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John Oliver (HBO) about media and science
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John Oliver is a top bloke as we say where I come from
I wish he would do an episode on us in the week leading up to next year's millions missing.
Sorry for slightly hijacking the thread, but his episode on rehab could almost serve as a template for this, e.g. the bit at 2:55 is basically the exact same thing for the centres offering 'treatments' to us.
I mean, come on. This is almost too perfect a topic for him. Just think about it:
Our story is about British psychiatrists helping American companies (like UnumProvident) export the very concept of being complete dicks to severely disabled people all over the world, enabling doctors and government agencies to dismiss women as hysterical along the line, repeating everything that had been done wrong in the past with regards to any minority ever and largely getting away with it and to top it off justifying all of this with a combination of victim blaming and made up stories about a minority of a huge patient population handing out death threats left and right because someone found Bob Dylan lyrics on a small blog.
Exposing this kind of stuff is so quintessential John Oliver that all we need is a huge dormouse costume so one of our inactivist celebrities can show up for the pitch at the end of the show, link to some documents on the DWP involvement and the like and the segment should almost write itself.
Sorry for slightly hijacking the thread, but his episode on rehab could almost serve as a template for this, e.g. the bit at 2:55 is basically the exact same thing for the centres offering 'treatments' to us.
I mean, come on. This is almost too perfect a topic for him. Just think about it:
Our story is about British psychiatrists helping American companies (like UnumProvident) export the very concept of being complete dicks to severely disabled people all over the world, enabling doctors and government agencies to dismiss women as hysterical along the line, repeating everything that had been done wrong in the past with regards to any minority ever and largely getting away with it and to top it off justifying all of this with a combination of victim blaming and made up stories about a minority of a huge patient population handing out death threats left and right because someone found Bob Dylan lyrics on a small blog.
Exposing this kind of stuff is so quintessential John Oliver that all we need is a huge dormouse costume so one of our inactivist celebrities can show up for the pitch at the end of the show, link to some documents on the DWP involvement and the like and the segment should almost write itself.
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Snow Leopard
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Can't wait to see Michael Sharpe's TODD talk.