The story by the way that I've been telling people I Linda.
Is that not the one thing that I kept saying,
it's not a single study that I've seen that shows that it works?
>> So not only is Hannity a liar but the person he asked for
validation there also a liar because turns out that Hannity was in fact
one of the goons promoting as a treatment for COVID.
And I just wanna thank media matters for doing the work for
us because we wanted to put together a compilation video turns out we didn't need
to do that because they did.
Here's Hannity promoting ivermectin the story by the way that I had,
I've been telling people ivermectin, Linda.
Is that not the one thing that I kept saying?
It's not a single study that I've seen that shows that it works 100%.
>> Ivermectin as well as other pro active treatments and
practices were already helping COVID 19 patients all across the country
therapeutics, hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, Regeneron.
When you talk about ivermectin and regenerome and incredible therapeutics
that are now being used to treat not just breakthrough cases but all cases.
That includes, yes, the mono colonial cocktail known as Regeneron the version
of Regeneron even yes hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin and listen this is my business.
So I constantly reading, they've never heard of Regeneron or
Ivermectin Ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine that show that taken early,
it can mitigate symptoms of COVID 19.
There's no evidence that it works.
>> Looks like you did promote ivermectin and also mono colonial treatments.
I'm anti colonialism actually.
>> [LAUGH] John, I mean, look, I have a theory on why he's
trying to erase the notion that he was a proponent of
using a drug that actually didn't help people recover or
help people prevent getting COVID.
But I'll get to some more details about what he was actually up to in just
a moment.
I wanna hear what you think.
>> Yeah, it's laughable.
It is the very attempt is based on an outdated assumption that will surely
no one was listening to all those times I spoke.
Surely no one was recording it.
Surely no one has the transcripts.
He dozens of times.
He made these claims about ivermectin and not just claims about, well,
this is a thing that maybe could help.
There should be studies.
That would be a reasonable thing.
You could say that about virtually any piece of medicine.
That would be the safe, responsible thing to say before we had the studies.
Once we started to get the studies showing that it didn't help,
that would even be irresponsible.
But he did much worse.
He implied that it didn't need to be studied,
that it was already helping people, that and
a number of other things that haven't been demonstrated to be able to do that.
I am a little bit surprised.
Not that the attempt failed so horribly, but
that he would care to rehabilitate his image at all.
I don't even understand what the goal is there because most
of the people on the right, despite study after study after study coming out,
they don't feel the need to change their position.
Remember the research that right wingers are doing does not involve scientific
work, it doesn't matter how many meta analyses come out,
they're not reading them.
Hannity would be perfectly safe I think, to keep pushing ivermectin for
the next 10 years.
>> Yeah, you're so right about that.
And I was thinking the same thing.
I was like why is Hannity now trying to be like usually?
They don't care, they either just move on or they double down despite new evidence
showing that ivermectin doesn't actually work.
Why didn't he feel the need to kind of rehabilitate his image here and make it
seem as though he was not promoting the use of Ivermectin when he clearly was?
And by the way, I can't decide whether Sean Hannity is just like
a habitual liar or if he's just so stupid that he doesn't think that
people can go back to the tapes and see what he said in the past.
The internet is littered with videos of him promoting ivermectin.
So does he think we're dumb or is he dumb?
>> [COUGH] I think that there's a couple of things that might be working here.
I think that if you were to dive into the brain of Sean Hannity,
I bet he thinks that he is less of a dogmatic grifter than some of the others.
I bet he seriously thinks tucker Carlson, that guy is 100% fake.
All of it is artifice.
All of it is crafted towards achieving the audience that he wants.
I'm a more old school republican that actually tells it like it is.
So maybe once or twice he did say that he wasn't sure about ivermectin or
maybe he just thinks it would have been reasonable to do so and
he wants to believe good things about himself and so that's what he thinks.
I don't know because the issue about this and
the reason it's important that we spotlight the attempted backtracking.
Is not just that they're lying and that Sean Hannity did push ivermectin,
not as much as many other people on fox did.
They all boosted it for months and months and months, but
that existed inside of the context where every other opportunity,
they had to be a part of the shared solution.
They went in the exact opposite direction, not just encouraging people to stake
all of their hopes on medicine, that would be demonstrated to not actually help.
But to not use the medicine that does actually help, and
to not socially distance, to not wear masks, all of these things.
They were wrong on every single step of the way.
And so it's even more laughable for
Sean Hannity to choose one tiny area and try to rewrite his history in that dude.
We know everything that you said and did for two years.
There is no washing the blood off of your hands or
the hands of your collected network.
>> So true.
And and just to give you more details, ivermectin was mentioned
25 times on Hannity from December of 2020 through early April of 2022.
Good for the fourth most mentions of any Fox broadcast.
Hannity repeatedly told his viewers that Ivan martin was one of the several
incredible therapeutics with proven effectiveness against COVID 19.
Now look, I think that he's also kind of reacting to a pretty
definitive study that we talked about on this show recently.
It's the latest study just proving that ivermectin is effective
in treating COVID or even serving as a preventative measure.
And the study which compared more than 1,300 people infected with
the coronavirus in Brazil, who received either either ivermectin or
placebo effectively ruled out the drug as a treatment of COVID.
There's really no sign of any benefit, said Dr David Boulware and
infectious disease expert at the University of Minnesota and
look the lies that were told by people like Kennedy did have an impact.
Like it's hard to quantify just how many people ended up dying because
they decided to take ivermectin in lieu of a free and effective vaccine.
Which by the way, I'm super grateful that I took and I'm grateful that I'm
fully vaccinated and I'm not saying that it's gonna be the case for
everyone because everyone is different.
But I wouldn't say great, but
I felt pretty okay during my coronavirus stint.
Okay, I was a little fatigued.
There was one day where I was a little congested and that was it, and
I'm so grateful that there was a free vaccine that prevented me from
getting hospitalized from getting severely sick.
So despite all the evidence that I've respected was not useful for COVID.
Let's go to the last graphic here.
The Tennessee Senate had ended up passing a bill, they passed this last week that
would allow citizens to get ivermectin without a prescription.
Senate bill 21,88 passed in the Senate.
The Tennessee State Senate, of course, with a vote of 23 to 6.
The bill would authorize ivermectin suitable for human use to be sold or
bought as an over the counter medication and Tennessee without a prescription.
Pharmacists and other licensed healthcare providers would not be required to provide
a consultation prior to the sale either.
Great, a lot of big brains in the Tennessee Senate.
>> They do a lot of their own research, but they don't need no stinking stupid
pharmacist telling them what the medicine does or doesn't do really, really fast.
There is a, there's a hypothetical world where the obsessive looking for
the next thing that's gonna save us against.
Covid would make sense, whether it's hydroxychloroquine or I've rejected or
colloidal silver.
It would make sense that a certain group of people would be like,
I will take literally anything and I don't care if there's any evidence.
If they took everything and they take almost everything joe Rogan
when he got sick, he was just like plucking used needles off the beach and
jabbing it in his skin, but they don't want the actual preventative measures.
That's the thing that makes no sense.
All of their behavior is consistent with someone who has no like reasonable risk
aversion.
And is so terrified of getting sick,
that they will pump literally anything into their body except that
they won't take anything that is actually demonstrated to help.
Even though it was supposedly developed and
boosted by the guy Donald Trump that they love more than anyone else.
That is what is so fundamentally unreasonable about this entire thing,