fishhooked! From the Daily Beast: (And fwiw, the lie got thoroughly debunked here by 00. And even then it got re-parroted in the usual dishonest fashion).

"When it comes to Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham, apparently no amount of factual reporting can get in the way of pushing a misleading narrative—even when that reporting comes from their own Fox News colleagues.

Hours after Fox News essentially debunked a misleading claim about COVID-19 deaths that had made its way through the conservative media ecosystem, the two primetime TV stars peddled the misinformation anyway.

Throughout Monday, right-wing media and GOP politicians ran wild with a short video clip of CDC Director Rochelle Walensky supposedly saying that the vast majority of all coronavirus deaths were among people with at least four comorbidities. According to the usual conservative firebrands, the video showed Walensky admitting that the threat of COVID-19 had been exaggerated from the start.

Conservative radio host Clay Travis, who has long downplayed the severity of the pandemic, kicked off the fake news feeding frenzy by posting the video in a viral tweet, which has been retweeted nearly 20,000 times. Eventually, the Republican National Committee and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) joined in and shared the clip on social media. (Cruz has since deleted his tweet.)