- Samantha Bee apologized for calling Ivanka Trump a "c---" on her TBS show "Full Frontal."
- But her apology drew mixed responses.
- Some people think she was right to insult Trump and felt she caved by apologizing, while others think she made the right move.
- Some are comparing Bee's comment to Roseanne Barr's racism.
Samantha Bee apologized to Ivanka Trump after calling her a "feckless c---" on her show Wednesday — but her apology isn't being accepted by everyone.
"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,"Bee said in a statement. "It was inappropriate and inexcusable. I crossed a line, and I deeply regret it."
Bee criticized Trump on her TBS show "Full Frontal With Samantha Bee" Wednesday night because of a "tone deaf" photo Ivanka posted over the weekend with her son. The same day Trump posted the photo, news spread that the US government lost track of around 1,500 migrant children it detained.
"Do something about your dad's immigration practices, you feckless c---!" Bee said. "He listens to you! Put on something tight and low-cut and tell your father to f---in' stop it."
The apology has drawn mixed responses.
Some people think she was right to insult Ivanka Trump.
I like Samantha Bee a lot, but she is flat wrong to call Ivanka a cunt.
— Sally Field (@sally_field) May 31, 2018
Cunts are powerful, beautiful, nurturing and honest.
I understand why she had to apologize. I still wish she didn't. https://t.co/7QheNmx60r
— Kevin Fallon (@kpfallon) May 31, 2018
That was the wrong word for Samantha Bee to have used . But mostly because ( to paraphrase the French ) Ivanka has neither the warmth nor the depth.
— Minnie Driver (@driverminnie) May 31, 2018
And feel she caved by apologizing.
The only apology Samantha Bee should have made is “Fine, she’s not feckless.”
— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) May 31, 2018
It's the Week of the Forced Apology, which reminds me: I am so glad Michelle Wolf did not issue a forced apology for anything she said https://t.co/UiPSkyMBwc
— Zach Schonfeld (@zzzzaaaacccchhh) May 31, 2018
Why even bother argue with conservatives about the Samantha Bee thing? They know it's not the same thing as Roseanne. They don't care. All their arguments are in bad faith. They just want to see if you'll cave.
— Luke Giordano (@lukegiordano) May 31, 2018
Kathy Griffin said she understands why Bee had to apologize.
Griffin went on an apology tour last year after a graphic photoshoot that involved President Trump's severed head. On Twitter, she said the pro-Trump outrage machine can be harsh, and it holds comedians to higher standards than Trump himself, who frequently swears at political rallies and has bragged about sexually assaulting women.
Please do not be hard on @iamsambee for apologizing. While I was hoping she wouldn’t, I know first hand what it’s like being put through the Trump wood chipper..what she’s going through right now is crazy. All for a bleeped word. Comics held to higher standards than the president https://t.co/4kUkHpP8hl
— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) May 31, 2018
Some people equated Bee's comment to Roseanne Barr's racist tweet.
Roseanne Barr's ABC show "Roseanne" was cancelled Tuesday after Barr, who has a long history of inflammatory rhetoric, made racist, Islamophobic, and antisemitic comments on Twitter. Some Twitter users and right-wing media personalities suggest there's no difference between that and insulting someone with the word "c---."
Why did the media accept Samantha Bee’s apology, but not Roseanne’s?
— SarahC (@sarahcc90) May 31, 2018
Pay attention to how the media handles the Samantha Bee story after the Roseanne Barr story.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) May 31, 2018
Compare ABC’s reaction to Roseanne Barr’s tweet w TBS’s non-reaction to Samantha Bee and you’ll see a double-standard in action. There’s no uprising against Bee. Why? Because she is liberal. Because the MSM protects Obama and his aides, but not Trump. The hypocrisy is sickening.
— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) May 31, 2018
Meanwhile, TBS released a statement of its own apologizing for Bee's comments.
"Samantha Bee has taken the right action in apologizing for the vile and inappropriate language she used about Ivanka Trump last night," the company said in a statement. "Those words should not have been aired. It was our mistake too, and we regret it."
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