“It’s been like this for a long time, but especially when you look around, it’s easy to feel like everything in our country is broken,” Seth Meyers said in his first episode of Late night after taking off the previous week. “Over the past year, there has been constant 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 dying of COVID-19 and an ongoing power and water crisis in Texas, this is where we are. And the host slammed Newsmax for the next few minutes for his ‘desperate’ attempt to smear Joe Biden’s dog instead of covering real news and Fox News for relentlessly pushing the blatant lie that blamed green energy in Texas has.
“Like a clock, the Fox information machine went to work and blamed the power outage in Texas for something that does not currently exist in Texas or nationally, the Green New Deal,” Meyers said before played a montage of the many times Fox anchors hammered that narrative, which culminated in a relentless outburst from Tucker Carlson over ‘windmills’.
“How do you want a windmill in your backyard that makes noise, cuts up birds and sucks up all your air?” Asked Meyers, mimicking the Fox host. ‘How would you like a windmill to move in with you and live in your house, eat all your food and drink all your booze? How would you like the windmill to approach your wife suspiciously, to the point where they go shopping without you, making you wonder at home what they’re doing in the mall while looking out your window at all? the chopped birds on your lawn? ”
It went on like this until Meyers warned viewers, “My wife left me for a windmill and it will happen to you too!”
“Of course, it would not surprise you to hear that this lie is aggressively stupid,” he adds, returning to reality, citing a study showing that the power of Texas is overwhelmingly generated by natural gas and coal. along with a bit of nuclear power. “Which, of course, is Texas!” Meyers said. They used to have a football team called the Houston Oilers, not the Houston Solar Panels. ‘
“And I’m sorry I have to say that, because it’s, you know, insanely obvious, ‘he continued,’ but the Green New Deal does not exist in Texas or nationally. It’s like blaming your problems Avatar 2. It’s not out yet! ”
Instead, he explained, it was frozen natural gas lines due to lack of regulations that mainly caused the disruptions, and only seven percent of Texas’ winter power capacity was expected to come from wind. “So a little bit about how you can only believe about 7 percent of what you see on Fox News,” Meyers said.
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