Oliver cited an interview with Facenda and his mother and primary caregiver, Joann, on the difficulties faced by people with disabilities as the state shifted to for-profit āmanaged care organizationsā, leaving Facenda spending hours in dirty diapers.
Oliver played audio from Morleyās testimony at a 2017 administrative hearing, that aired as such: āPeople have bowel movements every day where they donāt completely clean themselves, and we donāt fuss over [them] too much. People are allowed to be dirty ⦠You know, I would allow him to be a little dirty for a couple of days.ā
Oliver said of the snippet: āLook, Iāll be honest, when I first heard that, I thought that has to be taken out of context. There is no way a doctor, a licensed physician, would testify in a hearing that he thinks itās okay if people have shit on them for days. So, we got the full hearing, and Iām not going to play it for you, Iām just going to tell you: he said it, he meant it, and it made me want to punch a hole in the wall.
āIf I absolutely had to put it into words, I guess Iād say fuck that doctor with a rusty canoe, I hope he gets tetanus of the balls,ā he continued. āAnd if he has a problem with my language there, Iād say Iām allowed to be dirty. People are allowed to be a little dirty sometimes, apparently thatās doctors fucking orders.ā
Oliver also added that legally, he was required to say that AmeriHealth Caritas restored the patientās services, but called it a ādisgraceā that it was disrupted in the first place.
The lawsuit argues that context cut from the show changes the meaning of Morleyās words, which they quote as thus: āIn certain cases, yes, with the patient with significant comorbidities, you would want to have someone wiping them and getting the feces off. But like I said, people have bowel movements every day where they donāt completely clean themselves and we donāt fuss over too much. People are allowed to be dirty. Itās when the dirty and the feces and the urine interfere with, you know, medical safety, like in someone who has concomitant comorbidities that you worry, but not in this specific case. I would allow him to be a little dirty for a couple days.ā
I donāt see how the full quote meaningfully changes the meaning of the words
I honestly canāt wait for the episode calling this one out. I hope he commissions a rusty canoe to send to this shitbag.
Episodes, plural. It should become a running gag.
as long as it doesnāt replace the sexy horse
Heās done it before? Remember the Squirrel? And the crazy fucker who said out loud that it talked to him?
Iām not sure what compels these people to walk up to John and basically say, āPlease embarrass me in front of the nation for a whole season, and toss in some lawyer fees while youāre at it.ā But they do.
Another song like āeat shit bobā in the making i hope!
He should just flashback to the first segment, āapologizeā for taking it out of context, and quote the Drās ācontextā while holding a rusty canoe and waving his eyebrows suggestively at the camera