Samantha Bee to Alabama: Prove You’re “Better Than Liberal, Sex-Crazed Hollywood”
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“Thanks to senatorial candidate and sophomore enthusiast Roy Moore, Republicans have to ask themselves a tough question,” Samantha Bee said Wednesday night. “Which is worse: electing an alleged pedophile or a Democrat?”
As disheartening as it is to realize, that question is a viable one to some voters—especially those who don’t believe the allegations against Moore, chalking them up to a conspiracy or a smear campaign. (Moore allegedly initiated multiple relationships with teenage girls, including alleged sexual contact and assault, when he was in his 30s. He has denied the allegations.) But Bee extended Alabama a challenge anyway: “If you want to prove that your lovely state is better than liberal, sex-crazed Hollywood, the voter registration deadline for the special election is November 27.”
After all, as much progress as Hollywood has made in identifying and shunning its alleged sexual predators over the past six weeks or so, Bee said it’s still not enough. “Everyone in Hollywood is patting themselves on the back for exiling Harvey Weinstein, but this week The Hollywood Reporter raved about Daddy’s Home 2, proclaiming Mel Gibson is once again ‘family-friendly,’“ Bee pointed out. “Because nothing says ‘family-friendly’ like a racist domestic abuser with a drinking problem and the words ‘daddy’s home.’“
Sexual-abuse allegations can happen anywhere, Bee pointed out—citing as examples Moore in Alabama, Woody Allen in New York, and Michael Jackson in Los Angeles. “It’s easy to condemn someone else’s predator, but it’s harder when it’s your own critically acclaimed pervert,” she continued, grimacing as an image of Louis C.K. appeared behind her. “I can scream about Roy Moore all day, and I have—but it won’t matter if his own neighbors keep making excuses for him. Each community has to kick out their own creeps. That applies whether you’re in politics, entertainment, or whatever the fuck you call Steven Seagal’s profession. And it’s hard. Especially when those people have the power to hire us, fire us, or presumably have us murdered by Russian mobsters.”
Still, if Alabama wants to prove its moral superiority over those Hollywood elites, Bee noted that the solution is pretty simple: do a better job than they have at permanently shunning creeps. And why not start with Moore? “Please,” Bee urged, “prove all of us Yankee assholes wrong about you.”
This story originally appeared on Vanity Fair.
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