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#EndorseThis: Desi Lydic Shows How To Detect Paid Protesters

Daily Show correspondent Desi Lydic visits Birmingham in Alabama’s Sixth Congressional District to find out whether protesters at Republican town hall meetings are “being paid” and “bused in” from other places — as various GOP outlets and #MAGA loudmouths incessantly claim.

Predictably enough, many of the Birmingham Trumpsters are quick to denounce paid protesters, with one of them even citing a Facebook fake news video. Questioned by Lydic, however, none can cite any evidence of the demonstrators who showed up to confront Rep. Gary Palmer (R-AL) being anything except fellow Sixth District residents (as all of them quite obviously are).

Indeed, one of the Republican ladies, after expressing her indignant certainty that those other folks came from outside the district, makes an embarrassing admission about her own residency. And as for the buses? They turn out to be full of…Republicans

 

Late Night Roundup: The Donald Trump Children’s Book

Late Night Roundup: The Donald Trump Children’s Book

Jimmy Kimmel sat down with Donald Trump himself, and decided to surprise The Donald with a special new children’s book: “Winners Aren’t Losers.”

As one example: “This lobster’s a loser. Throw him in the pot! I like a lobster who doesn’t get caught.” Donald Trump apparently enjoyed this reference to the time he insulted John McCain for having been a prisoner of war.

The Daily Show‘s Desi Lydic did a fact-check on the Republican debate. And well, it wasn’t pretty.

Larry Wilmore examined Ben Carson’s performance at the debate, and what looked like a lot of attempts to stall on talking about foreign policy: “Carson’s acting like a kid who has to do a book report, for a book he didn’t read.”

Seth Meyers reviewed the GOP debate, and how all the hype going into it — that Donald Trump would face off against Ted Cruz — simply didn’t come to pass. In fact, almost none of the other candidates even tried to take The Donald on — except for his “favorite punching bag” Jeb Bush.

Stephen Colbert highlighted Donald Trump’s “astonishingly excellent” and “extraordinary” doctor’s letter: “So while Trump is disease-free, evidently talking like him is highly contagious.”

Conan O’Brien told this zinger: “At a Donald Trump rally the other night, a supporter shouted out the Nazi salute, ‘Sieg heil.’ Trump immediately responded, ‘There is no place for that here — save it for my inauguration.'”

Late Night Roundup: Messing With Texas Textbooks

Late Night Roundup: Messing With Texas Textbooks

Larry Wilmore examined the latest school textbook revisions from Texas, which is eliminating references to the slave trade, Jim Crow laws, and the Ku Klux Klan — changes will affect history books in schools all across the country. Texas is a big place, Larry explained, “and the one thing Texans like more than white picket fences — is whitewashing history.”

But how to illustrate this? Larry read to a group of schoolchildren from the new book, “Goodnight Slavery.”

Conan O’Brien got a series of accidental phone calls from “Donald Trump,” who talked about his real political agenda — lying about building a wall, or watching Muslims celebrate 9/11: “What I”m selling is a twisted fantasy that a lot of sickos are, frankly, buying into.”

The Daily Show looked at the stakes of the climate summit in Paris, in a segment from correspondent Desi Lydic: “Some insist the time to avoid catastrophe is running out… others are really stupid.”

James Corden discussed the new facial hair being sported by Speaker Paul Ryan — the first speaker of the house to do so in nearly 100 years: “Incidentally, Paul Ryan is also the first politician in 100 years to have a beard that isn’t his wife.”

Late Night Roundup: Kindergarten Carson

Late Night Roundup: Kindergarten Carson

The late night shows took a hard look at the Republican candidates’ responses to school shootings.

Ben Carson came under particular attention for calling upon civilians to charge against a gunman together — even laughing as he described it — and also his call for even kindergarten teachers to be trained and equipped with guns.

Larry Wilmore put it bluntly: “You are out of your f@#$ing mind.”

Larry also showed a kindergarten class where Carson’s ideas are actually put into practice.

Trevor Noah slammed Carson for describing the victims’ actions as having “let him shoot you.” Trevor also noticed the similarity between Carson’s strategy of charging a gunman en masse — and zombie movies: “Wait a second: slow, languid pace; dead eyes; loves brains. Oh my god, this explains everything — Ben Carson is a zombie!!!”

The Daily Show correspondent Desi Lydic also examined Carson’s victim-blaming: “We’ve all heard the saying: ‘Guns don’t kill people — people shot by guns, who don’t rush the guy shooting them, kill people.'”

Stephen Colbert highlighted Jeb Bush’s remarks “stuff happens” remark about not acting to prevent school shootings. “Jeb Bush clearly has all the advantages that a candidate could want, and should be doing way better. But when he says things like that, after 142 school shootings since Sandy Hook, it sounds like he’s got — how can I put this delicately — stuff for brains.”