"I hate to break it to you, but she didn't actually ruin her best friend's wedding, and she's not a sex worker," Oliver said.
February 27, 2023

John Oliver tried to explain the difference between reality and movies to Fox News after this strange exchange between two of their hosts as they talked about the environmental disaster in East Palestine, Ohio. Via HuffPost:

“For the activists, this is an Erin Brockovich moment,” Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy told fellow network personality Jesse Watters last week. “There was a blockbuster, Oscar-winning movie written about something like this.”

“Erin Brockovich is actually in East Palestine tonight, right now,” Watters replied.

“She is,” Campos-Duffy noted, then added: “But where’s Julia Roberts?”

That left Oliver stunned.

“What? What are you talking about? You realize Julia Roberts is an actor, right? She was pretending. She’s not actually Erin Brockovich,” Oliver said.

Consider the recent shocking revelation from the Dominion voting systems lawsuit that Fox viewers actually tuned out when Fox tried to tell the truth. They have trained their viewers to expect ever more fantastical tales, and if Fox deviates from that path, the stock price goes down -- at least, according to Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson.

Maybe they should change their name to "Fox Fairy Tales."

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