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Last Friday I did what I do most Friday nights – watch the PBS NewsHour for Shields & Brooks . While mainly I appreciate their analysis, at times, and for me, this is one of those times, I find them out of step with the populace. This has to do with the comments Samantha Bee used to describe Ivanka Trump recently. Shields claimed the word was “nuclear,” and that there was no worse word that could be used in regard to women. My husband had been at a Fringe festival show , so had missed it, and streamed that portion of the show later. I was just as baffled then as I was Friday night, since all I could think about the original phrase was: “yep, that’s Ivanka.” Maybe all those years of Deadwood and the Sopranos have caused me to be immune to the power of such a word. I think I also feel that Ivanka is one of the worst types of hypocrites for women. She’s claims she’s a modern woman and understands working women, yet she lives a completely 1% gilded life. Plus, her ...