John Oliver was not a fan of the American media’s use of strange verbiage during their coverage of the terror attack in London on Saturday night. During Sunday night’s episode of “Last Week Tonight”, the British comedian showed a supercut of CNN and Fox News repeatedly saying that Britain was “reeling” and “under siege” after the attack. In an effort to clarify how Brits are feeling, Oliver stressed that “in no way is Britain ‘under siege.’”“Is it upset? And that, as an idea, is insulting.”In fact, the overstatement of being “under siege” caused a perfectly snarky hashtag, #ThingsThatLeaveBritainReeling, to pop up. Oliver used this man, still clutching his pint of beer while leaving the scene of the attack, as an example:

Source: Huffington Post June 05, 2017 14:26 UTC