Samantha Bee moralizes. More than most comedians, even in this grating era of sanctimony, she uses her platform to lecture, to unload political rants with the voice of America’s Moral Authority.

Sometimes it’s funny, usually it’s not. But she’s the latest and greatest in a long line of entertainment industry stars who zealously claim the moral high ground with a sense of confidence substantiated mostly by the approval of other liberals in the media.

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