OAN: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

our main story tonight concerns the news media you know the people who announced to the world that man had landed on the moon World War two had ended and he'll one day announced my tragic death after a pelican swallows me whole look I love corn dogs at the pier and taunting large birds it's only a matter of time chomp has made no secret of his disdain for the media but he's also been holding a lot of press conferences recently which is highlighted the fact there is one media outlet he seems to really enjoy calling on okay couple of questions go ahead Oh a n we'll take a few questions emerald Oh a n o n instinctively you know that when Trump likes something that much it's an immediate red flag take this capybara with an orange on its head it seems excellent but if Trump were to repeatedly say I love that capybara with an orange on his head you just know we're about to find out all the times that it wore black face in college Oh a n stands for one American news and when you hear the kinds of questions that they ask you begin to see why Trump calls on them so much mr. president your approval ratings have been the highest they've ever been as well as the ratings on your handling of the virus if there are some networks that are saying they're debating whether or not to carry these briefings live do you think there's a link between the two well I don't know I know that well that's a nice question thank you very much what's that a nice question though I guess it depends on what your definition of one is if a nice question is meant to extract any useful information at all then it wasn't nice but if it's one that makes the president feel happy for a brief instant before that feeling like all feelings is swallowed up by the unfathomable avoid that yawns within him always then yeah it was a very nice question very nice indeed and OAM has a lot of nice questions for the president when he was criticized for referring to the corona virus as the Chinese virus one of their correspondents rushed to his defense with this beauty term Chinese food racist knows it's food that originates in China or it has time no I don't think it's racist I don't think it's racist at all on that note major left-wing news media even in this room have teamed up with Chinese Communist Party narratives and they are claiming you are racist for making these claims about Chinese pirates it's an alarming that major media players just oppose you are consistently siding with foreign state propaganda Islamic radicals and Latin gangs and cartels and they work right here at the White House with direct access to you and your team Wow it is pretty wild to watch the reactions of the other journalists there who are clearly not used to getting from both sides of the room that is a look that says how did I wind up in the middle of this sandwich and it's moments like that that explain why Trump has such a love affair with Oh a n he has repeatedly praised them on Twitter at one point when he didn't like Shep Smith's coverage of his administration he tweeted that Shep Smith has the lowest rated show on Fox News actually whenever possible I turn to oen and his family seemed like fans to just this Thursday in the midst of a pandemic Oh a and spent nearly 15 minutes chatting with dong junior resulting in this fantastic exchange are you binge watching anything over there you gotta go binge watching something yeah we basically watched Tiger King in two sittings for two grand that should absolutely not be your takeaway after watching that show Tigers are surprisingly cheap also it turns out you can hire a hitman for $3,000 what a deal look Oh a n is a relatively small organization but you may well know someone who watches them and they're punching way above their weight right now and if they are in the White House pressroom being called on all the time and are more supportive for the president than Fox we thought tonight it may be worth taking a look at who they are and what they do owen is the brainchild of robert herring conservative millionaire and son droids Jake Gyllenhaal and since its birth Oh Ian has been a home for extreme conservatism how extreme well let's meet their hosts for starters there's Graham Ledger who's called blacklivesmatter a criminal organization as called being transgender a mental problem and set of people coming to the u.s. from majority Muslim countries if they won't take a bite out of a pulled pork sandwich we probably won't let them in the country and it's wit like that that makes him the null coward of meat sandwich based race baiting he starts every show with his signature catchphrase the doors to the newsroom are locked and the PC police are not getting in and if that wasn't sweaty enough he ends every show like this this addition of the daily Ledger's I swear the archives Library of Congress thank you for watching I'm Graham ledger and remember even when I'm wrong I'm right yeah he signs off that way every night and for the record we actually asked the Library of Congress whether the daily ledger is sent to its archives and they told us and I quote they have no record of the daily ledger being submitted nor have we received the shows as a collection and anyway getting into the Library of Congress isn't remotely impressive you know what's in there Jersey Shore is in there milf chronicles for busty mansions is in there even our show is in there it's true this is our listing in their catalogue what I'm saying is you wouldn't be keeping great company even if you were in there which you're not then of course this is catchphrase even when I'm wrong I'm right which is even stupider why would you want to say something that implies that you're both shamelessly partisan and wrong and not in significant part of the time it would make just as much sense if his catchphrase was remember even after I have explosive diarrhea I'm still full of why would you admit either of those things but it might actually be good that led just specifies his rightness even in wrongness because he is wrong a lot and always with a certain Ron Burgundy flair watch as he tries to dismantle saunders rhetoric unfettered capitalism is what we should desire in this country unfettered capitalism is what made this country great in the industrial revolution Carnegie and well the other men that that built this country in the late 1800s I'm blanking JP Morgan the rest of them rockefeller there is a name yeah there is a name nice save Graham and that's the kind of erudite historical insight that you can find in his book the Industrial Revolution how Andrew Carnegie and you know the rest of them JP Morgan and others the monopoly man maybe that's a name built America through unfettered capitalism oh and Henry Ford but ledger isn't the network's only bright lights you already know shanell Rhian Oh a ins White House reporter whose speciality seems to be asking the questions that are on absolutely no bodies Minds 2405 Americans have died from coronavirus in the last 60 days yeah meanwhile you have 2369 children who are killed by their mothers through elective abortions each day that's sixteen and a half thousand children killed every week okay that's obviously a rhetorical bad fight argument but what the hell let's engage there are thousands of abortions and thousands of coronavirus deaths that's true we can disagree on whether those things are equivalent they're not but if only one of them is growing exponentially every single day that should probably be the one that we focus on right the now but by all means come back to that question once abortions become involuntary and wildly contagious now when Chanel Rhian isn't asking nice questions in the White House press room she also claims to be the best political illustrator in the country for constitutional conservative and anti leftist causes which to be fair is a very low bar to clear yet I'm not sure if this drawing of Rachel Maddow as wretched Mad Cow even manages to get over it she also runs a word of the a website called wert appease a world of fine words featuring artful tributes to floral language like Metanoia Orphic and back Fife and kashish which apparently means a face badly in need of punching her about page explains that if we don't nurture and grow our word realms we don't nurture and grow our thought realms and it's hard to know how to describe a sentence like that thankfully word Obie's has an entry on fanfare innate which means empty self promoting language and that seems to hit the nail right on the head this website is so handy then there is Liz wheeler who is a big Trump favorite and she can develop an argument just watch as over the course of 54 seconds she spins an aquarium's simple decision not to announce the gender of a baby penguin into something very different we should ask where does radical leftist gender ideology lead do liberals want human children to be genderless if so why is this based on biology and if not then what what happens when human children are raised genderless if gender is destroyed doesn't that destroy traditional gender roles and if gender roles are destroyed doesn't that destroy gendered relationships and if gendered relationships are destroyed doesn't that destroy traditional marriage and if traditional marriage is destroyed doesn't that destroy the family units and if people aren't dependent on their families then who do they depend on that's right the government which is the goal of liberals in the first place don't let transgender penguins fool you Wow that argument is a walk I assume that she uses that same chain argument logic for everything ask yourself this why do radical leftists want to expand health insurance do liberals want everyone to have health and if everyone has health doesn't that mean no one will ever die and if no one ever dies does that mean Hitler would still be alive and if Hitler is still alive isn't World War two still happening and if World War two is too happening doesn't that mean our troops are still fighting and if our troops are still busy fighting in World War two who's defending America from terrorists that's right no one which is the goal of liberals in the first place don't let polyamorous lobster's fool you and look it's not just hard rights talking points the network has actively given airtime to conspiracy theories they put up a $100,000 reward for information on Seth Rich's murder last year they traveled with Rudy Giuliani to Ukraine to shoot a multi-part series featuring his investigations there and just recently Chanel Rihanna hosted a special in which she boosted a conspiracy theory that the coronavirus might have originated as a bioweapon in a North Carolina laboratory the whole selling point for OAM is that they are Fox News with even less shame and even fewer scruples in fact they're so flagrantly smitten with Trump that at one point their network account actually tweeted president Trump recently gave a speech thanking his supporters in the media not a single mention of one America news one of his greatest supporters Oh a yen calls and that is just pathetically thirsty they shift from fawning praise to sullen fury if people stop complimenting them for a single second although when you put it like that you do kind of get what I weigh in and the president's seeing each other and I know that it is easy to dismiss away in as just a stupid little watched borderline self-parody the problem is if we're learning one thing right now it's that toxic things that start small can get big fast and it's dangerous to ignore them and right now the president's putting a lot of energy into boosting Oh a ends profile for instance last week even as the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the u.s. passed 65,000 Trump thought it was important that his twitter followers see this video guess what thanks to you guys this book my book it's number four on Amazon's bestseller list in the political commentary category thank you thanks thank you so much yeah he retweeted that with the notes by the book and give Liz some great reviews which would absolutely be weird enough even if Liz wheeler hadn't posted that video last August and we all know the rules here liking someone's post is fine liking someone's post from seven months ago is the creepiest thing on earth and Trump has had their back in other ways just this week the White House Correspondents Association actually revoked Owens access to a seat in the briefings the reason they did this was because most reporters had agreed to take turns attending to keep the room emptier and follow social distancing rules but chanel Ryan repeatedly showed up on dates that she wasn't assigned a seat yet despite having her seat revoked on Wednesday Rihanna was back in that room the very next day telling people that she'd been personally invited as a guest of the White House press secretary and that is a problem because in the best of times you can laugh at an almost anchorman esque parody of right-wing news but much like the problem with anchorman - it's just not the right time for Ron burgandy right now o Am's weird combination of far-right wing talking points and dirt stupid reporting is incredibly dangerous at a time like this Graham ledger has explicitly called for Americans to defy the government's advice on social distancing and has justified his argument like this I would rather die of coronavirus a free person then live like a slave to government engulfed in fear panic and with no Liberty this addition of the daily ledger is on its way the archives Library of Congress thank you for watching I'm Graham ledger and remember even when I'm wrong I'm right honestly has monumentally dumb as that catchphrase is it still might be too smart for Graham ledger he deserves a catchphrase more on his intellectual level maybe something like on Graham ledger and remember anything can be food if you eat it and incidentally that is just the tain TV version of Graham ledger online he's even worse just watch a video that he posted on Tuesday this week in which he claimed that it was important that he get his hair cut and framed it as a brave act of civil disobedience do you know what we have to do because we're living under and edict not unlike Hitler's Germany or Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union we're living under tyranny instead of Liberty we have to do this in clandestine style my hairdresser could be fined and or arrested for what she's doing this is not unlike of course what they had to live through during Hitler's time okay a couple of things there first of all it's not essential that you get your hair cut people on TV don't always look well-groomed trust me trust me Hey look at me trust me second Hitler didn't outlaw haircuts he was a fascist about personal grooming other stuff too but mainly that and third if we were living under a Nazi occupation maybe don't film yourself on roots to your secret underground resistance along which it took literally five minutes on Google to figure out is presumably somewhere around the moon like Plaza shopping center in Encinitas California and look the problem here is the kind of misinformation owain is spewing right now could end up getting people killed and sadly their message is being actively spread by the White House so it is more important than ever to be on the lookout for Oh Ann's and to make sure no one that you know is falling forward either and I know that just calling it may seem crude so for all of those of you who might desire a more eloquent plea let me offer some language from Chanel RIANZ web site were derbies in this Vespertine hour I implore you to ignore a news network that attempts to Glos this administration's ineptitude during a pandemic whether it be a scientist like Liz wheeler a back Fife and kashish like Graham Ledger or a rake fire like Chanel Rihanna for these people are not just irresponsible my friends there are a bunch of FOP doodles that is our show thank you so much for watching we will see you next week I'm John Oliver and this edition last week tonight is for some reason actually on its way to the Library of Congress don't let bicurious manatees fool you good night you

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Published: Sun Apr 05 2020

Reddit Comments

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Donald Trump Jr. seeing "Tiger King" and thinking "I need to buy a tiger to keep in my house" is the least surprising thing ever.

[u/AFlaccoSeagulls]

That small video from Liz Wheeler about transgender penguins was.....something. Holy shit, that was terrifyingly stupid and I'm actually surprised someone could read that off of a teleprompter so confidently without even thinking twice as to what she was saying.

[u/GiraffeDiver]

Remember the commissioner from Florida, who recommended hair dryer up your nose to cure corona virus?, guess where he heard it!

[u/Soulis_Greece]

The cringe moments of this video send shivers down my spine.

"Even when I am wrong I am right". WHAT??? 😱😱😱

[u/Hiccup]

I watched that abortion question live and thought "who the fuck managed to catch-me-if-you-can their way into the press conference and is now masquerading as a reporter/ journalist." I also thought, "what the fuck does abortion have to do with a deadly contagion/ virus/ pandemic? "

[u/idksomuch]

I've never heard of OAN before this and now, I'm a bit upset I've now heard about OAN.

[u/FrostyFoss]

I don't have cable so OAN caught me off guard.

First time I became aware of it was earlier this year at party. I went to a family members house and they had it on the TV, it comes off like Fox news on steroids.

Just now watching the clips in this segment I can tell they are taking their cues from OAN. They're not listening to stay at home orders and they're still running their business even though it is one that's been ordered to be closed. Propaganda works and it's getting people killed.

[u/spacednlost]

Stands for One American Nazi.

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