http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/john-oliver-rips-politicians-who-use-fake-founding-father-quotes-and-its-hilarious/
thought a comedy relief moment was do after all the republican distaste courtesy of HBO'S John Oliver look out Maher.
On HBO’s Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver took note of politicians from both sides of the aisle who use fake historical quotes supposedly uttered by our founding fathers in order to score cheap political points.
Sharing a clip of GOP presidential hopeful Ben Carson rambling on Fox News about Thomas Jefferson writing about “gun control,” Oliver noted the impossibility of that the phrase being used by the founding father as it came into being in the 1960’s — making his quote unlikely.
