Fox News reports, “CNN’s chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta admitted to podcast host Joe Rogan Wednesday that it was improper for the network to claim Rogan took ‘horse dewormer’ as a COVID treatment…

‘Calling it a ‘horse dewormer’ is not the most flattering thing, I get that,’ Gupta conceded.

‘It’s a lie,’ Rogan pushed back. ‘It’s a lie on a news network … and it’s a lie that they’re conscious of. It’s not a mistake. They’re unfavorably framing it as veterinary medicine…’

Joe Rogan asks Sanjay Gupta if it bothers him that CNN outright lied about Rogan taking horse dewormer to recover from covid. This is fantastic: pic.twitter.com/PEgJqIXhSD

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) October 14, 2021

‘Does it bother you that the network you work for out and out lied, just outright lied about me taking horse dewormer?’ Rogan grilled Gupta.

‘They shouldn’t have said that,’ Gupta admitted.

‘Why did they do that?’ Rogan asked.

‘I don’t know,’ Gupta responded.

‘You didn’t ask? You’re the medical guy over there!’ Rogan exclaimed.

‘I didn’t ask,’ Gupta said. ‘I should’ve asked before coming on this podcast.”

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Reason’s Robby Soave writes, “KFOR, an Oklahoma news channel, reported last week that rural hospitals throughout the state were in danger of becoming overwhelmed by victims of a very specific poisoning: overdoses of ivermectin, an anti-parasite drug promoted by vaccine skeptics as a possible treatment for COVID-19.

The story went viral, and was seized upon by the mainstream media. But its central claim is substantially untrue…

The story ran under the headline: ‘Patients overdosing on ivermectin backing up rural Oklahoma hospitals, ambulances.’ It was quickly picked up by national news outlets, such as Rolling Stone, Newsweek, and the New York Daily News. Numerous high-profile media figures, including MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, tweeted about ivermectin overdoses straining Oklahoma hospitals—the implication being that the right-wing embrace of a crank COVID-19 cure was dangerous not only for the people who consumed it but for the stability of the entire medical system.

Rolling Stone pulled a Rolling Stone! https://t.co/muhfAMgp6o

— Robby Soave (@robbysoave) September 6, 2021

It was a story that appeared to confirm many of the mainstream media’s biases about the recklessness of the rubes. But it’s extremely misleading. There is, in fact, little reason to believe a purported strain on Oklahoma hospitals is caused by ivermectin overdoses; one hospital served by the doctor quoted in the KFOR article released a statement saying it has not treated any ivermectin overdoses, nor has it been forced to turn away patients.

This is yet another example of the mainstream media lazily circulating a narrative that flatters the worldview of the liberal audience, without bothering to check on any of the details.”

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