As John Oliver on Last Week Tonight tells us at the beginning of this week’s installment, they are taping their show before the Town Hall debate between Clinton and Trump. Oliver:
And incidentally, fuck Billy Bush. Fuck that guy. Fuck him. Fuck him.
He shows the post “locker room” conversation between Bush and Trump where frat-boy Billy asks Arianne Zucker, the woman he and Trump have been being all rapey about, to hug Donald Trump.
It is gross enough that he’s serving as Donald Trump’s hug-pimp but let’s not gloss over the fact that he just said “How about a little hug for the Bushy.” A phrase, that if it is not already, should be a felony offense in all 50 states.
From there he showed Donald Trump’s “apology.” He proceeds to explain how almost literally every word out of Trump’s apologetic mouth was a lie. Of course, what about the Republican fallout? Oliver goes through people like Speaker Paul Ryan’s bombastically sexist statement about how women, like racehorses, should be “championed and revered.” He attacks the fact the Ryan doesn’t pull his endorsement of Trump. From there, Oliver goes in on the rest of the Trump-supporting hypocrites who have voiced their displeasure with his statements.
Each clip shows some Republican Party lawmaker referencing the fact that they too have women in their life.
Look, as the son of a mother and the husband of a wife, what the fuck does that have to do with anything?! You are going on such a six-degrees of separation exercise to arrive at someone with a y-chromosome that you can feel sorry for.
As the weekend progressed we all watched the more formal withdrawals of support from Republicans, who don’t want to be stuck with the hot potato. Oliver settles on John McCain’s original statement:
There are no excuses for Donald Trump’s offensive and demeaning comments. No woman should ever be victimized by this kind of inappropriate behavior. He alone bears the burden of his conduct and alone should suffer the consequences.
Oliver stops McCain and the rest of the bleating Republican Party hypocrites.
Except no, he alone does not bear the burden of his conduct because he alone did not make himself your party’s nominee. All of you have consistently supported him through some absolutely heinous shit.
Oliver sums it up like the champions that John Oliver and his staff are.
Perhaps we have always been heading to this historic moment. The first female presidential nominee versus the human embodiment of every backwards, condescending, Mad Men-esque, boys’ club attitude that has ever existed, rolled into one, giant, salivating, pussy grabbing, warthog in a red power tie.
John Oliver is a national hero.