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    Commentary: The 'vile' Bee-word heard 'round the world

    by Virginia Heffernan, Los Angeles Times Jun 13, 2018 3 minutes

    Recently, Samantha Bee, the comedian, described Ivanka Trump, the advisor and daughter to the president, with the C-word. Yep, we have to be coy and say it like that.

    She also used the F-word: feckless. No one knows what that means.

    The other word, however, is on George Carlin's 1972 list of the "seven dirty words" prohibited on national TV. But the word's status is not why Bee was forced to retract it.

    "National TV" - the government-regulated network airwaves more popular in Carlin's time than our own -

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