Samantha Bee’s Interview with Masha Gessen
The host of “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” chose Russian journalist, translator, author, and activist Masha Gessen for this week’s political interview. Gessen is most famously know for her book The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin, as well as Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot and The Brothers: The Road to American Tragedy. She’s an outspoken journalist against Vladimir Putin and famous advocate of LGBT, and she’s now using her extensive knowledge of dirty politics to warn America of impending doom in the hands of Trump. Nuclear holocaust, she says, is her biggest fear. While this interview outlines all of the danger we are in, Gessen offers advice for personal rebellion: “The thing to do — and this is my recipe — is to continue panicking. To continue being the hysteric in the room, to say ‘this is not normal.’”
Across the Dinner Table 