Dennis Quaid Voices ‘Outrage’ at ‘Abolish Culture Media’ for Response to COVID PSA (Video)

Dennis Quaid mentioned he’s “feeling some outrage and rather about a disappointment” over the media’s response to a public provider announcement he participated in with Dr. Anthony Fauci about the coronavirus pandemic.

“It is being extinct by the cancel tradition media that I was doing a marketing and marketing campaign advert and endorsement of Donald Trump, and that I was paid handsomely for this by diverted CDC funds,” Quaid mentioned in an Instagram video titled “NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPOLITICIZED” on Saturday.

“Nothing would possibly be extra from the truth,” he persisted, asserting that the PSA used to be about “raising awareness for COVID-19 and what we can calm attain to forestall lives being misplaced to this awful, awful virus.”

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Quaid mentioned that the advert used to be now not meant to be political and that he wasn’t paid for it.

“It used to be about the importance of wearing a cover, about social distancing, and used to be in no way political,” he mentioned. “I was now not paid one penny for doing this interview and neither used to be Dr. Anthony Fauci.”

Then he took a moment to scold reporters who he says didn’t “attain their homework.”

“I am basically upset that some of us that determination themselves legit reporters don’t attain their homework. If you happen to hope to be all ears to my total dialog with Dr. Anthony Fauci, potentialities are you’ll per chance presumably,” he mentioned. “It’s on my podcast ‘The Dennisance’ on Audio Up. Whoever wrote this tale clearly didn’t be all ears to the interview.”

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Politico reported Friday that the PSA used to be a $300 million advert marketing and marketing campaign from the Neatly being and Human Companies Department to succor “defeat despair” about the pandemic, and that senior officials had recorded spots with Quaid and singer CeCe Winans while reaching out to Dr. Ozand Garth Brooks as successfully.

Dennis Quaid has previously been vocal about his enhance for Trump’s response to the pandemic. “I contemplate Trump, regardless of what any one thinks of him, is doing a just job at attempting to earn these states — and all of the American people — what they need, and also attempting to possess our economy collectively and be prepared for when right here is all over,” the actor told the Day after day Beast in April.

Quaid ended the PSA about the PSA with a reminder: “Wear a cover.”

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