TBS’ Samantha Bee is an attention-hungry coward. She also appears to have the memory of a goldfish. Either that or she has the spine of a jellyfish.
The first of these characteristics was on full display this week when Bee attacked President Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, in a television segment urging action on immigration reform.
“Ivanka Trump, who works at the White House, chose to post the second-most oblivious tweet we’ve seen this week,” Bee said, referring to comedian Roseanne Barr tweeting obviously racist remarks about former aide and longtime former President Barack Obama confidant Valerie Jarrett.
Bee added, “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!”
Cute.
For good measure, Bee also dropped an incest joke, saying, “[President Trump] listens to you! Put on something tight and low-cut and tell your father to fuckin’ stop it.”
Her cowardly side came into play less than 24 hours after her show aired when she caved immediately to the predictable-as-the-sunrise backlash to her calling the president’s daughter a “feckless c–t.”
“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,” the television host said in a statement to BuzzFeed News. “It was inappropriate and inexcusable. I crossed a line, and I deeply regret it.”
To be clear: She prepped and aired a line of dialogue obviously aimed at generating buzz, and she folded like a cheap suit the second she encountered pushback. What even is the point of this woman?
Also, it’s funny Bee should mention Roseanne Barr, because a 48-year-old woman discovering this week that it’s “inappropriate” to call the president’s daughter a “feckless c–t” is almost as funny as 65-year-old ex-sitcom star discovering this week that comparisons between African-Americans and apes are very racist.
It must be wild, going through life like every day is your first.
Lastly, I’d like to call your attention to this New York Times article from January 2017 titled, “Samantha Bee and Jane Pauley Are Breaking the News.” In light of the “feckless c–t” debacle, this Bee quote from the Times article is particularly amusing [emphasis added]:
Again, either she doesn’t remember engaging in this bit of chest-puffing, or her resolve to be a decent person collapsed a little more than a year after this interview was published.
Honestly, it could go either way. Take your pick.
