Hannity is not describing pressure. He is describing the night he did what he was asked to do.
On July 19, 2021, on his own show, he told the audience to take COVID seriously, said enough people had died, and then said this: “It absolutely makes sense for many Americans to get vaccinated. I believe in science. I believe in the science of vaccination.” Fox posted the transcript itself.
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That is not “I don’t know anything about this shot, consult your doctor.” That is an endorsement, delivered to the largest audience in cable news, in the same month the mandates were locking people out of work, school, and travel. He had the chair. He used it. Five years later, the chair is still his, and the line is that someone pressured him. A man who can be pressured into telling millions of people to take a product he now says he knew nothing about is not a victim of the campaign. He was the campaign, for one night, on purpose.
Tucker Carlson, on the same network, told viewers on August 6, 2021, in plain words: if an employer forces a medicine on you and threatens your job, resist, threaten to sue, make a lot of noise, don’t go along with it.
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The point is the comparison, and the comparison holds on the tape. One host used the microphone to move the audience toward the shot. The other used it to tell them the mandate was a thing they were allowed to refuse. “I was pressured” is what you say when the first tape still exists.