He has been caught in a vicious, vicious, vicious, vicious lie.

Now, Chuck Schumer began his political career because he was inspired by a couple,

the Baileys, these two people from Long Island, and he's told the story of the Baileys, how the Baileys

inspired him, what the Baileys meant to him, very important to him. Well, guess what's

come out? And not from a crazy Republicans, the Democrats, left wing uh this couple and he's talked about

them constantly over the years he's told stories about them about his meetings with them

his conversations with them he's written about them talked about them it turns out they

don't exist.

Now, this is John Oliver.

You know, John Oliver is this crazy left-wing.

He's a left-wing Democrat.

Now, listen to John Oliver on his show this week.

But I actually want to talk less about Chuck Schumer himself and more about two of his favorite people, Joe and Eileen Bailey. They're a couple that throughout Schumer's career, he has talked about a lot. They're a middle-class couple, Massapequa, which is a suburb on Long Island. Joe Eileen Bailey is a middle-class couple. They bought into Reagan republicanism in 1980. Joe and Eileen are worried about losing their jobs or their friends jobs. The Baileys really don't believe in trickle-down. They don't believe in a whole lot of government spending, but they believe in tax breaks for kids to go to college. He's an insurance adjuster and lives in the New York suburb. By New York standards, he makes 50,000 a year. If he lived in the middle of the country, make 40. Wife works in a medical office. She makes about 20. She might make 15 elsewhere.

And you know, I have guided my political life through the Bayleys.

The Baileys have guided Chuck Schumer's political life, which is a little weird given.

They don't exist. Seriously, he invented them.

Schumer first introduced the world to the Baileys in his 2007 book,

positively American, winning back the middle class majority, one family at a time. In it,

he mentions the Baileys, an astonishing 265 times in 264 pages. But he'd apparently been talking

about them for years before the book was published.

One of his former spokespeople said he's always asking, what would the Baileys think?

And to be fair, Schumer acknowledges that some may find this a little weird.

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