In a bizarre event that some media called a “hot pursuit” of Dr. Joseph Mercola, CNN reporter Randi Kaye and two CNN vehicles chased him down as he rode his bicycle from his home to the beach.
When they finally caught up with him, Kaye said she thought that was their “opening to get some answers as to why he’s pushing false claims about masks and the vaccine.” The only thing was Kaye herself wasn’t wearing a mask when she cornered him. Neither was she wearing a mask when she visited his business in Cape Coral and quizzed employees standing less than a couple feet away from her.
Even more bizarre was the placement of the “pursuit” on Anderson Cooper’s TV show Wednesday, August 5, 2021. In Cooper’s podcast show, the piece on Mercola being the “ultimate misinformation superspreader” directly followed an interview with Microsoft mogul Bill Gates in which Gates spent a full nine minutes bloviating on the COVID variants, deaths that are still occurring, the need for continued mask-wearing, and the urgency for everyone to get vaccinated.
And, after all that, despite overwhelming evidence that the virus originated in a lab, Gates said he believes the origin of the virus isn’t important.
On the video portion of Cooper’s show, CNN chose to run a fluff piece about Gates’ divorce instead of his COVID comments, so only podcast listeners were privy to Gates’ actual prelude to the Mercola “hit piece.” In the video, Kaye dramatizes how she failed to get an interview with barefoot, shirtless Dr. Mercola as he rode his bike.
She also lamented that Dr. Mercola’s latest book, “The Truth About COVID” — which she said she wasn’t going to name — is on Amazon’s Best Seller list — at No. 1, no less.
She added she’d contacted various social media platforms to see “what they were doing” about Mercola’s presence on each of them.
SOURCES:
CNN Health August 4, 2021
Twitter Eddie Scarry August 5, 2021
Twitter Dr. Joseph Mercola August 5, 2021
Yahoo! Enterntainment August 4, 2021
CNN Cooper 360 5:40-24:36