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.

But Noonan shot back in flash, saying, “It wasn't just a word! It was an obscene personal attack! Obscene and personal attack and that did obscure her point, but that also showed maybe she wasn't serious about it.”

Even before scolding Tur, Noonan had a harsh reality check for Barr and Bee in asserting that neither comedian knew how to be a responsible public figure. “[P]art of the problem is public figures having a hard time being public figures. When you are lucky enough in America to be a public figure, your celebrity is not only your pleasure it is your responsibility,” she explained.

“What is that responsibility? Don't make it worse. Don't make it uglier. Don't make it sicker. Samantha Bee doesn't seem to understand that responsibility. Roseanne didn't understand it,” she continued. Noonan also said she was glad to see the large backlash from the public against both women because it showed people were tired of the nonsense.

And it wasn’t just Noonan who had harsh words against Bee. While NPR’s 1A host, Joshua Johnson didn’t find the comments “equivalent,” he didn’t go easy on Bee. “Samantha Bee made a cruel misogynist joke and even a very good one. If you have to end the joke with an insult it means you couldn’t think of a good punchline. So she needs to be a better writer next time,” he jabbed.

Johnson was also concerned about the pervasiveness of what he called the “cultural current” that allowed for both women to think it was socially acceptable for them to say what they said. “[It’s the same current] that gave Stephen Colbert cover to say the only thing the Donald Trump’s mouth was good for was being Vladimir Putin's you-know-what holster,” he added. He also warned it was what allowed Russian to stir up animosity between us during the election.

To play off of Noonan, National Review Editor Rich Lowry paraphrased a friend who lamented how “the problem with institutions: no one considers themselves an insider anymore has a responsibility for being better and being a steward. Everyone considers themselves to be an outsider.”

While it was great that they were able to come together to condemn Barr and Bee for their heinous comments, it would have been nice for them to touch on the double standard for liberals and conservatives since NBC is still defending Joy Reid’s lies.

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