Last Week Tonight with John Oliver takes on food labeling and the lies they tell consumers

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Former Daily Show correspondent John Oliver launched his new show "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" on HBO last night. In this segment, he covers a recent Supreme Court case involving one of the plaintiffs citing the 1st amendment as protection for their false advertising, and other insane claims made for products. Other segments featured the United States media outlets largely ignoring one of the largest elections the world has seen thus far (in India); and an interview with former NSA director Keith Alexander. The entire program is viewable on Youtube.

Video here.

Comments

[oslo.livejournal.com]

404, you precious little martyr, no one wants to run you off just because they disagree with you. Indeed, I think that I speak for this group for whom I've apparently become "the standard bearer" when I say that we love disagreeing with you. We also love pointing out all of your white-knighting and whining, because it's just so cute.

Now - is that a harassing comment? If it is, why?

It is so strange to me when people who are in favor of liberty end up having a lot of trouble with its exercise. We're supposed to have this wonderful marketplace of ideas, where no speech is too harsh, no idea too ridiculous, to be properly subject to any kind of regulation, but the moment a fauxbertarian finds themselves subjected too directly to contempt, they're off to some privately-administered forum where the moderators enforce some constantly-evolving standard of civility.

No one wants to run you off. As a matter of fact, most of us can't run you off, even if we wanted to - as Jeff has so ably demonstrated by sticking to his guns for longer than I've been around. This isn't some town on some western frontier where there's a rail with your name on it, if too many of us get tired of you. This is a forum where your level of engagement is entirely up to you. It seems to me that the response to "harassing" comments more logically would be just not to respond, as a matter being one too tiresome to pursue, rather than to take oneself to be "attacked" or being "run off." In that case, your lack of participation would look more like mere boredom than "harassment." But "harassment" is the word you've chosen to describe our failure to respond to you in the kindly way you, for whatever reason, expect of us. Why?