John Oliver buys $15M in debt and forgives all of it on 'Last Week Tonight'

Re:John Oliver buys $15M in debt and forgives all of it on '... by jklinger410 on Monday June 06, 2016 @11:46AM (#11847621)

This reminds me of the way South Park feels sometimes when (in my opinion) they're off the mark by a bit.

The show is really funny until you're on the wrong side of the one of their jokes. Or when they oversimplify something you know a lot about.

Preachy is the appropriate word. I really wish he (and his writers) would watch that. Somewhere in the rumor mills there is a story about John Stewart disagreeing with his writers because of how left and preachy they were as well.

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Re:John Oliver buys $15M in debt and forgives all of it on '... by kiruwa on Monday June 06, 2016 @12:32PM (#11848022)

> Or when they oversimplify something you know a lot about.

In fairness, I've literally never seen an accurate media report about one of the topics I know far more deeply than the average technically educated person (a particular NASA project, a certain narrow specialization in physics, and a language/culture I have spoken/lived-in for much of my life).

Not even "oversimplified". They are literally always wrong or misleading.

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