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John Oliver calls out Fox News for promoting conspiracy theories during last week's bomb scare.
John Oliver calls out Fox News for promoting conspiracy theories during last week's bomb scare.
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10/29/2018 05:25 am ET
John Oliver Ruthlessly Sums Up The Lunatic ‘Guarantee’ Behind The Fox News Brand
The “Last Week Tonight” host slammed the network for airing “false flag” conspiracy theories.
John Oliver called out Fox News for promoting conspiracy theories about the bomb scare targeting prominent Democratic leaders, including former President Barack Obama as well as Bill and Hillary Clinton.
“At the risk of sounding like a far right-wing lunatic, I have to say that I believe that this whole thing was an elaborate hoax,” the network’s Geraldo Rivera said at one point.
Rivera used the wrong choice of words, Oliver said.
“Sounding like a far-right-wing lunatic is not really a risk for the Fox News brand, is it? It’s more of a guarantee,” Oliver said. “It would be like if Tony Bennett started every song with, ‘At the risk of making your grandma wet...’”
When the mail bomb suspect turned out to be an ardent Trump supporter, Rivera admitted he was wrong by saying he had “outsmarted” himself. This time, Oliver found the word choice to be just perfect.
“Can I just say that ‘outsmarted myself’ is a brilliant way to say that you did something incredibly stupid?” Oliver asked. Then, he tried it out:
