![]() Representative and “white nationalist” Steve King. (See his previous jabs at the company, from condescendingly referring to it as “Business Daddy” frequently mocking what he calls its “terrible” service calling his old and new corporate chiefs “rich idiots” in the wake of the merger news venting about AT&T in a segment about robocalls and criticizing the company’s support for former Iowa U.S. ![]() He ended by noting that the show’s relationship with AT&T isn’t good. “If you run a cable out the back of your headquarters and plug it into T-Mobile’s network while they aren’t looking, that’s legal, right? Asking for a friend.” “All the business savvy of Quibi without the courtesy of committing corporate suicide.” And if you don’t like that slogan, AT&T, don’t worry, I’ve got more.” It is so nonsensical I have to assume something was lost in communication, which actually would be a much more appropriate slogan for the company. That’s our thing.” Oliver called that “complete gibberish”: “It sounds like Yoda pitching a penis enlargement device. He pointed to the company’s recent promotional campaign that carries the slogan “More for your thing. “That is such a relief,” he said, noting he wanted to “use that generous editorial independence to give some constructive feedback” to AT&T. “Just as AT&T is committed to providing editorial independence for every WarnerMedia show - including this one,” referring to Oliver’s show. “DirecTV respects the editorial independent of the channels it carries,” the statement read. ![]() In its statement to Last Week Tonight, AT&T also defended carrying OAN despite the “horrendous content” it airs, in Oliver’s words. “OK, I guess the largest telecom company in the world got roiled in a lawsuit by a ragtag band of fascists. He noted that AT&T has said the only reason OAN is on DirecTV is because OAN sued the company. In the email, AT&T denied that any “senior executives suggested to Herring that they create another conservative news network.” “With the carve-out of ‘senior’ there being pretty striking,” added Oliver. Oliver then showed an email from AT&T reps in response to Last Week Tonight’s request for comment. Showing a photo of an elderly woman at a polling place, Oliver asked: “Are you really saying those who ran the voting machines could be traitors? You mean Dolores? Dolores who lives down the street? Who volunteered to spend 12 hours or her, let’s face it, dwindling NCIS-watching time, doling out participation stickers to voters? All right, death to Dolores, I guess.” Oliver then showed a clip of an OAN broadcaster opining that anyone who worked the 2020 election, including poll workers who ran voting machines, is guilty of treason, which would carry the penalty of death. And once the network launched, AT&T carried OAN on its U-verse service and, later, on DirecTV. When they said that, I jumped to it and built one.”ĪT&T also reportedly funded OAN to the tune of tens of millions of dollars. “They only had one, which was Fox News, and they had seven others on the other side. They told us they wanted a conservative network,” Herring said in a 2019 deposition. testified that AT&T executives were the ones who told him to launch the network. He spent a lot of time last week tweeting or retweeting attacks against Fox News and promoting its competitors such as Newsmax and One America News Network.John Oliver Doubles Down on Mike Richards Criticism Following ‘Jeopardy!’ Brouhaha | THR NewsĪccording to court records reviewed by Reuters, OAN founder and chief executive Robert Herring Sr. Two weeks later, Trump still hasn’t gotten over it. Then later that night, Fox was the first network to call Arizona for Joe Biden. And somebody said, ‘What’s the biggest difference between this and four years ago?’ And I say, ‘Fox.’ You still have great people. “Actually, Fox puts ‘em on more than anybody else, which is sort of shocking to me because Fox has changed a lot. He criticized Fox News for airing campaign speeches by Democratic opponent Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama. You could tell the final stretch of campaigning had taken its toll. On the morning of Election Day, President Trump made one of his regular calls into the morning show “Fox and Friends.” He sounded tired.
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