During his opening monologue, he joked about some of the rules regarding the lockdowns that the country experienced during the COVID-19 lockdown stage. It seemed to anger many liberals as they felt it was inappropriate to joke around. However, others say that liberals are taking things far too seriously and completely missing the point of Saturday Night Live.
Harrelson was there to promote the latest movie that he is in as well and said: "Okay, so the movie goes like this," and "The biggest drug cartels in the world get together and buy up all the media and all the politicians and force all the people in the world to stay locked in their homes and people can only come out if they take the cartel's drugs and keep taking them over and over."
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Pop Base, an account that tracks pop culture trends and tweets about them, stated that the actor was releasing "anti-vax propaganda during his opening monologue."
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Author Steven Beschloss tweeted: "So Woody Harrelson uses his SNL monologue to push his hostility to Covid vaccines? Really?"
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The Post Millennial reports that the Twitter account KanekoaTheGreat put out a collection of various media outlet accounts pushing the same narrative that Harrelson was somehow pushing out conspiracy theories on SNL. KanekoaTheGreat then tweeted out a recent clip of Harrelson on Bill Maher's show speaking about the COVID vaccine. During that time, he stated:
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"The last people I would trust with my health is Big Pharma and big government because neither one of those strike me as caring entities."
He continued by saying: "Ivermectin got made into a horse tranquilizer. Hydroxychloroquine got made ridiculous, and there was only one thing that could work, and that's the vaccine, and ultimately, because of that, billions of dollars were made."
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The COVID-19 virus spread throughout the United States beginning in the early months of 2020 and caused numerous businesses to shut down in response to that virus. Donald Trump's Operation Warp Speed worked with pharmaceutical companies to get a vaccine created for this deadly disease faster than virtually any vaccine created in history. That is a significant accomplishment, and it is something that should be recognized as a major accomplishment for the Trump White House. Only some people will give them credit for that, but it is something that has to be recognized at this time.