As we pointed out, while hosting Saturday Night Live this weekend, host Woody Harrelson made a joke about the COVID-19 pandemic in his opening monologue.
Rolling Stone magazine, which used to be about music reviews and counter-culture, was absolutely mortified.
Take a look.
Woody Harrelson spreads Covid conspiracy theories during SNL monologue: "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…" https://t.co/QxCZSxLSvE
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) February 26, 2023
Here’s an excerpt from the Rolling Stone article, via Yahoo News:
Woody Harrelson Spreads Anti-Vax Conspiracies During SNL Monologue
Woody Harrelson has always harbored some, well, strange views.
The Oscar-nominated actor, who first won over audiences on Cheers, is a 9/11 truther who’s shared a number of conspiracy theories during the Covid pandemic. In April 2020, Harrelson posted a gonzo article tying the supposed “negative effects of 5G” to the spread of Covid, saying he found it “very interesting.” In a May 2022 interview with Vanity Fair, Harrelson said of mask-wearing during the pandemic, “As one who doesn’t believe in the germ theory, I find it rather absurd.”
And so, during his rambling SNL monologue Saturday night, an apparently under the influence Harrelson continued along these lines. After a winding story about smoking weed — shouting-out his pot shop in West Hollywood, The Woods, and claiming his manager, Jeremy, transported weed from the LA shop to New York for him — Harrelson went into a spiel about the pandemic.
Here’s Woody’s full monologue, in case you missed it. It’s actually kind of boring. The first five and a half minutes are dumb jokes about his pot-smoking habits. The COVID joke finally comes in the last minute.
Woody Harrelson's monologue! pic.twitter.com/FAEcBDnIKu
— Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) February 26, 2023
Rolling Stone sure has a short memory.
This is a magazine that published a rape hoax story in 2014 that ruined people’s lives.
In 2014, Rolling Stone ran the false story 'A Rape on Campus' accusing UVA students of committing rape as a fraternity initiation.
"I had full faith in Jackie and in her story… discovering that… she has misled me… it was… just devastating."
– Sabrina Erdely, Author pic.twitter.com/3c23vK5WA9
— TORCHDE (@torchde_) February 20, 2023
This is a magazine that put Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on their cover.
Remember when you guys did this? pic.twitter.com/5bKJl4M92h
— Mike LaChance (@MikeLaChance33) February 26, 2023
When did they start to think they are so morally superior?
And when did they become so pro-establishment?
Remember when this magazine was COUNTERculture? https://t.co/NlPOC3zvCc
— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) February 26, 2023
Remember when RS was an anti-establishment rock magazine? https://t.co/Yg3Vc9BpiW
— Doug Powers (@ThePowersThatBe) February 26, 2023
Rolling Stone's editorial policy that actors and musicians, the most creative deviants in our culture, must also follow liberal media polite progressive dogma, certainly is an editorial choice. https://t.co/qEgU51hJ2F
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) February 26, 2023
Rolling Stone has been taken over by social justice warriors of the woke left. This is a real headline.
Rolling Stone does it again with this crazy headline.
— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) February 21, 2023
Doesn’t that say it all?
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