On Monday's Full Frontal, Samantha Bee kicked off her second show with a profane look at the political hullabaloo surrounding the death of Justice Antonin Scalia and the jockeying over who will replace him. According to Article 2 of the Constituion, President Obama "just appoints a new one," Bee said — except that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has already ruled that out. Bee noted the poetic discord of that pre-emptive no: "Yes, because what better way to honor America's greatest champion of original intent than by wiping your obstructionist a-- on the document he holds so dear."
While Bee had some pretty NSFW things to say about McConnell, she was relatively respectful of the dead justice, even ending the Scalia segment with some nice words about the conservative jurist: "Whether or not you hated his narrow literalism about a document written before machine guns and gay people were invented, Scalia was by all accounts a nice guy with a wicked sense of humor — people liked him."
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