Jon Stewart defended his former Daily Show collaborator Samantha Bee in a recent interview, dismissing the notion that the Full Frontal hosts controversial description of Ivanka Trump as a feckless cunt offended the president. They dont give a shit about the word cunt,' the comedian said of the White House during a Sunday Q&A with the San Francisco Chronicle, The Daily Beast reports. That is probably [President Trump] says that instead of please, Im guessing.
Bee hurled the headline-generating insult during a recent episode of her TBS series, Full Frontal, in the closing moments of a segment about the migrant crisis at the U.S. border. The host apologized to Ivanka and viewers in a statement, noting that she crossed a line in using the expletive.
Nonetheless, both White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and President Trump called for the shows cancellation. Why arent they firing no talent Samantha Bee for the horrible language used on her low ratings show? A total double standard but thats O.K., we are Winning, and will be doing so for a long time to come, Trump who has been accused of using the word cunt himself numerous times tweeted on Friday.
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Stewart, in the Q&A, pegged the White Houses Bee response to a victim mentality. Its a game, he said. Its a strategy. And its working. The former late-night veteran on-hand promoting a stand-up gig at the Cluterfest comedy festival (which precedes a joint tour with Dave Chappelle) also instructed liberals to avoid getting caught in a trap of thinking you can live up to a code of integrity that will be enough for the propagandist right. There isnt.
Create your own moral code to live by, but dont be fooled into trying to make concessions that you think will mollify them, Stewart continued. Elsewhere, he added, Please understand that a lot of what the right does, and its maybe their greatest genius, is theyve created a code of conduct that they police, that they themselves dont have to, in any way, abide.