Television host Samantha Bee now says it was she who was hurt after she called Ivanka Trump a “feckless c***” on her TBS show, “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee.”
Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter, Bee suggested that she’d learned a lesson from the resulting kerfuffle, in which several advertisers pulled out of her show — temporarily, it seems, as they’ve all since returned — and she faced two days as a Twitter trending topic: that she was, in fact, the victim, besieged by the perpetual “outrage machine” that guides political discourse, but couldn’t handle her progressive vocabulary.
“It affected me a lot,” she told the Reporter. “I’ve been thinking a lot about it. We had a scheduled vacation around July 4, and it was a time of reflection.”
Her reflection, she says, yielded an epiphany.
“I do think that being a part of the outrage machine is an inevitability now,” she complained. “That’s a reality everyone has to grapple with — not just me. The level of ferocity is something I hadn’t quite experienced up to that point, but I assume I’ll go through it again. Maybe I’ll be better prepared next time. I think we handled it well, but it was a pretty steep learning curve.”
Obviously, Bee isn’t particularly affected by the situation. It seems she’s more concerned that the entirely predictable outcome of her obscene joke was more negative than positive, and that people — including other comedians and her allies on the Left — pushed back on her, criticizing Bee for a speech she’d written, prepared, and rehearsed with, apparently, the full expectation that she’d be hailed as a hero rather than sharply critiqued.