Posted on 08/15/2025 4:47:40 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was roasted on social media for creating a fictional Long Island couple called Joe and Eileen Bailey, whom he has based his entire political career on.
During an episode of Last Week Tonight, British-born HBO talk show host John Oliver shared several clips of Schumer talking about the fictional couple, describing them as being “middle-class” and having “bought into Reagan Republicanism in 1980.” Schumer has explained that he has “guided” his political career “through the Baileys.”
“They’re a middle-class couple in Massapequa, which is a suburb on Long Island,” Schumer said in one clip from an interview on Lou Dobbs Tonight on CNN.
“Joe and Eileen Bailey, this middle-class couple, they bought into Reagan Republicanism in 1980,” Schumer says in another clip. […]
A Washington Post article from November 2018 notes that before the fictional couple was named the Bailey’s, Schumer called them the “O’Reillys.” A former spokesman for Schumer noted that Schumer used to ask, “What would the O’Reillys think?” before changing the last name to Bailey. …
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
My son graduated Stony Brook in 2013 where Chuck Shumer was the commencement speaker. Shumer had a few self-deprecating remarks and some of his stories made him seem like a regular Joe. His anecdotes seemed off the cuff. I was surprised. Shortly afterwards, I saw on You Tube his Commencement speech at Stony Brook in 2012 and it was exactly the same as his remarks in 2013 including his seemingly off the cuff anecdotes. No better evidence of his phoniness.
How weird. "Bailey's" as a plural is dead wrong (and for obvious reasons, it could be confusing). The plural is "Baileys," and if you want to make that possesive, "Baileys'," as in "the Baileys' dog." There are almost no instances in which a plural is created using an apostrophe. The only instance I can come up with off the top of my head is the expression "p's and q's."
Can you tell I'm passionate about the subject?
True!
John Oliver says Chuck Schumer’s book references Joe and Eileen Bailey 364 times in 365 pages...
Schumer is nuttier then Pocahontas.
Schumer was probably lying about even going out for walks. He seems more like the sit around and smell his own farts type.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.