Punchlines: The comics analyze the candidates
Sometimes presidential candidates are their own worst enemies.
Take Hillary Clinton's inability to directly state, during a Thursday interview with CBS's Scott Pelley, that she has never lied. After Pelley cited former president Jimmy Carter's plain speak when he said in 1976 "I will not lie to you," Clinton stumbled through her version of a similar declaration saying that she has "tried" to level with the public and that she doesn't "believe" she has ever lied. To which late-night comic Stephen Colbert responds: "How can you be so bad at this?" Indeed ensuring the public basic honesty seems to be the most common thing candidates do, even if that, in itself, is a lie. Colbert points out how even a child can get that right in today's Punchlines, above.
And Jimmy Fallon sums up how Donald Trump's ego makes him the political equivalent of a well-known pop star.
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