Posted below is an informative brief from Nate Jackson at Patriot Post regarding the Roseanne Barr show being cancelled because of a comment she made on Twitter.
The matter has to make you wonder, as Rush did just moments ago, whether maybe ABC execs were looking for a reason to cancel the show, ratings success or not. It is not like they would be criticized for economic blundering by their friends in the Hamptons. They were probably chastised by them for any dalliance with programing that might employ comments that support Trump and on occasion make liberal characters in the show look buffoonish (see Patriot meme). Bringing back Tim Allen must have been viewed as just way too much of any questioning or lampooning liberalism. A message must be sent.
Network execs and advertisers are not effectively answerable to the market. They are so inconsistent it is ridiculous. Offending Christians and Jews – no problem – even encouraged – any protected class – you are fired. Christians are too tolerant.
This Just In: Roseanne Barr Is Crazy
Well that escalated quickly. ABC canceled its reboot of the hit sitcom “Roseanne” hours after its titular star, Roseanne Barr, went on a Twitter rant. National Review’s Mairead McArdle lays out the basics: “Actress and producer Barr made remarks Monday on Twitter comparing former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett [who is black] to a cross between the Muslim Brotherhood and ‘Planet of the Apes.’ ‘muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj,’ Barr wrote in a thread where another user suggested Jarrett had helped the Obama administration conceal facts.”
Immediate calls for an apology — which Barr provided — were quickly superseded by demands that her show be canceled. ABC soon bowed to pressure. “Roseanne’s Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show,” said ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey in a statement later Tuesday.
“I apologize to Valerie Jarrett and to all Americans. I am truly sorry for making a bad joke about her politics and her looks,” Barr said. “I should have known better. Forgive me — my joke was in bad taste.” She said she was leaving Twitter, only to come back later and blame the sleep medication Ambien.
But this is nothing new for Barr, and it’s been a long time since she “knew better.” As we noted two months ago when her show was relaunched, she’s subscribed to all sorts of conspiracy theories, from being a “9/11 truther” to believing that the Boston Marathon bombing was a “false flag.” She’s called Israel a “Nazi state” and then slammed Hillary Clinton for plotting Israel’s destruction. She insisted on reeducation camps or beheading for “guilty” Wall Street bankers in 2011. Barr is a socialist who ran for president in 2012, trying to get on the Green Party ticket but instead settling for that of the “Peace and Freedom Party.”
The most galling thing about it all is that ABC tried to market the new show by appealing to supporters of President Donald Trump — because Barr is herself an economic populist who is a fan of the president, albeit not for conservative reasons. Unfortunately, it’s all the better for the network to hang her around Republican necks only to brand her as a racist and then cast her out of polite society.
Keep in mind that ABC is the same network that employs serial misogynist Jimmy Kimmel and Joy Behar, who mocked Mike Pence’s (and all Christians’) faith on “The View.” ABC-owned ESPN employs Keith Olbermann, whose history of vulgar Twitter outbursts is legendary. And it’s the same network that canceled the show of conservative comedian Tim Allen simply because he’s conservative.
