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Punanny State - Virginia's Transvaginal Ultrasound Bill

Season 17 • 02/21/2012

Women might equate Virginia's mandatory ultrasound bill with a TSA pat-down inside their vaginas.

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Larry Wilmore's Lin-Grown Toenail
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Larry Wilmore believes that Jeremy Lin's rise to fame is a sign that Asian Americans are taking basketball away from African Americans.
02/16/2012
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Jon Stewart's Eye on the Ladies
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John Oliver, Jason Jones, Aasif Mandvi and Jessica Williams consider whether insurance plans provided by religious institutional employers should include contraception.
02/20/2012
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Alan Huffman & Michael Rejebian
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Authors Alan Huffman and Michael Rejebian reveal the details of working for Democratic Party candidates as political opposition researchers.
02/20/2012
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Lindecision 2012
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Aasif Mandvi reports on the Time Warner Cable MSG Network blackout preventing New York's Chinatown residents from watching Jeremy Lin play.
02/20/2012
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Moment of Zen - Mitt Romney on Michigan
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Mitt Romney lists the myriad reasons for which he loves Michigan.
02/20/2012
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The Punanny State
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Congress convenes an all-male contraception panel in an effort to find balance between religious liberty and the realities of the secular world.
02/20/2012
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Russ Feingold
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Former Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold stresses the need for America's leaders to understand foreign policy and focus on Al Qaeda's global threat.
02/21/2012
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Moment of Zen - Newt Gingrich's View on the Chevy Volt
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Newt Gingrich pooh-poohs the Chevy Volt with a false claim, and a Volt owner proves him wrong.
02/21/2012
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Chris Christie's Gay Marriage Bill Veto
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Chris Christie seems to have a fundamental misunderstanding of marriage equality.
02/21/2012
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Back in Black - Whitney Houston's Death
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Lewis Black examines the media's handling of Whitney Houston's death, from Nancy Grace's murder allegation to Eric Bolling's cautionary tale.
02/21/2012
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Punanny State - Virginia's Transvaginal Ultrasound Bill
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A Virginia bill states that any woman seeking an abortion must first lie back in a chair with her feet in stirrups and a 10-inch ultrasound wand in her vagina.
02/21/2012
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Indecision 2012 - President Evil 2
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Republican leaders believe that everything Barack Obama has done in his first term has been a canard so that he can do the opposite in his second term.
02/22/2012
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Indecision 2012 - President Evil
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Republicans claim that the 2012 election is all that stands between America and catastrophe -- same as they claimed in 2008.
02/22/2012
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Bruce Bartlett
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Economist Bruce Bartlett weighs in on Barack Obama's proposals for cutting America's corporate tax rate and examines Ronald Reagan's tax increases.
02/22/2012
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Moment of Zen - Rick Santorum's Fire
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Rick Santorum gives his supporters the opportunity to see what's burning inside him.
02/22/2012
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Hypochondriac Update
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The World Health Organization plans to publish research on how scientists mutated the avian flu virus into a highly contagious form.
02/22/2012
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Indecision 2012 - Rick Santorum's Conservative Rhetoric
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John Oliver explains why the Republican Party objects to Rick Santorum's unadulterated conservative dogma.
02/23/2012
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Indecision 2012 - Three Men and a White-Haired Man-Baby
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At the Arizona GOP debate, Rick Santorum explains the decision-making process behind his conservative transgressions, and Mitt Romney describes himself as resolute.
02/23/2012
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Paul Rudd
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Paul Rudd treats the audience to a bowl of green room candy and copes with his sugar rush.
02/23/2012
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Moment of Zen - Conservative Mitt Romney
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Mitt Romney insists he was a severely conservative Republican governor.
02/23/2012
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Indecision 2012 - How Is It that Mitt Romney Hasn't Crushed this Guy Already?
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Rick Santorum finds JFK's stance on religious freedom nauseating and Obama's educational aspirations snobbish, while Mitt Romney finds a blue collar connection impossible.
02/27/2012
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