LA’s Democrat mayor, Eric Garcetti, was caught maskless at last night’s Super Bowl, prompting Republican Senator Ted Cruz to make the comment, “[Garcetti is] really good at holding his breath.”
He’s really good at holding his breath. https://t.co/6uaC0S9o4M
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) February 14, 2022
SoFi Stadium, the venue for this year’s Super Bowl, require attendees to wear masks for event with more than 5,000 in attedance.
Cruz’s comments come after a photo of a maskless Garcetti and Earvin “Magic” Johnson surfaced online. Regarding the photo, Garcetti said, “I’ll take personal responsibility, and if it makes you and everyone else happy — or even the photographs with people where literally I’m holding my breath for two seconds — I won’t even do that.”
I cannot stop laughing https://t.co/E7l8FXrih1
— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) February 3, 2022
Garcetti went on to say about last Wednesday’s photo, “I wore my mask the entire game. When people ask for a photograph, I hold my breath and I put it here and people can see that. There is a zero percent chance of infection from that.”
He went on to say, “I won’t pull it down for two seconds anymore — that’s easy. But to me, it is crystal clear that nobody has been endangered by that and I’m trying to model the good behavior of making sure we wear this (for the) entire game,”
This isn’t hypocrisy. This keeps happening because the politicians who impose all these COVID rules and restrictions on everyone else see them as a useless joke, and that’s why they ignore them in their own lives and end up saying darkly hilarious things like this to justify it: https://t.co/Xfz16ZlR0L
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) February 3, 2022
Like Bill Clinton, he never inhaled. https://t.co/rtixeXf4pH
— Ed Morrissey (@EdMorrissey) February 3, 2022
My 4-year-old still has to wear a mask outdoors at her Pre-K https://t.co/3bBjzIOKo5
— Anthony L. Fisher (@anthonyLfisher) February 3, 2022
