John Oliver went low, so Charlotte Pence went high. The famed comedian thought he had the Pence family in his cross-hairs, but the tables have been turned.
Charlotte Pence, daughter of the vice president, published a children’s book about her family’s pet rabbit in an effort to raise money for sex trafficking victims — “Marlon Bundo’s A Day in the Life of the Vice President.”
Comedian John Oliver then proceeded to meet Charlotte Pence’s kind charity with a mean-spirited troll by penning his own spoof on the book, “A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo,” in which the Pence family pet was secretly gay.
Oliver’s stunt was nothing more than a cheap shot at a book that had nothing to do with gay people and everything to do with raising money for charity.
For her part, however, Charlotte Pence has taken the higher ground. Rather than respond to Oliver’s mean-spiritedness with more mean-spiritedness, she has decided to do the classy thing and buy one of John Oliver’s books so that the proceeds can go to charity.
“I have bought his book,” Charlotte announced on Wednesday. “He’s giving proceeds of the book to charity, and we’re also giving proceeds of our book to charity, so I really think that we can all get behind it.”
“It doesn’t have to be divisive. I think that everybody can come together over Marlon.”
The proceeds for Oliver’s book will go to AIDS United and the Trevor Project, a suicide prevention organization for LGBT youth.