A viral investigation into fraud in Minnesota is what brought Nick Shirley to the Oval Office, where the president publicly recognized him. The independent journalist's work put the state's taxpayer-funded childcare programs in front of the whole country. Shirley, as the president noted, is very young and got into this early, and it's too bad he had to ruin his youth to find that such bad people exist. He began with a camera and hard questions. Oliver wrote this post.