For a month's stretch, Fox News star Laura Ingraham relentlessly promoted the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine to her nearly 4 million nightly viewers.The drug was "a game changer" in the fight against the coronavirus, the conservative anchor declared. She booked recovered patients to describe
For a month’s stretch, Fox News star Laura Ingraham relentlessly promoted the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine to her nearly 4 million nightly viewers.
Her fellow Fox News prime-time stars, Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, also cut back on referring to the drug. In fact, since April 13, hydroxychloroquine has been mentioned about a dozen times on Fox News, compared with more than 100 times in the four previous weeks, according to a review of network transcripts.
Story continues“What’s driving this blind obsession to disprove the effectiveness of a drug that is being used right now, tonight, in medical centers across America?” Ingraham said, above an onscreen graphic that read “The Truth About Hydroxychloroquine.”Since mid-March, hydroxychloroquine has been a staple of the right-wing news media venues that Trump follows closely, including Rush Limbaugh’s radio show and Fox News prime time.
On April 9, she began her program by mocking the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Robert Redfield, for “essentially dismissing, trashing” hydroxychloroquine “despite all of its success stories.” She told viewers that the doctors booked on her program that night — “my medicine cabinet” — would “set the record straight.”
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