{"id":590486,"date":"2021-07-13T21:35:46","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T01:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=590486"},"modified":"2021-07-13T21:35:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T01:35:51","slug":"patently-absurd-rep-chip-roy-blasts-dnc-for-wanting-to-police-private-text-messages-about-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/patently-absurd-rep-chip-roy-blasts-dnc-for-wanting-to-police-private-text-messages-about-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Patently Absurd\u2019: Rep. Chip Roy Blasts DNC For Wanting To Police Private Text Messages About COVID-19"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fpatently-absurd-rep-chip-roy-blasts-dnc-for-wanting-to-police-private-text-messages-about-covid-19%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=590486&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1232967339.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) on Monday blasted Democrats who want to police private text messages in a reported desire to dispel misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>Roy appeared on \u201cTucker Carlson Tonight\u201d in part to address a Monday report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/07\/12\/biden-covid-vaccination-campaign-499278\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Politico<\/a> that claimed the Biden administration is \u201ccasting conservative opponents of its Covid-19 vaccine campaign as dangerous and extreme\u201d and plans to work with SMS carriers to suppress anti-vaccine sentiment even in private texts.<\/p>\n<p>As Carlson said, per&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/biden-slammed-plans-monitor-text-messages-vaccine-misinformation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"22.810504634398\">\n<p><em>On Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/07\/12\/biden-covid-vaccination-campaign-499278\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Politico<\/a> reported plans from the Biden administration to battle misinformation in regards to the COVID-19 vaccine.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe White House has decided to hit back harder on misinformation and scare tactics after Republican lawmakers and conservative activists pledged to fight the administration\u2019s stated plans to go \u2018door-to-door\u2019 to increase vaccination rates,\u201d Politico wrote. \u201cThe pushback will include directly calling out social media platforms and conservative news shows that promote such tactics.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The article continues how pro-Biden groups and the Democratic National Committee will work with SMS carriers to \u201cdispel misinformation\u201d in peoples\u2019 private text messages.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBiden allied groups, including the Democratic National Committee, are also planning to engage fact-checkers more aggressively and work with SMS carriers to dispel misinformation about vaccines that is sent over social media and text messages,\u201d Politico reports.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Describing the DNC\u2019s alleged tactics to interfere with private text messages as \u201cpatently absurd,\u201d Roy said, \u201cThis whole issue of the vaccine hits very close to home for me. My father, in 1949 when he was seven years old, he was diagnosed with polio. And my grandmother was nursing my grandfather, who was sick with cancer \u2014 he died that fall \u2014 and then raised my dad as a single mom, nursed him to health. And he lived his whole life ravaged by polio.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m grateful to have a vaccine for me, vaccines for my sons and my daughter,\u201d Roy continued. \u201cI believe in vaccines, and I\u2019ll be damned if I\u2019m going to allow Democrats \u2026 come in and start calling you an anti-vax quack or call me an anti-vaxxer because I dare to believe that it is our duty as Americans, our patriotic duty, to make decisions for ourselves, not have Democrats looking at our text messages, not having them try to shame the American people into taking a vaccine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the danger we face as Americans, the forgotten men and women out here who are getting rolled over by the power of government, but also the oligopoly, these corporate cronies who are trying to use all of this to fatten their own wallets,\u201d Roy added.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"13.68306010929\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIt is our duty as Americans, our patriotic duty, to make decisions for ourselves- not have democrats looking at our text messages, not having them shame the American people into taking a vaccine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More from Rep. Roy on the Democrats\u2019 extreme vaccine push with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TuckerCarlson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TuckerCarlson<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qAMgdSXHnx\">pic.twitter.com\/qAMgdSXHnx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Chip Roy Press Office (@RepChipRoy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepChipRoy\/status\/1414768676696469504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 13, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Roy spoke out last week against the Biden administration for aggressively pushing COVID-19 vaccines, prompting a White House official to reportedly scoff at his concerns. As The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/wh-official-scoffs-at-gop-congressman-for-telling-biden-admin-to-back-the-f-off-door-to-door-vaccine-push-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"19.684210526316\">\n<p><em>A White House official reportedly dismissed concerns Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) made this week regarding the Biden administration\u2019s recent move to go door-to-door pushing the COVID-19 vaccine.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019m just sick and God-darn tired of the Left, and this government, dictating to me, frankly, anything at all,\u201d Roy told RealClearPolitics White House reporter Philip Wegmann in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2021\/07\/09\/texas_rep_captures_nations_divide_over_vaccines_146060.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interview<\/a>. \u201cBack the F off. That\u2019s my message to the White House.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>When Wegmann reached out to a White House official to ask if they had a response to Roy, the official texted, \u201clol no.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/fauci-and-d-c-mayor-bowser-heckled-as-they-go-door-to-door-pushing-vaccines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fauci And D.C. Mayor Bowser Heckled As They Go Door-To-Door Pushing Vaccines<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>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<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) on Monday blasted Democrats who want to police private text messages in a reported desire to dispel misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine.Roy appeared on \u201cTucker Carlson &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2314633,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1232967339.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Patently Absurd\u2019: Rep. 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