Jon Stewart Defends Samantha Bee

When Samantha Bee, host of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, called Ivanka Trump by a particularly vulgar name, commentators on the right were quick to equate Bee's comment with the racist tweet that Roseanne Barr sent out last week. The outrage on the right, though, was fake, according to comedian Jon Stewart. Read on for his defense of Bee.

Via The Hollywood Reporter.

Full Frontal host Samantha Bee has felt the full force of a conservative backlash after using a vulgar epithet to describe Ivanka Trump, but the comedian still has her defenders and got some welcome support from former boss Jon Stewart, a veteran of Republican animus, at Sunday's Clusterfest comedy festival in San Francisco.

According to a report in The Daily Beast, Stewart was asked about the Bee controversy during a Q&A session. The former Daily Show host took exception to White House tactics to get the TBS show canceled arguing that it was all part of a "game" that the political right in the U.S. play. "They don’t give a shit about the word ‘c—,’" the Daily Beast quoted Stewart saying, alluding to the Trump administration.

Stewart also joked that Donald Trump, famed for his use of vulgar language in private, probably used the c-word instead of "please."

Bee, a former Daily Show correspondent, got into hot water last week after she lambasted Ivanka Trump for posting a picture on social media that showed the First Daughter holding her child. Bee called the picture tone-deaf given the growing scandal involving missing immigrant children and described Ivanka Trump as a "feckless c—." After a heated backlash, Bee apologized for her comments.

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