You can thank Vanity Fair for a good belly-laugh to end your work week. The magazine posted a profile online of Jo Miller, the executive producer of comedienne Samantha Bee's TBS series Full Frontal, who had the utter lack of self-awareness to complain that the program and its angry leftist host get labeled "liberal":
“What annoys me... is that people who don't watch the show regularly call us ‘liberal,’” she says. “Which, if you watch the show, is not accurate. We are passionate about feminism, and civil rights, and justice, and black lives, and women's lives—but we're radical centrists. And we’re not party affiliated. I think you’ll find a lot of our values reflect left of center rather than right of center, but to characterize us as partisan or liberal is lazy and it’s just something that people do who don’t watch the show. And I think it’s also galvanized by the right wing trolls who do hate us, and want a clickbait narrative. That’s more annoying than noticing Sam has a vagina. Because she actually does have a vagina.”
We can't vouch for that last assertion, but we can vouch for the show's relentlessly left-leaning perspective. Claiming that the show is non-partisan is simply ludicrous, regardless of Miller's claim that the show took heat for criticizing Bernie Sanders during the election campaign. Perhaps Miller is just trying to pretend that the show has a seriously objective journalistic quality: “We have an office full of trained journalists here, and academics, who are very serious about following the truth wherever it leads us." Riiight. We all know how unbiased journalists and academics are.
Vanity Fair goes on: "On issues like gun control and reproductive rights, Miller says that Bee also comes down on the left—but, she emphasized, 'none of our takes are automatic, and we never check to see who else espouses them.'” Riiight. Notice how Miller didn't mention a single issue on which Bee and her show lean right.
Miller does get one thing right: she concedes that "people who are right of center are able to laugh at things that shun their dogma" a little more easily than "the dogmatic left.” It's true that the far left has no sense of humor. And neither does Full Frontal.
