After a poll revealed at 54% of her eligible viewers were not registered voters, with weeks to go before the crucial 2018 midterm elections, Samantha Bee set out to do something to get out the vote. Read the rest
Here’s the monologue from Full Frontal’s post-election special. As Samantha Bee puts it:
I guess ruining Brooklyn was just a dry run. Caucasian nation showed up in droves to vote for Trump. So I don't want to hear a goddamn word about black voter turnout—how many times do we expect black people to build our country for us?
Bee also adds:
Don’t try to distance yourself from the bad apples and say, “It’s not my fault, I didn’t vote for him. Hashtag not all white people.” Shush. If Muslims have to take responsibility for every member of their community, so do we.
She goes on to celebrate nasty women as well as the good things left in America like, “Shonda Rhimes shows and peanut butter and Beyoncé and Lin Manuel-Miranda rap-weeping at award shows.” Read the rest
Waiting til Monday night did nothing to damper Samantha Bee's awesome analysis of the Trump third debate flame-out. Read the rest
Samantha Bee has grown tired of the current trend wherein interviewers just smile and nod as Trump and his surrogates create fantastic lies. Bee reminds them, and us, that “Calling a liar a liar isn’t an opinion if you can prove it." Read the rest
The NRA -- tone-deaf, intransigent, monied -- are seemingly unstoppable, but if anyone can shoot 'em down, it's Samantha Bee, whose tight, funny, rage-filled 5:30 on America's gun lobby is practically armor-piercing. (via Rolling Stone) Read the rest
This week's Orlando aftermath commentary has ranged from the scorching to the touching to the offensive to the spectacularly stupid. Read the rest
Samantha Bee hilariously interviewed a panel of folks feeling the Bern. Read the rest
Samantha Bee's monologue on the 2010 midterm election -- the election that will.i.am didn't make videos for, the election where progressives stayed away from the polls, the election that put the obstructionist, do-nothing radical right into Congress and the vicious, do-everything right into state houses across the USA -- is hilarious, but like everything Bee does, it has a sting it its tail. (via Metafilter) Read the rest
