Warning: You Cannot Un-See John Oliver’s Anti-Mitch McConnell ‘Old White Dick’ Commercial

Former The Daily Show correspondent and fill-in host John Oliver has been spreading his wings for three weeks now on HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, and in his third outing, offered an example of the benefits of pay TV. In a bit demonstrating the logical extension of today’s negative political ads, Oliver took advantage of HBO’s nudity standards by producing a mock attack ad against “old, white, wrinkled dick” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) that hits the nail right on the… head.

If you liked John Oliver’s turn as The Daily Show‘s fill-in host, then Last Week Tonight is right up your alley, but Oliver’s attempt to achieve balance here may give pause to some. Oliver also produced a mock ad against McConnell’s opponent, which features Kentucky Secretary of State Allison Lundergan Grimes (D-KY) slaughtering coal miners with a chainsaw. There isn’t even remote equivalence between Democrats’ and Republicans’ campaign ads, but on the other hand, neither is there equivalence in the mock ads that Oliver produced.

One look at the McConnell ad and it’s pretty obvious whose side Oliver is on. No one will come away from this bit thinking that Allison Lundergan Grimes is going to slaughter coal miners, but the Mitch McConnell spot has Richter-scale resonance.  Spoiler alert: the ad features an actual old, white, wrinkled dick…READ MORE

By: Tommy Christopher

Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.