Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner found herself in a rather foul mood towards the end of her segment with a former Obama administration aide who invoked former President Donald Trump’s infamous bleach comments from the beginning of the pandemic during a discussion about the CDC’s announcement that vaccinated individuals no longer need to mask up in most public places.
Faulkner kicked things off with a complaint about the confusion she thinks has been caused by the Biden administration amid the advisory.
“Why can’t this administration get on one message that works?” the Fox host asked Marjorie Clifton, a former adviser to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.
“Because I don’t think there’s one message that anyone will adopt,” Clifton answered. “Because all of those that said over time we don’t want to have masks anymore now have been given permission to shed their masks and yet they’re critics.”
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“I think, unfortunately, in the current day political environment there’s never going to be a winning strategy, there’s never going to be a one-size-fits-all policy around it,” the Fox guest and Democratic strategist answered.
Faulkner apparently wasn’t satisfied with Clifton’s answer, though, complaining that this wasn’t what President Biden “sold to America” and saying the former Obama aide conveyed a “really pessimistic message.”
“What about science?” Faulkner exclaimed as the segment went on.
“What is the message that works?” Clifton asked, to which Faulkner fired back, “Science!”
“And the CDC’s policies they put forward is based on science,” Clifton said, adding, “If you’re vaccinated, you don’t have to wear a mask. If you aren’t then you should. So that’s science. Yet we’re criticizing that right now.”
The Fox host still wasn’t satisfied, though, pretty much ignoring her guest’s comments and wishing out loud that they “could just read the science out loud” and then just keep quiet about policy until “Americans digest the science.”
“You’ve got to tell us the truth,” Faulkner went on. “It’s more facts, less policy.”
Clifton, at this point, seemed to have had all the nonsense she could handle for the day and, while audibly laughing, asked, “Like drinking bleach?” — a clear reference, of course, to Donald Trump’s infamous disinfectant suggestions back at the beginning of the pandemic.
A clearly grumpy Faulkner growled back, “Not funny.”
You can watch the absolutely funny clip from The Daily Beast here.
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