Last Week Tonight host John Oliver poked fun at Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in his latest monologue, highlighting the New York Democrat’s decadeslong reliance on a fictional couple, Joe and Eileen Bailey, as political inspiration.
In a Sunday night segment, Oliver mocked Schumer for referencing the Baileys, an imaginary middle-class couple from Long Island, as if they were real people. The pair, introduced in Schumer’s 2007 book Positively American, were meant to represent average swing voters who guided the senator’s policy decisions.
“The Baileys have guided Chuck Schumer’s political life, which is a little weird given they don’t exist,” Oliver said.
This is insane.
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Apparently, Chuck Schumer has based his entire political strategy on an entirely fictional Long Island couple named Joe and Eileen Bailey.
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