MEDIA WINNER: John Oliver
John Oliver went after Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson on Sunday night for pushing vaccine myths, going as far as to slam Carlson as a “super spreader.” “Our best way out of this mess long term is clearly vaccines,” Oliver argued. “These vaccines can save not just your life but the lives of people around you, and it’s genuinely dispiriting that just a few months into the vaccine rollout we are already at this point. And the problem is, for the coronavirus, the herd immunity threshold is thought to be between 70 and 90 percent of the population, but a survey found that while 60 percent of American adults have got, or want to get, the vaccine and about 18 percent say ‘maybe,’ and 22 percent say ‘no.’” Despite the fact that a significant percentage of the population is still hesitant to get their shot, largely followed media figures and hosts pushed misinformation surrounding the vaccine. OIiver laid waste to them.
“The CDC is being cautious, and wants to be sure it’s not spreading bullsh*t around during a global pandemic like a frozen dinner duke with a TV show,” he said addressing Carlson's remarks. “Anyway, I hope that answers at least one of your gape-mouthed, bad-faith wonderings, Tucker, you scrunch-faced fear baboon.”
“Stop listening to what Joe Rogan tells you, he’s a ‘f***ing moron’—and those are his words, not mine,” he said, in this classic, devastating segment. |