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Samantha Bee Apologizes for Calling Ivanka Trump the C-Word - All Videos From Her Latest Show Are Deleted From YouTube

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷5/31/2018 1:53:54 pm PDT

re: #196 ObserverArt

You seem to be saying we are throwing Samantha under the bus. I don’t think we are. We were hoping she wouldn’t have used the word because of how this is working for Trump and outraged wingnuts.

We are also hoping she doesn’t lose her show over this. That is what “they” want.

I bet if you could ask Samantha about it today she would be in agreement.

The right is a perpetual outrage machine that has the political field covered in their landmines. You just have to watch where you step.

One word. Was it needed?

If I am outraged over anything it is the fact that these are the rules of the political wars. Is it fair? Oh hell no. But what has been fair since Trump announced in 2015?

And the media isn’t helping. They love the outrage.

Yes. It was needed. The faux outrage from conservatives is exactly that, faux. They get the vapours over a word and not the policies promoted by the maladministration.

They want to police speech, because it is conservatism that is really PC (it is projection with them always). Assertive four-letter-words get your attention precisely for their shock value.

Look at the faux outrage over Kirsten Gillibrand over using the word “fuck.”

The supposed defenders of the free market should let the free market decide: If Samantha Bee’s audience is truly outraged, they will vote with their dollars and go somewhere else.

That’s not what this is about. It is about policing our words, which indirectly polices our thoughts (see 1984 for a fictionalised example of that).