U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has been taking plenty of hits from comics for his angry testimony on Thursday, but John Oliver took the outrage to another level.
On Sunday night’s “Last Week Tonight”, the host unpacked the entire spectacle, in which Kavanaugh defiantly denied accusations from Dr. Christine Blasey Ford that he sexually assaulted her in high school.
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“We need to talk about Brett Kavanaugh, Supreme Court nominee and walking crushed beer can,” Oliver said near the top of the show.
After playing some of Dr. Blasey Ford’s testimony from Thursday describing the alleged assault, Oliver launched into Kavanaugh’s.
“He’s crying at the memory of lifting weights at his friend Tobin’s house!” the comedian said. “I hate to say it, but I’m starting to think that men might be too emotional for the Supreme Court.”
He continued, “When Kavanaugh was not choking back tears, he was starting to get noticeably angry, arguing that he was the victim of a giant conspiracy.”
Pointing to moments during which Kavanaugh rudely pushed back on questioning by Democratic senators, Oliver said, “That surly tone was emblematic of Kavanaugh’s demeanour throughout the hearing—not the tone of a man who hopes to one day have the honour of serving on the Supreme Court, but the tone of someone who feels entitled to be on it, and frankly can’t believe that you’re being such a d**k about this.”
Oliver also called out the “positively Trumpian” way Kavanaugh called out his opponents on political terms, including suggesting it was “revenge on behalf of the Clintons.”
“Now, that is absolutely horrifying,” Oliver said, “and it is worth taking a moment now to note the norm that has just been shattered, because I know that we’re all basically callous to people talking that way now, but we are supposed to have at least nine people left in America who do not talk that way, and yet Kavanaugh just all but came out and said he’s going to approach his entire tenure as one case of Me vs. The Libtard Cucks.”
Finally, he concluded by characterizing the Republican effort to push Kavanaugh’s nomination through as, very simply, “a big f**k you to women.”