Former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio who was pardoned by Donald Trump was the latest victim on Sacha Baron Cohen’s show.
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Former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio who was pardoned by Donald Trump was the latest victim on Sacha Baron Cohen’s show.
Samantha Bee tries to correct an imbalance in the way that sexual abuse of men and women are treated in the media and in our culture generally. She is joined in this message by Terry Crews who has said that he was sexually assaulted too.
I must admit, I did not know what the phrase ‘drop the soap’ alluded to.
Seth Meyers has some funny commentary on the latest foolishness that characterizes politics today.
News organizations tend to be reticent about reporting on wrongdoings within their own walls. But yesterday Colbert discussed the explosive allegations against Leslie Moonves, CEO of CBS, the network that produces and broadcasts his show. In addition, he brings up the Kimberly Guilfoyle-Donald Trump Jr. genital photo issue.
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I have deleted my Facebook account that I never used and so was not aware that the company has been running ads apologizing for some of the things that have been revealed recently about its practices. John Oliver exposes the disingenuous nature of the ‘apologies’ and runs a more truthful ad.
In a segment on his latest show Who Is America?, Sacha Baron Cohen, in his adopted persona as an Israeli anti-terrorism expert, interviews failed Alabama senate candidate Roy Moore and demonstrates a new device supposedly invented by the Israeli army that can detect pedophiles, something that Moore has been accused of being. The interview does not go well.
(Dan Coverly’s Speed Bump)
Stephen Colbert comments on the traumatized reaction of a conservative who attended the St. Louis rally at which democratic socialist congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spoke and found herself disturbingly attracted to the progressive message that she heard.
As Colbert says, god is a socialist.
I have not been following this story closely but Samantha Bee gives some background on what it is all about.