Colbert Channels Hit Movies to Mock Lindsey Graham’s Chick-fil-A Warmongering (Video)

“Independence Day” and “Braveheart” scheme an appearance

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Stephen Colbert and the leisure of the slack night suppose hosts had been handed a gag on a silver platter this week when South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham talked about he would “hurry to battle” for quick food restaurant Chick-fil-A. And in Colbert’s case, he mocked that comment with some traditional movie references.

Sooner than we get to the gag, first some context. Sen. Graham’s feedback had been in accordance with an initiate letter from about 200 students and college at Indiana’s University of Notre Dame asking the college to elevate faraway from allowing a Chick-fil-A on campus.

The opponents argued that the company’s values — and founding family’s history of donating to anti-LGBTQ politicians — scheme it apparent the college ought to mute steal one other eatery.

Finally, the students lost and “chikin” is coming to the campus. Notre Dame talked about Thursday night this will hurry ahead with plans to originate the Chick-fil-A anyway. “Our students accumulate overwhelmingly expressed a deserve to accumulate a Chick-fil-A cafe on campus, and we ogle ahead to opening one early subsequent yr,” the college talked about in a press launch.

Clearly Graham had a excellent time at this news, calling it a “gargantuan accumulate.” Watch his tweets below:

Anyway, Colbert couldn’t face up to dubbing over some traditional films imagining if their conflicts had been about quick food as an more than a few. “Lindsey Graham isn’t the principle particular person animated to transfer to battle over quick food,” his narrator talked about.

Up first became “Independence Day,” with Colbert’s yelp over guy giving president Thomas J. Whitmore (Bill Pullman)’s iconic speech before battle with the aliens.

“We won’t steal salads into the night. We won’t style fruit after we chunk. We’re going to luxuriate in Whoppers with a aspect of chicken fries,” the voiceover talked about.

“Braveheart” looked too. Mel Gibson’s William Wallace became dubbed over to convey, “they scheme use our lives, nonetheless they’ll by no design use our Filet-o-Fish!”

“300” additionally made an appearance. In place of the everyday “here’s Sparta” line, Colbert’s narrator talked about “here’s Subway.”

While you happen to need moderately of background on how a chicken chain turned into synonymous with homophobia: The founder S. Truett Cathy opened the principle Chick-fil-A in Atlanta, Ga. in 1967, and it became depart from the get-hurry in accordance with Cathy’s strict Baptist values. This incorporated encouraging prayer to Jesus and being closed on Sundays, a apply the restaurant chain mute observes at the moment.

Cathy has openly adverse homosexual marriage and via the family’s charitable giving company WinShape Foundation, it donated over $1.9 million to anti-LGBTQ groups in 2010 by myself, in accordance with tax recordsdata. Organizations the Cathy’s foundation has supported consist of the Marriage & Family Foundation, which opposes weird and wonderful marriage and divorce; the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, which argues LGBTQ athletes reside “impure lifestyles” and shouldn’t compete; and anti-homosexual conversion therapy neighborhood Exodus Global.

As of 2018, Chick-fil-A became the third-ideal quick food chain within the country.

Take a look at out the elephantine Colbert gag below.