So Republican Congressman Louie Gohmert from Texas, one of the wackiest and most ignorant
members of Congress out there has tested positive for corona virus.
Now, Gohmert has also aggressively refused to wear masks, but he believes that some brief
moment of mask wearing may actually be what gave him the virus.
I'm going to show you that video in a moment.
But as a reminder, for months, Louie Gohmert has been seen on Capitol Hill refusing to
wear a mask.
In fact, just two days ago, he was at Attorney General Bill Barr's hearing and walked out
of the room right behind William Barr, neither wearing a mask.
Neither he nor William Barr wearing a mask that is raising questions about Barr as possible
exposure.
Barr has reportedly tested negative since Gomer said back in June that he didn't need
to wear a mask because he didn't have the virus, but said he would put a mask on if
he were to get infected.
Apparently, he must have worn a mask at some point because here is video of Louie Gohmert
now, Koban Positive saying, you know, it might have been wearing a mask that gave me the
virus, but I can only wonder if by keeping your mask on and keeping it in place, let
me if I might have put some germs from afar.
Some of the virus under the mask embrace today.
I don't know.
But I got it.
We'll see what happens from here.
But the reports of my demise are very premature.
The mask gave him the virus, but he doesn't really wear masks, if you can imagine this.
He was actually scheduled to have some kind of birthday barbecue fundraiser later in August
where donors were going to be given.
Meet and greet access to him.
That crazy Fox News host, former Judge Jeanine Pirro, was going to be there as a special
guest.
No word on what's going on with that event.
No word from Fox News as to whether Jeanine Pirro would still be part of the event if
it were going to happen.
But the mask wearing has become very, very partizan at this point.
There's an axios Ipsos poll from a few weeks ago which found that two thirds of Democrats
are wearing masks all the time when they're outside their homes in public, whereas only
about half that number, 35 percent of Republicans are wearing masks.
So it is a significant partizan divide.
And that plays into remember my report from earlier this week that what has forced Trump
or pushed Trump to change his tone on Corona virus has been that advisers went to him and
said, you know, it's disproportionately our people.
That's the word they used our people who are getting this.
So it might be bad from an election standpoint if this continues.
Now, a few other things to show you on this.
Louie Gohmert went on Sean Hannity's Fox News program last night and Sean Hannity was encouraging
him to take hydroxy chloroquine.
And Gohmert said, yeah, I'm taking it.
And it was barely coherent.
He called it Hydra Jocke C Chlorine or something like that.
Take a look at this here.
A guy at, say, Cedar Sinai that knows more about hydroxyl chloroquine than anybody.
Have you thought about any of these if you talk to your doctor about it?
Any thoughts on it for yourself?
Yes.
Yes, I have.
And thanks for the discussion you've had about it.
You know, you've talked about the one study that said it affected have to be withdrawn.
So, yeah.
And I'm doctor and I are all in and I got a text just before I came on.
Dear friend, doctor that just found out he had it and he said he started it, didn't you?
Regimented.
So Zain charism arneson and 100 jox chlorine.
And that will start just in there, too, you know.
So thank you.
So, Gomer.
How is this real life, Gomer?
Not only has no idea what he's taking, he actually says that Hannity's propaganda coverage
of hydroxy chloroquine at least partially influenced his desire to take it.
And then just one more little video for you.
Here is Republican Congressman Kevin McCarthy calling Louie Gohmert, Congressman Kofod and
then correcting himself.
You want to be able to trace it, put him out.
And just as Congressman Coverts, Congressman Louie Gohmert says that he doesn't have any
symptoms, there could be other people like that.
So what?
What a world.
What a world that we live in.
That's just perfect.
I think going forward, I should refer to Louie Gohmert as congressman covered.
Now, let's get serious for a second.
Herman Cain went to Donald Trump's Tulsa, Oklahoma rally or Tulsa.
Some people say, and he was then diagnosed with coronavirus.
He has now died.
And there is every reason to believe that Herman Cain, former presidential candidate
and supporter of Trump, caught the virus at Trump's Corona rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
He is dead now.
OK, so when we talk about this, I take no pleasure in Herman Cain dying of Corona virus,
even as it appears he caught it at an optional rally that Donald Trump did.
But we've just got to be serious and realistic here.
When I talk to people in other countries, people like Louie Gohmert and these other
moron Republicans, they often come up.
And sometimes people in other countries just can't even understand what's going on.
Like, how is it even possible for people like Goma to get elected?
How is it even real life that Donald Trump is holding a rally with sixty five hundred
people indoors in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which now, as far as we believe led to the infection
of Herman Cain and subsequently the death like, did Trump kill his friend by having
that rally?
Is that is that a crazy thing to say?
How is it even possible that Louie Gohmert is elected?
And you really just have to understand the United States to understand that?
I mean, I understand the electorate in the Texas 1st Congressional District.
These are not ad homonyms, the Texas 1st Congressional District, where Louie Gohmert is elected and
the read the district that he represents, it's wildly right wing.
Trump got 72 percent of the vote in the first district of Texas in 2016.
Mitt Romney got 72 percent of the vote in 2012.
McCain got 69 percent in 2008.
Bush got 68 and 69 percent in 2000 and 2004.
This is a wildly right wing area and that correlates at this point in time, 2020 in
the United States, disproportionately with anti science beliefs.
Texas is first district has even more pronounced Texas problems.
Texas is not a place with.
Secularly good health care.
Texas is not a place with particularly good education.
It's extra not good in the first district of Texas.
So this is a complicated place.
They tragically keep electing Louie Gohmert and we're seeing the consequences of this
anti science ideology.
One of the things I'm going to talk about at the start of tomorrow's program is that
Dr. Anthony Foushee is now in the unenviable position of having to beg and plead with America
to listen to science and doctors.
That's where we are.
Meanwhile, look at what's happening in New Zealand.
Look at what's happened in South Korea.
Look at Vietnam.
Look at, you know, Greece placed dramatically different places culturally, geographically
and economically.
All have figured out how to deal with the virus.
And this is what we're dealing with.
This is a tragedy.
And, you know, the human debt, the human toll party aside, is my priority.
I don't want anyone to get the virus or die.
But there is one side that has been the cause of these problems and they must be held accountable.
If they are not, what's to prevent them from doing exactly the same thing?
Next time