“If I Were A Fox Viewer, I’d Feel Pretty Betrayed” – Deadline

John Oliver returned with Last Week Tonight after a three-month hiatus and it wasn’t lengthy earlier than he began taking swipes at Fox News.

The HBO Max host began off the evening by speaking in regards to the defamation lawsuit Dominion Voting Systems filed in opposition to the cable community. Filings that have been dropped at mild had the Fox News hosts like Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham going on-air peddling election fraud claims whereas privately saying it was “B.S.” and “crazy.”

“Wow, if I were a Fox viewer, I’d feel pretty betrayed by that,” Oliver stated. “This is like finding out that Big Bird regularly texted Elmo, ‘F**k them kids,’ and Elmo agrees.”

Oliver continued, “This filing shows the extent to which Fox hosts did not believe the sh** that they were selling, which is completely fine if you work for QVC and you have to fill an hour on why bejeweled squatty potty will change your life. But, it’s a bit more concerning when you pretend to be the news.”

The late-night host additionally introduced up that what he discovered most fascinating was “how terrified major Fox figures were of losing their audience to more conspiracy-friendly networks like Newsmax.” Oliver stated he “kind of” understood the priority by Fox hosts and the strain to maintain their rankings and supplied an instance on how the Last Week Tonight individuals do it.

“We also face pressure to maintain our audience, it’s just that we do it the old-fashioned way by having integrity, self-respect and the blind fortune of airing right after hit prestige dramas that people actually want to watch. It’s not difficult,” he stated because the viewers roared in applause with the logos of exhibits like Game of Thrones, Succession and The Last of Us showing on the display screen.

In his final jab, Oliver stated that there are two fireable offenses at Fox News: 1. “Making stock price go down.” 2. “Being a sexual monster for decades (but only if people outside the company find out about it.”

Oliver’s first level was a reference to Carlson suggesting a Fox News reporter get fired as a result of she was “hurting the company” inventory value after she fact-checked a Trump tweet about votes getting destroyed.