John Oliver argued on Sunday's Last Week Tonight that U.S. schools need to do a better job of teaching the nation's history and that state standards need to be uniform.
To support this, Oliver showed clips from The View where Joy Behar erroneously spoke about George Washington freeing his slaves during his lifetime (in actuality, per his will, they weren't to be freed until after his wife died) and another where Fox News' Tucker Carlson admonished former President Barack Obama for speaking about abolishing the filibuster, if necessary, to expand voting rights while delivering the eulogy at former Congressman and civil-rights leader John Lewis' funeral. "With so many people misunderstanding our history, either by accident or very much on.
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