The Last Week Tonight host didn’t hold back on President Donald Trump, either.
As protests against police violence and systemic racism spread to more than 140 American cities on Sunday,the scenes of violent unrest to a form of “tyranny.”
“Look: it’s been a truly brutal week, with protests across the country in response to the horrific killing of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis Police.
“Rioting is the one thing you don’t want,” Carlson said on his show last week while showing footage from violent protests in Minneapolis. He then drew a comparison between the demonstrations and an, called the cops after a black birdwatcher,, had asked her to leash her dog. “Ugly opinions, police brutality, officious birdwatchers, rude and entitled ladies walking their dogs in big-city parks—all of that is bad. But none of it is nearly as bad as what you just saw.
Said Oliver in response: “Okay, first: Fuck you, Tucker. That’s just a general point. Second, saying ‘officious birdwatcher’ is deeply offensive—because you’re either trying to both-sides that Central Park incident or insulting fans of this show, who proudly call themselves ‘officious birdwatchers.’ I am the ‘officious bird;’ they are the ‘watchers.’ Keep their name out of your mouth.”
Moving on from that joke, the host continued to make a larger point about the root of Carlson’s commentary. “People like Tucker love to venerate order at moments like this, and that’s easy to do when order in its current form is designed to benefit and protect you,” Oliver said. “But it’s hard to overstate how clearly we’ve been reminded lately of the hostility of our existing order toward black people who’ve been killed by police on the street”—i.e.
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