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. …
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Schumer said he isn’t afraid to go out in Washington DC. I wouldn’t be, either, if I had a 20 man security detail.
It worked didn’t it?
_ Harry Reid
Yeah, it worked, and that’s because the collective IQ of liberals is roughly equivalent to the fingers of a one armed man.
I always thought the Billary, Inc. invented the fictional personal political narratives. Schumer apparently demonstrated it for them.
Couldn’t the Republican Party hire two actors...to act as Joe and Eileen Bailey, and tell their conversion to the GOP Party? We could make five or six commercials (3-minute personalized stories) how they left the Democratic Party.
Of course they could, but the majority of GOP politicians in the NYC area are RINOs and would never do that.
“Couldn’t the Republican Party hire two actors...to act as Joe and Eileen Bailey ...”
That’s brilliant.
Did Schumer’s Baileys live in Pottersville or Bedsford Falls?
If a republican had fabricated such a story their political career would more than likely be over.......this scumbag?.....it doesn’t even register with the propaganda arm of the democratic party.....not a blip.
Of course. Just renamed “Massapequa” for copyright reasons.
Schumer’s a schlub.
Are those the people who taught Schumer how to grill a cheeseburger…..or was it his niece Amy?
Chuck and Amy are second cousins once removed, JFTR.
I heard they often travelled with Joe Biden and Angelo Negri on the Amtrak trains going to and from DC
It sounds like Chuck thinks about these people late at night. when he’s all alone. I wonder if Joe puts cheese on raw hamburgers and that’s where Chuck got the idea.
And do it before the DNC copyrights the fictional couple.
Fake, but a accurate?
You don’t have a bulletproof SUV with armed guards?
Dick Gebhart also had a lot of imaginary friends
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