Bee Compares GOP Platform to Westboro Baptist Church, Pence Sending Indiana Back to 1952

Curtis Houck | July 19, 2016
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In the first of unfortunately two shows for the week, TBS’s Full Frontal host Samantha Bee compared the substance of the 2016 Republican National Convention (RNC) platform to views held by the Westboro Baptist Church and took predictable shots smearing Indiana Republican Governor Mike Pence as anti-woman and backward thinking. 

Barely three minutes into the show, Bee mocked those who put together the party’s platform as nothing but old, white church elders: “Now, of course, before a convention can start, the party has to decide what they believe, which they apparently do by locking a bunch of cranky church elders in a room, turning off the air conditioning and asking them, who should go to hell?”