Thanks to Seth Meyer’s outrageously funny recap, I didn’t have to sit through three hours of hot Republican ‘debate’ action to be in-the-know politically, and neither do you. Seth covers everything you really want to see – and he does it in six minutes and twenty six seconds. Factoring in commercials, you just saved yourself approximately two hours and forty five minutes. You’re welcome.
There are so many unforgettable moments, and most of them involved Donald Trump – directly or indirectly. For example: candidates were asked to share their feelings about Donald Trump having his finger on the nuclear codes. The moderator clearly wanted to see an olde fashioned, throw-down and slap-fight.
Jeb! feels Trump is too hot-headed, inspiring Trump to make a series of faces that Seth observes are uncannily like those made by Joe Pesci when he forgets a line…Watch, it’s true! Rand Paul chose to be the adult in the room, and stop Trump’s “Junior High” attacks on people’s physicality. He’s a curly-haired dweeb.
Carson chose the nationally televised format – not to explain policy, but to complain, in his slow, methodical way, that he hasn’t been in the White House for seven years, although he spent many a happy hour there as the guest of President Dubya. Spellbinding stuff. I thought anyone could come to the Easter Egg Roll.
The candidates wrapped things up beautifully. Bush and Trump performed the whitest ‘low-five’ on record, and after much confusion, Ben Carson did his very FIRST ‘high five’ ever – with Donald Trump. Black people everywhere began intensive work creating new methods of greeting, which will be sufficiently complex to encourage white politicians (and Ben Carson) to return to the firm handshake of their forebears.