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One of last week’s many, many controversies revolved around Samantha Bee calling Ivanka Trump a “feckless c*nt” on last week’s episode of Full Frontal. The incident collided with Roseanne’s cancelation to form a hurricane of commentary surrounding free speech and decency and a whole lot more. It was exhausting.
Still, people were talking about it over the weekend, specifically during an audience Q&A with Jon Stewart at the Clusterfest festival as reported by The Daily Beast. Bee’s old Daily Show boss has had plenty of experience enraging the political right, and offered some advice to his former correspondent.
“Please understand that a lot of what the right does, and it’s maybe their greatest genius, is they’ve created a code of conduct that they police, that they themselves don’t have to, in any way, abide,” Stewart said, bringing up how the right vilified him on the handful of occasions that he met with then President Barack Obama. Meanwhile during the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump “spoke to the head of Fox [News] and strategized with him on a weekly basis and uses their on-air talent as advisers.”
When it comes to pundits and politicians on the right, Stewart urges liberals to not “get caught in a trap of thinking you can live up to a code of integrity that will be enough for the propagandist right. There isn’t. And so, create your own moral code to live by, but don’t be fooled into trying to make concessions that you think will mollify them.”
Speaking directly about the c*nt controversy, Stewart said the Trump administration doesn’t “give a shit about the word ‘c*nt.’ That is probably—he says that instead of ‘please,’ I’m guessing.” (Daily Beast points out that yes, Trump has dropped the c-word many times in the past)
Overall, Stewart says there is nothing liberals can do to “make [conservatives] give up this ‘We’re the real victims’ game,” mainly because, “it’s a game, it’s a strategy, and it’s working.”
