FOLLOWING THE CANCELLATION OF "ROSEANNE," THOSE ON THE RIGHT
HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR LEFT-WING PUBLIC FIGURES TO THROW UNDER
THE BUS AND CRITICIZED FOR ANYTHING THAT COULD BE DEEMED AS
OFFENSIVE AS WHAT ROSEANNE HAS DONE.
CASE IN POINT, SAMANTHA
BEE.
NOW, RECENTLY ON HER SHOW SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT IVANKA
TRUMP AND THE WHOLE DEBACLE INVOLVING IVANKA TRUMP POSTING A
PICTURE POSING WITH HER TWO-YEAR-OLD SON.
NOW, AFTER
IVANKA TRUMP POSTED THIS PICTURE ON TWITTER THERE WAS A LOT OF
CRITICISM BECAUSE AT THAT TIME THE STORY ABOUT THE MISSING
MIGRANT CHILDREN WAS ALL OVER THE NEWS AND ALSO THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION IS GETTING A LOT OF HEAT FOR ENFORCING THIS NEW
POLICY THAT WOULD TAKE CHILDREN AWAY FROM THEIR PARENTS AS THEY
TRIED TO CROSS THE BORDER AS REFUGEES.
NOW, WHILE SAMANTHA
BEE WAS COVERING THIS STORY AND WHILE SHE WAS SHOWING THIS PHOTO
OF IVANKA TRUMP SHE SAID THE FOLLOWING --
>>
>>SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY.
SHE ALSO FOLLOWED THAT WITH THIS --
>>
>>SO A LOT OF PEOPLE REALLY FOCUSED ON THE FACT THAT
SAMANTHA BEE CALLED HER THAT NAME, RIGHT?
THAT PROFANITY.
THE
PROFANITY, IT'S OUTRAGEOUS, WE CAN'T BELIEVE IT.
FOR ME THE
MORE OFFENSIVE PART WAS ACTUALLY THE SECOND PART OF HER
STATEMENT, AND IT WAS OFFENSIVE, BUT I WOULDN'T EVEN SAY THAT IT
COMES CLOSE TO SOME OF THE THINGS THAT ROSEANNE BARR HAS
TWEETED.
SO TRYING TO COMPARE THE TWO I THINK IS RIDICULOUS,
BUT I DO WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU, CENK.
>>TWO POINTS ABOUT THIS.
ONE IS A RANDOM PET PEEVE, PEOPLE ON TV
SAY WILD, OUTRAGEOUS THINGS, THERE ARE TERRIBLE TV SHOWS WITH
CRAZY VIOLENCE, EMOTIONAL PORN, TRASH, LEFT AND RIGHT, AND
ADVERTISERS ARE LIKE IT'S OKAY BECAUSE IT'S TV.
YOU DO 10% OF
WHAT SAMANTHA BEE DID ONLINE, OH MY GOD, THE ONLINE TRASH, CAN
YOU BELIEVE IT?
ETC.
AND I'M SPEAKING OUT FOR ESPECIALLY THE
SMALLER CREATORS ONLINE, AND HOW MUCH THEY GET DISRESPECTED, BUT
ON TV YOU CAN HAVE A TOTALLY DIFFERENT STANDARD AND IT'S
FINE.
THAT'S MY RANDOM PET PEEVE.
OKAY, NOW ONTO THE HEART
OF THE STORY.
I DON'T CARE.
DON'T CARE, DON'T CARE.
WOW, SHE
SAID A BAD WORD.
OOH.
WE'RE STILL CHILDREN, RIGHT?
WHAT IS
THIS CONVERSATION ABOUT?
OKAY, EVEN MORE IMPORTANT, OF COURSE
CNN JUMPS IN, ALL THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA, THEY ARE LIKE, YES,
REPUBLICANS, PLEASE LIKE US, WE WILL NOW SAVAGE SAMANTHA BEE AND
WE GET TO CALL OURSELVES FAIR.
OH, REPUBLICAN OVERLORDS, HAVE
WE DONE A GOOD JOB?
SO A CNN ANCHOR RIGHT BEFORE WE CAME ON
THE AIR SAID THIS IS JUST LIKE ROSEANNE BARR.
NO IT'S NOT.
LET ME EXPLAIN IT TO YOU ATTACKING A GROUP OF PEOPLE FOR
BEING IN THAT GROUP IS RACIST OR BIGOTED AND IS DEEPLY HURTFUL
AND CONTINUES STEREOTYPES.
THOSE STEREOTYPES ARE PROBLEMATIC.
WHY?
FOR EXAMPLE YESTERDAY ON THE SHOW WE DID A STORY ABOUT --
FORGET THE REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC PART -- ON AVERAGE
AFRICAN-AMERICANS FOR THE SAME EXACT CRIME GET 4.8 MONTHS MORE
PRISON TIME THAN WHITE PEOPLE DO.
SO THOSE STEREOTYPES WIND
AWAY TAKING AWAY PEOPLE'S FREEDOM, SOMETIMES TAKES AWAY
THEIR LIVES, AND IS IMPORTANT AND SERIOUS.
INVECTIVE OR
INSULTS AGAINST ONE PERSON IS YOU DON'T LIKE THAT PERSON.
WHO
CARES?
FOR EXAMPLE, I HAVE NEWS FOR YOU, THERE ARE A LOT OF
RIGHT-WINGERS WHO HATE ME.
AND THEY SAY TERRIBLE THINGS ABOUT
ME.
SO WHAT?
THAT'S NOT THE THING.
YOU CAN SAY THAT ALL THEY
LONG.
I DON'T CARE, NO ONE CARES, AND YOU SHOULDN'T CARE.
BUT IF YOU WERE TO ATTACK, I MEAN, MY ETHNICITY -- MY
ETHNICITY IS WEIRD AND NOBODY CARES ABOUT IT BUT IF YOU ATTACK
BLACKS OR --
>>PEOPLE PRETEND TO CARE ABOUT IT, BUT NONETHELESS --
>>I KNOW.
BUT YOU ATTACK CERTAIN GROUPS OF PEOPLE, THAT
HAS CONSEQUENCES AND THAT'S WHY IT MATTERS.
AND IF YOU CAN'T
TELL THAT DIFFERENCE, WELL, THEN YOU'VE GOT ISSUES.
LET'S BE KIND
AND PUT IT THAT WAY.
>>THE THING ABOUT ROSEANNE WAS THAT HER TWEETS, YES, THEY WERE
PROBLEMATIC BECAUSE OF THE RACE ISSUES THERE, BUT I WOULD ARGUE
WHAT WAS EVEN WORSE WAS THAT SHE WOULD PUSH CONSPIRACY THEORIES
THAT WOULD INCITE VIOLENCE.
WE DIDN'T EVEN TALK ABOUT
PIZZAGATE, SHE WAS ONE OF THE PEOPLE WHO CONSISTENTLY WOULD
TWEET ABOUT HOW THIS PIZZA SHOP WAS RUNNING A SEX RING, OKAY?
AND THEN WHAT HAPPENED?
SOME UNSTABLE PERSON BELIEVED IN THAT
CONSPIRACY THEORY AND SHOWED UP WITH A GUN, AND COULD HAVE
POTENTIALLY KILLED PEOPLE AS A RESULT.
THOSE ARE THE THINGS
THAT WE SHOULD BE FIGHTING AGAINST, THOSE ARE THE THINGS
THAT THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA SHOULD BE OUTRAGED ABOUT AND SHOULD BE
FIGHTING AGAINST.
COMPARING THE THINGS THAT ROSEANNE BARR TWEETS
TO WHAT SAMANTHA BEE SAID ON THE SHOW ABOUT IVANKA TRUMP, YEAH,
IT WAS OFFENSIVE, AND IT WAS AN INSULT, I GET THAT, BUT IT IS
NOT THE SAME THING.
THE PART THAT I DIDN'T LIKE WAS JUST TO
THE EYE DON'T KNOW, THE IMAGERY OF WHY DON'T YOU WEAR SOMETHING
PROVOCATIVE --
>>SHE'S NOT JOKING ABOUT IVANKA, SHE'S JOKING ABOUT
DONALD TRUMP AND WHAT A PERVERT HE IS FOR BEING TURNED ON BY HIS
DAUGHTER AND TALKING ABOUT IT ENDLESSLY, AND SHE'S A COMEDIAN.
I DON'T CARE.
DON'T CARE ABOUT THE INSULT, DON'T CARE ABOUT THE
SECOND PART, TOTALLY, UTTERLY NOT GUILTY.
AND BY THE WAY, THE
GUYS WHO CRY THE LOUDEST ABOUT THIS, THE SNOWFLAKES ON THE
RIGHT --
>>TRUMP SAID HE GRABS WOMEN BY THE PUSSY.
KEEP IT 100, STOP
ABOUT THE DISINGENUOUS WE CARE ABOUT WOMEN SO MUCH WHEN THERE
IS SOMEONE ATTACKING ONE OF OUR WOMEN.
YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT
WOMEN, YOU HATE WOMEN, YOU SHOW IT IN YOUR POLICIES AND THE
THINGS YOU SUPPORT, YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT WOMEN.
THEY LOVE TO
USE ISSUES TO THEIR ADVANTAGE WHEN IT'S CONVENIENT FOR THEM
BUT IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF THINGS YOU HAVE SUPPORTED A
PRESIDENT WHO HAS CALLED WOMEN PIGS, WHO HAS MADE FUN OF THEM
AND THEIR MENSTRUAL CYCLES, WHO HAS CALLED THEM FAT ON NATIONAL
TELEVISION, WHO HAS RESPONDED TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE ACCUSED HIM OF
SEXUAL MISCONDUCT AS PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT ATTRACTIVE ENOUGH TO BE
SEXUALLY ASSAULTED -- THAT IS WHAT SHOULD MAKE YOU ANGRY.
YOU
DON'T CARE ABOUT WOMEN, PLEASE STOP PRETENDING LIKE YOU DO.
OKAY.
>>MY LAST COMPROMISE OFFER, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, AS A
PROGRESSIVE I'D LIKE TO REACH OUT TO THE OTHER SIDE -- LIKE
THIS -- ANYWAY, LET'S TAKE SAMANTHA BEE OFF THE AIR IF
PRESIDENT TRUMP STEPS DOWN.
BECAUSE HE TALKED ABOUT ACTUALLY
SEXUALLY ASSAULTING WOMEN, GRABBING BY THEIR GENITALIA.
SHE
REFERRED TO GENITALIA.
NOW, I THINK HIS CRIME IS A BILLION
TIMES WORSE, BUT LET'S MAKE A DEAL, YOU CLAIM YOU WERE
OUTRAGED.
YOU AREN'T, PLEASE, THE RIGHT WING TROLLS ONLINE,
EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU HAS SAID SOMETHING WAY, WAY WORSE, BUT
YOU ARE PRETENDING TO BE A SNOWFLAKE AND NEEDING A SAFE
SPACE AND ALL THAT.
OKAY, IF YOU ARE SO OFFENDED BY SAMANTHA BEE,
I'M POSITIVE YOU ARE WAY MORE OFFENDED BY DONALD TRUMP.
DO WE
HAVE A DEAL?
TAKE THEM BOTH DOWN?
IT'S OKAY, SEXUALLY
ASSAULTING WOMEN IS AWESOME BUT IF YOU OFFEND A REPUBLICAN WOMAN
YOU CRY YOUR CROCODILE TEARS.
PISS OFF.
>>SAMANTHA BEE DID WHAT MOST PEOPLE ON THE LEFT DO, SHE
APOLOGIZED.
SO I DO WANT TO READ HER APOLOGY.
SHE SAID THE
FOLLOWING --
>>
>>WHAT THAT IS IS ESSENTIALLY A SIGN -- I'M NOT SAYING THAT
SHE'S WEAK, BUT THE WAY IT WILL BE INTERPRETED BY THOSE ON THE
RIGHT IS IN ADMISSION OF GUILT AND WEAKNESS AND THEY WILL USE
THAT TO CONTINUE ATTACKING YOU.
>>WHAT SHE SHOULD HAVE SAID WAS I DENY IT, I STRONGLY DENY IT, I
DIDN'T EVEN SAY IT.
JUST LIE LIKE TRUMP DOES, WHO CARES?
ANYWAY, THAT STATEMENT IS WRITTEN BY A P.R.
PERSON, THE
CORRECT WAY OF READING THAT STATEMENT IS PLEASE DON'T CANCEL
MY SHOW, I KNOW ADVERTISERS ARE UPSET BECAUSE THEIR
SENSIBILITIES ARE SO FRAGILE, AND THE REPUBLICANS ARE SO
SENSITIVE AND WE DON'T WANT TO LOSE THEM AS VIEWERS.
THERE ARE
NO REPUBLICANS WATCHING SAMANTHA BEE'S SHOW.
FREE SAMANTHA BEE, STOP MAKING HER SAY THESE THINGS LIKE
IN A HOSTAGE VIDEO.
>>AND MAY I JUMP IN AND COMPARE APPLES TO APPLES?
REMEMBER TED
NUGENT REFERRED TO HILLARY CLINTON WITH THE EXACT SAME
EXPLETIVE.
>>CONSERVATIVES, YOU GUYS ARE OUTRAGED AT TED NUGENT AND
BOYCOTTING ALL OF HIS SHOWS.
DOES HE STILL HAVE SHOWS?
>>I DON'T THINK HE HAS SHOWS ANYMORE.
>>YOU LOVE TED NUGENT, HE GOT INVITED TO THE WHITE HOUSE.
HE
GOT INVITED TO THE WHITE HOUSE.
THE RIGHT WING IS GOING TO RIGHT
WING.
THE REST OF THE MEDIA, STOP BEING SUCKERS.
STOP TAKING
THESE GUYS SERIOUSLY, LIKE ALL MY GOD, REPUBLICANS ARE
OUTRAGED, THEY CARE ABOUT THE "C" WORD AND ALL OFFENDING
WOMEN.
THEY LOVE TED NUGENT -- IT DOESN'T MATTER, OH MY GOD,
REPUBLICANS, WE ARE SO SORRY, SAMANTHA BEE, YOU ARE A BAD
PERSON.
WHEN REPUBLICANS DO IT WE DON'T CARE.
BUT SAMANTHA BEE,
WAG THE FINGER.