Hey, at least those are the kind who graciously condescend to talk to us!
so you’re okay with putting words in my mouth whilst also ignoring an infraction of the board rules?
I’m pretty sure Miller is a pit moderator. We’re encouraged to report posts rather than pointlessly complain about them in the hopes that the right moderator will magically know which threads to check.
This captures it perfectly for me. We need it dumbed down, and getting Snowden to explain what different agencies could do as the dick pick was stored or moved different places in the cloud was exactly the concreteness we all (and Edward Snowden) needed for effective plebeian conversation.
And I want Ed Snowden to be able to come home and run for President in about a dozen years. 
Do you not know John Oliver is a US citizen, or do you think naturalized immigrants are not “americans”?
“Whilst?”
This makes me wonder where you’re from. (Nothing wrong with “whilst” it’s just typically not used in the US to my knowledge. If you’re not an American yourself, this puts a different spin on your posts in my mind.)
So who else is doing this quality of work?
John Oliver called himself a Brit in his video about the Scottish independence movement, so it seems a reasonable assumption to make.
One thing’s for sure, no one is like Piers Morgan. At least the appalling cockhead is as disliked on both sides of the Atlantic.
This is wildly incorrect. As pointed out, he’s an American citizen. He is extremely critical of Britain, and often insinuates that he basically fled a culture he found toxic to a country that he feels at home in.
He occasionally uses a British colonial schtick, but…it’s pretty obviously schticky and clear that he’s not suggesting that the British are in any way superior.
So you’re saying that George Washington betrayed his people? You don’t hear a lot of people make that argument.
Oddly, that’s exactly why I fled America to move to Britain.
Okay, not really. But I feel far more at home in the UK than the US.
Indeed. Anyone with half a brain will realise that the over-the-top snootiness is more of a criticism/joke at the expense of the UK. We’re good at that, joking about ourselves. Half our humour is based on that and if anyone thinks John Oliver is genuinely looking down on the US they are simply not the brightest member of the group.
Some parts of the U.S. deserve all the looking down on they get.
The Federalist talking about how bad Oliver made Snowden look (or how bad Snowden made himself look):
Also, HBO released the second part of the interview, but I haven’t had a chance to look at that yet.
Did they really not grasp Snowden was part of the conceit? Maybe it’s willful ignorance…
That’s like not getting Oliver (see above).
I’m not sure what you mean. Snowden was clearly uncomfortable with Oliver not letting up on the questioning, which they call out, and Oliver didn’t let him get away with soft answers.
Full credit to your user name, by the way. Now I have THAT happily stuck in my head. 
That article is right that Snowden is self-important, and thinks of himself as a hero. Some of the coverage of him has seemed a bit over the top to me, like the cover of Wired Magazine where he’s holding an American flag.
But that article is also making it sound like it’s no big deal that the government is collecting so much of our data, because there’s no evidence that anyone is doing bad things with our data. But didn’t Snowden say something in the interview about how when he worked with the NSA, that he saw so many dick pics? Also, even if the NSA isn’t doing anything bad with our data, it doesn’t sound like they are doing much good either. Before the interview, Oliver mentioned one crime that was found, and it was a cab driver giving some money to ISIS if I remember correctly. Something that was a crime and worthy of arrest, but not worthy of all the time and expense used to collect data if that’s pretty much all that’s been found.
The brilliance of Oliver’s interview was how he didn’t make Snowden out to be a hero or a traitor. I think he was someone with some good intentions, but who also wanted glory, who thought things through a bit, but not far enough.
But the point of the whole episode wasn’t just Snowden, it was the reauthorization of Section 215 of the Patriot Act, and I hope that doesn’t get overshadowed. Here’s an article about Section 215 and it’s upcoming vote:
Oliver seemed to bring a lot of attention to the Net Neutrality issue, I’m hoping that this episode does the same to Section 215 of the Patriot Act.