WORK SONGS: Was the vaccine "good for us?"

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2025

At Fox, that claim was a "lie:" On it came, right there last Saturday night, right on the Fox News Channel. 

On came the TV show called The Big Weekend Show. The program comes close to being the dumbest of the channel's weekend fare. 

Four field workers were sent to the set. Soon, the field hands were swinging their hammers and singing their channel's work songs.

Panelists, The Big Weekend Show, 1/25/25
Brian Benberg:  Co-host, The Big Money Show. Childhood friend of Pete Hegseth
Molly Line: Rotating host, Fox News Live
Lisa Boothe: Fox News Channel contributor
Gianno Caldwell: "Political analyst," Fox News Channel

Near the end of the hour, it was Lisa Boothe's turn to sing. 

With one voice, the workers were praising the commander's decision to release the last few classified files concerning three major assassinations. As they praised the greatness of his decision, these chyrons appeared on the screen

"EVERYTHING WILL BE REVEALED"
TRUMP DECLASSIFIES JFK, RFK, MLK JR ASSASSINATION FILES

At long last, we the people were going to be fully informed!

The panelists were in agreement about the greatness of the decision. Unanimity of viewpoint is the basic organizational principle behind this imitation of life.

The Stepford Singers were duly impressed. Then, Boothe offered this:

BOOTHE (1/25/25): Well, isn't it ironic that the guy who was labeled a threat to democracy will be the one who restores faith and confidence in government through some of these actions as well? This is what we need. We need transparency...

I fully support what he's doing here, and especially after being lied to tremendously throughout Covid. I think these actions will help restore faith in government. And so good for President Trump!

Say what? We the people were "lied to tremendously" all through Covid? So the Fox News contributor said. As you can see if you watch the full tape, the other hands quickly fell in line, singing the same corporate song.

We could be wrong, but it's our impression that Boothe has toughened her pundit stance within the past (highly partisan) year. Sometimes, Suzanne Scott may perhaps direct the hands to do that. 

At some point, we'll show you what the New York Times once meekly reported concerning Scott's session with Greg Gutfeld. At the time, he was still a critic of Donald J. Trump, whom he quickly came to adore. 

At any rate, the Big Weekend discussion continued along from there. Caldwell lavished praise on Boothe for the courage she has shown in daring to discuss the Covid lie. Boothe was soon saying this:

BRENBERG: There was a time in America where, I think there was a high level of trust in our institutions. And we said, maybe for security reasons some things ought to stay where they are.

We don't live in that moment right now.

BOOTHE: Because we realize, when the government told us that, it was a lie. It was about protecting the government, not about protecting the American people.

So I think the jig is up. People are onto it. They know it's a lie, just like with Covid. 

"Go get the shot—it will be good for you." No, it wasn't!....

And then we look at it, and what was it all for? It was to protect Dr. Fauci's own culpability and the gain-of-function that he was funding at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. 

There's more to see as the hands sing this song. But there the lyric was again:

It was a lie when we were told that the Covid vaccine was good for us. It was a lie designed to protect Dr. Fauci.

To her credit, Boothe still uses the honorific when she sings this corporate song of war. She's still willing to call him Dr. Fauci, even as she spreads an astonishing claim about the Covid vaccine, and about the motive behind the "lie" about the vaccine's value.

In a different setting, under challenge, do you believe that the likable Boothe could defend her startling claims? Do you think she could capably defend her claims in the face of a dissenter or sceptic?

For ourselves, we'd make no such assumption. But on the Fox News Channel, on a Saturday night, the driving beat goes on.

Thanks to the work of the angry commander, Dr. Fauci's security detail has now been withdrawn. That's been done even as field hands like Boothe step forward singing this song. And please understand this key point:

Everyone else will agree with such claims when they're made on a program like this. 

Fox News has assembled a cast of thousands (of Stepfords), each of whom can be trusted to sing the corporation's mandated songs. In even a slightly rational realm, this practice would raise an obvious question:

Question! What's the point of assembling a four-person panel if all four of the workers are going to say the same things? 

Answer! The otherwise peculiar practice creates an imitation of life! In this case, it created the illusion that a group discussion was taking place. Needless to say, the children who form this misleading chorale are all being paid for their service. 

Does democracy possibly die in the dumbness? Over on the Fox News Channel, a long list of hands like Brenberg and Boothe are putting that claim to the test. 

With that claim in mind, let's get clear on what Boothe (and the others) said:

They said the Covid vaccine wasn't "good for" the people who received it.  They said it had been a "lie" when public officials said different. 

In fact, we the people "lied to tremendously," the four workers said. They said the officials had told this lie to cover up for (Dr.) Fauci. 

Twelve hours later, a clown car staffing Fox & Friends Weekend arrived at the Fox News Channel set.

A genial presence emerged from the car. As we noted on Monday, she smilingly told Red America that "Fauci" was deliberately "responsible for millions of deaths."

None of the other weekend friends challenged or questioned her statement. Not unlike the famous Homey, these field hands don't play it that way.

Tomorrow, we'll return to the set of Fox & Friends Weekend. With Dr. Fauci, but also with General Milley, the commander is taking protections away, and the workers are happily singing these dangerous songs.

Final point:

None of this will be discussed at Blue America's favorite spas. Relentlessly, we self-impressed but compliant Blues have labored to earn our way out.

Also tomorrow: Back to the WHO