John Oliver compared the guidelines that the U.S. employs for its use of drone strikes to Harvey Keitel’s balls during Sunday’s “Last Week Tonight.”
“We’ve all seen them,” Oliver said of Keitel’s balls. “And from, from a distance you think, ‘Well, I understand the contours of those.’ But if you were to really examine them, you’d discover that they’re actually lost in a haze of fuzziness and gray areas. Much like the rules for our drone strikes.”
Oliver harshly criticized America’s use of drones and the psychological impact those who live under the constant threat of drone strikes feel. To emphasize this, he played a clip of a 13-year-old Pakistani boy saying he no longer loved blue skies, preferring instead grey skies because drones don’t fly when the skies are grey.
“Congratulations, everyone,” Oliver cheered. “We did it! We managed to make one of the last remaining universal symbols of pleasantness – blue sky – completely fucking terrifying. We did it! Whoo!”
Watch the clip below, courtesy of “Last Week Tonight.”
Sad but true. Wingers always wail about the Obama ‘dictatorship’, but the one thing they don’t mention in their diatribes is the drone strikes, which is the one thing I might actually agree with them on.
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As Oliver says, I don’t like to think about it. That’s because the open-ended approach to extra-judicial killings, the sloppy, any-old-how approach we’ve taken is a continuation of what we hated about George W. Bush and a major disappointment from Obama. He curtailed other serious abuses but this remains, and it’s very troubling.
This show should be retooled as ‘Last Week Every Night.’
Are you saying you’re glad that right-wing media has focused on nonsense like birth certificates and Benghazi instead of illegal drone strikes?
Perhaps Republican media intentionally distracts its right-wing audience from the issue of illegal drone strikes because Republicans are in lockstep agreement with Democrats that the president has the legal (and imperial) authority to order these bombings anywhere in the world?
Judging by the lack of protest from Democrat voters I must infer that they too have this issue in common with their Republican voting brothers and sisters.