“It has been like this for a long time, but especially when you look around now, you can easily get the feeling that almost everything in our country is broken,” said Seth Meyers in his first episode of Late at night after taking the previous week off. “The past year has been one of incessant misery, dysfunction and chaos – and yes, I know I’m starting to sound like Werner Herzog at the top of one of these segments.”
But with more than 500,000 Americans killed by COVID-19 and an ongoing power and water crisis in Texas, this is where we are. And the host spent the next few minutes hammering Newsmax for his “desperate” attempt to smear Joe Biden’s dog instead of covering the actual news and Fox News for relentlessly speaking the blatant lie that green energy is the debt is in Texas.
“Like clockwork, the Fox News disinformation machine went to work blaming the Texas power outage for something that currently does not exist in any form in Texas or nationally, the Green New Deal,” Meyers said before he a montage played. of the many times Fox anchors hammered that story, culminating in a runaway rant by Tucker Carlson about ‘windmills’.
“How would you like to see a windmill in your backyard making noise, chopping birds and sucking up all your air?” Meyers asked, impersonating Fox’s host. “How would you like a windmill to move in and live in your house, eat all your food and drink all your booze? How would you like that windmill to get suspiciously close with your wife, to the point where they go shopping together without you, leaving you wondering at home what they are doing in the outlet mall while looking out the window at all the chopped birds on your lawn? “
It went on like this until Meyers as Carlson warned viewers, “My wife left me for a windmill and it will happen to you too!”
“Of course, you will not be surprised that this lie is aggressively mendacious and stupid,” he added, returning to reality, citing a study that found Texas electricity is overwhelmingly generated by natural gas and coal, along with some nuclear energy. “Which of course it does, it’s Texas!” Meyers said. They used to have a soccer team called the Houston Oilers, not the Houston Solar Panels. “
“And I’m sorry to say this because it is, you know, insanely clear,” he continued, “but the Green New Deal is not something that exists in Texas or nationally. blame Avatar 2It’s not over yet! “
Instead, he explained, it was frozen natural gas lines due to a lack of regulation that primarily caused the outages and only seven percent of Texas winter power capacity was expected to come from wind. “Kind of like how you can only believe about 7 percent of what you see on Fox News,” said Meyers.
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