Episode #639: January 17, 2022
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Alex makes exaggerated claims about influencers being paid to promote vaccines. This has been done, like in Colorado and New Jersey, but it was in the form of a disclosed PSA.
There was a strange campaign to pay influencers to spread misinformation about the Pfizer vaccine
Alex tries and fails to cover a Brian Stelter video without making personal attacks
Conspiracies about Washington state creating internment camps for the unvaccinated are rooted in a statute passed in 2003, which was recently amended to remove stigmatizing language surrounding HIV/AIDS
The CDC document Alex believes is a plan to put unvaccinated in camps has nothing to do with that at all
Alex believes that a poorly written article on Natural News reflects FEMA documents about their plans to create internment camps for unvaccinated people in rural areas. This article is actually just a reposting of another blog post from a guy named Steve Rotter, who is misrepresenting training provided by the Rural Domestic Preparedness Consortium Organization that long predates Covid
Alex is close enough to right about recent Rasmussen polling
Alex misreports on an op-ed from a Utah paper
All of the documents posted on the Washington legislature’s website say “certified on October 25, 2019” on them
Roger Stone had Covid, and is planning to sue everyone
Roger’s story about Richard Nixon and Coretta Scott King is possibly inaccurate
Roger seems to have some racist takes about various Florida congressional hopefuls
Mike Lindell is incorrect about alternative voting options in Utah
Alex thinks a satirical article about abolishing parenthood is a real article making a sincere argument