Sam Bee Mocks Lauer, Hits Media For Inability To 'Call A Liar A Liar'
Samantha Bee dived right back into this insane election season with an in-depth look at last week's disastrous Commander-in-Chief forum, Matt Lauer, and the dismal state of our Fourth Estate.
"I bet the veterans have some things they'd like to ask a draft dodging, Gold Star family insulting, war crimes advocating torture-phile whose worst Vietnam flashback involves scrambling for the last plane out of Gonorrhea," she mocked.
After skewering Lauer and Trump, she went after the rest of them for their aversion to checking facts, which seems to be an epidemic in this election cycle. And boy howdy, did she find some awesome clips, where journalists challenged their viewers to decide if Trump wants to violate the Geneva conventions.
"You heard her, average American. In your plentiful spare time when you're not working your two jobs or watching your screaming kids, why not spend 20 or 30 hours studying the Geneva Convention so you know whether or not it's okay to steal another country's oil," she mocked.
"There's no time to report the facts and what people feel are the facts," she warned. "You've got to choose one. Guys, we are swimming in bad information. Our dads are on Facebook. Chemtrails are not real, dad."
"Why can't the media just tell us what's true and what's bullsh*t? "
After playing some clips of the self-justification cable talkers give for why they can't possibly serve as fact-checkers -- like Tweety claiming Matt Lauer would be expressing an opinion by bringing up facts, Bee laid it out.