Episode
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee: Super PACs
Overview
The untold story of how Christian conservatives went from politically inactive to never shutting the hell up. Five councilwomen in Seattle have been receiving a lot of hate for the insidious crime of doing their jobs. Sam learns that the only thing sadder than Jeb Bush's super PAC is the guy who raised millions of dollars toward it: Mel Immergut. More thrilling sports talk from our favorite Seawards!
Details
- Series
- Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 2016-05-16
- Runtime
- 21 min
Episode context
Super PACs is Episode 12 in Season 1 of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. It aired on 2016-05-16. The runtime is 21 min.
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Episode 11: Crisis Pregnancy Centers
Samantha and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Michelle Branch bid farewell to Brylcreemed folklore monster Ted Cruz. State midterms are even more boring than general midterms—and maybe more important. Case in point, North Carolina. Blink and you'll miss the sneaky trick anti-choice crisis pregnancy centers use to fool women into thinking they're abortion clinics. Michelle Branch closes tonight's show with more of her musical farewell to Ted Cruz, who will be missed in a perverse kind of way.
Episode 13: Vaping
Bernie Sanders supporters take their screamy, incoherent message to the Nevada Democratic Convention. Full Frontal goes deep inside the weirdest anti-abortion art film you've never seen. New government regulations crack down on vaping. Find out why the future of "Monkey Spunk" hangs in the balance. Check out our new title sequence, inspired by Frank Schaeffer. It's nightmare fuel for the whole family!
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Episode 9: Bernie Voters
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Episode 15: Libertarian Convention
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Episode 16: Tribal Courts
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