The 'Last Week Tonight' host blows up over Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and other figures influencing the president.
meant to stop the spread of the virus. Many were simply repeating talking points from those same media figures.
“Because ― and this is true ― they only pretend to believe these things on television for money,” Oliver said. As Oliver noted, many of the wilder statements from the network’s personalities were later repeated by Trump. See Oliver’s full examination of the feedback loop between right-wing media and its audience, including the president himself:What happens if we end
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