Tucker Carlson
Fox News’s favorite crypto-fascist commentator, Tucker Carlson, told viewers on the Monday edition of his show that Florida air traffic controllers walking out over the vaccine mandate sparked off Southwest’s woes. As the Guardian reports, Carlson portrayed the situation as a “direct consequence” of the Biden administration’s vaccine policies. He also launched into a weird diatribe to reassure his audience that he isn’t just pretending to be anti-vax for “prestige or ratings.”
Local news outlets have refuted Carlson’s claims that an organized walkout by Jacksonville air traffic controllers occurred, with the issue instead having to do with employees taking normal, approved leaves of absence and a policy requiring staff who had received the vaccine to remain home for 48 hours to monitor for side effects (which are rarely serious, but one assumes could potentially be an unwelcome distraction to people routing planes).
