A health-care executive has slapped Last Week Tonight host John Oliver with a lawsuit, alleging the comedian-turned-talk-show-host defamed him in a 2024 episode by twisting his words and making “false accusations.”
The episode in question, which aired in April of last year, linked Dr. Brian Morley, a hospital administrator and former medical director for AmeriHealth Caritas in Iowa, to a drastic decrease in Medicaid services and accused him of thinking “it’s OK if people have s–t on them for days.”
The complaint, filed late last week in the New York Southern District Court, claims that Oliver and his team “entirely snipped out of context and manipulated two sentences of Morley’s testimony” during an administrative proceeding so that they could “accomplish their defamation,” reports Entertainment Weekly.
(For those interested here is the episode. Dr. Morley speaks at 21:22.)
SLAPP suits aren’t about wrong or right. They are about intimidation only. And John is going to kick their ass and make them look like fools in the process
Can all but guarantee that he’ll be doing an episode about this lawsuit, only serving to increase visibility on how much of a p.o.s. the original target IS.
Streisand effect FTW.