Growing up, the daughter of former First Lady Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton has heard more disgusting slurs and falsehoods against her family than most can imagine. So when news came out Thursday that TV pundit Samantha Bee called Ivanka Trump a “feckless c*nt,” I’m betting Chelsea Clinton barely flinched, if at all. But Trump’s White House and Republicans went haywire and begin attacking Bee in hopes of getting her fired.
The White House and most every GOP political pundit demanded that TBS drop Samantha Bee’s “Full Frontal” show and compared Bee’s comment about Ivanka to Roseanne Barr’s extreme racist tweet about Valerie Jarrett. ABC canceled Roseanne’s hit comeback show, and rather than being outraged with Roseanne’s comment, Republicans became the thirsty for revenge—and Samantha Bee looked like a good target.
That’s why they were probably surprised when Chelsea Clinton got on Twitter Thursday afternoon and helped remind the White House, and the world, of that time in 1994 when Trump-supporting gun-enthusiast and former musician Ted Nugent called Hillary, the then First Lady of the United States— a “c*nt” during a magazine interview.
Jacqueline Thomson with The Hill writes:
Clinton shared a tweet by Shareblue writer Oliver Willis, who put a transcript of Nugent’s use of the crude term next to an image of the musician with Trump. Willis captioned the photos “something something something samantha bee fake outrage something.”
In her tweet, Chelsea Clinton added:
“I keep hoping for consistency too, Oliver. Though I’m not holding my breath!”
Chelsea Clinton knows a thing or two about First Family slurs. When responding to Hate Radio’s Rush LImbaugh for calling then college student Sandra Fluke a “slut” Chelsea had this to say in 2012.
“She and I have something in common. We both have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh. She was 30, I was 13.”
(During an episode of his TV show in 1993, Rush Limbaugh showed a picture of a young Chelsea and compared her to a dog.)
So Sarah, look who you’re working for—do you really want to open that can of worms?
Back to Ted Nugent. Last year, most likely knowing of Nugent’s slur against Hillary Clinton and laughing over worse, Trump and the White House invited Nugent to visit along with right wing politican/pundit Sarah Palin and rock-or-country musician Kid Rock. The three invitees posed for a picture under the official portrait of First Lady Hillary Clinton—to mock her. There’s no doubt in the minds of both sides that the trio’s photo op was prompted by the forever Hillary-jealous Donald Trump.
Today, in their quest to condemn and demonize Samantha Bee as well as their attempt to get her fired, the White House forgot to mention Nugent’s c*nt reference towards Hillary Clinton. Many pundits, politicians and news groups from the Right don’t bother to become outraged at what Trump says, much less Roseanne Barr. Instead, they choose to concentrate on Samantha Bee’s slur against Ivanka Trump—a woman who was illegitimately given a position of great power by her father, who is an illegitimate fake so-called president. Bee’s slur, though not an excuse, was prompted by Ivanka’s cruel audacity to pose in a photo of herself lovingly holding her child on the SAME day her father’s heartless immigration policies were ripping innocent immigrant children away from their mothers arms.
The question still remains—where is the Right Wing’s outrage over Rosanne Barr’s racist comment? Matthew Miller sets it straight:
(Thank you, Matthew Miller)
What Samantha Bee said on air about Ivanka was vulgar, impulsive and stupid—it was something many of us thought, but Bee said it. The fact that Right Wingers are whining and claiming that what Bee said was as bad as what Roseanne Barr tweeted—is ridiculous.
Name-calling is immature. Promoting and stoking racism in the way Barr targeted Muslims and Blacks is not only dangerous—it’s deadly.