POSTED Thursday, May 31, 2018 by RODNEY HO/rho@ajc.com 

on his AJC Radio & TV Talk blog

Samantha Bee called Ivanka Trump a "feckless [expletive]" on her TBS show "Full Frontal" Wednesday night for not pushing to convince her father Donald Trump to change policies that separate children from parents trying to enter the country at the border.

Per AJC policy, I can’t identify the word per se but it’s a four-letter word that is considered a major insult to women.

“Do something about your dad’s immigration practices, you feckless [expletive],” Bee said with the offending word bleeped out. “He listens to you. Put on something tight and low cut and tell your father to f***king stop it! Tell him it was an Obama thing and see how it goes.”

I’d show you the video but TBS took it off YouTube today after complaints about her use of that particular word emanated out into the universe.

In early afternoon Thursday, Bee sent out an apology statement: “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.”

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders today called Bee's language "vile and vicious."

"The collective silence by the left and its media allies is appalling,” Sanders told the media. “Her disgusting comments and show are not fit for broadcast, and executives at Time Warner and TBS must demonstrate that such explicit profanity about female members of this administration will not be condoned on its network.”

TBS is owned by Turner Broadcasting in Atlanta, which is part of New York-based Time Warner.

Sanders was far more measured after Roseanne Barr in a Tweet compared a former Obama advisor to a cross between the Muslim Brotherhood and the Planet of the Apes, calling that "inappropriate." Barr, of course, lost her show "Roseanne" over that Tweet.

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