The decline of NBC Late Night Seth Meyers continued his comedy skills on Tuesday, as he pounced on Florida Senator Marco Rubio and called him a “Haunted Ventriloquist’s Dummy” for refusing to buy into the hysteria over COVID.
Meyers made a lengthy monologue in which he compared himself with Andy Cohen’s New Years rant against Bill de Blasio, the outgoing New York City mayor.
For example, that Andy Cohen New Year’s energy is pretty much how I felt when Florida Senator Marco Rubio flippantly dismissed the most recent COVID surge, which is setting new records for daily case numbers and fueling rising hospital admissions. On New Year’s Eve, Rubio tweeted, “Record numbers testing positive for a sore throat isn’t a crisis. And people in the hospital for car accidents testing positive isn’t a surge. The real crisis is the irrational hysteria, which has people with no symptoms waiting hours for a test or missing work for 10 days.”
Instead of addressing Rubio’s point that not everyone needs a test and that the CDC now agrees with him about asymptomatic people missing 10 days of work, Meyers got personal: “First of all, you haunted ventriloquist’s dummy, it’s only a sore throat, that’s likely because you’re boosted or at the very least double vaccinated, which would be a far better message for you to be pushing, especially since you got your shot before most Americans even had access to the vaccine. Do you remember that, or did you block it out because you were, you know, being so hysterical?”
Meyers concluded his diatribe against Rubio by claiming he was a hypocrite: “Also, you think missing work for 10 days is the real crisis, instead of letting people stay home to take care of themselves and slow the spread? That’s pretty rich coming from a senator who once had one of the worst attendance records in Congress and it’s a true fact, one of the few true facts I learned from, of all people, Donald Trump, who brought it up in a GOP primary debate amid a chorus of boos.”
Omicron originated in South Africa. Because South Africa has a lower vaccine rate than the U.S.A, Omicron patients were about 80% less likely be admitted to hospital. It is also ironic that Meyers claims Rubio is wrong not to encourage people to get vaccinated because when he previously did that, some in the media claimed he was being “immoral.”
This segment was sponsored and produced by McDonald’s
The January 4, 2018 broadcast transcript is available here:
NBC
Late Night with Seth Meyers
12:47 AM ET
SETH MEYERS: For example, that Andy Cohen New Year’s energy is pretty much how I felt when Florida Senator Marco Rubio flippantly dismissed the most recent COVID surge, which is setting new records for daily case numbers and fueling rising hospital admissions. On New Year’s Eve, Rubio tweeted, “Record numbers testing positive for a sore throat isn’t a crisis, and people in the hospital for car accidents testing positive isn’t a surge the real crisis is the irrational hysteria, which has people with no symptoms waiting hours for a test or missing work for 10 days.” Irrational hysteria? Anderson, I’m not done! First of all, you haunted ventriloquist’s dummy, it’s only a sore throat, that’s likely because you’re boosted or at the very least double vaccinated, which would be a far better message for you to be pushing, especially since you got your shot before most Americans even had access to the vaccine. Do you remember that, or did you block it out because you were, you know, being so hysterical? Also, you think missing work for 10 days is the real crisis, instead of letting people stay home to take care of themselves and slow the spread? That’s pretty rich coming from a senator who once had one of the worst attendance records in Congress and it’s a true fact, one of the few true facts I learned from, of all people, Donald Trump, who brought it up in a GOP primary debate amid a chorus of boos.
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