Samantha Bee fixes Bill O'Reilly's lame 'apology' in one perfect tweet
Samantha Bee's response to Bill O'Reilly's statement about being let go from Fox News can be expressed in four letters: FTFY. In a tweet, the Comedy Central host promptly fixed up Bill O'Reilly's statement that went out a few hours after the conservative talk show host was fired from his Fox News show.
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With just a few quick changes Bee took O'Reilly's five dry sentences to the next level.
For example, instead of the show entertaining "millions of Americans," Bee corrects it to say O'Reilly only entertained "dads." Truth. "Informed" becomes "lied to," and the most notable change: "It is tremendously disheartening that we part ways due to completely unfounded claims to finally get in trouble for being a sexual predator."
Fixed. pic.twitter.com/pKUHKzJ3Vz
— Full Frontal (@FullFrontalSamB) April 19, 2017
Here's the original statement in its pure form:
O’Reilly statement pic.twitter.com/FKO0NLtMbl
— Hadas Gold (@Hadas_Gold) April 19, 2017
Bee isn't the only one making jokes about O'Reilly's downfall. The entire internet chimed in about the development with the same joke, which all came only a few short weeks after a series of sexual harassment claims, revelations about $13 million in harassment settlements, and tons of fleeing advertisers.
The internet was all about Bee's quick edit.
@FullFrontalSamB That's exactly how I read it the first time!
— Lisa Pajac (@ljpajac) April 19, 2017
@FullFrontalSamB OMG, I love this. The power of editing! Bringing TRUTH to light!
— Patrise Henry (@PatrisewithanS) April 20, 2017
@FullFrontalSamB It is the quotes around "news" that really brings this to the level of utter perfection, lol. Well done. ;)
— squirrelbite (@squirrelbite) April 20, 2017
@FullFrontalSamB Brilliant!👏👏
— Suzapalooza (@Sawyer1313) April 19, 2017
@FullFrontalSamB @MichaelSkolnik Perfectly done. I'd give you an A++++ if I were grading your work.
— Pat Germelman (@PatGermelman) April 20, 2017
Dads and those close to them, however, took issue with being lumped in with O'Reilly fans.
@FullFrontalSamB @KristenePerron Kind of harsh to the Dads of America, aren't you?
— Karla Schwartz (@MidwesternMind) April 20, 2017
@FullFrontalSamB Awesome c'mon why hate on Dads here?
— Bill Poutre (@bill_poutre) April 19, 2017
Fox News, for its part, is in the midst of some editing too — it's eliminating all things O'Reilly from prime time.
The scrubbing is official cc @brianstelter pic.twitter.com/ADy8zO2fGs
— Jack Cooke (@JackCookeInNY) April 20, 2017
.@FoxNews has removed O'Reilly from it's shows page. Show is simply marketed (till Friday) as "The Factor:" https://t.co/qMhdhSl8aA pic.twitter.com/mRw54WTKcD
— Louis Ortiz (@LouisOrtiz92) April 19, 2017
As Bee pointed out with her tweet, it's going to take a lot more scrubbing to clean up this mess.
