Comedian Samantha Bee has apologized for calling Ivanka Trump a “feckless cunt” on her TBS show, Full Frontal With Samantha Bee. A TBS spokesperson said Bee was right to apologize,tweeting, “Those words should not have been aired. It was our mistake too, and we regret it.”
The apology comes in the midst of considerable conservative outrage over a perceived double standard: ABC canceledRoseanneearlier this week after Roseanne Barr said a vile, racist thing about former Obama White House aide Valerie Jarrett, but TBS has not cancelledFull Frontalin the wake of Bee’s crude, sexist jab at Ivanka. The implication, of course, is that Barr, a Trump supporter, can be fired for insulting a liberal, while liberals are happy to let one of their own off the hook for insulting a Trump family member (and staffer).
Conservatives came away from theRoseanneincidenteagerto identify somebody on the left who had committed comparable crimes. Theirfirst scapegoatwas Bill Maher, host of HBO’sReal Time With Bill Maher, who once compared Trump to an orangutan. Yet Maher, who frequently bashes political correctness and mocks easily offended college students, is no longer in good standing with the left, and plenty of liberals would be glad to see him go. Maher is one of the few TV hosts who invites people from all sides of the political spectrum to debate each other in segments that last longer than five seconds, and getting his show yanked from the air would be one of the most self-destructive things the right could do.
One of the biggest reasons Iexpressed concernabout the hasty decision to canRoseanneis that it seemed like all too many people on the right would use it as a pretext to demand private censorship of speech that offendsthem. And hey,there’s plenty of that.
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