Full Frontal Episode Review: Samantha Bee Comes About Halfway Back
Let me first confess, I fritter a certain amount of my time on the phizz book. Not my strongest trait, I’ll admit, but the pastime has its uses. For example, yesterday, I read this post from a Facebook Friend, who shall remain nameless, even if he is at least as great an attention whore as your narrator.
The post showed a picture of the Calamity-Elect, and, above it, posed the conundrum: “The Difference Between a Chickpea and a Garbanzo Bean.” Below the picture was the caption: “A Garbanzo Never Beaned on my Face.” I bring that up because it is funnier, by far, than anything Full Frontal host Samantha Bee brought up in her first segment, which dealt with the recent news item regarding Mr. Trump and some Russian working girls. And, on top of that, it was probably the strongest of the three segments. Again, I have come to bury Calpurnia, not to praise her, even if I am happier when I get to do the latter.
The second segment was so-so and dealt with Jeff Sessions, who true to his name, is presently hosting a few brief sessions of political posturing before he is rubber-stamped in as our next Attorney General. I will make this part of the show my inclusion of the day, so that you can judge for yourself whether this so-so bit was so or so.
The thing is, I am not particularly upset about this appointment, given the very upsetting results of the recent election. He is a cabinet member, not a judge, where he could do some real damage. I would like to think that the Dems will play ball with this (admittedly bad) choice so that they can keep their powder dry for the real battle: ensuring that Neville Chamberlain—or whatever the hell the guy’s name is—does not become our next Secretary of State.
The final segment was one that actually backed up one of the claims that Mr. Trump made during his campaign. As he was being pilloried for his hatred of Mexicans, the candidate pointed out that Mr. Obama had deported more of them than any President in our nation’s history, surpassing even the number racked up by the late Millard Fillmore. It did not cast the present President in the most flattering light, as you might imagine.
What, you the rightfully cynical reader might ask, is the trouble that you will hear no ill spoken of President Obama? No, he calmly replied, it was because the piece was ****ing boring. If you missed the original broadcast and plan to catch the show on the rebound, this part of the show might be a good time to get up off the couch and make that mortadella and jelly sandwich you had been thinking of. Go ahead, you won’t be missing much, except a little bit of food from your pantry.
Sources
Full Frontal, January 11, 2017
