vaccine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a> accounts. There are likewise no credible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Tim+Allen+%22You+want+me+to+take+the+damn+vaccine%3F%22&#038;oq=Tim+Allen+%22You+want+me+to+take+the+damn+vaccine%3F%22&#038;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60l3.4648j0j7&#038;sourceid=chrome&#038;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">news reports<\/a> suggesting he had made such a remark at any point.<\/p>\n<p>Allen\u2019s publicist Marleah Leslie told Check Your Fact via email that the statement was not made by him. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/04\/22\/fact-check-australian-vaccine-sedated-patients\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Does This Australian Vaccine Advisory Group Recommend Vaccinating Sedated Patients Without Their Consent?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Allen <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ofctimallen\/status\/1352464671161208832?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted<\/a> a photo of himself in January 2021 smiling as he received a COVID-19 vaccine, calling the health workers who administered it \u201ckick ass.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Love a Dodger Night game but tonite thanks to the kick ass health workers I got poked with a vaccine in the kind-of-old dude line. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Zya0R9zx2B\">pic.twitter.com\/Zya0R9zx2B<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tim Allen (@ofctimallen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ofctimallen\/status\/1352464671161208832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is not the first time a quote has been misattributed to Allen. Check Your Fact recently <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/04\/21\/fact-check-tim-allen-teachers-quote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">corrected<\/a> a false claim that alleged the actor remarked about teachers who wanted to teach about sex with young students, saying they \u201cshouldn\u2019t be allowed within several miles of a school.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post shared on Facebook claims actor Tim\u00a0Allen made a remark negatively comparing proof of vaccination to mail-in voting.Facebook\/ScreenshotVerdict: False There is no record of the actor making such a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"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-1529967","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\/1529967","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\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1529967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529967\/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=1529967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1529967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1529967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}