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Grover Norquist's Taxpayer Protection Pledge

Season 17 • 02/28/2012

Samantha Bee uncovers the disconcerting origins of Grover Norquist's anti-tax pledge.

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A news anchor demonstrates just how much vodka a tampon can hold.
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Rick Santorum releases a robocall urging Michigan Democrats to vote for him, while Mitt Romney decries the practice of cross-party sabotage.
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Moment of Zen - Angela Merkel's Beer Shower
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A waiter spills beer down German Chancellor Angela Merkel's back.
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America's economic recovery is good news, unless you work for a media organization whose job it is to make sure Barack Obama doesn't get re-elected.
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Grover Norquist's Taxpayer Protection Pledge
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Samantha Bee sits down with Grover Norquist to find out more about the lifetime fealty pledge that his subjects have sworn to him.
02/28/2012
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Indecision 2012 - The Long, Winding, Bumpy-Ass Road to the White House - GOP Response
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John Oliver believes that the Republican primary has been going on for so long that everything that can be said about it has already been said.
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Indecision 2012 - The Long, Winding, Bumpy-Ass Road to the White House - Romney's Win
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Mitt Romney triumphs in his native state of Michigan, but nothing can dampen Rick Santorum's desire to rebuild America from the bottom up.
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Moment of Zen - Rick Santorum's Conspiracy Theory
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Wolf Blitzer tries to get Ron Paul interested in Rick Santorum's secret alliance conspiracy theory.
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Author Masha Gessen discusses Russia's upcoming elections and the unprecedented number of protesters taking a stand against Vladimir Putin.
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Michigan's late GOP primary results leave the 24-hour news networks with quite a bit of time to kill.
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The U.S. Senate debates the Blunt amendment allowing employers to reject health care coverage inconsistent with their religious and moral convictions.
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Moment of Zen - Zac Efron's Red-Carpet Condom
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