Started from a photo taken during the previous administration for which President Trump was being blamed.
Via Fox News:
Newly notorious comedian Samantha Bee told a crowd in Los Angeles on Thursday that the media focus should shift from the “one bad word” she uttered to describe Ivanka Trump to the nation’s treatment of immigrant children and families, a report said.
Press access was revoked hours before the Television Academy event, which honored Bee’s show, “Full Frontal,” and six other programs as platforms for advancing social change, but IndieWire was able to report Bee’s speech.
Samantha Bee Talks Fallout From Ivanka Trump Slur Controversy At TV Academy Honors https://t.co/A8imS6mNfj pic.twitter.com/w0ynjrWayL
— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) June 1, 2018“We spent the day wrestling with the repercussions of one bad word, when we all should have spent the day incensed that as a nation we are wrenching children from their parents and treating people legally seeking asylum as criminals,” Bee said at NeueHouse Hollywood. “If we are OK with that then really, who are we?”[…]
The media was denied access to Thursday’s ceremony itself, but reporters and photographers had access to the red carpet preceding the event. Bee, however, was a no-show, Entertainment Weekly reported.
That’s a wrap on the TV Academy’s red carpet — Samantha Bee didn’t walk. @THR pic.twitter.com/Hyasdan8Ig
— Lindsay Weinberg (@WeinbergLindsay) June 1, 2018An apparently sudden increase in the number of press attending the event forced the Television Academy “to limit access to tonight’s activities” just hours before the red carpet.
An academy rep told the Hollywood Reporter late Thursday afternoon that the press was no longer allowed into the reception “as a result of today’s events involving Samantha B.”