That’s not what happened. Mark Penn wrote a memo in 2007 saying they should emphasize Obama was from Hawaii and spent time in Indonesia as a kid. There was nothing in there about not being born in the US. No one took it seriously in the campaign and that was that. Eventually a campaign volunteer in Iowa forwarded…

Yeah Jon Lovett’s weekly rants are the best parts of these podcasts.

Just here to say their post debate call to Hannity was the best. And Jon Lovett is my favorite scamp.

I love these guys and am willing to fight anyone who disagrees

And yet again, Johnson proves the adage: “God grant me the confidence of a mediocre white man”.

I can’t stop watching...

Yes! When we’re talking about facts, all opinions are not equal.

Her “you are so irrelevent that I could not be more bored if I tried” face from that hearing is top among my facial expression goals.

So great!

Indeed! She has the bone structure to carry them off. Paradoxically, a piece of fashion advice I read from her maybe in the late 70s that I still go to all the time, is that when you are invited somewhere and you are unsure of how dressy to be, wear a white blouse and black pants, and some accessories that you can…

Because the military and intelligence agencies will suddenly cease to exist if you vote third party?

You should vote how you want.

You don’t get to just pretend that your moral high ground doesn’t have real world consequences, jerk

It’s fine that you don’t want to vote for a candidate that you don’t think represents your ideals, but it is also fine that Bee lives in the real world and recognizes that: (1) there are only two candidates with a chance to win this presidential election and (2) if you refuse to vote for the one that most closely…

Sam Bee is not obligated to support your quixotic dream of remaking our democracy at the expense of our actual democracy.

I feel like sombreros and tequila aren’t cultural appropriation as much as cultural reduction

I feel like sombreros and tequila aren’t cultural appropriation as much as cultural reduction. And I feel like wearing a sombrero while making this speech was more about getting attention and going viral than about actually making a point. Like if you deliberately have to do something provocative and likely offensive…