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Honoring Samantha Bee
Tonight the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS, or SATAN spelled backwards) will honor Samantha Bee during their 11th Annual Television Academy Honors. This is one day after Miss Bee referred to the President’s daughter — on air — as “a feckless [expletive that refers to a part of a woman’s anatomy].”
Bee, and her network TBS, have tepidly apologized for the remark. “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,” tweeted Bee. The network added, “Samantha Bee has taken the right action in apologizing for the vile and inappropriate language she used about Ivanka Trump last night. Those words should not have been aired. It was our mistake too, and we regret it.”
And it truly was a team effort. Turner has a Standards and Practices Office like the broadcast nets. All scripts, monologues, etc., are run through this office. (Listen to the GLoP episode at AEI.) Which means Bee’s comments were not on par with Roseanne Barr’s spur-of-the-moment idiocy on Valerie Jarrett. No, this makes it 10 times worse. It was conceived in a writer’s room, approved by executive producers and blessed by the network itself. Jim Spann, the head of S&P for Turner Entertainment Networks, once appeared on “Conan” to defend his office’s censoring of some of that show’s content.
Now, on to the Academy. These awards are separate from the Academy’s main raison d’être, the annual Emmy Awards. The purpose of these awards, according to Television Academy Chairman and CEO Hayma Washington, is to applaud those that use television as “a catalyst for raising awareness of relevant issues around the globe. We are proud to be part of an industry that spreads understanding, uncovers truth, encourages compassion and shines a light on darkness.”
Understanding. Truth. Compassion. Light. Yeah, Samantha Bee is all that and more.
From the Academy website, here are the reasons NATAS specifically chose to honor Bee and her show:
“Through the use of old fashioned journalistic integrity, plain logic, keen observational skills, and pop culture references, Full Frontal is a program that makes its audience think and laugh.
“Four days a week, Bee exercises 22 minutes of remarkable public courage. She is outspoken, yet implements tact. She gives respect where respect is due. She is willing to take on the uncomfortable, willing to dive into the gutter and embrace it as laughable common ground.
“But Full Frontal with Samantha Bee doesn’t just serve to inform and amuse. What Toronto native Bee and her team are doing is far more important and complex than just delivering the news or just writing a funny joke about a politician.
“It is no longer enough to simply know what’s going on, as great a challenge as that can be on its own. It is now essential to take the next step.”
Tact?
The Academy now not only honors the gutter, it, too, embraces it. And the “next step” is to fill the gutter full of runoff from a pig farm before diving in with a closed mind and an open mouth.
Maybe I should take my Emmy down from the mantle and mail it back to them.
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The timing on this is just perfect.
Well, we can’t say they didn’t warn us.
Im sure there will be several rounds of self congratulation for the TV Academy being ‘brave’ enough to honor someone like whatshername at a time when she is under fire.
If you received an Emmy, it was probably at a time when it still meant something. So I would keep it. If you received it within the Obama years, trash it.
I’ve never heard of this woman. Probably good for my blood pressure. How is it that she doesn’t lose her job and all of her media contracts? She used a vulgar word and all Roseanne did was to compare a person with a monkey. I would compare VJ with a whole lot worse than either of these two women.
That woman said that remark in a script written and approved by her employer.
I had never heard of her, either, but it is a sign of the times.
Roseanne, as nutty as she is, was not reading a script.
Natas, by the way, is also a fairly atypical male name in Iceland or another Scandinavian country (can’t remember). The feminine equivalent is Natasha, of course.
To me, that’s more interesting than Samantha Bee’s honors. @eherring had it right today, and Samantha is a good example.
So, wait, NATAS has its own awards show in addition to the one it produces in cooperation with ATAS and IATAS?
Also, why the heck are there three academies of television arts and science?
I still think the Emmys are the best of the big awards shows these days, thanks to the current “Golden Age Of Television”.
The Grammys are pointless. The Oscars are pointless. The Tonys are pointless.
The MTV Movie Awards haven’t been the same since they eliminated the Lifetime Achievement Award category, which was virtually the only reason I ever watched the show.
The Emmys, by contrast, still have some value.
Wait her show wasn’t immediately canceled?
I thought calling another women a c##t is the same kind of unforgivable Line That Must Not Be Crossed.
So is that better or worse? Rosanne fired off a nasty tweet something many many people do to their regret.
She did this in a knowing and premeditated way.
Because there is so much art and so much science! One academy couldn’t deal with it all.
I’m so glad we don’t watch network or cable television any more. That these clowns give themselves awards is just pathetic. Outside of their world, who cares?
She even admitted it:
Ah, but it’s different you see b/c Samantha Bee is woman, so she can use that word, according to feminist attorney Lisa Bloom:
See, women can use the c-word, just like black rappers can use the n-word, but no one else can. Presumably if, say, Stephen Colbert had delivered the exact same monologue as Samantha Bee then we could expect his show to be canceled immediately…
Update: Auto Trader and State Farm have asked to have their ads removed from her show.
Everybody knew Roseanne is a nut. Tom Arnold apparently told the cast members to get her phone away from her. He used to be married to her.
The script was far worse. That was planned.
Oh come on, you can’t blame Samantha Bee. I mean, whose fault is this, really? As Valerie Jarret said, th president sets the tone. So anything a trump supporter says is attributable to him. And, anything a Trump hater, like Griffin or Bee, says is also attributable to him! See?
Now tell Samantha you’re sorry.
It wasn’t just the filthy hateful word (though that certainly would have been enough). The lead up to it, which is usually edited out in reports on it, was especially vile. Nothing even remotely comparable would ever have been tolerated by anyone, if said in reference to Obama’s wife or daughters.
We need a boycott.
The apology should not be accepted. We need to get her fired.
The NATAS folks really owe George Carlin a lot of awards for pioneering “Light in Darkness”(tm).
Never heard of the woman. What’s the “B” stand for, again?
Update 2: The Academy has barred the press from the event. Democracy dies in darkness, folks. But we are all “…proud to be part of an industry that spreads understanding, uncovers truth, encourages compassion and shines a light on darkness.”
They shine a light on darkness … in secret.
According to people on Twitter, the administration has demanded that the show be cancelled, and this is a sign of fascism.
They actually believe that. They get such dark excitement from wanting this to be true.
Is this post a joke? She’s really getting an award. She has a filthy mouth. I wonder what she’ll say when she accepts the award: “Thanks, from the bottom of my c**t.”
This is how you get more Trump. I hope somebody in the RNC is saving all these clips for TV ads in October.
The complete list is here. A veritable SJW dream.
I truly do not understand the outrage about the use of the vile word. What about the content before that? If someone was shot, then had a pebble thrown at her, I don’t think she would even notice the pebble.
The awards panel feels they have to pretend she is an artist just as her viewers must pretend she is funny. The left puts heavy burdens on its adherents.
Like political meetings under Saddam Hussein in which he would always receive a standing ovation and the first ones to stop applauding expected to be arrested, the lockstep approval of patently disgusting, immoral or simply stupid ideas is a tribal pre-req for our increasingly mindless lefty friends. The Dark Side must be tiresome.
The left is losing its ability to persuade anybody. That is part of the reason they are going crazy. As Jonah likes to say, “A failed man often takes to drink and becomes more the failure.” Trump hatred is like gut-rot hooch to the left.
Sally fields is all in on C##t…..
I would say Sally is a gigantic one.