Rob Schneider reveals to Tucker Carlson how questioning big pharma hurt his career

Comedian Rob Schneider revealed to Daily Caller News Foundation co-founder Tucker Carlson on Thursday how questioning the pharmaceutical industry hurt his Hollywood career over his anti-vaccine stance.

Schneider appeared on “The Tucker Carlson Show” to discuss the impact on his career after speaking out against COVID-19 vaccines in 2021. Schneider said his career was successful before COVID-19 , but claimed he stopped “being afraid” of being “attacked”. ” after the pharmaceutical the industry criticized him for calling for vaccines since 2014.

“I stopped being afraid [it] because once you get attacked like when the pharmaceutical industry attacked me for what I thought was just basic humanity. [Which] they are believing parents who had injured children … I believe them, I choose to believe them … because they are the best witnesses to this incident that happened, and we are talking about vaccination,” Schneider said.

Schneider first came out against vaccines in 2014 after State Farm pulled an ad featuring him because of his stance against childhood vaccines. seconds in the Los Angeles Times. He also claimed on Twitter that a Parkinson's drug contributed to the death of actor Robin Williams, who claimed suicide in 2014, ABC News informed.

In 2021, Schneider again used X (formerly Twitter) to warn people about the COVID-19 vaccine, prompting a flurry of online responses that made him trend on the platform. seconds in Forbes.

“To even question that you destroyed your career. Was I like questioning that? I thought we live in the freest country in the world. Well, you're allowed to talk about politics and you can be, you know, before, and you can talk about things like that,” Schneider continued. “But if you're talking about the foundations of power … an industry that's the real drug cartel. We're not talking about the Mexican drug cartel that's only worth $10 billion a year. If you're talking about the pharmaceutical industry $300 billion a year, you're talking about power.”

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“You're talking about the real drug cartel that pays major donors to not only federal lawmakers, but state lawmakers. Not only do they control the medical establishment, they control the medical boards that recommend things that recommend what Americans have l 'obligation to obtain i [what] the kids are,” Schneider said.

After the confinement of the COVID-19, some actors spoke out against vaccine mandates in the entertainment industry. In 2023, actor Woody Harrelson he said The New York Times that he didn't believe anyone “should have the right to demand that you be tested, that you be forced to wear a mask, and that you be forced to get vaccinated three years later,” calling the mandates “nonsense “. “

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