Like a lot of us in media, John Oliver has no idea how to properly move forward after Sunday morning"s massacre, which ultimately killed 50 people (including the suspect, Omar Mateen).
Prior to his HBO series, Last Week Tonight, Oliver recorded a statement admitting that “it’s hard to even know what to do in the wake of an event like this."
Oliver prepped his audience for a full show to follow the clip, which, he admitted, "will seem like jarringly inappropriate, "jangly" music."
But first, addressing what happened would be the right thing to do.
“It’s still early and details are still emerging and right now this just hurts,” he said.
“And the worst thing is, this pain is so familiar. In Paris last November, terrorists seemed to target places that symbolize everything that is wonderful about France — culture, music, restaurants.
"And in Orlando early this morning a gunman attacked a Latin night at a gay club in the theme park capital of the world.
"And for the record, I will happily embrace a Latin night at a gay club in the theme park capital of the world as the ultimate symbol of what is truly wonderful about America.”
"On a day when some dipshi* terrorist wants us to focus on one man"s act of brutality and hatred, it might be worth seeing this video which was posted to Twitter today (June 12th)."
The video showed volunteers standing in a line wrapped around the block, waiting to donate blood.
“It kind of reminds you that that dips**t terrorist is vastly outnumbered,” he said.
Whether you see it as a terrorist attack, a hate crime or a gun issue, the simple fact remains that people are dead because of one person who was so angry and so hateful that he opened fired on unarmed club-goers.
