They won’t do either, of course, but by not doing the former they really do admit the latter whether they want to or not.
I doubt TBS will bother responding directly to the president, because what can they say? He’s got them dead to rights. If Bee can survive whereas Roseanne could not, the only possible explanation is that liberals have license conservatives do not. Or to put it another way, a show with a conservative bent is on probation from the word go, and even the slightest excuse to can it will bring about immediate cancellation. A liberal show is doing the work of the angels, so while the networks prefer to be spared any embarrassment like the one Bee foisted on them yesterday, they’re not going to fire her.