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Flashback: Sam Bee Made Fun of Creepy, Pawing 'Charlie Rose Clones'
November 21st, 2017 12:46 PM
The NewsBusters staff was passing around an old YouTube video from Samantha Bee that she taped with Charlie Rose in his Bloomberg studios last year. It was titled "What Are You Hiding, Charlie Rose?" She asked to turn up the lights in the typically black backdrop, and was frightened to discover a crowd of "Charlie Rose clones." One clone even paws her on the shoulder: "Hi, I'm Charlie Rose." The…
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TNT’s ‘Major Crimes’ Majorly Smears Priests and Catholic Church
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November 8th, 2017 3:00 AM
When a show begins with a main character looking at Jesus on a crucifix in a Catholic Church while snidely saying to Him, “Thanks for nothing,” you know right away that there is a clear anti-Catholic bias and that things will go downhill from there. In the same program, a cop remarks, “We found Lucas Garza's body at a Catholic church. You know who hangs out at Catholic churches? Priests.”
Samantha Bee Takes on Trump and Climate ‘Denial’ In Halloween Episode
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October 31st, 2017 10:24 AM
Leave it to Samantha Bee to take climate hyperbole and turn it into a haunted, climate, hell house. Full Frontal with Samantha Bee spent the entire episode on Oct. 25, warning that climate change was “destroying the world,” that President Donald Trump was “attacking us in every way imaginable,” and she attempted to scare the “denial” out of people who disagree. Her method? A climate-themed…
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TBS Comedy's Priest Advises Mistress to Divorce in Confessional
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September 5th, 2017 12:59 AM
The September 4 episode of TBS’s People of Earth “Bee Kind,” revisited their sacrilegious storyline of a Catholic priest having an affair with a married woman, and this time, they took the story to even more offensive heights.
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‘People of Earth’ Hilariously Mocks Feminist Interpretative Dance Art
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August 29th, 2017 12:06 AM
TBS’s People of Earth, a comedy that centers around a support group of people who have been abducted by aliens, hilariously took a shot at feminist, interpretative dance art on the Monday, August 28 episode, “Aftermath.”
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Priest Has Affair with Married Woman on TBS's 'People of Earth'
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August 7th, 2017 11:39 PM
Liberal TV loves to bash Christianity any opportunity it gets and Monday night’s episode of TBS’s People of Earth did not disappoint. The episode, titled “Gerry’s Return,” portrayed the relationship between a married woman and a priest that became sexual at the end of last season. One of the opening scenes of the episode had Chelsea (Tracee Chimo) enter the confessional to tell Father Doug (Oscar…
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Shocked Samantha Bee Discovers that Kurds Love Trump
August 3rd, 2017 1:02 PM
A quick check of the Newsbusters archives reveals that Samantha Bee is one of the more notorious Trump haters in the media. Therefore it was amusing to watch the TBS host of Full Frontal go into a state of shock on her August 2 show in a segment where she traveled to Kurdistan in northern Iraq and discovered that (GASP!) the Kurds love President Donald Trump.
TBS’s ‘Wrecked’ on Abortion: ‘There Are No Wrong Choices'
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July 15th, 2017 6:39 PM
TBS’s Wrecked is comical parody of the show Lost, known for its outlandish storylines and it’s one of my favorite shows on television right now. But Tuesday, July 11’s episode, “Tony Pepperoni,” went too far by making light of a very serious topic - abortion.
Are You Kidding? Samantha Bee Producer: We Aren’t ‘Liberal’
July 10th, 2017 9:57 AM
You have the garden variety retractions, of course. The anonymously sourced tales disproven over time. The false narratives that always seem to tilt a certain way.And sometimes an outlet simply lets a source share false statements without even attempting to correct them. Case in point: This Vanity Fair profile of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee executive producer Jo Miller. The silliness starts…
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TBS: Terrorists Taking Over White House Better Than Trump
June 23rd, 2017 2:57 PM
In a commercial promoting an upcoming showing of the movie Olympus Has Fallen, centered around the plot of North Korean terrorists violently seizing control of the White House and holding the President of the United States hostage, cable channel TBS edited clips of the film to make it seem like fictitious national security officials were relieved and thrilled by that prospect. A not-so-subtle…
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TBS's Bee Slimes Catholic Church As Richer Than 'Smaug The Dragon'
June 22nd, 2017 9:40 PM
TBS's Samantha Bee unleashed against her longstanding nemesis, the Catholic Church, during a segment on Wednesday's Full Frontal. Bee zeroed on the Church's opposition to a proposed "child victims act," and contended that "if you're an institution that has hurt so many children that paying out civil settlements would make you go bankrupt, maybe you should?" The left-wing "comedian" added, "Anyway…
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Six Reasons Samantha Bee is Bad for America
May 6th, 2017 11:10 AM
Samantha Bee enjoyed the biggest spotlight of her career during her profanity-laced gala dubbed "Not The White House Correspondents Dinner." And that’s a crying shame.
The former Daily Show contributor hosts Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, TBS’s weekly assault on all things conservative. The media elite adores her, which has helped her career ascent. She’s arguably the loudest critic of the…
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Samantha Bee Tears Up Imagining Clinton White House Dinner
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May 1st, 2017 2:55 PM
Samantha Bee just can’t get over Hillary Clinton’s presidential defeat. In her widely publicized TBS special “Not the White House Correspondent’s Dinner,” the Full Frontal host spent six minutes imagining the Clinton administration WHCD that could have been. And the very thought brought her to tears.
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Season 2 of TBS’s ‘The Detour’ Ends as It Began: ‘Wrong’ & ‘Effed Up'
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April 26th, 2017 1:28 AM
We got to bid farewell to season two of TBS’s The Detour in the April 25 double episode, the latter being a supersized, limited commercial season finale. But if you thought this was the last of the ongoing attacks on Christianity and family values, you’d be wrong.