Seth Meyers ripped into Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) — and the other Republicans who defended him on the House floor on Wednesday — when he was censured for posting a cartoon video of himself murdering Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.)
"By the way, to Republicans complaining that this was a waste of time, this whole thing would have been much easier, and taken up less time, if you had just been willing to step forward and say, 'It was a deeply stupid tweet, but to be fair, he is a deeply stupid man,'" Meyers said. "Instead, we all had to be subjected to the theater of the aggrieved from the dumbest people in politics. Take for example what I like to call the 'Erts' — Louie Gohmert and Lauren Boebert."
The Late Night host added that "while Democrats were focused on signing a wildly popular infrastructure bill into law, these lunatics were busy defending the insane behavior of one of their most unhinged and reckless members."
He said Gohmert "offered perhaps the dumbest defense" when he claimed he tried to freeze Gosar's video to find the violence but was unable to do so.
"These are our elected representatives, and they sound like grandpas who accidentally FaceTime you while they're on the toilet," Meyers said.
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