Daily Beast: “Right-wing provocateur Dan Bongino on Monday seemed to issue a challenge to his syndicated radio show’s carrier: Get rid of your vaccine mandate for employees or fire me. ‘You can’t have both,’ he said. More than two months ago, Cumulus Media announced that ahead of the company’s scheduled Oct. 11 return-to-work date, employees would be required to get at least one shot of the approved COVID-19 vaccines before coming back to the office. CEO Mary Berner said the rule would apply to all employees save for those who permanently work from a remote location or those with legal exceptions. Inside Radio reported last week that multiple Cumulus employees who refused to get vaccinated had either been fired or quit. That included several radio hosts, one of whom called the mandate ‘unethical and immoral,’ prompting Bongino’s Monday rant.”
“Bongino himself got the jab on the advice of his doctor, he said, because he is a cancer survivor. Even so, the radio host insisted, he is fighting Cumulus Media’s ‘political decision.’ But while Bongino raged against Cumulus’ vaccine rules on Monday, he was notably silent about the stringent vaccine policy implemented by his other partners at Fox Corp. (Bongino hosts a Saturday night talk show on Fox News and his radio show is live-streamed on Fox Nation.)”