Samantha Bee calls BS on Bernie Sanders' Democratic fraud and rigging allegations

Sam Bee looks at the Democrats &quot;festering tension pimple&quot;

(Image credit: Full Frontal)

published 24 May 2016

On Monday's Full Frontal, Samantha Bee shook her head at "the Democratic Party's growing, festering tensions pimple," which finally "came to a head" and popped "when angry [Bernie] Sanders supporters turned Nevada's Democratic convention into a... a something." (She settled on "donnybrook", which is "apparently what you call civil unrest when it involves white people.") You're surely familiar with that, um, donnybrook by now, but if you need a refresher, Bee has one — including the vile calls and text messages sent to Nevada Democratic Party Chairwoman Roberta Lange.

The Nevada Democratic delegate selection rules are arcane and stupid, Bee said, but Clinton won the most democratic part, the caucus; Sanders won the county conventions; and then came the state convention, and "that's when Lady Luck said 'I'm with her.'" Bee said that "if there were actual misconduct by party officials, I'd be furious, too. But ask yourself, what makes more sense? That party chair Lange changed the rules to disqualify Sanders delegates, 50 of whom Hillary Clinton had drugged and tied up in a basement with the skeleton of Vince Foster, or that first-time delegates backing a guy who became a Democrat just before breakfast couldn't get their shit together?" You can guess Bee's answer.

"Should the Democratic Party make its primary process more democratic? God, yes," Bee said. "But the fact is, nobody stole the Nevada election. Sanders just got beat ... You know, I love the passion of Sanders supporters, but why is it curdling into rage at their own party? Who's giving them the idea that any outcome they don't like is illegitimate and rigged?" You can probably guess where she's going here, too, but watch to the end for Bee's coup de grâce on the fraud and election-rigging allegations from Sanders and his supporters. (Yes, there is NSFW language.) 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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