Brian4Liberty
05-12-2014, 04:34 PM
For those who haven't followed, John Oliver, former substitute-host and cast member on The Daily Show with John Stewart has a spin-off show on HBO called "Last Week Tonight". The format is almost exactly the same as The Daily Show, with a leftist propaganda agenda, disguised as "reasonable and balanced". There is also a twist as the show is on HBO, which gives them the liberty to use profanity and nudity. It makes for some unusual TV.
While they attempt to make it seem balanced, this definitely is all about pushing Grimes over McConnell, and probably also pushing McConnell over Bevin right before the Primary. Bevin is not mentioned in the segment at all; the candidate who can not be named.
Video at link:
He’s already used profanity as part of his new show, but it looks like John Oliver has finally found a reason to use HBO’s pro-nudity policy. On tonight’s edition of Last Week Tonight, Oliver lambasted the incredibly expensive U.S. Senate race underway in Kentucky with the help of some extraordinarily raunchy HBO-style attack ads.
“What’s happening in Kentucky is just a microcosm of what is happening everywhere,” Oliver explained after airing several of the fairly ridiculous ads produced by the campaigns for Sen. Mitch McConnell and his Democratic challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes.
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“There is no way things are going to better until we collectively hit rock bottom,” Oliver bemoaned. “If things have to get worse before they get better, then worse they shall get.”
Cue several attack ads made by HBO for McConnell and Grimes’ respective campaign themes, the latter of which focuses on how the current Senate Minority Leader is among the GOP’s cabal of “old, white, wrinkled dicks.” Yeah, you know where this is going…
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More:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/you-need-to-watch-john-olivers-hilariously-raunchy-take-on-political-ads/
While they attempt to make it seem balanced, this definitely is all about pushing Grimes over McConnell, and probably also pushing McConnell over Bevin right before the Primary. Bevin is not mentioned in the segment at all; the candidate who can not be named.
Video at link:
He’s already used profanity as part of his new show, but it looks like John Oliver has finally found a reason to use HBO’s pro-nudity policy. On tonight’s edition of Last Week Tonight, Oliver lambasted the incredibly expensive U.S. Senate race underway in Kentucky with the help of some extraordinarily raunchy HBO-style attack ads.
“What’s happening in Kentucky is just a microcosm of what is happening everywhere,” Oliver explained after airing several of the fairly ridiculous ads produced by the campaigns for Sen. Mitch McConnell and his Democratic challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes.
...
“There is no way things are going to better until we collectively hit rock bottom,” Oliver bemoaned. “If things have to get worse before they get better, then worse they shall get.”
Cue several attack ads made by HBO for McConnell and Grimes’ respective campaign themes, the latter of which focuses on how the current Senate Minority Leader is among the GOP’s cabal of “old, white, wrinkled dicks.” Yeah, you know where this is going…
...
More:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/you-need-to-watch-john-olivers-hilariously-raunchy-take-on-political-ads/