Top Fox News host references Mayo factory in TV commentary

by Caoimhin Rowland

The host of prime time Fox News current affairs show, ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight,’ has informed his viewers of the fact the world's entire supply of Botox is manufactured on the west coast of Ireland.

Carlson stated that “too few people outside of the world of television even consider” the fact that Allergan’s plant in Westport boasts the primary global facility for the anti-wrinkle product which is in high demand amongst celebrities and TV anchors across America.

Bemoaning the “4,000 mile long supply chain from the Allergan plant in Westport to Jupiter, Florida," the often controversial Carlson highlighted: "Our country has no domestic Botox production and it is one of many pharmaceutical products that we have recklessly offshored."

Warning presenters of rival TV station MSNBC, he added: “If the trucks stop delivering, the Botox stops coming.”

Carlson made his comments in the context of citing the current shortage of HGV drivers in the USA.

Carlson expressed his belief that if the flow of Botox is ever interrupted travelling from the Castlebar Road in Westport to America’s shores, it is then and only then that his media and political opponents on the left will feel the pinch of the trucker shortage hampering logistics right across the United States.

Allergan has been a proud fixture in the west Mayo town since 1977 and boasts employment of over 300 highly trained science graduates in the fields of chemistry and microbiology as well as crucial research and development support activities located in Westport, where workers produce almost 800 million units of the product on an annual basis.