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Punchlines: FIFA corruption scandal doesn't stop Sepp Blatter

Eileen Rivers
USA TODAY Opinion
John Oliver

Late-night comic John Oliver forces his audience to ask themselves a serious question during his recent rant about corruption within FIFA (he initially alerted American audiences to the scandalous behavior of the organization a year ago): Who would make a better FIFA president, a hairless bear or Sepp Blatter? You can probably guess Oliver's conclusion.

But despite Blatter's long-held reputation for corruption, he was re-elected last week to a fifth term as the president of soccer's governing body. Larry Wilmore says the corruption was so obvious that an oven roasting a chicken would have been a better choice for hosting the 2022 World Cup than Qatar, a place known for its human rights violations (among them, forcing people to play soccer there).

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