CNN on Thursday aired a lot of outdated Fox Information clips exhibiting community personalities slamming Michelle Obama’s vitamin initiative years earlier than hyping up the views of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump’s choose to steer the Division of Well being and Human Companies.
“There was one other one who, a few years in the past, tried to boost issues concerning the well being of the meals that we feed our kids and our households,” mentioned CNN’s Abby Phillip, who tossed to a supercut of Fox Information figures bashing the previous first woman.
The 2010 clips confirmed personalities like Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity calling on Obama — who pushed for brand new vitamin requirements for kids in an effort to combat childhood weight problems — to get her “rattling arms” off their fries and claimed the federal government might begin “fining” Individuals for utilizing salt.
“Does each American household want a dietitian appointed by the federal government to inform them that this meals goes to make you fats and this meals will not be?” Hannity requested on his present again in 2010.
“Make America wholesome once more,” Phillip mentioned in a reference to Kennedy’s post-Trump endorsement slogan.
Fox Information has tried to whitewash Kennedy by calling him a public well being advocate whereas largely ignoring his outlandish anti-vaccine conspiracy theories and COVID-19 views on the air, Media Matters for America reported in August.
That very same month, Fox Information’ Ainsley Earhardt praised Kennedy for calling out “corruption in well being care” and referred to it as “music to each mother’s ears.”
Kennedy has known as for a ban on hundreds of meals components and chemical substances in meals, mentioned he would take away the Meals and Drug Administration’s vitamin departments, and declared Trump’s second administration would advise in opposition to utilizing fluoride in ingesting water.
The president-elect has mentioned he’d let Kennedy “go wild on well being” throughout his administration.
