Samantha Bee, TBS Apologize after Dishonor Affront went for Ivanka Trump

Samantha Bee, TBS Apologize after Dishonor Affront went for Ivanka Trump

Samantha Bee is facing a social media storm following her vulgar slam against Ivanka Trump on Wednesday’s edition of “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee.” Samantha Bee, TBS Apologize after Dishonor Affront went for Ivanka Trump

The White House on Thursday condemned comedian Samantha Bee’s remark that White House senior adviser and first daughter Ivanka Trump is a “feckless c***,” calling on TBS, which airs her show, to publicly repudiate her. Samantha Bee, TBS Apologize after Dishonor Affront went for Ivanka Trump

The comment — for which Bee later apologized Thursday — comes in the wake of a national debate about incendiary language in the political arena. Earlier this week, Roseanne Barr’s hit television show was abruptly canceled after she made a racist reference on Twitter to former Obama administration adviser Valerie Jarrett.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Bee’s language was “vile and vicious.”

“The collective silence by the left and its media allies is appalling. Her disgusting comments and show are not fit for broadcast, and executives at Time Warner and TBS must demonstrate that such explicit profanity about female members of this administration will not be condoned on its network,” Sanders said.

Samantha Bee, TBS apologize after dishonor affront went for Ivanka Trump — Samantha Bee Apologize

Both CNN and TBS are owned by Turner, a subsidiary of Time Warner.

Bee, who made the comments Wednesday night on her show, “Full Frontal,” was criticizing the Trump administration over the separation of undocumented families apprehended at the border.

“Tearing children away from their parents is so evil, it’s the inciting incident in almost every movie we’ve ever cared about,” Bee said during her monologue, presenting Obama-era photos of undocumented children sleeping in cages.

After Ivanka Trump posted a photo of her and her child amid resurfaced reports that undocumented children are being separated from their families when they are apprehended by immigration authorities, Bee referenced Barr’s recent tweet.

“Ivanka Trump, who works at the White House, chose to post the second most oblivious tweet we’ve seen this week,” Bee said. “You know, Ivanka, that’s a beautiful photo of you and your child, but let me just say, one mother to another, do something about your dad’s immigration practices, you feckless c***!”

“He listens to you,” she added. “Put on something tight and low-cut and tell your father to f***ing stop it. Tell him it was an Obama thing and see how it goes, OK?”

Bee apologized for the comment on Twitter Thursday afternoon.

“I would like to sincerely apologize to Ivanka Trump and to my viewers for using an expletive on my show to describe her last night. It was inappropriate and inexcusable. I crossed a line, and I deeply regret it,” she said.

Sanders’ response is notably stronger than her public reaction to Barr’s comments. Asked about the former ABC star’s remarks at Wednesday’s White House briefing, Sanders said neither Trump nor the White House were defending the comments, which she called “inappropriate,” but she also insisted the administration was owed an apology from the network for airing derogatory comments about the White House.

“The President is pointing to the hypocrisy in the media saying the most horrible things about this President and nobody addresses it,” Sanders told reporters at Wednesday’s press briefing.

Bee frequently uses foul language while performing. She used the obscene word to describe President Woodrow Wilson during her “Not the White House Correspondents Dinner” TBS special last year.

How it all began

The TBS host had a short but striking message for the first daughter, whom she urged to “do something” about her father’s immigration policy rather than post “the second most oblivious tweet we’ve seen this week.”

“You know, Ivanka, that’s a beautiful photo of you and your child but let me just say, one mother to another: Do something about your dad’s immigration practices you feckless (expletive),” she said. “He listens to you.”

Bee suggested, “Put on something tight and low cut and tell your father to (expletive) stop it,” she said. “Tell him it was an Obama thing and see how it goes.”

The Trump administration has been stepping up criminal prosecutions of people crossing the border illegally this month, in line with President Trump campaign promises. Earlier this week, debate sparked around the administration’s policy of separating immigrant children from their parents at the border.

Bee also suggested a way to get the president to listen.”Put on something tight and low cut and tell your father to (expletive) stop it,” she said. “Tell him it was an Obama thing and see how it goes.”

The reaction

Bee’s comment, especially the use of the c-word, didn’t go without notice, as many tweeted their disapproval and compared her to Roseanne Barr, whose show ABC canceled following her racist tweets.

Conservative blogger Erick Erickson pointed out inequalities he sees between what liberals and conservatives can get away with saying.

“So ABC just fired Roseanne for her tweet. Will TBS fire Samatha Bee for her actual on-air monologue?,” he questioned. “Seems to me that calling Ivanka Trump a ‘feckless (expletive)’ is just as bad as suggesting Valerie Jarrett is an ape.”

All the progressives in my timeline telling me the Roseanne situation and Samantha Bee situation are not comparable will, I’m sure, be fine when Trump supporters start calling Clinton, Warren, Pelosi, etc. the same as what Samantha Bee called Ivanka Trump.

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) May 31, 2018

He continued, “All the progressives in my timeline telling me the Roseanne situation and Samantha Bee situation are not comparable will, I’m sure, be fine when Trump supporters start calling Clinton, Warren, Pelosi, etc. the same as what Samantha Bee called Ivanka Trump.”

NBC’s Megyn Kelly also tweeted about Bee’s comments.

This is disgusting. How is this acceptable? And how are we expected to take any of these publications seriously if they gleefully repost something like this at the same time they (rightfully) condemn @therealroseanne? You know the saying Love is Love? Well Hate is Hate. https://t.co/YTjmZQ4zMV

— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) May 31, 2018

“This is disgusting. How is this acceptable? And how are we expected to take any of these publications seriously if they gleefully repost something like this at the same time they (rightfully) condemn @therealroseanne? You know the saying Love is Love? Well Hate is Hate,” she tweeted, sharing a story about Bee’s comments.

Author Herman Cain also commented about canceling Bee’s show

Hey @TBSNetwork, shall I assume the Samantha Bee cancellation news will come later today? No? You don't care that this poor man's Jon Stewart is completely horrible? Ok, then… https://t.co/XPYlq0nzFw

— Herman Cain (@THEHermanCain) May 31, 2018

“Hey @TBSNetwork, shall I assume the Samantha Bee cancellation news will come later today? No?” he tweeted. “You don’t care that this poor man’s Jon Stewart is completely horrible? Ok, then…”

Others agreed with Bee’s comments.

“Ivanka Trump is a feckless (expletive). Thank you for your honesty, Samantha Bee,” one user tweeted. “(Samantha Bee) is great at triggering conservative snowflakes.”

If you think Samantha Bee's vulgarity is equivalent to racism then you're either ignorant, maliciously dishonest, or a racist yourself. #GTFOH

— The_Warrior's_Home (@mots_d_Akin) May 31, 2018

“If you think Samantha Bee’s vulgarity is equivalent to racism then you’re either ignorant, maliciously dishonest, or a racist yourself,” another said, defending Bee.

“Stop comparing it to what @TheRealRoseanne said. Roseanne used a racist term. Samantha did not,” another said.

Bee also took aim at Roseanne Barr’s tweet that suggested sleep drug Ambien caused her to make racist comments earlier this week.

Barr wrote in a since-deleted tweet Tuesday that “muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj.” The “vj” stood for Valerie Jarrett, an Obama White House aide. This led to the cancellation of her hit ABC show Roseanne.

Sanofi, who makes Ambien, tweeted a response to Barr, who claimed she was “Ambien tweeting”: “While all pharmaceutical treatments have side effects, racism is not a known side effect of any Sanofi medication.”

Full Frontal decided to see what it would be like if racism was a side effect, however, by imagining a commercial for the drug that reassured “a great night sleep and a convenient excuse are just one little pill away.”

The fake ad also warned that in addition to helping you fall asleep, the drug may make you “more racist.”

“I mean, you were already racist, but maybe Ambien made it worse?” the narrator says. “Until you know how Ambien will effect you, you shouldn’t drive in urban areas, operate heavy machinery or visit a Starbucks.”

The narrator also read off a list of “extremely not rare side effects” that all had racial undertones including, “clutching your purse as a person of color walks by,” “deciding to move ‘up state'” and more.

Source: edition.cnn.com, usatoday.com, variety.com

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