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While the segment was pitched as a conversation about the double standard in how liberals get away with what conservatives would be run out of town for, they didn’t actually get around to that part. But the panel on Sunday’s Meet the Press did unload on both Roseanne Barr and Samantha Bee for their disgusting and deranged behavior. And when NBC’s Katy Tur tried to downplay Bee’s misogynist smear of Ivanka Trump, Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan scolded her.
When it was Tur’s turn to give her two cents, she complained about how loud the anger and hate have gotten over the recent years. Of course, according to her, President Trump was to blame. “It's this coarsening we’ve seen before Donald Trump started campaigning but certainly that we’ve seen exaggerating since Donald Trump started campaigning,” she suggested. She then tried to carry water for Bee and make her argument about immigration:
I do think what's unfortunate here is that the Samantha Bee controversy, it’s now overshadowing what is the story that she was trying to bring attention too, which is a story that families are being ripped apart at the border. That this administration is claiming there is a new law when it's just a policy and they're taking families apart even when families are coming in, according to reporters, asking for asylum. That is a real issue.
“That is not being covered because we're all talking about Samantha Bee using a word that she should not have used,” Tur concluded.
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