Trevor Noah looks at the fortunes of some of the Republican candidates, starting with the precipitous drop in the popularity of Ben Carson and then the stagnating John Kasich and Jeb Bush.
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There is something vaguely creepy about Ted Cruz.
It is more than the smug expression that is his standard face. He also has the sly expression of someone who thinks he is way smarter than you and can argue better and thus can make you believe what he says. This confidence is shown in the way he flatly distorts things and uses his skills in sophistry to try and make his lies sound truthful.
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Remember Black Friend Finder, a service that provides people who need them with black friends? Now Funny or Die introduces Muslim-meet, a service that introduces people to real Muslims to help them overcome their prejudices.
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You may recall Will Ferrell doing his impersonation of George W. Bush during his presidency. On Saturday Night Live, he reprises his role to announce that he is entering the race for the Republican presidential nomination and while doing so sizes up all his main competitors.
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Marco Rubio asserts that he cannot see any evidence of discriminatory actions against Muslims in America. Has he not heard of the internet? It has been full of news stories about random people are perceived to look like Muslims being targeted for harassment as you can see here, here, and here.
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The Daily Show looks at the obsession the US has with guns and the perpetual fear that the seem to have that their right to buy guns freely will be taken away from them which leads them to rush to buy even more following a mass shooting.
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I wrote a few days ago about the parade of Republican presidential hopefuls auditioning for Sheldon Adelson’s money by appearing before his group called the Republican Jewish Coalition. The Daily Show‘s newest correspondent Adam Lowitt had a pretty funny segment dissecting their appearance.
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Trevor Noah of The Daily Show points out how, because he is the leading candidate of one of the two major political parties, Donald Trump has given permission for people to say things that they may have formerly felt obliged to either suppress or only share with those they were sure shared their views. Now, pretty much anything goes.
He returns to plug one of the issues that he is passionate about and that is to obtain appropriate health care for those 9/11 emergency first responders who got sick breathing in all the dust from the collapsed building as they went about trying to rescue people. He is trying to shame senate majority leader Mitch McConnell and other legislators into doing the right thing.
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There has been so much absurd over-reaction to the San Bernadino shooting that it is hard to know where to begin cataloguing the follies. On his show Late Night with Seth Myers, Myers had an excellent commentary on the ridiculous way the story was covered, the absurdity reaching its peak when the media got access to the shooters’ home.
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