Samantha Bee apologises after calling Ivanka Trump a 'feckless c---'

A comic has been forced to apologise after calling Ivanka Trump a "feckless c---" on national television.

Funny woman Samantha Bee used the obscenity against Donald Trump's daughter  towards the end of a segment when she was referring to the President immigration policies.

“Put on something tight and low-cut and tell your father to f---ing stop it,” she said.

However the obscenity raised eyebrows and sparked a backlash from those who said the comic had gone too far.

It also thrust Bee into the middle of the nation's political divide.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the language was "vile and vicious."

She also said executives at TBS and corporate parent Time Warner needed to demonstrate that such explicit profanity about female members of the administration would not be condoned.

Former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer tweeted it was hypocritical and if a Republican said the same thing the outrage would be instant and overwhelming.

Bee, a former correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart whose own show has been one of TBS' big successes since it started in 2016, said that her language was "inappropriate and inexcusable".

“I crossed a line, and I deeply regret it,” she said.

Bee's language also forced an apology from her network which admitted it was "our mistake too" in allowing the language in the pre-recorded segment to go to air.

TBS said Bee had taken the right step in apologising, however the network made no mention of any disciplinary action.

Car company Autotrader said that it would pull its advertising sponsorship from Full Frontal, calling Bee's language offensive and unacceptable.

Bee's show is being honoured by the Television Academy as one of the most "meaningful and relevant" on the air.

The academy said the controversy over her language won't change that.

It also said its event is "non-political" and that Bee's recognition is for "her engagement in 2017 on the subject of sexual harassment and the #MeToo movement."

The controversy comes two days after ABC cancelled Roseanne following a racist tweet about former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett.

Bee's remark was immediately seized upon by culture warriors. Some conservatives upset about the Roseanne cancellation suggested Bee should meet the same fate, while liberals wondered whether Bee's words were any worse than some used by President Trump, notably in the Access Hollywood tape.

I dream of a life where we hold our president to a higher standard than we hold comedians," said another comic, Marie Connor, on Twitter.

Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore noted that President Trump and his aides had not condemned Barr’s racism and tried to confuse the issue by going after Samantha Bee’s brilliant rant against Ivanka.

One of the sharpest attacks against Bee came from CNN. Bee is no better than the behaviour she sought to criticise in her immigration segment, said CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin.

"To use that word from a woman to another woman is offensive," Baldwin said. "Wrong is wrong, whether you're on the left or the right."