Larry Wilmore Left Out Crucial Detail While Blasting Mugshot Targets On ‘Nightly Show’ Debut

Posted by | January 20, 2015 19:00 | Filed under: Contributors Opinion Politics Tommy Christopher Top Stories

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For fans of The Daily Show who have been wondering how they would be spending their late nights after Stephen Colbert shuffled off to CBS, the wait was finally over Monday night. The debut of The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore (they missed an opportunity by not calling it The Wilmore Repore, if you ask me) showed early indications of a capable replacement for The Colbert Report, albeit one with a Daily Show-esque allegiance to laughs over facts.

The opening segment is a Wilmore-centric gloss on news parody, a genre at which Wilmore and his writing team excel. Like his Daily Show “Senior Black Correspondent” persona, Wilmore the news anchor messes with audience expectations early on by, for example, decrying the Oscar Awards snub, not of Selma, but of The Lego Movie.

One thing that really stood out to me was Wilmore’s take on one of the big stories form last week, the Florida SWAT team that was found to be using actual mugshots of black men for target practice. The story became news when Florida National Guard Sgt. Valerie Deant went to use the shooting range after the SWAT team had left, and discovered a bullet-riddled picture of her own brother downrange. In an interview with local NBC reporter Willard Shepard, North Miami Beach Police Chief J. Scott Dennis said that he was “disturbed” that a photo of an area man was use, but explained that the sniper team uses photo arrays of all races for “facial recognition” drills.

Here’s how Wilmore handles the story…READ MORE 

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By: Tommy Christopher

Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.

4 responses to Larry Wilmore Left Out Crucial Detail While Blasting Mugshot Targets On ‘Nightly Show’ Debut

  1. uzza January 20th, 2015 at 21:16

    Curious about the detail
    of this post I tried to avail
    but the son of a b*tch
    was a bait and a switch
    Daily Banter’s a mountain of fail.

  2. uzza January 20th, 2015 at 22:16

    Curious about the detail
    of this post I tried to avail
    but the son of a b*tch
    was a bait and a switch
    Daily Banter’s a mountain of fail.

  3. rg9rts January 21st, 2015 at 03:38

    This is not a news show, but probably has more factual content than FAUX

  4. rg9rts January 21st, 2015 at 04:38

    This is not a news show, but probably has more factual content than FAUX

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