Samantha Bee fixes Bill O'Reilly's 'apology' in one perfect tweet

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Samantha Bee fixes Bill O'Reilly's 'apology' in one perfect tweet
Everything is changing for "The O'Reilly Factor." Credit: Rob Kim/Getty Images

Samantha Bee's response to Bill O'Reilly's statement about being let go from Fox News can be expressed in four letters: FTFY. In a tweet, she promptly fixed up Bill O'Reilly's statement that went out a few hours after the conservative talk show host was fired from his Fox News show.

With just a few quick changes Bee took O'Reilly's five dry sentences to the next level.

For example, instead of the show entertaining "millions of Americans," Bee corrects it to say O'Reilly only entertained "dads." Truth. "Informed" becomes "lied to," and the most notable change: "It is tremendously disheartening that we part ways due to completely unfounded claims to finally get in trouble for being a sexual predator."

Here's the original statement in its pure form:

Bee isn't the only one making jokes about O'Reilly's downfall. The entire internet chimed in about the development with the same joke, which all came only a few short weeks after a series of sexual harassment claims, revelations about $13 million in harassment settlements, and tons of fleeing advertisers.

The internet was all about Bee's quick edit.

Dads and those close to them, however, took issue with being lumped in with O'Reilly fans.

Fox News, for its part, is in the midst of some editing too -- it's eliminating all things O'Reilly from prime time.

As Bee pointed out with her tweet, it's going to take a lot more scrubbing to clean up this mess.

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Sasha Lekach

Sasha is a news writer at Mashable's San Francisco office. She's an SF native who went to UC Davis and later received her master's from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She's been reporting out of her hometown over the years at Bay City News (news wire), SFGate (the San Francisco Chronicle website), and even made it out of California to write for the Chicago Tribune. She's been described as a bookworm and a gym rat.

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