Dear Lord, did you hear a clip of the utterly contemptible attempt at an apology by Samantha Bee on Wednesday? It was apparently addressing her attack on Ivanka Trump, the daughter of the president, and supposedly done to apologize for using a particular word to describe her.
In her attempt to apologize, which was spoken very quickly to get it over with and get on to whatever else she was going to talk about, she said that she "used the word all the time on her show" (which no on can verify because no one actually, you know watches her show). That made it OK, but she thought that others might be offended by this one usage and so she felt obliged to say something apologetic.
Not, mind you, because in her view she was wrong to do it.
But I think she missed the point. I saw a clip of the original segment. As you will recall, after using the anti-woman slur, she went on to encourage Ivanka to "wear something low-cut", if I recall the quote, and go see President Trump to encourage him to do something or other about -- I forget, maybe immigration or something.
Samantha Bee did not apologize for that or even mention it. But I personally thought that to be more offensive than the use of a slur to describe Miss Trump. Let us recall ... Donald Trump is Ivanka's father. That means that the offensive nature of the "low-cut" remark was doubly bitter, characterizing the president as someone who would look at his daughter that way, and the daughter as someone who would behave that way.
That's pretty awful. Worse, to me, than her use of a single word as a slur. But that did not get apologized for, any more than Stephen Colbert has ever apologized for his offensive characterization of the president in relation to Vladimir Putin. Not going to happen and, if it ever does, it will be as inadequate as Miss Bee's in regard to Ivanka Trump.
My sadness is that Samantha Bee didn't even apologize for the most offensive thing she said.
Nor will she. Ever. Don't bother to wait. Have a nice weekend.
Copyright 2018 by Robert Sutton