The media rushed to figure out just how they could actually blame Trump for an insult that Samantha Bee made against his daughter, because that makes total sense.
Then came George Stephanopoulos to the rescue:
More from Newsbusters:
After airing a full report on Friday’s Good Morning America about the controversy swirling around left-wing Full Frontal host Samantha Bee over her vile attack on First Daughter Ivanka Trump, ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos and 10Ten Media’s Larry Hackett reacted to the story by blaming President Trump for creating an environment of incivility and wondering if Bee was already “out of the woods.”
“We’re hearing the words now ‘double standard,’ President Trump now weighing in as well,” Stephanopoulos noted, referring to the President calling out the fact that Bee’s TBS show had not been cancelled over her outrageous comments but Roseanne Barr’s ABC sitcom was ended over her offensive, racist remarks about former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett.
In this case, he already has won. He’s established the idea that there’s a double standard, he’s established the idea that what Roseanne said, which was racist and is – you know, was backing up 400 years of slavery and things like that, is the same as insulting somebody. He’s already won. I mean, whether they fire her or not, it doesn’t matter.
Stephanopoulos chimed in: “Yeah, but if you’re talking double standards, he didn’t – he condemned this comment about his daughter, rightfully, but he didn’t condemn the Roseanne comment.” Hackett replied:
Nor has he ever apologized for the things that he has said in the past. Which I would argue is one of the reasons that we’re in this place we’re in now. That there’s an attempt to create sort of outrage and shock that I think this White House has contributed to.
I mean, we KNEW this would happen because anytime a right-winger does something awful, it’s their personal fault, but anytime a liberal does something awful, it’s society’s fault, or somehow a Republican’s fault.