We reported how ironic it was that journalists were banned from attending the ceremony where Samantha Bee was to accept an award – it was for good reason.
Her comments make it sound like she wasn’t really sorry for calling Ivanka a “c*nt.”
“We spent the day wrestling with the repercussions of one bad word, when we all should have spent the day incensed that as a nation we are wrenching children from their parents and treating people legally seeking asylum as criminals,” Bee said Thursday while accepting a Television Academy Honors award, according to IndieWire.
“Every week I strive to show the world as I see it, unfiltered. Sometimes I should probably have a filter. I accept that. I take it seriously when I get it right and I do take responsibility when I get it wrong,” Bee told the crowd.
To her credit, she did apologize:
I would like to sincerely apologize to Ivanka Trump and to my viewers for using an expletive on my show to describe her last night. It was inappropriate and inexcusable. I crossed a line, and I deeply regret it.
— Samantha Bee (@iamsambee) May 31, 2018
BUT then she told the award ceremony audience that she was angry people weren’t focusing on the issue she was criticizing Ivanka and Trump on:
“Stories about 1,500 missing unaccompanied migrant children flooded the news cycle over the weekend,” Bee said. “So last night we aired a segment on the atrocious treatment of migrant children by this administration and past administrations. Sometimes even the ones who look best in swim trunks do bad jobs with things. Our piece attracted controversy of the worst kind.”
“I can tell you, as long as we have breath in our bodies and 21 minutes of airtime once a week, repeats on Saturdays, that we as a show will never stop shouting [about] the inhumanities of this world from the rooftops,” Bee continued, “and striving to make it a better place. But in a comedy way.”
Yeah, she doesn’t sound terribly apologetic, especially when pushing that phony fake news story about “missing” children.