"Let's say you were choosing a sandwich," Samantha Bee said on Monday's Full Frontal, setting up her interview with Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson. "What do you do when your only choices are something morally reprehensible, against the rule of law and decency, and a symbol for all that's wrong in America, and something you — I don't know, you don't really know why, you just never cared for." (Can you figure out which sandwich is Donald Trump and which is Hillary Clinton?) But, Bee said, this year, there's something else on the menu. "It's not FDA-inspected, but I took a bite anyway."
That bite was a freewheeling interview with Johnson, and Bee began by asking him to explain what Libertarians stand for. Bee nodded, then frowned, then nodded, and frowned again. "Here's the thing with Libertarians," she told Johnson. "I support basically every other thing you say." But things seem to be going Johnson's way so far — he's the only third-party candidate on the ballot in all 50 states, and he's already polling at 10 percent against two unpopular candidates. This is the point where the interview starts getting very strange, mostly because Johnson comes across as a little eccentric. "It turns out Gary being Gary is pretty amazing," Bee said. "His mind is as free as his markets."
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