Fox News personalities were criticized for using Colin Powell's death from COVID-19 complications to question the effectiveness coronavirus vaccines.
Tucker Carlson and Will Cain were both criticized for their coverage. John Roberts was also criticized. Powell, 84 years old, was fully vaccinated, but also had multiple myeloma. This is a blood cancer that weakens the immune system and makes him more vulnerable to the virus' effects.
Cain used Powell's death as an excuse to criticize President Joe Bidens vaccination mandates. He also claimed there would be calls for more truthfulness from our government. Cain also noted that COVID-19 is a deadly disease in which fully vaccinated victims are still being hospitalized and dying, even though most of the victims are not yet vaccinated.
Roberts removed a tweet widely criticised by Powell's death raising new questions about the shots and replaced it with a thread stating that he wasn't anti-vaccine.
Carlson suggested that Americans are being deceived about vaccines. He didn't mention Powells other health concerns until the end.
Tucker Carlson said that he had "forgotten that Colin Powell was suffering a variety of health problems" and pointed out that Powell was fully immunized when he died of covid complications. pic.twitter.com/CFYcyJXHxU Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) October 19, 2021
CNN's Don Lemon attacked Fox News for its response.
This man was just dying and couldn't wait to get into a fight over vaccine mandates. He said it was disgraceful about Cain.
Others were also in agreement:
Tucker Carlson didn't mention Colin Powell had cancer or was 84 years old pic.twitter.com/Nfhaua1mQy Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 19, 2021
We have @TuckerCarlson ignoring the fact that Colin Powell was immunocompromised from a blood tumor. He was highly vulnerable to complications from this illness. He lies to his viewers about the vaccination. Will he ever be held responsible? He is a danger. pic.twitter.com/0XfRACSHAq VoteVets (@votevets) October 19, 2021
Tucker Carlson used Gen. Colin Powell as a pawn in his disinformation campaign tonight, disrespecting the memory of him. I can assure you that Powell hated Carlson while he was alive and for all that he stood for. Democratic Tweeter (@WileELiberal October 19, 2021
Fox News already uses Colin Powell's passing to question vaccine effectiveness
Just a reminder, since they aren't mentioning it: While there have been breakthrough cases and deaths -- you are far, far, far more likely to die from Covid if you are unvaccinated pic.twitter.com/Vwzj1bGDE5 Lis Power (@LisPower1) October 18, 2021
Tonight, Tucker Carlson: Do vaccines actually work? Do you think it is still a good idea to get vaccinated? Is it possible that Colin Powell died BECAUSE of vaccines? We are not saying we have all the answers. Were not suggesting that we know the answers.
Fox News host Will Cain used Colin Powell's death to rail against vaccines pic.twitter.com/tOK6axF13S David Edwards (@DavidEdwards) October 18, 2021
This article was originally published on HuffPost. It has since been updated.
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