Even if you’ve never been to an NRA-sponsored event, you can probably guess what kind of people you attract – read: old white men. But South Dakota governor Kristi Noem is here to tell you how wrong it is to think that this isn’t a diverse organization. And John Oliver, fortunately, looks over his shoulder, ready to point and laugh when his attempt to portray the gun-loving group as an example of heterogeneity goes completely wrong.
“The NRA held its annual meeting, and it’s here… Kristi Noem desperately tried to dispel stereotypes about the group,” Oliver explained, “just undermining it with a brutal cut.”
Speaking to those attending Congress on Friday, Noem did his best to attack the mainstream media, which he claimed would “make us believe that the NRA is made up only of old white men.” But there are many other people – there is so much diversity within the NRA … I may be a mother and a grandmother, but I I NRA.
Oliver nearly lost his mind as the camera cut to the cheering crowd… almost entirely filled with old white men (plus a wives or two). “This is Oscar-winning fiction,” one tickled Oliver exclaimed. “Nothing undermines his purpose better than the clip that proves the diversity among that crowd. Antique Tour And Friends meeting.”
Oliver went on to describe the scene as “a version of it”. Guess who? It’s just Mistake! All Peter”
But Oliver had other stories to tell, and that’s probably a good thing for Noem, who proudly announced during the same conversation that his TWO-Year-old grandson was already warming up. “I assure you he already has a shotgun, a rifle and a little pony named Sparkles,” Noem told the crowd. “So the girl is ready.”
whatever that means.