NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 19: Comedian Samantha Bee appears on stage during the Turner Upfront 2016 show at The Theater at Madison Square Garden on May 18, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Turner) AYR, SCOTLAND - JUNE 24: Presumptive Republican nominee for US president Donald Trump gives a press conference on the 9th tee at his Trump Turnberry Resort on June 24, 2016 in Ayr, Scotland. Mr Trump arrived to officially open his golf resort which has undergone an eight month refurbishment as part of an investment thought to be worth in the region of two hundred million pounds. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images) Glenn Beck to comedian: My audience HATES you NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 19: Comedian Samantha Bee appears on stage during the Turner Upfront 2016 show at The Theater at Madison Square Garden on May 18, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Turner) PASADENA, CA - JANUARY 14: Executive producer/host Samantha Bee of 'Full Frontal with Samantha Bee' speaks onstage during the TBS portion of the 2017 Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour at the Langham Hotel on January 14, 2017 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images) Samantha Bee on comedy in the Trump Era (2017) Host Samantha Bee onstage during Full Frontal With Samantha Bee's Not The White House Correspondents' Dinner at DAR Constitution Hall on April 29, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images for TBS) Samantha Bee to 'creeps': We're coming for you Baldwin: What Samantha Bee did is beneath her Jon Stewart performs on the Colossal Stage during Clusterfest at Civic Center Plaza and The Bill Graham Civic Auditorium on June 3, 2018 in San Francisco, California. (CNN) — At a comedy event over the weekend, Samantha Bee’s former boss, Jon Stewart, addressed the controversy that put his former correspondent in the crosshairs of critics last week. “They don’t give a s*** about the word ‘c***,’” he said, referring to the Trump administration and the vulgar remark that landed Bee in hot water. “That is probably – he says that instead of ‘please,’ I’m guessing.” Stewart’s remarks were reported by The Daily Beast, who attended Stewart’s appearance at the Clusterfest comedy festival in San Francisco over the weekend. CNN has contacted a representative of Stewart for comment. Bee last week drew wide criticism for calling White House senior adviser and first daughter Ivanka Trump a “feckless c***” on her TBS show. (TBS, like CNN, is owned by Turner, a subsidiary of Time Warner.) The White House called Bee’s comment “vile and vicious.” Bee apologized on Thursday, saying her comment was “inappropriate and inexcusable.” “I crossed a line, and I deeply regret it,” Bee said in a statement. According to The Daily Beast, Stewart seemed “to imply that Bee shouldn’t have apologized.” “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. Bee is expected to record a new episode of her talk show on Wednesday, as previously planned. Sources tell CNN Bee will issue “an in-depth response” to the controversy in that episode.<doc-sep>Jon Stewart. Photo: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Bob Woodruff Foundation While at San Francisco’s Clusterfest on Sunday, Jon Stewart weighed in on Samantha Bee’s decision to apologize for calling Ivanka Trump a “feckless cunt” in a recent Full Frontal episode. According to the former Daily Show host, Donald Trump is just about the last person to have an actual, sincere problem with the word, despite what his outraged tweets on the subject might suggest. “They don’t give a shit about the word ‘cunt,’” Stewart said during an audience Q&A following a conversation with San Francisco Chronicle’s Peter Hartlaub. “He says that instead of ‘please,’ I’m guessing.” As reported by the Daily Beast, Stewart, who is set to launch a seven-night comedy tour with Dave Chappelle later this month, offered some advice he gleaned from his years doing political comedy: don’t play into the moral double standard. Explained Stewart, “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.” Looking back on his own late-night tenure, Stewart said he was accused of being a “tool of the Obama presidency” after visiting the White House twice during the former POTUS’s two terms, while Trump “spoke to the head of Fox [News] and strategized with him on a weekly basis and uses their on-air talent as advisers.” Warned Stewart, “Don’t 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.” In the end, Stewart said that it might not be possible for liberal or otherwise-Trump-critical voices to “make them give up this ‘we’re the real victims’ game” by being the bigger person and apologizing. Said Stewart, “it’s a game, it’s a strategy and it’s working.” Despite that dire assessment of the political climate, however, Stewart says he’s actually “incredibly optimistic” that the current state of affairs isn’t a permanent climate that we’ll all just have to sweat through forever. After visiting his fellow citizens in some “very conservative communities,” Stewart believes “the divisions that occur are real, but the toxicity is not necessarily.”<doc-sep>Jon Stewart defended Samantha Bee in a question-and-answer session on Sunday after President Donald Trump called for her firing last week over her remarks about Ivanka Trump. Bee drew criticism from the Trump administration and subsequently apologized after she called Ivanka a "feckless c---" on her TBS show, "Full Frontal." Stewart said the controversy surrounding Bee represented a "game" and "strategy" from right-wing politicians at large. In the eyes of Jon Stewart, the backlash against Samantha Bee from the White House last week represented a "game" and "strategy" from right-wing politicians at large. Bee faced intense criticism from President Donald Trump after she called his daughter Ivanka a "feckless c---" on her TBS show, "Full Frontal." Writing on Twitter, Trump asked why TBS wouldn't fire Bee for "horrible language," suggesting there was a double standard after ABC canceled "Roseanne" over a tweet by its star Roseanne Barr. Stewart worked with Bee on "The Daily Show" from 2003 to 2015. "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 during a question-and-answer session at the Clusterfest comedy festival on Sunday, as reported by The Daily Beast. "It's a game, it's a strategy, and it's working," Stewart added. Bee apologized for her remarks last week. Bee used the phrase in question during a segment urging the president's daughter to "do something" about her father's immigration policy that had resulted in the government separating some children living in the country illegally from their parents. Stewart addressed Bee's controversy and apology first by addressing "liberals" at large. "Don't get caught in a trap of thinking you can live up to a code of integrity that will be enough for the propagandist right," he reportedly said. "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." Stewart then turned to Bee's comments in particular. "They don't give a shit about the word 'c---,'" Stewart reportedly said of the Trump administration. "That is probably — he says that instead of 'please,' I'm guessing," he added of Trump. As The Daily Beast notes, various reports since the 1980s have suggested Trump has used the derogatory word to describe women.<doc-sep>
Ever since TBS aired an episode of Full Frontal in which Samantha Bee called Ivanka Trump a "feckless cunt," celebrities and politicians have weighed in on Bee's comments. Jon Stewart, who worked with Bee for years on The Daily Show, weighed in briefly on Sunday to explain that criticism of Bee is all part of a plan. “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. "It’s a game, it’s a strategy, and it’s working," he added. When Stewart referenced that game, that strategy, he was referring to the narrative of victimhood and false equivalency perpetrated by many conservatives, the mindset that leads to comparison's between Roseanne Barr's overt racism and Bee using a dirty word. “Don’t 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," Stewart said at Clusterfest in San Francisco. "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.” Bee's use of the word "cunt" was probably of minimal importance to the White House, Stewart said. The Daily Beast pointed out Trump's own history of using the word to disrespect women. There's also the old "grab 'em by the pussy" recording to indicate that the moral code of language is probably not what irked his administration. “They don’t give a shit about the word ‘cunt,’” Stewart said. “That is probably—he says that instead of ‘please,’ I’m guessing.” h/t Daily Beast