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Samantha Bee apologizes for Ivanka Trump slur: "I crossed a line" http://thr.cm/tHjKH3
Blue_Adept
(6,400 posts)Zoonart
(11,876 posts)Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)uponit7771
(90,359 posts)mythology
(9,527 posts)Crunchy Frog
(26,619 posts)But no outrage until she applies it to Ivanka in the aftermath of the Roseanne firing.
It's a false equivalency. It would be a real one if she'd used something like the blood libel slur.
demmiblue
(36,875 posts)Freethinker65
(10,034 posts)Adding the C word was an easy shocking way to get a cheap laugh.
However, Ivanka, is not just the President's daughter, she is a public official and Hillary put up with the derogatory comments for decades, and now as a private citizen, still does...
Orsino
(37,428 posts)EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)I'm glad she apologized.
Gothmog
(145,489 posts)B2G
(9,766 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Since when did anyone argue that it is?
CatMor
(6,212 posts)she picked the wrong word.
MFM008
(19,818 posts)They NEVER apologize.
They make the rules for our lives
We watch helplessly as they destroy our world.
We go high.....
We need to BE high.
RandiFan1290
(6,239 posts)Good job giving them another victory.
SoCalNative
(4,613 posts)calling someone a name who is that name is just telling the truth.
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)Seriously?
SoCalNative
(4,613 posts)because I've always believed that Ivanka is one.
fallout87
(819 posts)You're doing wonders for us.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Let's all pretend this will affect the 2018 election cycle.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)You said she "is that name". Please define "that name".
SoCalNative
(4,613 posts)but it's a 4-letter word that starts with a c.
Raven123
(4,862 posts)the message and gave the Trump camp a valid point of contention. I don't get it. Samantha Bee is good. What an unforced error.
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)ADX
(1,622 posts)...we don't have to sink to their level in order to make a point.
alp227
(32,047 posts)tavernier
(12,396 posts)But Im not really crazy about most female stand up comedians. I do like Ellen Degeneres. She is funnier than most, without needing coarse language. And I cuss like a sailor.
Anyway, glad she apologized. Disgusting word, adds no value to a joke.
bigtree
(86,005 posts)...
Hekate
(90,773 posts)... and made a much stronger statement about Ivanka's special brand of cluelessness.
I think Ivanka "That's an inappropriate question to ask a Daughter" Trump is kind of obscene all by herself. She's a super-special assistant to the POTUS with super-special-top-secret clearance, but she wants to play the Daughter card and the Mommy card whenever anyone criticizes her abominable father's policies and behavior.
She should stick to flipping her long hair and batting her eyelashes -- and stop playing Crown Princess in our White House.
See? I didn't even need to use the kind of words we are all thinking anyway. Didn't call her a Cow at all.
As for Sam Bee, I'm sorry she may end up paying a steep price for not having a 7-second delay or whatever allows broadcasters to bleep errant language, because Trumpland is in full eye-for-an-eye revenge mode.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,113 posts)TygrBright
(20,763 posts)BlueStater
(7,596 posts)Ivanka is a grifting piece of nepotistic shit who deserves zero respect.
wryter2000
(46,077 posts)I honestly do not care about Ivanka Trump's feelings. I think the apology needs to be to the viewers who had to hear that.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,109 posts)It is a word I expect the orange one to use and I won't stoop that low and don't think anyone should.
But then, its just a word, right? What do I know?
wryter2000
(46,077 posts)No other action necessary, IMHO
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)kozar
(2,125 posts)And do not want to sound like that "Grumpy Old Man", but I watch how these people talk and find myself questioning when did we as a country forget how to act in public? Too many shock jocks on radio? Too much anonymity due to the internet? Yes, we need to go high as a Dem team, but my rant is that this kind of behavior is becoming far too normal in our society.
Thanks for listening,
Koz
Snellius
(6,881 posts)Everyone knows this vulgarity is offensive. Even when used by a woman. Even to be funny. And she wasn't drunk or ambienated. This was part of a scripted and rehearsed monologue. The day after another comedian gagged herself to professional death on her own vile tough.
Quixote1818
(28,959 posts)That would have put the focus back on Trump.