Jimmy Kimmel has noticed the reaches media outlets have made to make their election coverage fill the 24-hour news cycle.
“They’re covering every iota of it, and people are watching in huge numbers,” he said. So Kimmel “thought it would be smart for us to start covering every iota of it too.”
He pulls out all the stops with flashy graphics and words — all but mentioning CNN.
Kimmel then showed Super Tuesday results. He uselessly and amusingly noted that if you add 45, the leads stay the same, but the delegates increase by 45, adding “which is interesting.”
The mixing up of numbers, “like a jumble,” would give Ted Cruz -35 delegates, and Martin O’Malley 26,130 delegates. Flipping the numbers would make them backwards, but taking the square root of the flipped numbers makes the map plaid. Kimmel found this “exciting, considering the fact we’re about to move into spring fashion season.”
Kimmel was joined by a panel of experts, including author Betsy Lebber-Sharp, Philip Steen (who is supposed to be the founder of “the conservative think tank, Americans Against Everyone”), and political strategist Dr. Ahmed Fatah.
Upon being asked “the obvious question: what do tonight’s primary results mean for the race going forward,” the panelists shouted over one another. They clearly mentioned “Donald Trump,” however.
Kimmel wanted to know who the biggest winner was, but before he could, the panelists once more shouted over one another. The shouting became more heated as Kimmel asked if they could imagine any scenario where Trump was not the nominee.
It’s not only place to feature panelists fighting over politics. “By the way,” Kimmel noted, “that’s exactly what our family dinners are like at home.”
