I agree with most of your statement, but Oliver is most certainly deceitful, while also being biased. His deceit may not be deliberate (and we could come up wi

I agree with most of your statement, but Oliver is most certainly deceitful, while also being biased. His deceit may not be deliberate (and we could come up with yet another term to denote deliberate deceitfulness), but it is often evident. His deceit is most evident on foreign affairs, which is not surprising given his devotion to orthodox, bi-partisan DC establishment foreign policy. His clips about Venezuela and Syria could easily have been produced in-house at Langley or Foggy Bottom production studios (if they had better writing). In many ways the evolution of John Oliver mirrors the evolution of Howard Dean, who began as a rational, reasonably moderate progressive voice for change but got captured by the neo-liberal establishment that gave him millions of dollars and a position of "respectability".