Watching this episode was really reassuring, that things like this don't just happen in my country (Remember the scandal surrounding Angela Merkel fellow germans?).
Its kind of weird (not really weird), that politicians can get (re)elected or just not get elected while every state employee who does things far less bad concerning secret documents will at least get fired, more likely fined if not imprisoned.
Most countries will bring treason charges for saving secret documents on private hardware...
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParent2016-09-27T15:43:35Z
9.7/10. The opening news round up was solid. Making fun of clips of people in authority saying dumb things (this time in the context of the riots in Charlotte) in pretty standard Daily Show-esque stuff, but it was conveyed in amusing fashion, and the Wells Fargo story was a classic LWT bit of exposing something ridiculous while injecting the right amount of humor. (I don't know why John Oliver saying "fuck you" to an eight-year-old Ron Howard is so hilarious, but it is.) And the Channel 2 news bumper montage is always hilarious.
But this episode really gets points for its main story about Hillary and Trump's biggest scandals. I appreciated the way it dug deep into both the private email server issue and the Clinton Foundation issue and didn't let Hillary off the hook. Instead, Oliver (and his team of writers and researchers) said, "yes, it's a low-level bad, but there is something to this." That gives the show creditibiliy when it goes on to show how Trump's issues with his school, his business practices, his history of lying, are all orders of magnitude worse. The whole thesis, that if you're bothered by the "ethics" element of this election you should be annoyed at Clinton but abhor Trump, was well supported and justified, and the final oatmeal raisin cookie stunt, with the shower of raisins, was an amusingly ridiculous way to illustrate that.
Frankly, it's some of the best reporting I've seen on either candidate's scandals, and with LWT and John Oliver's wit, you have the added benefit of laughing your way through it. A great example of what this show can be at its best.