2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumSamantha Bee schools her network on sexist Hillary tweet.
Well, this might make things a bit awkward around the water cooler for a day or two.
Samantha Bee ended up locking horns with TBS, the network that broadcasts her show, over a tweet from their official account that compared Hillary Clintons laugh to that of a hyena.
The Full Frontal host has been passionate in her political takedowns since the launch of her show, and her recent episodes have been all about the coverage of the Republican National convention last week. This week marks the start of a very contentious Democratic National Convention, and TBS network tweeted out a video from The Heckler on Monday night that was captioned Move over Donkey! Theres a new mascot in town
#ImWithHyena.
The video is called Hillary Clintons Call of the Wild, and it juxtaposes Clintons laugh with the calls from a pack of wild hyenas. Bee apparently did not appreciate this, and she took a leaf out of Clintons book when she gave her network a little bit of advice:
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Good for Samantha.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)for their brand.