IT’S NOT YOU JENNY, IT’S JUST THIS WAR, AND THAT LYING SON OF A BITCH JOHNSON: Samantha Bee whines about backlash from ‘one bad word’ after she calls Ivanka Trump a ‘feckless c***’ on national TV – as the president cites Roseanne ‘double standard’ and demands TBS fire her.
Bee tried to explain herself during Thursday night’s award ceremony. But in a non-public setting, she pointedly avoided repeating the apology she had tweeted hours earlier.
‘Stories about 1,500 missing unaccompanied migrant children flooded the news cycle over the weekend. So last night we aired a segment on the atrocious treatment of migrant children by this administration and past administrations,’ she said. ‘Sometimes even the ones who look best in swim trunks do bad jobs with things. Our piece attracted controversy of the worst kind.’
‘We spent the day wrestling with the repercussions of one bad word, when we all should have spent the day incensed that as a nation we are wrenching children from their parents and treating people legally seeking asylum as criminals. If we are OK with that then really, who are we?’
As Jim Treacher tweets, “Just as I suspected, [Bee’s] apology was bullshit. ‘I’m sorry I said it, but you made me say it’ is not an apology.”