Trevor Noah opened The Daily Show tonight by defending “handsome scarecrow”/Dem presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke from backlash.
After raising $6.1M in the first 24 hours after declaring his White House bid – “almost enough to bribe your kids into USC” – O’Rourke now looks like a serious candidate, Noah said.
But that candidacy was almost immediately derailed by revelations of things O’Rourke has said and done. He used to be a member of a computer hacking group and, as a teen, wrote online essays fantasizing about killing children by running them over with his vehicle.
Being a hacker does not hurt his credibility with some voters, Noah speculated. Going after him for writing the short stories, which is “ridiculous,” the late night host added.
“He wrote fiction,” Noah said, noting George R.R. Martin “killed” thousands, but maybe is a monster because he refuses “to finish those books.”
“What the hell,...
After raising $6.1M in the first 24 hours after declaring his White House bid – “almost enough to bribe your kids into USC” – O’Rourke now looks like a serious candidate, Noah said.
But that candidacy was almost immediately derailed by revelations of things O’Rourke has said and done. He used to be a member of a computer hacking group and, as a teen, wrote online essays fantasizing about killing children by running them over with his vehicle.
Being a hacker does not hurt his credibility with some voters, Noah speculated. Going after him for writing the short stories, which is “ridiculous,” the late night host added.
“He wrote fiction,” Noah said, noting George R.R. Martin “killed” thousands, but maybe is a monster because he refuses “to finish those books.”
“What the hell,...
- 3/19/2019
- by Lisa de Moraes
- Deadline Film + TV
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