On her program Full Frontal Samantha Bee reflects on the tragedy of these events and the absurd responses by those who want to avoid the implications of the easy access to guns that enable such shootings to more easily occur.
[Read more…]
On her program Full Frontal Samantha Bee reflects on the tragedy of these events and the absurd responses by those who want to avoid the implications of the easy access to guns that enable such shootings to more easily occur.
[Read more…]
Donald Trump can truthfully call Ted Cruz a liar but there is no question that he is a much bigger liar. The difference is that he gets away with it because he has figured out that when you say something on TV, huge numbers of people hear it and assume it to be true. When fact-checkers later look into your claims and publish the truth, many fewer people (usually just those following politics closely) hear the refutations. So he wins.
[Read more…]
Ben Carson has left the presidential race and did not take part in the last debate though it is not clear how many people even noticed his absence.
But The Daily Show did not want him to completely disappear into the night unsung and they compiled a tribute.
[Read more…]
Last Thursday’s over-the-top (or should I say below-the-waist) Republican debate happened too late in the week for many comedians to take shots at it but now they have weighed in.
On the latest episode of her show Full Frontal, Samantha Bee looks at what happened over the last week and how the last Republican debate went down. She gives a eulogy for the party and wonders if we can really trust the nation’s future in the hands of men who seem to be far too emotional.
[Read more…]
Sports Illustrated has included a ‘plus-size’ woman in its latest swimsuit edition and toy maker Mattel has introduced a diverse array of new Barbie dolls that feature them having them more realistic body shapes than the physiologically impossible ones that have been the standard so far. Does this signify a new acceptance of women in all their variety rather than giving the illusion that there is an ideal form?
[Read more…]
The big puzzle is whether Donald Trump’s supporters will be swayed by the relentless attacks on him by the party and Washington establishment. Will Trump succeed even without the full support of right-wing power brokers like Rush Limbaugh (who prefers Ted Cruz) and the active opposition of Glenn Beck and the motley crowd of conservative extremists that attended the annual CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) that met this weekend and which Trump canceled on at the last minute?
[Read more…]
The Daily Show reviews the present situation, starting with Marco Rubio’s evolution from stating that he wanted to take the high road in politics and avoid making personal attacks to ending up in a down and dirty insult fest with Donald Trump.
[Read more…]
First up is The Daily Show where I like the way that Noah exposes speaker Paul Ryan’s hypocritical statements that the Republican party should not be a home for prejudice, when in reality appealing to people’s prejudices is what the party has long been about.
[Read more…]
She rightly points out that while we pay a lot of attention to presidential election years, we pay far too little attention to mid-term elections and local and state elections, although these can have very significant consequences. The low voter turnout at such elections tends to result in horrible people getting elected to office.
[Read more…]
The Daily Show compares the records of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders on civil rights issues.
[Read more…]