John Oliver's HBO show, "Last Week Tonight" has made a name for itself by calling out people, companies, and elected officials that it thinks need to change their behavior.
Tonight's show included two Pennsylvania congressman, Chaka Fattah (D-02) and Charlie Dent (R-15). Both are on an agricultural committee that has voted against enacting regulations protecting chicken farmers from predatory corporate practices of the chicken industry. Oliver hopes that Ohio Congresswomen Marcy Kaptur reintroduces her bill and that others on the committee will support it this time around.
Oliver's minions (viewers) have previously flooded the FCC with comments on net neutrality. This time he is saying that any congressional representative on the committee that votes against Kaptur's bill will have their wikipedia page altered (and re-altered) to suggest, in vulgar terms, that said representative actives upon an unnatural fondness for chickens.
The show itself is always worth watching. This segment (available on demand tomorrow), does not call out Dent and Fattah by name but the representatives on the committee are flashed across the screen.
Sunday, May 17, 2015
John Oliver Calls out Fattah and Dent
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Hi - it was a great show tonight. Dent voted against Marcy Kaptor's proposal to ditch the amendment last year, but Fattah is not listed as voting. Is he likely to vote against her proposal this year?
I don't know -- it probably depends on how much pressure he feels and how many other things he has on his mind.
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