4.6 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2016
⏱️ 29 minutes
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As the host of NBC's Late Night, Seth Meyers has been tearing into this unhinged election year -- and he feels no obligation to strive for fake balance. He defends himself against that and the semi-serious charge that his insults drove Donald Trump to run for president.
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0:00.0 | On To the Point, we try to make sense of the policy debates and the political side shows on the campaign trail. |
0:06.4 | Donald Trump is probably the most significant thing to happen to the religious right in a few decades. |
0:12.1 | OMG, this guy is actually a bigot. |
0:14.5 | If she becomes president, no one since Richard Nixon would have been on the national stage that long and won the White House. |
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0:36.9 | I do think we're in an era now where audiences understand that all of us, |
0:42.2 | whether we pretend to or not, have a point of view, |
0:44.7 | and aren't going to be hip to the idea of us trying to hide it for the sake of looking even-handed. |
0:52.7 | As the host of NBC's late night, |
0:55.0 | Seth Myers has been tearing into this unhinged election year, |
0:58.7 | and he feels no obligation to strive for fake balance. |
1:03.2 | He defends that choice, and he defends himself |
1:05.9 | against the semi-serious charge that his insults drove Donald Trump to run for president. |
1:12.2 | But first on the news banter, the new movie Warcraft may not perform very well in the U.S., |
1:17.1 | but that may be beside the point. |
1:19.2 | Stick around. |
1:19.9 | It's the business from KCRW. |
1:26.3 | I am joined by my fellow banterer, Matt Bellany, of the Hollywood reporter. |
1:30.6 | Hello, Matt. |
1:31.2 | Hi there. |
1:32.0 | So, Matt, legendary. |
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