Sports commentator Stephen A. Smith has completely reversed course over comments he made during COVID about vaccine skepticism.
In Oct. 2021, the Brooklyn Nets said they were not allowing point guard Kyrie Irving to practice or play basketball with the team until he got the coronavirus vaccine.
'I need to do better. I'm not alone, but I'm responsible for me.'
Smith was among those who heavily criticized Irving for his vaccine reticence.
"Kyrie Irving, I happen to believe, is an intelligent brother whose heart is in the right place," Smith said at the time. "But now, you've regressed to an alarming level of self-righteousness. It not only makes you look hypocritical and untrustworthy, it makes you look what I know you are not, which is flat-out stupid."
Smith went on to catch the coronavirus despite claiming to have been vaccinated.
In a video published Thursday, Smith cited the appearance before Congress of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the architect of the U.S. coronavirus response, to explain his change of heart.
"There were many people encouraging folks to [get vaccinated] anyway. Kyrie Irving wasn't one of them," Smith said. "In my opinion, particularly hindsight-wise, it didn't make him stubborn or selfish; it made him brave."
He went on to apologize to Irving.
"Kyrie Irving did nobody wrong. We did him wrong. I did him wrong. And for that, I'm sincerely sorry," Smith added. "I just thought it was important to say that. ... I need to do better. I'm not alone, but I'm responsible for me."
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He concluded, "I need to do better. And I will."
Fauci refused to answer questions from members of Congress and instead over and over again pled the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
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An awful vaccine side effect has allegedly sidelined a baseball player for the rest of his life.
Isaiah Carranza was drafted by the Chicago White Sox in 2018 but never made it to the major leagues. Now, Carranza is suing his former organization, saying it denied his vaccine injury after he was "coerced" into getting the shot.
'Isaiah complied with the mandate, reported serious adverse symptoms almost immediately, and repeatedly sought help.'
Carranza played two years in High-A, the third-highest level of minor league baseball in the United States. However, 2022 was the last time he appeared in a game, and the former pitcher has since alleged that team officials warned him he would be "blacklisted" if he didn't get a COVID-19 vaccine.
According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Carranza claimed if he did not get two doses, his organization would not release him from his contract so that he could pursue other teams. At the same time, he was allegedly told he had "no prospects of moving up" within the White Sox's organization.
After getting the Pfizer vaccine, Carranza says he soon began suffering "extreme dizziness, nausea, near-fainting, and wildly fluctuating heart rate," but the team told him it was simply dehydration, anxiety, and "rookie nerves."
Carranza also allegedly began experiencing severe pain and dysfunction in his pitching arm.
"After receiving the vaccine, Plaintiff suffered severe adverse health reactions with little to no support from Defendants, who denied him necessary accommodations," the lawsuit said, according to Newsmax.
Carranza also claimed that the injury impaired his ability to throw at a professional level and essentially ended his career. He is reportedly seeking $19 million in damages and has an estimated $557,000 price tag in future medical expenses.
The MLB did not have an official vaccine mandate but encouraged players to get vaccinated through its union and the league.
Carranza's legal team said on its website that minor league players lacked union representation and the financial security to safely speak out against the "condition of employment."
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"Isaiah complied with the mandate, reported serious adverse symptoms almost immediately, and repeatedly sought help. Instead of receiving appropriate medical care or legally required accommodations, his symptoms were dismissed, misdiagnosed, and minimized," the law group wrote.
Peter Law Group claimed Carranza's professional baseball career was cut short and that he now has a permanent autonomic nervous system disorder.
The White Sox and the league have not given public statements, and a White Sox spokesman declined to comment on the matter to the Chicago Sun-Times. Blaze News was unable to reach the team for comment.
Pfizer did not respond to a request for comment.
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President Trump's secretary of war is making it a point to set the record straight for those servicemen and -women who adhered to their convictions and refused the Biden COVID shots.
In a memorandum dated December 6, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth ordered Pentagon leadership to identify service members wrongfully discharged because of their refusal to take the jab and give them their due.
Sean Parnell said that nearly 8,700 service members were 'involuntarily separated' from the military because of their refusal to take the jab.
Specifically, many service members were given a general discharge rather than a fully honorable discharge.
"It is unconscionable that thousands of former Service members who held true to their personal and religious convictions were not just separated, but separated with General (Under Honorable Conditions), rather than Honorable, discharge characterizations," Hegseth wrote.
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Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said that nearly 8,700 service members were "involuntarily separated" from the military because of their refusal to take the jab.
Of those, Parnell continued, "more than 3,000 received less than honorable discharge characterizations."
"The department is committed to ensuring that everyone who should have received a fully honorable discharge receives one and continues to right wrongs and restore confidence in and honor to our fighting force,” Parnell said.
In his first week back in office, Trump signed an executive order to reinstate service members who left or were removed from duty on account of the "unfair, overbroad, and unnecessary" COVID vaccine mandates. Hegseth then began implementing that directive in February.
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Naomi Wolf's 1991 best-seller “The Beauty Myth” made her the most prominent face of so-called "third-wave feminism" and a darling of the liberal elite. The young Yale graduate and Rhodes scholar served as an adviser to both President Bill Clinton and — during his 2000 presidential run — Vice President Al Gore.
But then the COVID pandemic hit. For voicing her concerns about vaccine mandates and draconian lockdowns, Wolf found herself deplatformed from Twitter, marginalized as a so-called conspiracy theorist, and rejected by the same powerful Democrats who had once made her a star.
'A 13% to 20% drop in live births around the world, especially in Western, highly vaccinated countries.'
Wolf, in turn, has left the Democrats behind. Seeing current Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. join the Trump campaign last year convinced her to endorse "the MAGA-MAHA ticket," she tells me via video call.
"I think it's a great thing for the country for these two groups of voters to be in alignment," she continues.
"What we're seeing right now ... the combination is making the Democratic Party obsolete. And as a lifelong Democrat, I wouldn't have ... said that was a good thing, except that the Democratic Party has turned into such a toxic, marginalized, self-marginalizing stew of festering special interests.”
With last year's release of “The Pfizer Papers,” based on the research of over 3,000 health care volunteers, edited by Wolf and Amy Kelly, Wolf has cemented her reputation as a courageous and supremely eloquent opponent of government overreach and globalist encroachment on public policy and free speech.
Wolf says that research points to the inescapable fact that Pfizer knew its vaccine was neither safe nor effective but released it on the public regardless because of an agenda that went way beyond mere corporate greed.
Wolf has sat down for this interview to discuss that research, which she recently presented before before the European Union Parliament after an invitation from German MEP Christine Anderson.
I note that Canada, too, has finally begun to question the efficacy and safety of the vaccine with the release of “Post-Covid Canada: The Rise of Unexpected Deaths” from the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms.
For Wolf, this is a long time coming. In her view, the situation to her north is even worse than in her home country, with former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau overseeing "a horrible overall collapse of civil liberties and the rule of law ... and even basic norms of decency around life itself."
"My heart breaks for Canada all the time," Wolf continues.
“You have no Second Amendment. You have no First Amendment. People are scared — you know, when I go to Canada, people are really scared of what's going to happen to them if they are identified as critical of the government. You know, the poor truckers got de-banked and had to fight that fight back in 2022.”
Wolf describes Canada's major media as being “owned by your government," noting that “there’s been almost no coverage of 'The Pfizer Papers' in Canada."
I mention that Freedom Convoy trucker and protester Chris Barber could not only receive an eight-year sentence for “mischief" (the label the Crown has slapped on his peaceful protest), but could actually have his truck — the now iconic “Big Red” — expropriated by the Ontario provincial government and destroyed. Wolf is aghast.
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For her part, Wolf has not faced any legal pushback from Pfizer, despite repeatedly calling out the pharmaceutical giant for its alleged culpability in vaccine injuries and deaths.
Nor is Wolf afraid to employ a comparison even her allies may find inflammatory, likening Pfizer's "Pregnancy and Lactation" report to "Nazi science" for the cavalier way it acknowledges the human toll of the vaccines.
“I'm not equating it with Nazi atrocities as a whole, in terms of scale,” Wolf says of the eight-page report Pfizer delivered to President Biden and then-CDC Director Rochelle Walensky.
"But it's a very terrifying document, because it showcases all the deaths and injuries to women and babies that Pfizer knew their injection had brought about, and ... it seems to be communicating the damage to women's reproduction is not a bug, but a feature of the injection, like, ‘Look how effective it is.’ For instance, they've got two babies who died in utero, and Pfizer concludes that it's due to maternal exposure to the vaccine.”
Wolf notes that this information did not stop Walensky from urging the vaccine on pregnant women or women intending to get pregnant in August of that year.
"So that sequence of events in itself really raises questions, because she knew this would kill babies," says Wolf, raising the specter of infamous Nazi medical experimenter Dr. Josef Mengele.
"I don't make this comparison lightly," says Wolf, who is Jewish and notes that her grandparents lost a total of eight siblings to the Holocaust. "[But the report is] very Nazi medicine in its methodology, because there are charts. And one of the characteristics of Nazi medicine is [being] meticulous about horrific crimes and suffering.”
“So there are charts in this pregnancy and lactation report that show tens of thousands of women injured menstrually; 15,000 women bleeding every day, 10,000 women bleeding twice a month ... 7,500 women with no periods at all, meaning [that they're] totally infertile."
"A 13% to 20% drop in live births around the world, especially in Western, highly vaccinated countries," Wolf says, noting that "that's the takeaway in Canada as well."
So was this all about the profit margin?
“As a journalist, I try never to go beyond the evidence. … I went into the project thinking, ‘Oh, I'm going to find out that they were just greedy, or they just cut corners.’ That's not what we found at all,” Wolf says.
The truth, according to her, is far more sinister. “There are a number of data points that show that Pfizer intended to create a depopulating technology and that all the people up and down the chain of command — CDC, FDA, the president — knew," Wolf says.
"That's why I think the pregnancy and lactation report is so important, and that that was the main function — is to depopulate the West and also to create a massive scale of injury and and death, in addition to sterilization and pregnancy loss.”
Fauci never accurately and honestly communicated that at the time of his public statements on the vaccines' safety there were not studies to support his public declarations about safety. In fact, he privately had concerns about their safety. But he never voiced those.
Never forget what they took from us in 2020 and beyond. Because if you do, they will lock you down again and again and again and again.
Berenson told The Federalist, 'the government’s admission is a crucial step forward in our case.'
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