John Oliver Talks Cantor Loss, Rips Brat During Immigration Takedown

by | Jun 17, 2014 | COMMUNITY

Former Daily Show correspondent John Oliver has been making waves with his new weekly HBO show, Last Week Tonight, and it looks like Virginia, and the recent Eric Cantor loss, have finally landed on his radar.

Former Daily Show correspondent John Oliver has been making waves with his new weekly HBO show, Last Week Tonight, and it looks like Virginia, and the recent Eric Cantor loss, have finally landed on his radar.

In a segment dealing with immigration reform, Oliver points to the media response to Cantor’s failing to keep his seat over little-known Dave Brat, calling the incident “the end of immigration reform in America.”

Oliver, himself a British immigrant, wondered how “immigration reform, one of the most important issues facing america, has been door nailed to death by 65,000 Republican primary voters who could be bothered to show up on a tuesday, 500 miles form the nearest boarder. THE SYSTEM WORKS!”

The host then goes on to pull a quote from Brat speaking to Fox News about immigration reform. “You clearly cannot import 7 billion people on the planet into the USA, it’s just a non-starter” says Brat, an argument which Oliver calls a “straw-man so large, you could burn it in the desert and hold an annoying festival around it.”

have a look at the clip below, including one of the most brutal Fievel cartoon parodies to ever exist.

Brad Kutner

Brad Kutner

Brad Kutner is the former editor of GayRVA and RVAMag from 2013 - 2017. He’s now the Richmond Bureau Chief for Radio IQ, a state-wide NPR outlet based in Roanoke. You can reach him at BradKutnerNPR@gmail.com




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