Samantha Bee Apologizes To Ivanka Trump For Slur After White House Demands Show Cancellation
May 31, 2018
Samantha Bee Apologizes To Ivanka Trump For Slur After White House Demands Show Cancellation
“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,” Samantha Bee has just said in a statement.
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“It was inappropriate and inexcusable. I crossed a line, and I deeply regret it.”
The apology came not long after the White House issued a statement blasting Bee and TBS over Wednesday night edition, in which Bee called Ivanka Trump a “feckless c**t” in a segment about President Donald Trump’s immigration policy.
TBS pulled the video of that segment.
“The language used by Samantha Bee last night is vile and vicious. The collective silence by the left and its media allies is appalling,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said, inaccurately, in the White House statement.
By the time her statement was issued, CNN had done several segments blasting Bee’s remark. And NBC News’s Today show host Megyn Kelly had called hypocrites any media outlet that “gleefully” posting Bee’s video in the morning after savaging Barr for her racist tweet.
Sanders statement continued: “[Bee’s] 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.”
Though it had mostly been conservative critics blasting away at Bee this morning, even CNN peppered its morning news cycle with segments about the TBS late-night star’s comment.
CNN and TBS both are networks of Time Warner, which is awaiting news as to the fate of its plans to merge with AT&T.
“CNN is owned by Time Warner. This is a family issue, if you will,” CNN veteran John King acknowledged on air during one such segment.
“Apologize. And the company – forgive me, I work here – but the company should say something too,” King added.
CNN stopped short of the conservative rally cry for TBS to cancel her show, in much same way ABC cancelled Roseanne Barr’s comedy series this week after she compared former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett to an ape in a tweet.
On last night’s episode of TBS’ Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, the show continued to look at ICE’s immigrant abuse — namely, the 1,500 children that have been lost while in ICE’s care.
As headlines about the unaccounted for children spread, Ivanka Trump, who is on the White House staff in addition to being First Daughter, tweeted a photo of herself with one of her children.
“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**t!’” Bee said in the now-pulled segment.
“He listens to you! Put on something something tight and low cut and tell your father to fucking stop it! Tell him it was an Obama thing, and see how it goes!” Bee suggested.