CNN host Brooke Baldwin on Thursday backed conservatives who are pointing to a double standard in regard to rhetoric used by Samantha Bee to describe Ivanka Trump.
“The same rules apply no matter which political side you call home,” Baldwin said on CNN. “Conservatives have been pointing to a double standard on how liberal stars who say these offensive things are treated, versus their conservative counterparts, and in many cases, rightfully so.”
Baldwin went on to show clips of Keith Olbermann, who is known for his provocative condemnations, and was recently re-hired by ESPN for the sixth time.
“Despite all of this, he just got another plum job. A job, ironically, at the same company that just booted Roseanne for violating its values,” Baldwin said following a supercut of Olbermann making controversial comments.
Baldwin then played the clip of Samantha Bee’s Wednesday show, where she called Ivanka Trump a “feckless c–t” and told her to “put on something tight and low-cut and tell your father to fucking stop it.”
“Whether you agree with the president’s policies or not, calling a senior adviser inside the United States government or anyone for that matter the ‘C’ word is, like I said at the top, it’s outrageous, it is unacceptable and should be called out,” Baldwin said.
“She could have easily made her point without using those words, a point that, by the way, is totally lost because she used that language. Doing this, she is no better than the very behavior she criticizes. In fact, she becomes part of the problem,” she added.
CNN anchor John King made similar remarks Thursday, agreeing that there’s a perceived double standard between liberals attacking Roseanne Barr for her tweet regarding former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett, but then reposting Bee’s comments against Ivanka.
CNN is owned by Time Warner, which also owns TBS, the station on which Bee’s show airs.
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