"I find politics in this country completely nauseating."

[babylonsister]

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2014/05/01/bonus_quote_of_the_day.html

May 01, 2014

Bonus Quote of the Day


"I find politics in this country completely nauseating."

-- John Oliver, in an interview with the Daily Beast.

[shenmue]

1. Amen

[City Lights]

2. Me too. nt

[sheshe2]

3. I stand with John Oliver! eom

[unblock]

4. i could say he stole that line from me, i've been using it for quite some time.

that nsa guy he interviewed must have heard me and fed that line to him.

then again, i'm hardly the first person to have uttered that phrase, either....

[Scuba]

5. The Powers That Be make it that way on purpose ....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_midterm_election

Only about 40 percent of those eligible to vote actually go to the polls in midterm elections

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. More specifically: the money in it

What do you find most nauseating?

The fact that there’s so much money in it that they’re so deeply compromised. Super PACs and lobbying are very bad, and on top of lobbying, the fact that 50 percent of the Senate become lobbyists? That revolving-door thing is a cancer at the heart of American democracy. Fifty percent of senators become lobbyists! That’s a huge problem. The fact that districts are gerrymandered—and this is a problem that the Democrats are far more responsible than the Republicans just because of the timing during which the borders were drawn. There are deep-rooted problems outside of the bloviating people on TV.

I enjoyed your Fox News bit, and the Foxification of Indian talk news.

To even hear them say that, “We have adopted the model of Fox News,” was wild. The disease of cable news has become airborne and has crossed an ocean.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/01/john-oliver-on-last-week-tonight-turning-down-cbs-and-nauseating-american-politics.html