Reacting on Thursday morning’s CNN Newsroom to Samantha Bee’s jumbled apology the night prior on TBS for calling First Daughter Ivanka Trump the c-word, CNN political commentator and HLN host S.E. Cupp took Bee to task for her apology being “couched in like a dozen different codicils” and, worst of all, “virtue-signaling” without a heartfelt apology to Ivanka herself.

Cupp appeared opposite comedienne Heather McDonald, who thought the apology “was really good.” The other part of McDonald’s response left Cupp wearing looks of confusion, which was that it’s the fault of “the censors and her producer and the people at TBS” who didn’t stop her from making the misogynistic slur.

“What it did you think of her — I see it on your face, okay no, but tell us,” fill-in co-host Brianna Keilar half-jokingly said to Cupp.

Cupp conceded that Bee runs “a comedy show,” but “there’s nothing funny about calling a mother the c-word as an insult, as a misogynistic slur because she posted a picture with her kid, so those are sort of incongruous.”

The HLN host explained that “[t]he apology was fine, but it was couched in like a dozen different codicils”:

One, I'm a comedian, don't look to me for civility and also, you should be more civil in your own actions and I’ve used the word before. And I've been using it to reclaim it. Also, I'm not sorry to Ted Cruz and to men and, also, I was talking about these innocent immigrant children.

“So, somewhere in there was an apology, but when you have to stuff all that other stuff around it, the apology kind of gets lost. Look, I'm ready to move on and let Sam Bee go back to her job of being funny, I guess, but...there is still a conversation, I think, to be had about whether the left gets let off the hook a bit more easily than the right,” Cupp astutely added.

Later, Cupp emphasized the Roseanne Barr’s racist, ugly tweet about Valerie Jarrett was far worse, but in terms of apologizing, she asked viewers to imagine if Barr used Bee’s approach:

Do a mental exercise, close your eyes, and imagine Roseanne saying, and I'm not equating the two, what Roseanne said was worse, but imagine Roseanne saying about her racist slur, against Valerie Jarrett I'm a comedian, don't look to me for civility. Also, you should be more civil in your acts. I’ve used Planet of the Apes as a reference before. I mean, no one would buy that as a sufficient apology.

Cupp concluded that “what Sam Bee did was a whole lot of self-rationalizing, some virtue-signaling as well, in the midst of an apology and I’ll note, not a real apology” or “heartfelt” mea culpa “to Ivanka Trump, who she slurred for no reason and if she was trying to make some political point, that was lost.”

When this Bee controversy first erupted, Cupp declared on May 31's CNN Newsroom that, for Bee, it’s “welcome to the misogyny club” alongside similarly repugnant figures such as newly-rehired ESPN personality Keith Olbermann.

“Here’s the deal. I predict today, Sam Bee, Keith Olbermann, Joy Reid stay right where they are. Why? Because liberals generally get immunity. It’s that simple,” Cupp stated hours later on HLN’s S.E. Cupp Unfiltered.

To see the relevant transcript from June 7's CNN Newsroom with Poppy Harlow, click “expand.”