http://www.politico.com/news/m...ed-covid-border-502728

>> Some Republicans, including Mike Pence and Mitch McConnell have joined in the chorus urging Americans to get the shots, but the loudest and most popular messaging, from the likes of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, is that there's no disease dangerous enough that anyone should sacrifice their right to ignore a public health crisis.

Except when you can blame that disease on someone else.

With remarkable unanimity - and a stunning lack of actual evidence - conservative media has seized on the specter of disease-infested immigrants as the real danger to public health.

Fox's Sean Hannity declared that the border (rather than the lack of vaccinations) is the "biggest super-spreader" event of the pandemic. Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire warned of "COVID-Positive Illegal Immigrants Flooding Across The Border." National Review insisted: "This is the reality: The federal government is successfully terrifying people about COVID while it is shrugging at the thousands of infectious illegal aliens who are coming into the country and spreading the virus."

Back in May, the conservative Washington Examiner ran a cover story that declared "COVID Is Over. So, Get Over It." It was accompanied by a picture of a mask being set aflame. But, like other right-wing publications, the Examiner is suddenly no longer over it, pivoting to focus on illegal immigrants - the issue that they never get over. "Biden hypocrisy endangers American lives on southern border," read one headline. "This incoherent, contradictory policy undermines both public health and the rule of law. And it will get innocent people killed."<<

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.