1 Week After Calling Ivanka “C*nt,” Samantha Bee Blindsided By Devastating News
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It has now been one week since TBS comedian Samantha Bee called Ivanka Trump a “feckless c*nt” on an episode of “Full Frontal.” She was surely hoping that all of the controversy surrounding her incendiary remark was about to die down, but then, she was blindsided by the most devastating news.
TBS comedian Samantha Bee called Ivanka Trump a “feckless c*nt” in a “Full Frontal” monologue last week after Ivanka posted a picture on Instagram of herself with her 2-year-old son. “You know, Ivanka, that’s a beautiful photo of you and your child,” said Bee, “but let me just say, one mother to another, do something about your dad’s immigration practices, you feckless c*nt!”
Bee eventually apologized in a statement shared on Twitter, saying, “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. It was inappropriate and inexcusable. I crossed a line, and I deeply regret it.”
TBS echoed Bee’s statement with their own apology, stating, “Samantha Bee has taken the right action in apologizing for the vile and inappropriate language she used about Ivanka Trump last night. Those words should not have been aired. It was our mistake too, and we regret it.”
However, it appears that this was not sufficient to ease the minds of Bee’s advertisers because, according to Breitbart, more than a dozen sponsors for her late-night show did not run advertisements on Wednesday’s episode. Unlike last week’s episode, which saw ad spots from national brands like Taco Bell, Apple, Haagen Dazs, and Jim Beam, Wednesday’s “Full Frontal” featured promos in large part from other programs on TBS and TNT.
The first broadcast of Bee’s TBS series “Full Frontal” after she sparked a controversy last week contained far fewer national commercials than it normally does, a signal that Madison Avenue find the comedienne too hot to support a week after she used a charged epithet that refers to a part of the female anatomy to insult President Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka. The Time Warner-owned cable network filled the commercial breaks of her program largely with promos for other programs on TBS and TNT, such as “Drop The Mic,” “Claws,” and “Conan.” Only a small handful of national ads for PlayStation; the Warner Brothers movie “Ocean’s 8”; the Epix cable series “Deep State”; and the latest entry in the Univeral Pictures “Jurassic World”series accompanied this week’s broadcast of the program. [Source: Variety]
An embattled Bee returned to her show on Wednesday to deliver an angry apology that was long on one-liners and short on remorse for Ivanka Trump. “You know, a lot of people were offended and angry that I used an epithet to describe the President’s daughter and advisor last week. It is a word I have used on the show many times, hoping to reclaim it, this time I used it as an insult. I crossed the line. I regret it and I do apologize for that,” Bee’s apology began.
“I want this show to be challenging and I want it to be honest,” she continued. “I never intended it to hurt anyone, except Ted Cruz. Many men were also offended by my use of the word… I do not care about that. I hate that this distracted from more important issues.”
“I should have known that a potty-mouthed insult would be inherently more interesting to them than juvenile immigration policy,” Bee went on. “I would do anything to help those kids. I hate that this distracted from them and so to them, I am also sorry. I’m really sorry that I said that word. But, you know what? Civility is just nice words, maybe we should all worry a little bit more about the niceness of our actions.”
If Samantha Bee’s advertisers were furious before, they surely won’t be happy after hearing this half-assed apology. There’s something to be said for true remorse and a humble apology, and if Bee had offered as much, perhaps her sponsors wouldn’t be fleeing in droves. But, alas, it appears that an agenda is more important to her than her paycheck.