Trump: Why Hasn't Bee Been Fired?
Echoing conservative commentators on cable news shows Thursday (May 31), President Trump took aim at Samantha Bee over her profane comment about First Daughter Ivanka Trump.The President tweeted early Friday:
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The "double standard" was a reference to ABC's cancellation of Roseanne's hit reboot after series star and Trump supporter Roseanne Barr fired off a racist tweet about a former Obama adviser.
Bee, host of TBS' Full Frontal With Samantha Bee on TBS, apologized after calling Ivanka Trump a “feckless c***” on her program May 31 and suggesting Ivanka dress provocatively to try and influence her father on immigration policy.
Barr had apologized, too, but seemed to downplay the comment by referring to it as a bad joke.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders had called the Bee comments "vile and vicious."
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Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.