Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk admitted on Monday that he had not seen “Saturday Night Live” regularly in recent years. Still, he expressed his fascination with a recent skit by Woody Harrelson on the show.
The skit was a satire that mocked Big Pharma by portraying them as drug cartels that compel people to take the COVID vaccine to be allowed out of their homes. In his monologue, Harrelson described the plot of a fictional movie where the world’s biggest drug cartels purchase all media and political figures to manipulate the world’s population.
Kirk found Harrelson’s remarks particularly noteworthy, questioning whether they were off-hand, scripted, or spontaneous. He believed that Harrelson was stating something true – that Big Tech purchases the media, and pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer buy them too. He argued that Harrelson’s comment had sparked an extraordinary response.
“If you look carefully, news segment after news segment is brought you by Pfizer,” Kirk noted. “Woody Harrelson, albeit a little clumsily but truthfully, committed the crime of noticing.”
Kirk also observed that multiple national news articles exhibited biased coverage of Harrelson’s SNL monologue, depicting him as a conspiracy theorist. The Daily Beast and Rolling Stone used similar headlines, which Kirk criticized for lacking originality.
After delivering his punchline, Harrelson said, “I tossed the script out. Who would buy into that wild concept of being coerced into taking drugs? I do that willingly all the time.” Kirk quickly pointed out the irony in Harrelson’s statement, saying that it was precisely what many people had experienced over the last three years. He cited the military members who were kicked out because they did not want to take the mRNA vaccine and the individuals who lost their jobs because they refused to take the shot.
In Kirk’s opinion, Harrelson’s monologue took place on a crucial path for shaping the narrative – on Saturday Night Live. Kirk viewed Harrelson’s comments as a crucial addition to the ongoing discussion on how media and pharmaceutical companies influence public perception.
