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Mediaite reports:
Steve Kirsch appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight on Aug. 10 with guest host Brian Kilmeade, who introduced his guest as a disaffected former Democratic donor. “What I found was hundreds of thousands of Americans have been killed by this vaccine and millions have been injured,” Kirsch claimed.
Media Matters published a partial transcript of Kirsch’s remarks, along with a video of his appearance. The post features a headline that reads: “Fox News guest lies about the COVID vaccine killing ‘hundreds of thousands’ and says it’s ‘the most dangerous vaccine ever created.'”
On Tuesday, Kirsch wrote in a Substack post he will sue Media Matters for defamation unless the site provides proof he was lying or removes the post.
From Kirsch’s Substack message to Media Matters:
If you don’t present your proof by return email today OR remove your defamatory article about me, I will sue you for defamation. You will lose in court and that will end the madness.
If you think I’m joking, you’re wrong again. This is a huge opportunity for us to have a court rule on this and I am prepared to spend whatever it takes to win.
Media Matters was supposed to be about truth. That’s why I donated when David Brock asked years ago. Now David ducks my emails.
You aren’t about truth. You are about hiding the truth of the devastation of these vaccines. I look forward to hearing from you. Have a nice day.
Kirsch is a multimillionaire, in part due to his invention of the optical mouse and his creation of the search engine Infoseek. These days, however, he’s the founder of an anti-vax group that has drawn the support of notorious nutbags.
Kirsch claims that the vaccines have killed 600K Americans (and 12 million worldwide), while saving almost no lives. That’s a ton of deaths, which should be concentrated in states with higher vax rates. Yet there’s none – as in zero – evidence of it in state death rates.
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) August 16, 2022
I’m no lawyer, but it sounds like Kirsch is telling Media Matters he’s going to sue them unless they prove that they defamed him? Wild ride ahead
— Hey Bud (@Gudemonster) August 17, 2022
Steve Kirsch is an endless font of hilarious self-owns. pic.twitter.com/bKbUzJbW99
— David Gorski, MD, PhD (@gorskon) August 16, 2022