Samantha Bee, Sarah Paulson explain what we really learned from all Hillary's emails
After "an edifying weeklong orgy of media speculation" about Hillary Clinton's emails, FBI Director James Comey said there was nothing relevant in the newly discovered trove, Samantha Bee sighed on Monday's Full Frontal. The pundits declared that Clinton still has a "cloud of suspicion" over her head, and Bee was not amused, saying in the clip's one NSFW moment: "Oh for f—'s sake, you created the cloud! Don't let one off in our nation's elevator and say, 'Who did that? Was it Hillary?'"
"You want to talk about emails instead of policy? Fine, let's do it," Bee said. "Thanks to a heroic transparency fetishist who refuses to tell Swedish authorities whether or not he raped someone, we already know what Hillary's staff used email for," she said, and thanks to WikiLeaks and also FOIA requests, we've also seen Hillary's. What's in them? "We looked," Bee said. "About a million of them are just Hillary and Huma emailing 'U up?' to each other — they clearly don't know what that means, which makes me doubt Huma ever opened up her husband's laptop. We were a little scandalized to learn that Hillary can't use a printer," she added.
"But what about shady emails showing Hillary doing special favors for people? Oh, we found them," Bee said, noting the one where Clinton sought to help a 10-year-old Yemeni girl. "Typical Hillary — still pandering to the child-bride vote," she deadpanned. "Thanks to WikiLeaks, we discovered the real Hillary — a somewhat tech-averse workaholic who wants people to have medicine and wants her staff to print out this television show for her, large font please. And now, here to perform her one-woman show, Hillary's Emails: Yes I Am Up, please welcome Full Frontal's best new intern, Sarah Paulson." That would be the actress from Orange is the New Black and American Horror Story. You can watch her riveting performance below. Peter Weber
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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.
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