John Oliver has spent the last few weeks lambasting the corruption in FIFA and its leadership and openly celebrating the resignation of Sepp Blatter and the arrest of several key FIFA figures, including former FIFA vice president Jack Warner.
In all, 14 FIFA officials were swept up by authorities in Switzerland over a 47-count indictment unsealed in a New York federal court. Oliver celebrated this on his show last Sunday placating FIFA’s sponsors. Oliver wore a ridiculous pair of Addidas shoes, took a bite from each item on McDonald’s Dollar Menu and, after comparing its taste to a Jolly Rancher fished out of Mickey Roark’s mouth, downed a Bud Light Lime and said, while looking into the camera, that it was delicious.
As part of Oliver’s continuing quest to take down FIFA and its corrupt officials, he bought a segment on Trinidad’s CCN TV6 to to ask Jack Warner to release the incriminating FIFA documents he threatened to release in a segment he purchased on TV6. Which is what gave Oliver the idea to make this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alwba8V1csY
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Jack Warner, never one to refuse to embarrass himself in a video on television or YouTube, released his response today, complete with a dramatic score, xenophobia and a defensiveness that can only be borne of decades of Caligula-like entitlement. Here it is:
I don’t know about you, but I’m convinced.
