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GOP and Fox News Spread an Insane New Lie About Biden Banning Meat: A Closer Look - YouTube
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-A Republican senator said
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he was suspicious of the push
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to vaccinate people
against COVID-19,
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the House GOP leader
is stonewalling the commission
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to investigate the January 6
insurrection at the Capitol,
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and conservatives have come up
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with an insane new lie
about Joe Biden --
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he wants to ban meat.
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For more on this,
it's time for "A Closer Look."
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鈾櫔
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Perhaps the central theme
of our politics, at the moment,
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is that one of our two
major political coalitions
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is growing more extreme,
more authoritarian,
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more paranoid, and more detached
from reality by the day.
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Republicans seem to think
Joe Biden's army
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of antifa super soldiers
is going to come to your house
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and take your Dr. Seuss books
and your hamburgers
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and I'm only slightly
exaggerating.
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-Say goodbye to your burgers,
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if you want to sign up
for the Biden climate agenda.
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Researchers say you'd have
to cut about 90%
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of red meat from your diet.
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For Americans,
that means a limit
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of four pounds
of red meat per year.
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-Americans would have to cut
red meat consumption
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by a whopping 90%.
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That means
only one burger a month.
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-Part of his climate,
or green, targets are
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to cut our red meat.
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He wants to cut out
90% of the red meat
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that you all eat --
that's four pounds a year.
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-Listen,
four pounds a year?
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That's my weekly consumption
of red meat, at minimum.
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-No burgers on July 4th.
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No steaks on the barbie.
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I'm sure Middle America
is just going to love that.
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Can you grill
those Brussels sprouts?
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So get ready.
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You can throw back
a plant-based beer
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with your grilled
Brussels sprouts
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and wave your American flag.
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-That's right,
in Biden's America,
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you'll have to celebrate
July 4th
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by drinking a plant-based beer,
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as opposed to, you know,
all those meat-based beers.
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Does he think PBR stands
for pork and beef ribs?
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Does he think Hamm's
is made with real ham?
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I mean, what the hell
am I supposed
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to put in my Corona now,
a lime wedge?
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What's that?
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It's always been a lime wedge?
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Well, in my America,
we drink our Corona
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with a pig in a blanket
jammed in the neck.
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So, Larry Kudlow
is a dumb person,
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but, hey, at least
he's harmless, right?
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I mean, what job did he have
in the Trump administration?
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Director of the
National Economic Council?
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[Bleep] That's not good.
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Also, it will not surprise you
to learn
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this dumb,
right-wing conspiracy theory
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is made up entirely
out of thin air,
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after the Daily Mail
wrote an article
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about a University of Michigan
study that had nothing to do
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with Biden's plan
or the Green New Deal.
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Nowhere in Biden's plan
does it say anything
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about reducing
red meat consumption
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and Biden has never uttered
such a thing
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and, yet, on cue,
Republicans have run wild
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with this dumb
and completely baseless lie.
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For example, there was
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Colorado Congresswoman
Lauren Boebert,
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whose last name, incidentally,
sounds like a Dilbert character
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who wears
a "Don't Tread on Me T-shirt.
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[ Laughter ]
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That was way better
than I thought it would be.
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[ Laughter ]
One more time.
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Oh, yeah, that's good.
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Boebert tweeted...
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And Donald Trump Jr. tweeted...
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Four pounds?
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It's going to be
a hard something from you.
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[ Laughter ]
Try to get some fiber
in there, DJ.
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Jesus!
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No wonder this weirdo
always has the sweaty,
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bloated vibe of Joey Chestnut
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at the end of a hot dog
eating contest.
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Also, back
to Boebert's comments.
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Don't think you're the first
person who told Joe Biden
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to stay out of their kitchen.
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Definitely strikes me
as the kind of grandpa
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who's always sneaking in
and sticking his finger
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in the cake batter
before it goes in the oven.
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"Joe, I told you to stay
out of my kitchen."
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[ As Biden ]
My hands are clean.
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"That's only one hand, Joe."
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[ As Biden ]
I'm going to show you
the other one.
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But you need to know
there's chocolate on it
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from earlier today.
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Anyway, the point is,
this is what they're focused on,
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dumb lies
with no basis in reality.
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Over the weekend, former
House Speaker Newt Gingrich
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claimed Biden
was attacking Americans
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with so-called
traditional values
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by repealing a policy imposed
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by former Secretary of State
Mike Pompeo
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that banned diplomats
from flying gay pride flags
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outside U.S. embassies.
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-If you listed every
idiotic thing
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that the Obama administration
has done
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in the first 100 days,
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you begin to realize whether
it's threatening everybody
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who believes
in the Second Amendment
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or it's attacking everybody
who believes in right to life
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or it is attacking people
of traditional values
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who are appalled that
this administration would fly
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the gay flag at American
embassies all over the world.
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I mean, you just go down,
item by item,
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and it's almost like
they have a checklist
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of, "What can we do
that will really,
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truly infuriate
traditional Americans?"
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-Yeah, totally, the same
so-called traditional Americans
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who supported
the thrice-married adulterer
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who had an affair
with a porn star
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and thought the Bible was
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about two dudes
named Corinthian.
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Also, you know, maybe the dude
who had multiple affairs,
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including one that led
to his resignation
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as speaker of the House,
should hold his tongue,
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when it comes to so-called
traditional values.
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And why are the gross,
adulterous creeps
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always the ones lamenting
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the decline of traditional
values, anyway?
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Is it because,
when they say traditional,
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what they actually mean are
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the days when you'd go
to your office,
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call all the women sweetheart,
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drink a half gallon of gin
with your two-hour lunch,
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then leave at 4:00 and your wife
would have dinner ready for you,
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you'd put on your sweater
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and sit by the fire
reading the newspaper,
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while the kids whose birthdays
you don't know did the chores,
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and then, you'd head back out
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to get spanked on the ass
with a Forbes magazine
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in a hotel by a porn star?
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[ Laughing ]
Remember that story?
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Talk about red meat.
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Yowza!
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[ Laughter ]
Also, I wish
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the Biden administration
had a checklist like that.
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If you're some ass[bleep]
who's genuinely mad
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that an American
embassy somewhere
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is flying a gay pride flag,
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then you deserve
to be infuriated.
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[ As Gingrich ]
Honey, bad news.
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We got to cancel
the trip to Iceland.
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They're flying the gay pride
flag at the embassy in Reykjavik
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and they won't let me
take my gun on the glacier tour,
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which is all well and good,
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until we encounter
a threatening gnome.
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[ Irish accent ]
Give me your wallet and all
your fermented whale meat.
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That's right,
I'm from Ireland.
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[ Laughter ]
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A lot of us are.
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[ Laughter ]
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I'm here on a visa.
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[ Laughter ]
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These people are so deeply
detached from reality,
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they think the biggest problems
facing America right now,
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amid a once-in-a-century
pandemic,
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economic crash, rising poverty,
and child hunger
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are embassies
flying gay pride flags
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and totally fictional meat bans.
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What's next,
is antifa going to force you
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to take the COVID vaccine
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so Bill Gates can inject you
with a chip
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that tracks how many
hamburgers you eat?
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Again, I'm only
barely exaggerating
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because, last week,
Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson
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went on an insane
and dangerous rant
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where he suggested there was
some sort of vague conspiracy
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going on with all
the emphasis on vaccines.
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Those are pretty
suspicious things
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you made up
inside your weird head.
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But, yeah,
if you have your COVID shot,
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why do you care
if your neighbor gets it?
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And another thing,
if you have your rabies shot,
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why do you care if I fill your
bathtub with daytime raccoons?
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But, despite furious pushback
from sane people,
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Ron John doubled down
in a statement, saying...
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But that's not
what you're doing.
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Instead, you're one
of these cynical
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"Just asking questions" guys.
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The guys who merely insinuate
deranged lies,
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in order to feed rabid
conspiracy theories
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to your paranoid base
and score political points,
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but do it
in the most cowardly way,
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by "just asking questions."
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It's called
the Tucker Carlson maneuver.
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Soon, you'll start squinting
like you're trying to solve
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the jumble
on the back of a cereal box
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and laughing uncontrollably
at inappropriate moments,
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like you just got released
from Arkham Asylum.
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-I'm kind of more worried
about the rest of the country,
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which, thanks
to police inaction,
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in case you haven't noticed,
is like boarded up.
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[ Laughs ]
So, that's more my concern.
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In other words,
you're being replaced
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and there's nothing you can do
about it, so shut up!
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[ Laughs ]
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-I'm not going to even make fun
of that laugh
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because I'm worried, if I do,
the next time I hear it will be
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through a muffled pillow
being pressed down on my face.
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Anyway, the point is,
if you were genuinely trying
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to inform people,
you'd tell them
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about the detailed safety
and efficacy data
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from both the trials
and the real-world studies,
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which show that the vaccines
work incredibly well
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and are incredibly safe.
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We also keep getting new data,
telling us
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that the new vaccines cut down
on transmission, too.
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So, yes, your neighbors
should get it,
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both for their own health
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and so they don't spread it
to someone else.
[534]
Also, young and healthy people
are getting sicker
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and going to hospitals
in higher numbers,
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especially in states with high
case numbers, like Michigan.
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And, lastly, we want
as many people as possible
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to get vaccinated, so the virus
isn't constantly circulating
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at high levels
and we can get back
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to some semblance of normal,
without having to worry
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about cases, hospitalizations,
and deaths going back up.
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I shouldn't have to explain
all this to you.
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I'm just a late night
talk show host.
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What little science I know,
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I have cobbled together
from "Jurassic Park" movies,
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Snapple caps,
and previous "Closer Looks."
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You know how little attention
I paid in science class?
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I thought the periodic table
is something you bought
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at Pottery Barn.
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[ Rimshot ]
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Yes.
Thank you, Fred.
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Finally,
a perfectly timed rimshot.
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[ Rimshot ]
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Yep, we just --
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We just only need the one,
buddy.
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[ Rimshot ]
[578]
Fred, seriously,
just no more room shots.
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I mean, what am I,
[581]
a proctologist?
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Okay, well, that --
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We definitely need one there.
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[ Rimshot ]
Just --
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[ Laughter ]
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[ Exhales ]
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Anyway, Ron Johnson is the same
guy who suggested
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it was actually fake
Trump supporters
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who stormed the Capitol
on January 6th,
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a lie that has ricocheted
around right-wing media.
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In fact, on Sunday,
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House GOP leader
Kevin McCarthy said
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he wants any commission
investigating the insurrection
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to also look at antifa
and Black Lives Matter.
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-For the last year,
we've had political violence
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across this country
and in this city.
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I think we should look
at all of that.
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-Why not confine
this committee --
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it's a big deal --
to what happened on January 6,
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when you had this
insurrection at the Capitol?
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-You had an insurrection
in the Capitol.
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You've had political violence
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for the last year,
in this building.
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You had, a Good Friday,
an officer killed
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for political belief,
right on that Capitol as well.
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If you're now going to put
a commission together,
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why wouldn't you look at all
the problems to solve --
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-Oh, you want a commission
to look at all the problems?
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Then, while we're at it,
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can we have the commission
investigate this?
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-I want you to watch
Nancy Pelosi
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hand me that gavel.
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[ Cheering, whistling,
and applause ]
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And I promise you this --
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I won't bang her with it,
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but I'll bang the end to the
socialism, and yes to America.
[655]
-That is one of the weirdest
sentences I've ever heard,
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and I work near Times Square.
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Do you know how often
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I've had German tourists
come up to me and ask...?
[662]
[ German accent ]
Can you tell where's
the headquarters
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of ze little
chocolate candy man?
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"Sorry,
you mean the M&M's store?"
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[ German accent ]
Ja. We want to meet
the sexy one.
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[ Laughter ]
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[ Irish accent ]
I wouldn't mind, either.
I'm from Iceland.
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[ Laughter ]
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Do you mind giving me
a w-w-wee bit of directions?
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[ Laughter ]
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You can't just take a commission
about an insurrection,
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a very specific
and horrifying event
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in the history of this country,
and make it
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about whatever you want,
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just to score dumb political
points with your base.
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When Republicans spent a year
investigating Benghazi,
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Democrats weren't like,
"Hey, while we're at it,
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could we also investigate what
Harrison Ford's been smoking?"
[696]
Whatever that strain is,
let's legalize that [bleep] now.
[699]
It's like my man went
to Union Station
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to catch a train
and only then found out
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they were hosting the Oscars.
[704]
"Hey, since you're here,
[705]
you want to give one out
for editing?"
[706]
[ As Ford ]
Sure, I do carry around these
[708]
"Blade Runner" editing notes.
[710]
[ Laughter ]
And there's a lot more
we need to find out
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about what, exactly, happened
on that day,
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which is why we need
a commission
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singularly focused
on the insurrection.
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For example, one of the few
Republican members of Congress
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who voted to impeach Trump
has said that McCarthy told her
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about a conversation
he had with Trump
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in the middle of the riot,
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in which Trump seemed
to justify the insurrection.
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-This is actually part of the
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impeachment record,
the second impeachment.
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This was read
into the record there...
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-I mean, I suppose that's true,
but it's a little like saying,
[749]
"Well, I guess these zombies
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enjoy eating brains more
than you do."
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So, clearly,
Trump supported the attack,
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as if we needed
any more evidence.
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He would've been
perfectly happy,
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if the mob had successfully
taken over the Capitol,
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stopped the counting
of electoral votes,
[761]
and allowed him
to overturn the results.
[763]
Saying Trump didn't know
anything about it
[765]
is like saying Glenn Close
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doesn't know how to do Da Butt.
[768]
Second Oscars joke.
[769]
Look, we follow the buzz, okay?
[771]
That's what people
are talking about,
[772]
so that's what we
write jokes about.
[773]
No more "M-A-S-H" references.
[775]
No more jokes
about Vince Vaughn-Owen Wilson
[778]
buddy comedies
from 20 years ago.
[779]
From now on, it is all fresh,
[781]
topical, pop culture references
here at "Late Night."
[785]
Anyway, McCarthy was asked
if that account
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of his conversation
with Trump was accurate
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and McCarthy refused to say.
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-Is that what President Trump
said to you?
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-When I talked
to President Trump about it,
[795]
I was the first person
to contact him
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when the riot was going on.
He didn't see it.
[799]
What he ended the call
was saying, telling me,
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he'll put something out
to make sure to stop this.
[804]
And that's what he did,
he put a video out later.
[807]
-Quite a lot later.
[808]
And it was a pretty weak video.
[809]
But I'm asking you specifically,
did he say to you,
[812]
"I guess some people
are more concerned
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about the election
than you are?"
[816]
-No, listen, my conversations
with the president
[818]
are my conversations
with the president.
[819]
-Wow, he avoided that question
[821]
like he was Vince Vaughn
in "Dodgeball."
[823]
[ As Vaughn ]
Buddy, buddy, buddy,
you're killing me, here.
[824]
I would never divulge
a private conversation.
[826]
I'm a discreet guy.
[827]
You know that about me.
[829]
Do I gossip occasionally?
Sure.
[830]
Would I let a secret slip,
here and there,
[832]
in return for a favor?
Who wouldn't?
[833]
But I tell you, I would never
[835]
tell someone else
what you told me in confidence.
[837]
Not now, not ever.
[838]
[ As Wilson ]
Alright. Wow, man. Right on.
[841]
[ Laughter ]
Owen Wilson wasn't
in "Dodgeball,"
[842]
but, I mean,
he should've been, right?
[843]
So I lied, when I said
[845]
[ Laughter ]
our references, from now on,
would be fresh.
[847]
Much like Kevin McCarthy lied
in that answer.
[849]
Segue!
[850]
Because, first of all,
[ Laughter ]
[852]
there's no way Trump didn't know
what was going on
[854]
until McCarthy called him.
[855]
We have contemporaneous
accounts telling us
[857]
Trump was watching it all
unfold on TV
[859]
and gleefully egging it on
and, even if we didn't
[862]
have those accounts,
we'd still know
[864]
that Trump was aware of the
insurrection as it was happening
[868]
because he's always watching TV.
[870]
Honestly, I'm not sure
why it never occurred to us,
[873]
but we could've avoided
his presidency
[875]
by just planting him
in front of the wall of TVs
[877]
at Circuit City for four years.
[879]
[ As Trump ]
Circuit City, folks.
They love us there.
[881]
Won it in a landslide.
[882]
Sadly, it wasn't enough
[884]
to overcome
all the fraudulent votes
[886]
from The Wiz.
[887]
That's why nobody
beats them, folks.
[889]
[ Laughter ]
It's all a fraud.
[890]
But what a slogan.
What a slogan.
[892]
We used to have the best
slogans, didn't we, folks?
[894]
What happened to all
our beautiful slogans?
[897]
Got to go to Mos,
Mos Def, Def Comedy Jam.
[899]
[ Laughter ]
Jam!
[901]
We love jam, don't we, folks?
[902]
Smucker's
[ Laughter ]
[904]
sounds dirty.
Not. Not dirty.
[907]
"With a name like Smucker's,
it's got to be good."
[910]
[ Laughter ]
[911]
That's what they say.
It's true.
[913]
But you can't buy it anymore.
That's what I hear.
[916]
They canceled Smucker's.
[918]
[ Laughter ]
I haven't been to a store
in years.
[920]
I don't know
if that's true, but.
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[ Laughter ]
[923]
Also, Trump didn't put a video
out to stop anything.
[926]
He told the rioters,
"We love you.
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You're very special."
[929]
One of those weird,
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outdoor videos of his
on the White House lawn,
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where he looks like
he's filming a YouTube tutorial
[936]
on how to properly
trim your hedges.
[938]
This is one
of the central themes
[939]
of our politics, at the moment.
The Republican Party
[941]
is an increasingly paranoid,
authoritarian movement,
[944]
defending a president
who incited an insurrection
[947]
and spreading unhinged lies
about everything
[949]
from life-saving vaccines
to imaginary bans on red meat.
[951]
I mean, it's almost like
all these guys are drunk on...
[953]
-Plant-based beer.
[955]
-This has been
"A Closer Look."
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