On Tuesday, Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush gave a speech on foreign policy that essentially pinned the blame for Iraq's security problems on President Obama and Hillary Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner who was Obama's first secretary of state. On Thursday, he doubled down. Also on Thursday, Nightly Show host Larry Wilmore decided take on Bush's "revisionist history" of the Iraq War.
He started with Bush's weeks of suggesting that Hillary Clinton, not his brother, George W. Bush, fostered the birth of Islamic State and caused the chaos in Iraq. "So George is gone and it's all Hillary's fault? What kind of distorted reality are you living in?" he asked, adding later: "No, no no! Stop trying to drag Hillary into this." That was a set up for a scatalogical analogy that ended with Wilmore calling Clinton "the nice lady down the hall who's deleting her emails." And if you get to the end of the video below, Wilmore will try to convince you the whole Jeb critique was a setup to punk Bill Cosby. People at work be warned: He calls Cosby an a—hole. Peter Weber
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