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Bill Maher torches Sotomayor for botching COVID facts: ‘That’s really ignorant for a Supreme Court justice’
Media high headlines January 21
In media information immediately, Biden takes a swipe at a Fox Information reporter for urgent him on the rising Russia-Ukraine battle, Pete Buttigieg pushes again towards Pleasure Reid’s declare that the infrastructure invoice was a ‘White man employment act,’ and an NPR public editor admits the SCOTUS masking story ‘deserves clarification.’
“Actual Time” host Invoice Maher returned from his vacation break Friday and took goal at liberals for his or her responses to and dealing with of the coronavirus pandemic.
Alongside the best way, the HBO host commented on U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, NBA participant Kyrie Irving of the Brooklyn Nets and U.S. Supreme Court docket Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
Maher kicked off the present’s panel dialogue by itemizing all of the COVID restrictions the UK is lifting from masks mandates to vaccine passports, saying “They’re getting again to regular, we must always observe this.”
U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., argued the U.S. has been “progressively transitioning to regular” and touted the Biden administration rollout of the vaccine, however Substack journalist Bari Weiss mentioned she’s “accomplished with COVID.”
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“We have been instructed you get the vaccine, you get the vaccine and also you get again to regular. And we haven’t gotten again to regular. And it’s ridiculous at this level,” Weiss mentioned. “I do know that so a lot of my liberal and progressive buddies are with me on this and they don’t wish to say it out loud as a result of they’re scared to be referred to as anti-vaxxed or to be referred to as science denial or to be smeared as a Trumper.
“I’m sorry,” she continued, “however for those who consider the science, you’ll have a look at the information that we didn’t have two years in the past and you can see out that fabric masks don’t do something. You’ll understand you could present your vaccine passport at a restaurant and nonetheless be asymptomatic in carrying Omicron. And also you understand, most significantly, that this might be remembered by the youthful technology as a catastrophic ethical crime.”
“We have been instructed you get the vaccine, you get the vaccine and also you get again to regular. And we haven’t gotten again to regular. And it’s ridiculous at this level.”
Weiss pointed to the just lately introduced “indefinite” digital studying at faculties in Flint, Michigan, and the rising self-harm amongst younger women, arguing “that’s the reason we have to finish” the lockdowns and declaring it a “pandemic of forms.”
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Torres pushed again, stressing the most important loss of life toll COVID had on Individuals, notably in New York Metropolis the place he’s from.
“Most New Yorkers noticed a stage of loss of life and struggling we’ve by no means seen in our lives and that’s the supply of the priority about COVID,” Torres mentioned. “I imply, I reject the notion that the response to COVID has been worse than the illness itself.”
“I reject the notion that the response to COVID has been worse than the illness itself.”
Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y.
(Workplace of Rep. Ritchie Torres)
Maher cited the variety of COVID deaths by states per 100,000 folks, highlighting Mississippi, New Jersey and New York amongst “the worst,” asking “may there be two states extra not like” than West Virginia and Massachusetts, which ranked No. 10 and 11.
‘The environment is simply completely different’
He then pointed to Florida, which he referred to as the “poster boy for retaining s— open,” which ranked at No. 17, and concluded, “So, New York and New Jersey did worse than Florida.”
“New York and New Jersey did worse than Florida.”
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“We did worse as a result of we’re a densely populated hub of worldwide journey,” Torres defended his dwelling state.
“Florida is dwelling to all of the outdated folks in America,” Maher shot again. “I used to be simply in Florida. I’ve been there just a few occasions since this began. The environment is simply completely different. I’m not transferring to Florida. I’m not selling Florida. I’m simply saying AOC simply went to Florida and had fun with out a masks on. … The environment was simply evening and day from California, which was gloomy and the Andromeda pressure was on the market. And also you went to Florida and I’m simply saying- sure, there are various factors… however mainly, they stayed open and went on with life and didn’t do a helluva lot worse and possibly did higher.”
“AOC simply went to Florida and had fun with out a masks on. … The environment was simply evening and day from California, which was gloomy.”
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was noticed in Florida along with her boyfriend amid a coronavirus spike in New York Metropolis, in a photograph revealed by Nationwide Evaluation. She later examined constructive for the virus.
(Nationwide Evaluation/Nameless)
The HBO star pivoted to vaccines, declaring how they don’t forestall illness or the unfold of the illness as they have been beforehand marketed however can assist forestall loss of life from COVID. These information, he says, “counteracts” the argument that vaccines “shield different folks.”
‘Nothing to do with science’
“That is I believe the place Democrats look dangerous. Like, ‘We’re the folks of science’ after which a number of what they do has nothing to do with science like suggesting you put on masks exterior. There’s no science to that,” Maher mentioned. “Or that the virus can get me after I’m strolling in a restaurant however not after I’m sitting down. There’s a lot senseless forms! [NBA star] Kyrie Irving can play on the highway however not dwelling video games!’ That- it’s simply silly!”
“Kyrie Irving can play on the highway however not dwelling video games! … It’s simply silly!”
Brooklyn Nets’ Kyrie Irving.
(Related Press)
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Sotomayor slammed
He then pivoted to the current Supreme Court docket listening to that challenged the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate and the way Justice Sonia Sotomayor made wild assertions about COVID, like claiming over “100,000” kids have been at the moment in critical situation at hospitals with the illness and that COVID was a “blood-born virus.”
“They have been all listening to NPR,” Weiss quipped.
“Precisely,” Maher replied. “I imply, that’s actually ignorant for a Supreme Court docket justice. So don’t be the ‘We’re the individuals who consider in science,’ however you don’t have the information! I learn this earlier than, like 41% of Democrats final 12 months thought that over 50% of people that received COVID have been hospitalized. It was lower than 1%.”
“That’s actually ignorant for a Supreme Court docket justice. So don’t be the ‘We’re the individuals who consider in science,’ however you don’t have the information!”
Affiliate Justice Sonia Sotomayor sits throughout a bunch picture of the Justices on the Supreme Court docket in Washington, DC on April 23, 2021.
(Getty Photos)
“However I’m sorry, for those who’re watching cable information all day, proper? That’s what you’re gonna assume,” Weiss mentioned. “There’s misinformation and never simply on podcasts and the web. It’s additionally on cable information. I believe the largest factor to me in regards to the Democrats is… the Democrats is meant to be the celebration of the little man… You recognize what the Democrats at the moment are comfy with, or seemingly comfy with? A two-tiered system through which the haves get to enter a restaurant, snicker with their buddies for hours and the folks serving them are masked and carrying gloves. The place they get to stroll, as AOC did, on the Met Gala whereas within the background the workers appeared like they have been in ‘The Handmaid’s Story.’ I imply, that is, it is a look that’s unbelievably detrimental to them.”
“And jobs,” Maher added. “The folks with, you already know, the consulting jobs, no matter bulls— they do, they get to say at dwelling and order the meals out and do s— by Zoom and whereas the working-class people who find themselves respiration their s—-y air all day. It’s going to create class resentment. I imply, it appears to be like just like the liberals are all the time suggesting sacrifices they themselves don’t have to participate in.”
