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Media Matters Accused Of Deceptively Editing Fox News’ Dana Perino After FDA Approves Pfizer Vaccine

Ian Haworth
Media Matters Accused Of Deceptively Editing Fox News’ Dana Perino After FDA Approves Pfizer Vaccine
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On Monday, the director of “Media Intelligence” at Media Matters, Lis Power, was accused of deceptively editing a clip from Fox News, implying that host Dana Perino argued that the FDA approval of the Pfizer vaccine was too hasty.

“Fox responded to FDA’s full approval of the Pfizer vaccine by asking if it was rushed,” Power tweeted, including the supposed quote from Perino, “FDA just giving full approval to Pfizer’s COVID vaccine, it’s the first vaccine to get that full approval and in record time too, that has critics asking if the process was rushed. Was it?”

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