I thought it was funny. Although I did wonder what her ACTUAL child will think years down the road.

The letter-writer thought that was more offensive than Rosie's "ching-chong" thing? Yes, Samantha Bee pushes the envelope, but this is obviously all satirical.

Frankly, however, even if I did think it was offensive, I would love it just for making fun of Billy, the Bush cousin that makes W seem smart.

That's some funny shit!

It was a funny piece and skillfully called upon the carpet those celebrities (Madonna) who will use any means to stay in the headlines. Any one objecting has their shorts in a bunch.

Blessed are the humorless, for they shall inherit the earth.

...must...see...more.

A perfect skewering of E! and all the other starf*cker shows out there. Loved the "Bulemia - when is too early for *your* child." outro as well.

Offensive? Of course. Satire usually is.

I get the joke, I just don't think it's funny.

But you would have to be looking for an excuse to take offense to find this offensive.

Come on, people. That's what satire is supposed to do. It is supposed to ridicule something by taking it to an extreme.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_modest_proposal

Jonathan Swift, anyone?

What a hoot!

This is so over the top, how can anything in this segment be taken seriously?

For what it's worth, I think the segment was hilarious, biting and important.

Adoption has been romanticized and idealized beyond all reality in caucasian America in order to justify the very odd tradition of taking a baby from one family and giving it to a complete stranger. It's a strange custom that isn't reflected in many other cultures and people become outraged when anyone suggests that whatever current adoption system they are operating under isn't perfect, above criticism, and in the "best interests of the child." Look at how long it's taken domestic adoptees to get the rights to basic biographical information. I wrote about this about 10 years ago for a Portland alternative weekly under the headline, "Bastard." From the response you would have thought I was advocating for leaving babies to die in the cabbage patch.

Stories like Foreign Baby Fever call into question the motivations for adoption and add a cold dose of reality which can hopefully open the door for improving adoption practices or even the possibility of other alternatives.

Patty Wentz

Portland, Oregon

They must go through life feeling so offended.

It was hilarious and wrong and hilariously wrong.

I thought she pointed out what became painfully true when Madonna "adopted" her baby. Adopting babies from the third world is becoming chic and getting headlines. When people do it because they truly want a child, it is a wonderful event. When celebs do it because they want a new fashion accessory, it is dreadful.

There wasn't anything wrong with the subject, the writing and the video editing sucked. Too many gags thrown in without any thought to how it was suppose to tie the whole piece together. Just by editing out all of the "Billy" parts would improve it by 50 percent. Dizzying, swirling video with graphics is always a bad sign. Tame the writers to keep them from throwing every idea onto the pile, and hire someone who knows how to edit video.

If we on the left can't take a joke or look at ourselves with any sense of humor then we're going to have a real problem in 2008. That skit was funny. Real funny.

What else needs to be said? Brilliant, timely satire.

I thought it was her funniest skit in a long time. And I am sick of hearing about all the stupid stuff that actors do like it's "news."

... but I was laughing at the same time.

It was soooo offensive, but soooo funny.

It's abundantly clear that Samantha Bee clearly does not actually hold these attitudes; in fact, the heart of the joke is ridiculing people who actually do hold them.

I am reminded of the Sarah Silverman dust-up over her "I love [attractive and successful Sino-Americans]" joke. (BTW, I thought that joke was funny, too.)

In that case, the reaction from the Asian PR community seemed to be focused on the fact that she dared use a slur on par with the N-word. Silverman's defense was that she was "illuminating racism" for the purpose of the joke.

I see the same thing going on here.

Satire is not always comfortable viewing, but nothing offensive about it. The commodification of children IS offensive, but by satirizing that, this piece is expressing a positive message. Also - the baby wearing potato chip bag clothing was HILARIOUS.

To be fair, "Brangalina" (I can't believe I just brought myself to use that term) have done alot of valuable charity work. Sure, they can afford it, but they've done more for the people of the third world than I have, so lets not throw the baby out with the bath water.

While with their resources they could "adopt" thousands of foriegn children by funding orphanages and schools, but instead they choose to self indulgently pick one to essentially "win the lottery" and get all the wealth and advantage. This is nothing new. Celebrities are a modern version of royalty, and it has been common throught history for these sort of people to both contribute philanthropically, and expect to get special credit for doing so. Many great works of art were commissioned by noble patrons, for instance - and while they are now enjoyable by all, they wouldn't have been made except for the vanity of a Duke.

I'm not sure who said that first - I think it was about Network as a critique of television news - but it applies here.

I work for a TV station that runs The Insider. This piece is closer to what that horrid show runs than Samantha Bee would probably believe. And never more so than in the last three weeks. In a real-world reproduction of "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead!", the show is taking a tour of a morgue to show what Anna Nicole Smith's corpse went through when wheeled through that door some lucky paparazzi shot from a rooftop.

The only thing that Bee did not accurately reproduce is the laziness that even flighty productions like this demonstrate. The "co-anchor" who spends time in a makeup chair and saying nothing is fairly close to Pat O'Brien's stupor (for all I can tell, this supreme judge of celebrity life may have fallen off the wagon again). But worse than that, shows like The Insider simply "re-purpose" video from other shows. In this case the "morgue tour" is just snippets from a Discovery Channel documentary on autopsies; they didn't even have enough class to take video from the HBO autopsy shows. And when Steve Irwin died, they culled shots not only from his show, but from Animal Planet shows about manta rays and similar animals (that were just conveniently re-running at the time to pick up some of the Crocodile Hunter heat).

To do this completely right, Ms. Bee should have done a piece completely made up of clips of monster babies from slasher films, maybe even the "mutant spider baby-head doll" from Toy Story.