HBO’s John Oliver began Last Week Tonight on Sunday by recapping Vice President Kamala Harris’s entry into the presidential race by accusing Republicans of resorting to outright racism” and falsely accusing her of being a radical left-winger.
Like many in the non-comedy media, Oliver thought it was racist to point out that, by Joe Biden’s own words, Harris was selected as VP in the name of diversity, “Republicans spent the week trying to counter the newfound enthusiasm around Harris, with criticism frequently defaulting to outright racism. She was called, among other things, a diversity, or ‘DEI hire.”
Oliver also maintained that Republicans have no good substantive criticisms of Harris, “when they weren't stooping that low, they were reaching for desperate attacks like these.”
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