A healthcare executive has hit the “last week’s last week” host John Oliver with a lawsuit claiming that the late night comedian twisted his words for toilet hygiene “for evaluations and profits”.
The lawsuit, filed in the southern district of New York on Friday, accuses Oliver and the production company of its occurrence, partially important products, for the defamation of Dr. Brian Morley during an episode that broadcast last April.
In the episode, entitled “Medicaid”, Oliver began in a noise targeted by Morley, a former medical director at the Amihealth Caritas Health Care firm.
“F -k that doctor with a rusty canoe! I hope he gets tetanus from the cannons,” shouted Oliver after playing a Morley audio recording of a 2017 testimony, which his lawyers claim to have been manipulated intentionally.
In the audio, Morley can be heard saying: “People have intestinal movements every day where they do not be fully cleaned and we do not make fuss [them] Many. People are allowed to be polluted … You know, I would allow it to be a little dirty for two days. “
The audience members turned on after Oliver rotated the clip.
But Morley’s lawyers argued that the audio had been changed to get the necessary context, such as the sentences before and after the clip, and made the viewers believe that the doctor was talking about a stationary patient while discussing a completely different individual.
“Oliver’s raised anger at Dr. Morley was fabricated for evaluations and profits at the expense of Dr. Morley’s personal reputation and well-being,” the lawsuit reads.
In the full audio segment, according to the lawsuit, Morley said: “In certain cases, yes, with the patient with considerable comorbidities, you will want someone to wipe them and remove the feces. But as I said, people have bowel movements every day, where they do not completely clean themselves and we do not do very well.”
“It is when contaminated and feces and urine intervene, you know, medical security, as in someone who has simultaneous comorbidities you worry, but not in this specific case.
Oliver and his production company consciously manipulated the quote using an ellipse to get rid of the essential context and “to convey a slanderous meaning that they knew was untrue,” the lawsuit claimed.
Representatives for Oliver and partially important products did not respond immediately to the commentary post requests.
During the episode, Oliver apparently meant that his team had heard full testimony.
“I will be honest, when I first heard it, I thought – this should be taken out of context. There is no way a doctor, a licensed doctor, will testify in a session that he thinks it is okay if people have shit on them day, so we have received full hearing,” Oliver said.
“I won’t play it for you. I will simply say to you, He said it. He said it and it made me want to mark a hole in the wall,” he continued.
Morley is looking for damage greater than $ 75,000 and lawyer fees.
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