Feckless Abandon

Several advertisers had already pulled their commercials from Samantha Bee’s show by the time she apologized for her controversial comment about the first daughter. (“You know, Ivanka, that’s a beautiful photo of you and your child, but let me just say, one mother to another, do something about your dad’s immigration practices, you feckless c***!”). The President (who is strongly opposed to coarse language, especially when it comes to women) called on her to be fired.

+ The New Yorker: Ivanka Trump, Samantha Bee, and the Strange Path of an Ancient Epithet. (I had no idea feckless was such a controversial word…)

+ If you missed it earlier in the week, I had ten quick thoughts on Roseanne’s very long week. The First Rule of Mickey Mouse Club.