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Samantha Bee and Glenn Beck Form Unlikely Alliance to Combat 'Trumpism'
Samantha Bee and Glenn Beck Join Forces to Fight 'Trumpism'
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By
Rachel Dicker | Associate Editor, Social Media
Dec. 20, 2016, at 12:10 p.m.
Perhaps no political commentators seem to see eye-to-eye less than Samantha Bee and Glenn Beck.
But however apprehensively, they're uniting for a common goal.
Bee sat down with Beck during a segment on
Monday's episode of "Full Frontal With Samantha Bee" to talk about
putting aside their differences in service of a higher purpose.
Those differences are many: Bee is a "Daily Show
With Jon Stewart" alumna who champions progressive values and has
delighted in skewering politicians on all levels, perhaps most notably
brutally taking down Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas. Beck is a conservative pundit who founded The Blaze and famously dipped a dashboard figurine of President Barack Obama in a jar of urine.
So the two personalities began by trading jabs at what their target audience must think of the person sitting across from them.
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"My audience would like to stab you relentlessly in the eye," Beck told Bee.
"For, like, people in my world, even if all you
said for the rest of your life were reasonable things, I feel like
you've still earned a permanent side-eye from them," Bee shot back.
But both strongly agree on at least one thing: that Donald Trump's presidency is a major concern.
“I think that our future is going to require a
broad coalition of nonpartisan decency,” Bee said. “It’s not just
individual people against Donald Trump, it’s all of us against
‘Trumpism.’ So I actually think it’s important to reach into places
where we wouldn’t normally reach.”
Beck agreed to these points, saying: "I said yes
to [doing an interview with] you because ... I believe you actually
don't want to do damage."
"As a guy who has done damage, I don't want to
do any more damage," he added. "I helped divide, I'm willing to take
that. My message to you is please don't make the mistakes that I made."
This comment has been borne out in Beck's disavowal of many of his previously held beliefs, going so far as to say that Obama made him a better man. Bee mentions in her segment that Beck's outspoken rejection of Trump has gained him harsh criticism from his side of the aisle.
"Maybe we're both suckers," Bee said in a
voice-over, "but very cautiously, by fits and starts, Glenn Beck and I
were becoming ... allies?"
They ended the segment by sitting down at The
Blaze's Facebook Live set in front of a "strange bedfellows" cake of the
two of them under the covers together. There, they ate each other's
sugary heads.
You can follow Rachel Dicker on Twitter or reach her at rdicker@usnews.com.
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