He's fallen for one of the classic blunders! The most famous of which is, "never get involved in a land war in Asia," but only slightly less well known is this: never go up against John Oliver in a defamation suit!
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Last Week Tonight has lawyers who vet what John says. Guaranteed there's nothing wrong with that episode.
SLAPP suits aren't about wrong or right. They are about intimidation only. And John is going to kick their ass and make them look like fools in the process
Can all but guarantee that he'll be doing an episode about this lawsuit, only serving to increase visibility on how much of a p.o.s. the original target IS.
Streisand effect FTW.
Oh boy. That executive just opened the gates of hell. John will basically pull the entire recorded deposition, make a giant flag out of it, and plant it outside his home for all to see. He will take it and run full page ads in the guys hometown newspaper. He will lobby to have the local sewage treatment plant to have the name be the guys deposition lmao. Good luck homey.
The exec is about to discover the Streisand effect.
Perhaps even the Streisand-Mangioni effect
One can only hope
You sue Last Week Tonight when the Streisand Effect just isn't enough.
Yes, yes. Sue the guy who's got a multinational television show, entire production team and legal support to legally shit all over people doing horrible things
if you enjoyed the Fuck You Bob segment, wait til you see Fuck You Brian.
Ooooh, a new song!
I knew health-care execs were evil pieces of pus-filled human garbage but I never could have imagined someone saying anything like that in a testimony, regardless of context. Maybe I’m naïve
"Manipulated 2 sentences," as in, they played a recording of him saying what he said.
To be fair that can be out of context. I remember a Daily Show segment years ago showing a fox news clip of Obama saying something questionable. It was like only a sentence or two. Stewart, playing up how bad it sounded, asked to the ether if there was some context that could make that ok. The full statement, which fox cut out, was prefaced with the phrase "Now I'm not saying..."
I remember that. I tried searching for the clip, but of course all the old Daily Show clips aren't available any more. I found a couple of articles (one even with embedded video that no longer works), but here's the wikipedia article on this specific event.
Yeah…no pun intended, but I’m going to need more context on that.
This is also what caused Bush’s infamous “fool me once, shame on–… Shame on you… You fool me– Can’t get fooled again…” clip. He realized halfway into the first sentence that he was about to hand democrats a crystal clear “shame on me” sound bite to use in all of their campaigns. So he did a hard pivot and avoided finishing the phrase. He got dragged for botching the phrase, but that just played into the “Bush is so dumb” stereotype that already existed.
I can't see any context where those two sentences wouldn't be awful