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Season 17 • 09/04/2012

Tom Brokaw recalls the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention as a riot where a convention broke out.

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RNC 2012 - The Road to Jeb Bush 2016 - A Fistful of Awesome
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Amid the tired rhetoric, empty platitudes, and frantic attacks, a fistful of awesome emerges at the Republican National Convention in the form of Clint Eastwood and a chair.
08/31/2012
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RNC 2012 - The Road to Jeb Bush 2016 - The Best F#@king News Team & Republican Outreach
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The Best F#@king News Team Ever scours the Republican National Convention and the city of Tampa for signs of reported Republican minority outreach.
08/31/2012
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RNC 2012 - The Road to Jeb Bush 2016 - Republican Time Travel
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Mitt Romney recalls an uncomplicated America and suggests that Americans could all return to this nostalgic paradise if it wasn't for this one f**king guy.
08/31/2012
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Moment of Zen - Tampa: The Greatest City in America
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The Daily Show leaves Tampa and the Republican National Convention, and Aasif Mandvi visits his childhood home.
08/31/2012
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RNC 2012 - The Road to Jeb Bush 2016 - Invisible Obama
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Clint Eastwood reveals the cognitive dissonance that is the beating heart of the Republican party in a 12-minute, avant-garde Republican National Convention performance.
08/31/2012
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RNC 2012 - The Road to Jeb Bush 2016 - The Best F#@king News Team Ever Audits America
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To run America more like a business, the Best F#@king News Team Ever must downsize underperforming states like Mississippi, Wyoming, and Minnesota.
08/31/2012
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Hope and Change 2 - The Democratic National Convention
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The nuanced economic reasoning at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, NC, faces the combined force of Ronald Reagan and Chuck Norris.
09/04/2012
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Hope and Change 2 - Charlotte, NC
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The Best F#@king News Team Ever explores the food, culture and NASCAR history of Charlotte, NC, site of the 2012 Democratic National Convention.
09/04/2012
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Moment of Zen - Joe Biden's Call to Arms
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Joe Biden reminds voters of President Obama's domestic and foreign policy successes.
09/04/2012
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Hope and Change 2 - Yes We Can, But
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The Best F#@king News Team Ever asks Democratic National Convention delegates for 2012 Obama campaign slogan suggestions that won't be turned into an insufferable pop song.
09/04/2012
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Tom Brokaw
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"The Time of Our Lives" author Tom Brokaw compares modern, tightly-scripted political conventions to the raucous 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
09/04/2012
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Hope and Change 2 - Day One of the 2012 Democratic National Convention
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The Democratic National Convention co-opts supposedly Republican-owned issues, like the military and Christian moral values, and doubles down on rising Latino stars.
09/05/2012
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Hope and Change 2 - Democratic National Convention Security
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Media credentials in hand, the Best F#@king News Team Ever reports from impregnable security checkpoints located outside the Democratic National Convention.
09/05/2012
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Kirsten Gillibrand
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New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand makes the case for increasing the number of women in Congress.
09/05/2012
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Hope and Change 2 - The Party of Inclusion
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At the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, NC, the Best F#@king News Team Ever tests the limits of the Democratic Party's big-tent inclusiveness.
09/05/2012
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Moment of Zen - Julian Castro's Speech
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San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro explains Mitt Romney's stance on same-sex marriage to Democratic National Convention delegates.
09/05/2012
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Hope and Change 2 - Johnny O's Secondhand Meat Paste
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John Oliver discusses a time he was personally touched by Barack Obama, specifically when the president reached down his throat to dislodge a stray hot dog fragment.
09/05/2012
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Hope and Change 2 - Bill Clinton's Math
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Bill Clinton's Democratic National Convention speech ran long, but used more specific numbers than the Republican leadership did during an entire week in Tampa.
09/06/2012
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Hope and Change 2 - Barack Obama: It Could Have Been Worse
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Larry David suggests that Americans consider how f**ked they could've been without President Barack Obama.
09/06/2012
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Hope and Change 2 - Democratic Platform Amendments
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Under criticism from hard-core, dead-end Republicans, the DNC votes by faux-acclamation to amend their platform to include mention of God.
09/06/2012
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Moment of Zen - Nancy Pelosi's Final Word
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Nancy Pelosi assures Anderson Cooper that the Democratic platform's religion "controversy" is over.
09/06/2012
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