JOHN OLIVER REEE'ING HARD AGAIN FOR THE CABAL
John Oliver Unloads on Republicans, Fox News Over Kavanaugh-Soros Conspiracy
The ‘Last Week Tonight’ host couldn’t believe the “bad-faith arguments” being peddled by Senate Republicans before and after the Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation.
The big news this week was the Supreme Court confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh on Saturday, a foregone conclusion after senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Jeff Flake (R-AZ) stated earlier in the week that they’d be voting for the Trump nominee despite the looming sexual-assault allegations against him—including from Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who claims that Kavanaugh attempted to rape her at a house party when she was 15.
“While many were concerned about how this decision would affect Christine Blasey Ford, who testified so bravely last week, the president, who had previously said that he found Ford ‘credible,’ made fun of her during a rally—and argued that everyone was forgetting the real victims in this process,” said John Oliver at the top of Sunday’s Last Week Tonight.
Indeed, in the wake of the Kavanaugh allegations, President Trump called it “a very scary time for young men in America, when you can be guilty of something that you may not be guilty of.” (Trump, by the way, has been accused of sexual misconduct by as many as 19 women—and his ex-wife once accused him of rape.)
In addition to the president’s divorced-from-reality claim that men are the real victims here, Republican senators also exhibited what the HBO host called an “utterly shameless commitment to bad-faith arguments” following the sexual-assault allegations against Kavanaugh.
As my esteemed, Pulitzer Prize-winning colleague Spencer Ackerman noted, “by ‘Soros’ they mean ‘Jews,’ the way previous generations preferred ‘Rothschild’ for their little antisemitic euphemism.” On top of the anti-Semitism, there is no evidence that Soros has paid any Kavanaugh protesters—or any other protesters for that matter. (There is, however, evidence that Trump paid actors to cheer during his presidential campaign announcement.)
“But you know that’s bullshit Grassley, don’t you?” Oliver said of the “paid protester” allegations. “George Soros isn’t paying people to yell at Jeff Flake in an elevator. It’s completely unnecessary. People will happily do that for free! In fact, people would pay to yell at Jeff Flake in an elevator. If Disney World had a ride called, Yell At Jeff Flake in an Elevator, the line would be longer than Space fucking Mountain!”
Grassley and Trump were joined by Sen. Collins, who according to Oliver “engaged in some spectacular bad-faith bullshit, because in announcing her ‘yes’ vote, she waxed indignant about the dark money that she felt had corrupted this process.”
“We have seen special-interest groups whip their followers into a frenzy,” said Sen. Collins. “Interest groups have also spent an unprecedented amount of dark money opposing this nomination.”
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