Liberal media darling John Oliver and the production company behind his show, Last Week Tonight on CBS, were the recipients of a defamation complaint in the United States Southern District of New York, last Friday. The 23-page complaint alleged that Oliver and his producers “knowingly manipulated” the sworn testimony of Dr. Brian Morley, who was the medical director of Iowa’s Managed Care Organization dealing with their Medicaid program, “and then knowingly manipulated the context” of the testimony, effectively lying about it to millions of people around the globe.
The alleged defamation occurred in an episode of Last Week Tonight which aired on April 14, 2024. In the episode in question, Oliver was railing against the Medicaid systems in red states as he pushed for America “to adopt a universal healthcare model” like the one in his failing…
