david.morrison: The Best Late Night Clips Of The Week: Obama?s Golf Trip, McCain?s Hypocrisy, Biden?s Shotgun And More

Sunday, February 24, 2013

The Best Late Night Clips Of The Week: Obama?s Golf Trip, McCain?s Hypocrisy, Biden?s Shotgun And More

Sunday, February 24th, 2013 at 12:08am Mediaite

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Jon Stewart tonight took on Republican senators Lindsay Graham and John McCain for their hyped-up outrage over Benghazi that led both to support holding up Chuck Hagel?s nomination for Defense Secretary in order to get answers. Stewart tore into McCain specifically for having the hubris to demand answers for Benghazi when he did no such thing regarding the Iraq war and his motivations for blocking Hagel were not exactly free of personal bias.

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The Daily Show?s Jessica Williams traveled to Texas this week to see how the people of that state of coping with President Obama?s second term. While she may not have found a representative sample of Texans, she did come across a handful of citizens fighting against the ?tyranny? of the federal government and holding out for the day Texas can secede from the Union once and for all.

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Totally Biased?s W. Kamau Bell was sick of seeing people complaining on Twitter that there?s no ?White History Month,? so he decided to explain to America there could be no Black History Month without white people.

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