Comedian Rob Schneider opened up to Daily Caller News Foundation co-founder Tucker Carlson on Thursday about how his anti-vaccine stance and questioning the pharmaceutical industry negatively impacted his Hollywood career.
Schneider appeared on “The Tucker Carlson Show” to discuss the impact on his career of speaking out against COVID-19 vaccines in 2021. Schneider claimed that while he had a successful career before COVID-19, he “no longer fears” being “attacked” after being criticized by the pharmaceutical industry for speaking out against vaccines since 2014. (Related: “Do No Harm” — Watch it now)
“I have ceased to be afraid [it] Because once I've been attacked, like the pharmaceutical industry attacked me for what I considered to be basic humanity, I've been attacked. [Which] “Believe the parents who have injured their children… I believe them, I'm going to believe them… because they are the best witnesses to this case, and we're talking about vaccinations,” Schneider said.
Schneider began speaking out against vaccines in 2014 after State Farm pulled an ad featuring him because of his stance against childhood vaccines. According to He also claimed on Twitter that Parkinson's disease medication was involved in the 2014 death of actor Robin Williams, which was ruled a suicide, ABC News reported. Reported.
In 2021, Schneider again took to X (formerly Twitter) to warn people about getting the COVID-19 vaccination, sparking an outpouring of online reaction and trending on the platform. According to To Forbes.
“You can ruin your career if you even question it. I felt like I was questioning it. I thought we lived in the freest country in the world. We're allowed to talk about politics, we used to, we can talk about that sort of thing,” Schneider continued. “But if you're talking about something that's at the root of power… it's an industry that's real drug cartels. We're not talking about the Mexican drug cartels, which are only $10 billion a year. If you're talking about the pharmaceutical industry, which is $300 billion a year, then you're talking about power.”
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“Even questioning that can ruin your career… When you're talking about the pharmaceutical industry, $300 billion a year, you're talking about power.”Rob Schneider On fighting big pharma: pic.twitter.com/HyG5auRqFT
— Tucker Carlson Network (@TCNetwork) August 15, 2024
“You're talking about a real drug cartel that's paying huge amounts of money to not only federal lawmakers but state lawmakers. They control not only the health care system, but the medical boards that recommend what Americans are required to receive. [what] That's what kids do,” Schneider said.
Following the COVID-19 lockdown, some actors voiced their opposition to vaccine mandates in the entertainment industry. In 2023, actor Woody Harrelson told The New York Times that “nobody should have the right to demand that they be forced to be tested, that they be forced to wear a mask, that they be forced to get a vaccine three years from now,” calling the mandate “nonsense.”
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