Woody Harrelson’s vaccine jab wasn’t wrong: The Left still can’t take a joke over COVID
nypost.comHarrelson said. “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.”He added, “I threw the script away.
I mean, who was going to believe that crazy idea? Being forced to do drugs? I do that voluntarily all day long.”Predictably, the blowback was swift, with nearly every ensuing news story proclaiming Harrelson was spreading anti-vax conspiracy theories.
Outrage spread on Twitter and a Vanity Fair critic opined: “Taking the stage to float conspiracy theories disguised as provocative humor is both intellectually dishonest and tedious.” But maybe the former “Cheers” star had it coming.
After all, he made a joke about Our Lady of Pfizer. And during Lent, of all seasons. We all know the only approved vax humor is a jazzy dance number with human syringes twirling around Stephen Colbert.Harrelson — who was brilliant as rubber-handed Roy Munson in “Kingpin” and most recently playing a hyperbolic version of himself in “Curb Your Enthusiasm” — can and should be judged on the quality of the joke.
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