The forgotten Jim Carrey interview that got him labeled 'anti-vaxx'

Over a decade ago, actor Jim Carrey and actress Jenny McCarthy were put in the hot seat on “Larry King Live” for their views on vaccines — which labeled them anti-vaxxers in the eyes of all Americans, left or right.

“I don’t know what happened in 1990. There was no plague that was killing children that we had to triple the amount of vaccines,” McCarthy said to Carrey and King.

“What happened after 1989 that warranted 26 more vaccines?” Carrey chimed in, to which McCarthy answered, “Greed.”

“Are all of them absolutely necessary?” Carrey asked. “It’s twice as many as anywhere else in 30 countries in the Western world. We give twice as many shots as any of those countries. Why is that?”

McCarthy went on to advocate for parents educating themselves and asking questions like, “Do we need to have the chicken pox? Do we need the hepatitis B shot on the second day of life?”

“I don’t think we can afford to assume that the people who are charged with our public health any longer have our best interests at heart all the time. Parents have to make their own decisions — educated decisions. They have to look at the information,” Carrey explained.

“Space out the vaccines; delay them until after [age] 1. Clean out the toxins that are in them. We don’t need that many,” McCarthy added.

“Why would a doctor not want to know more about something that could save a life or prevent a disease?” King asked.

“The AAP is financed by the drug companies. Medical schools are financed by the drug companies. This is a huge business. Vaccines are the largest growing division of the pharmaceutical industry. $13 billion. What we’re asking is for them to take a loss for the good of our children. That’s a tough sell in a boardroom,” Carrey answered.

“Wow,” BlazeTV host Pat Gray comments on “Pat Gray Unleashed.” “It’s amazing Jim Carrey survived that, you know, because the left doesn’t like that stuff, right?”

“And they got it from both sides 15 years ago,” executive producer Keith Malinak says before pointing out that the vaccine industry is now at $1.6 trillion a year instead of $13 billion.

“When you do have the weight of the federal government and world agencies behind you pushing the shot that they want everyone and their brother to take multiple times since 2020, that’s going to pad your profits a little bit,” he adds.

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