Matthew McConaughey is like a bridge. He’s sturdily built like a bridge. He’s tall like a bridge is long. Now, he is hoping to be a kind of political bridge. He went on Fox News as a part of a PSA to implore folks to quit politicizing the virus. There, on Special Report with Bret Baier Tuesday, he said, “I could feel that this united purpose we all have as Americans to beat this enemy and this virus, that purpose got hijacked a bit by partisan politics. All of a sudden the narrative became, if you want to go to work, you’re on the far right. If you don’t want to go to work and you want to stay home, you’re on the far left.”
“And now even the mask wearing is getting politicized, where if you want to wear a mask, you wear a mask, you’re a liberal. And if you don’t, you’re conservative. And that’s just not true,” he added.
“Part of it is saying just that, to remind us that this is not about politics. It’s about us, the USA,” McConaughey said, keeping on keeping on. “We gotta take care of each other right now. We have a collective purpose.… Look at who we are in World War II. And we have a crisis that came to us. We were united in that purpose. And all of a sudden the human factor started to get split and two tribes started fighting each other in partisan politics. And that is not what we need. We need a collection right now. This is a tug of war at the virus. We need all hands on the rope.”
Asked if he thought the solution to the crisis could be found in “charitable acts from around the country,” he said: “I think they’re Band-Aids to hold off until science catches up, until there’s not two patients for every one bed like there was in New York, until we see that an asymptomatic person doesn’t give it to someone who didn’t have it. So we can protect the elderly, especially, and the younger ones. This is unchartered waters. There’s not a playbook.”
In summary, we need all hands on the rope to put a Band-Aid on WWII that says USA. It’s in the playbook that we’re building while we drive it. Listen to him! He might not be a scientist proper, but he’s been to space sort of!
Maybe he really does comprise the best materials to build an appropriate bridge out there: An accent that he didn’t shed as he got more famous. A pretty cool, easygoing attitude. He has a nephew named Miller Lyte. He’s hot, but, uh, he’s wearing glasses? He’s got the range: romantic comedy bona fides, but also a serious actor. He’s The Lincoln Lawyer and that guy from the Lincoln commercials. Gosh, he’s so good at bridging two things are we sure he’s not an actual bridge? Who’s to say.
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