Robert F. Kennedy Jr.is weighing in on the bombshell announcement thatTucker Carlson has left Fox News, claiming on Twitter that the exit came because of the right wing personality’s “breathtakingly courageous” monologue about pharmaceutical companies.
He continued: “For many years, Tucker has had the nation’s biggest audience averaging 3.5 million — 10 times the size of CNN. Fox just demonstrated the terrifying power of Big Pharma.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (left), Tucker Carlson.Mike Pont/Getty for Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights; Jason Koerner/Getty
Kennedy has previouslylobbied Congress to allow parents to opt outof state requirements for vaccinating their children, and a 2019 study found that his nonprofit, called Children’s Health Defense, had paid for more than half of the ads on Facebook that promoted false claims about vaccines,according toThe New York Times.
But Carlson has embraced Kennedy’s fringe statements, even echoing them at times. In a January episode of his show, Carlson compared the vaccination effort during the COVID-19 pandemic to “what the imperial Japanese army and the Nazis did in their medical experiments,“The Guardianreported at the time.
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In a statement on Monday morning, Fox News said the network and Carlson “have agreed to part ways. We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor.”
source: people.com
