{"id":44569,"date":"2025-08-04T12:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T12:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/44569\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T12:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T12:39:08","slug":"oh-fk-that-st-john-oliver-absolutely-shreds-megyn-kelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/44569\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Oh, F**k That S**t!\u2019: John Oliver Absolutely Shreds Megyn Kelly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Oliver didn\u2019t hold back Sunday as he tore into Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the chorus of right-wing commentators who are downplaying the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2025\/07\/1165517\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"humanitarian crisis\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"68906cbde4b08e0340525008\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2025\/07\/1165517\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">humanitarian crisis<\/a> in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cLast Week Tonight\u201d host first slammed Netanyahu\u2019s claim of \u201cno starvation\u201d in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you sure about that, though?\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/08\/john-oliver-last-week-tonight-israel-gaza-starvation-1236477511\/\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Oliver asked\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"68906cbde4b08e0340525008\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/08\/john-oliver-last-week-tonight-israel-gaza-starvation-1236477511\/\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Oliver asked<\/a>. \u201cBecause we can all see it right in front of us, and it\u2019s frankly insulting to think that you can deflect our attention with all the skill of a shitty magician.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, fuck off,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver then turned his focus to conservative figures \u2015 like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/news\/topic\/fox-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News<\/a>\u2019 Mark Levin, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee and former Fox personality Megyn Kelly \u2015 who have questioned images of starvation in Gaza after The New York Times amended a story to note that the starving child they had pictured had a pre-existing health condition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, fuck that shit,\u201d said Oliver. \u201cFor what it\u2019s worth, a child can have a pre-existing condition and be starving. Sick children \u2014 and this is true \u2014 need food to live.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI kind of hoped we were done with Megyn Kelly as a society,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver also pushed back on the scrutiny of photos depicting famine, noting the overwhelming evidence from international aid organizations, Israeli human rights groups and firsthand accounts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s happening in Gaza right now is a famine,\u201d Oliver said. \u201cAll the information we have points to that \u2014 except for this fucking guy [Netanyahu] and a few adult junior detectives squinting at each photo of a skeletal child to figure out if they\u2019re the right kind of dying.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Oliver didn\u2019t hold back Sunday as he tore into Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the chorus&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,8766,10939,28304,348],"class_list":{"0":"post-44569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-gaza","12":"tag-john-oliver","13":"tag-megyn-kelly","14":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}