Also much less likely to outearn their parents. Whats the cause of that economic divide . And can that tailspin be reversed . Plus, a senior about to graduate places a joke ad on craigslist offering his high school for sale. But in Todays School shooting climate, administrators think there was nothing funny about it. Whats the Lesson Learned there. And roseanne wasnt the only celebrity in a twitter jam this week. Anonymous tweets aboutlinked to philadelphia 76ersor his wife and his job hangs in the balance. The president wants to talk about double standards and samantha bee. Lets do that. This week Roseanne Barrs show was canceled because of her racist tweet. Shortly thereafter, samantha bee called ivanka trump the c word on her tbs show. The president weighed in, why arent they firing notalent samantha bee for the horrible language on her low ratings show. Total double standard but thats okay. Theres definitely a double standard here but not the wop the president is talking about. I interviewed Jennifer Lynn, a former reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer about her 1988 interaction with subject donald trump. Heres what she recounted. I got a phone call. The woman said hold for mr. Trump and then mr. Trump began to yell at me. He told me i had shit for brains and worked for a shitty newspaper and what sort of shit was i writing. I was stunned. He hung up and called my boss in philadelphia. And he treated my boss to the same sort of rant. But then he added that he referred to me as the c word, a word i will not use, michael, because in my opinion, its the worst word in the english language to refer to a woman. So White House Press secretary Sarah Huckabee sanders call bees language vile and vicious and said executives at tbs and corporate parent time warner, which is cnns parent as well, must demonstrate that such explicit profanity about female members of this administration will not be condoned. Bee soon thereafter offered up her apology on twitter. I would like to sincerely apologize to ivanka trump and to my viewers for using an expletive on my show to describe her last night. It was inappropriate and inexcusable. I crossed a line and deeply regret it. Given that the president himself used the c word according to Jennifer Lynn why is the line . Go to my website this hour and answer todays poll question. Should samantha bee be fired for referring to ivanka trump as the c word . Joining me to discuss, a comedian who has written for seinfe seinfeld, snl, was the host of his own talk program on fox and you are part of comedic lore because you wrote the soup nazi episode. No matter what you do for the rest of your life, this is your epithet, my friend. And the c word isnt in it. It is not in it. Although im sure you could have worked it in if you thought of it at the time. I stayed up later than i normally do last night. I watched bill maher. In his opening commentary he said something relevant. Lets watch. It was a tough, tough week for the line. You know, the line. The one that comedians sometimes cross. Tough week for the line. What is the line . Can you define the line . Is this like Potter Stewart knowing pornography when he sees it . Define it. The line is a combination of what youre writing about and lets take samantha bee as an example. Shes writing about a horrible situation thats happening in our country where children are being torn out of the arms of their parents at the border, an immigration issue, which is a very extreme issue. And a combination of how you feel about that, how youre going to write about that and also your Network Broadcast standards. How much theyre going to let you say about that. So i watched the samantha bee joke, and i watched her audience react to it. Shes a comedian, a comedy writer. They carefully choose their jokes. For me, the joke landed and you hear the audience laugh, the audience applause. And its commenting on a terrible situation and its using a bit of extreme language to make her point. I dont know that she crossed the line. For me, thats a personal thing. I thought she nailed the joke. And i think her apology has more to do with maybe Network Politics than whether she really needed to make one in the first place. Well, i guess by that explanation then, you find her apology and her admission of crossing a line to be disingenuous. Not disingenuous. I dont think it was needed. I dont know samantha, but i can only imagine how the network is panicking. The network that was most likely at rehearsal and heard the line and let it go anyways. She might be making a decision that, you know, its easier to apologize and keep my job and keep my staff employed and she also may be just exploring the very edge of the line that tbs has. Maybe there is a line for her with that network. And maybe she did cross it and now she knows. Whats important to point out shes not doing it all the time. So david french writing for National Review has a different take and one i hear from many folks on the right. No reasonable person thinks samantha bee would still have a job at tbs if she used the same terrible language to insult Chelsea Clinton or michelle obama. No reasonable person believes msnbc would stick with a conservative for so long in the face of anything like the steady drum beat of outrageous revelations excused in part by dubious claims of hacking about joy reids old work. Respond to that. David french known for his humor critiques around the world. That would be my First Response to david french. Youre talking about joy reid, political shows. This popular misnom are that comes from the right that these are liberal writing rooms. And theyre not. The writing rooms that ive been in, the letterman, saturday night live, my own show, what were doing is right and wrong, not left and right. Were not going, lets toe the line for the left today. We look at news and were social judges. And this is a right or wrong issue that shes commenting on. And i dont think we should be caught up on the word she used because were all fine with it. Were all okay. Our ears arent bleeding. We should be caught up on what she was talking about and trying to point out with her humor. And that is this horrible Administration Policy where children and parents are being separated. Sally field, speaking of the word itself, if were really going to go there, i thoug had a unique take by twitter. Dare i put it up on the screen. She pretty much says we should embrace the c word. They are powerful, beautiful, nurturing and honest. Your take. Okay. I guess. For me personally, if you were asking me as a writer and as a performer, i find that word hard on my ears. I prefer not to use it at all anywhere. Me, too. I think the british and australians and the scottish use it best and its usually for one man to insult another man andt means moron. But, still, i dont use it. We dont have any swears past this swear. So once we become resistant to this word weve got nothing. So use it sparingly. Its the last one left. The f bomb has totally lost its sting. Bono was right with what he said about the f bomb. Spike, thanks for being here. Spike currently hosting spikes car radio. Cars and comedy on podcast one. I want to know what you think. Smerconish. Com. Answer the question very interested to see which way this goes. Should samantha bee be fired for referring referring tou vau referring to ivanka trump as the c word. No roseanne and sam bee are not the same. One is racism. Other is boy talk, right . I mean, are racism and socalled comedy, i guess i should have said to spike, when i listen to samantha bee, its not clear at that point of her monologue it was comedy. It seemed like a straightforward political argument that threw in a c word reference to ivanka to boot. One more quickly, if we can. Although i dont agree with what roseanne said, i dont believe the show should have been canceled. Our society has become too sensitive. I agree in so far as its got to be all one way or the other. Either well let it all happen and stop trying to parse between all these things or not. A buddy of mine, liberal paul said we have double standards of double standards. Thats how far gone it is. The jobs report couldnt have been better. Unemployment at an historic low, yet Many Americans have been locked out of the upward mobility enjoyed by previous generations. Why is that . Would you not go to a doctor or hire an electrician if their politics arent the same as yours . A new Study Suggests thats where were headed thanks to the partisan divide. Not cool. Freezing away fat cells with coolsculpting . Now thats cool. 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Neil irwin of the New York Times. Still, my next guest says that for the past half century the rich and powerful are getting more rich and more powerful. Weve separated into the protected and unprotected and those in the former have thwarted opportunities for everybody else, leaving most americans less and less likely to outearn their parents. I spoke earlier with steven brill, founder of courttv and the American Lawyer magazine. The author of tailpine the people and forces behind americas 50year fall and those fighting to reverse it. Steven, you had an epiphany after lappedi inlanding at kenn. What was it . About 2 1 2 years ago my wife and i landed at kennedy, coming in from europe. We trudged through one of the terminals and there was water leaking, it was crowded. The bathrooms were filthy. We got into a cab and took the van wick expressway which is the expressway from kennedy into the city. And it was ugly and filled with potholes, jammed with traffic and in the middle of the expressway, theres a tram that i know cost 3 billion or 4 billion and the tram goes from Kennedy Airport about eight miles into queens. Not in the center of the city. And i made a joke about that to my wife and said what would someone from france or germany or any place else arriving in america for the first time think of the greatest country in the world arriving in the gateway city and going through that airport and being on this highway and looking at the poor excuse for mass transit that we have. And then i rattled off a couple of other things about our Health Care System and Everything Else and i said would they really think were the greatest country in the world . And then i stopped, what happened to us . How did we get that way . And she mumbled something about, well, maybe thats a book. And indeed it is. And in tailspin heres how you sum up the situation. Key measures of the nations public engagement, satisfaction and confidence, voter turnout, knowledge of public policy, faith that the next generation will fare better than the current one and respect for dacic institutions, especially the government, are far below what they were 50 years ago and in many cases have reached near historic lows. You come up with, i think, provocative theory as to why things got so bad. Whats the cliffs note version . The very things that make America Great, to steal an expression, like the First Amendment or ameritocracy or due process under the rule of law, those values, even democracy, were hijacked in a way that there werent any guardrails to protect us. So for example, the First Amendment became a way for corporations to contribute as much money as they want to the political candidates who support them and also to avoid regulations that had been in place restricting deceptive advertising or even how they market prescription drugs. Meritocracy has become something where the generation, like me and you, who benefited from meritocracy because we were suddenly offered places in all the elite educational institutions, that became a new kind of aristocracy, the difference being with smarter, more able people who got into these institutions on their merits now filling the law firms and banks and consult apsies and Corporate Board rooms. They were smarter, more aggressive and more driven to defend what they had won and build moats around themselves. Thats the country we have today. Was it done with malis . No, not at all. This was these were smart people, striving and achieving and they were doing what makes America Great. Its just that the usual guardrails didnt work because they were so smart and so driven that they were able to go too far. For example, the legal engineers, the lawyers, were able to have much greater influence than they ever had, and their idea of trail blazing legal strategy was to create corporate takeovers and mergers. Or to create arbitration clauses that keep people out of the courts when they have a consumer dispute or a job discrimination dispute. So everything was tilted toward what i called the protected in this country at the expense of the vast majority in this country who were the unprotected. And thats where we purpose and those unprotected became so frustrated that 46 of them decided to vote for someone who was not part of the meritocracy. Someone who promised them he would make it better by rejecting the elites. Before you leave me, give me the good news. The good news is the book is incredibly hopeful because it has stories and portraits of people and organizations who are actually fighting and creating effective plans and strategies in every sphere i write about whether its Campaign Finance reform, reform of wall street, mixing the way our Civil Service system is broken. Fixing the way our government is broken, the federal budget. There are people out there. Theyre not naive. Theyre just as determined and resilient as they could possibly be. And its that determination and that resilience of all those people who i portray in the back who i think are going to bring us back once the country gets frustrated enough that it turns away from Simple Solutions and sloganeering and says, all right, we have to get back to being who we were. I think that tailspin is eye opening. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thanks for having me. Up ahead when a High School Senior placed this joke craigslist ad offering his school for sale, he was banned from graduation. What kind of lesson is to be learned here . Another cautionary tale about twitter. The president of basketball operations for the philadelphia 76ers finds his job on the line when a bunch of anonymous twitter accounts full of team gossip are exposed. As the probe closes in on his wife, if she did it. Should he take the fall . It senses and automatically adjusts on both sides, for effortless comfort. Dont miss the final days of our semiannual sale save up to 700 on sleep number 360 smart beds. Ends sunday. You wouldnt accept from any one else. Why accept it from your allergy pills . Flonase relieves your worst symptoms including nasal congestion, which most pills dont. Flonase helps block 6 key inflammatory substa