GOP's Louie Gohmert busted for hyping nonexistent 'magic powder' that purportedly kills COVID-19

[left-of-center2012]

A professional fact checker recently brought the hammer down on Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) for promoting a nonexistent “mist” that he claims is capable of instantly killing COVID-19.

“It is being used in Germany as a mist,” Gohmert said in an interview with a local Texas news station earlier this month. “Health care workers go through a misting tent going into the hospital and it kills the coronavirus completely dead not only right then, but any time in the next 14 days that the virus touches anything that’s been sprayed it is killed.”

But Dr. Jörn Wegner, the head of the German Hospital Association, tells Mekelburg that literally nothing about Gohmert’s claim is true. “What your congressman said is absolute nonsense,” he explained. “There are no such tents and there’s no powder or magical cure.”

And Thomas Ruttkowski, the spokesman for the German Society of Hospital Hygiene, literally laughed at Gohmert when told about his claim. “I’m sorry, but we did not heard (sic) about that magic powder,” he wrote in an email to Mekelburg. “Thank you for your mail… Finally, something to laugh about.”



https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/gops-louie-gohmert-busted-for-hyping-nonexistent-magic-powder-that-purportedly-kills-covid-19-instantly/

[Leghorn21]

1. Well, I for one hope Louie Gohmert sank every dime he owns and took out a second mortgage to

secure a stake in this... MAGIC MIST, BABY

I surely do

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

2. No surprise here. If the babble came from ghomert we know it is false. n/t

[kimbutgar]

3. Too bad the people of his district are so stupid to keep re electing him!

[gratuitous]

4. Hilarious until the pros have to waste time explaining to people who believe Louie Gohmert

Yeah, I know, anyone who believes a word out of Louie Gohmert is an utter fool. But sooner or later, the fact that this nonsense was passed along by Gohmert will get severed from the unfounded rumor, and people with a lot better things to do will have to explain that this magic powder or mist is just so much bullshit. And the true believers will then start yammering about the magic powder being hidden away from people by Derp State.

[vlyons]

5. Known far and wide as America's dumbest congressman

nt

[Buns_of_Fire]

6. Virology isn't Louie's strong suit.

Neither is any other disclipine ending in "-ology."

[Disaffected]

11. He seems to be pretty good at

scatology.

[superpatriotman]

7. I blame his constituents

They elected him. They own him.

[DBoon]

8. There is a joke making the rounds in Germany:

Q. "What borders on stupidity?"

A. "Canada and Mexico"

[Mike 03]

9. +1

[Disaffected]

12. Heh,

[BComplex]

10. Republicans are falling further and further down the rabbit hole, and they don't even know it! It's

as if they all have mad cow disease or something, and they aren't aware that they should be very embarrassed by what they are saying. It's really pitiful, except that they're ruining our country.

[Midnight Writer]

13. Kinda funny when my neighbor talks this shit, not so much when an elected Congressman does it.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

14. Did the Texas news station make sure all of their audience got the correct info?

[Brainfodder]

15. There a source of his "knowledge"?

If you read his wikipedia info, it's really even more puzzling, he has degrees?

Wikipedia says: B.A. from Texas A&M & J.D. from Baylor.

He behaves as if he climbed to the top of the stupid tree, slipped and hit every branch on the way down, landed on a trampoline and took several more dozen branch hits before he landed on his head?

More shocked to find out he's only 66!



What some people will say and/or do for $ is just....

[Blue Owl]

16. It's called SHAZAYUM!

n/t

[struggle4progress]

17. "Why is Germany trying to hide its miraculous dried unicorn rainbow feces cure from everyone?"