From about the 9:00 mark to the 17:00 mark in the 18:00 minute segment, Oliver casts his gaze upon lax Ohio laws, atrocious leadership, and the scourge of for-profit companies treating education like a business.
“Yes, education is first, last and always a business. Take the L off the word learning and what have you got? Earning,” said Oliver, mocking Ohio’s David Brennan, of the infamous White Hat Management. “Take the E off it and what have you got then? Arning. Yeah, sure, that’s not a word, but it could be in one of our English classes.”
Oliver didn’t mean to suggest charter schools were good or bad — it’s obviously a case-by-case situation — but that the manner in which charter schools are monitored and funded must be more closely scrutinized.
Thanks to the Pee Dee’s Patrick O’Donnell, whose work was referenced on the segment, for his work on that score.
After a clip of John Kasich, wherein the Ohio Governor and former presidential candidate sang the praises of charter schools as a competitive tool to improve public schools, Oliver dropped one of his best lines.
“It’s a little hard to hear the man who just defunded Planned Parenthood talk about the importance of choice,” he said.
Keep preaching, Johnny. Keep preaching.
This article appears in Aug 24-30, 2016.
White Hat David Brennan wears a crown — as king of taxpayer-funded, for-profit diploma mills.
Unfortunately, this arrogant cockhead’s “rebuttal” of Kasich was stupid. Another comedian turned liberal pundit. Can’t the liberals get any famous pundits that aren’t jokers?
@Brian: Can’t you conservatives make comments without using profanity or ad hominen attacks? How about commenting on the substance of the topic, instead of rudely demeaning people?
Timroff,
Sorry, I thought it was obvious why it was stupid. The pizza shop was an analogy, which seemed to confuse Oliver. The analogy went over his head. Also, the irrelevant comment about Planned Parenthood because Kasich is not pro-death.
Unsurprising, I guess since liberals usually do not understand logic, you don’t know what an adominem attack is. That would be if I said his argument was invalid because of something about him. That was not my argument. I just said he was an arrogant cockhead and a joker like most liberal pundits.