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Re: Roseanne Barr Quits Twitter Over Racist Tweet
« Reply #50 on: May 29, 2018, 07:29:24 pm »
Does anyone else think the coverage of this story is excessive? It's 2:23 into Shep's show and he's still covering it.

Give Shemp a break. He had a rough weekend and his ass is sore.

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Re: BREAKING: ABC cancels 'Roseanne' following tweet on Valerie Jarrett
« Reply #51 on: May 29, 2018, 07:30:39 pm »
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Re: Roseanne Barr Quits Twitter Over Racist Tweet
« Reply #52 on: May 29, 2018, 07:33:26 pm »
Does anyone else think the coverage of this story is excessive? It's 2:23 into Shep's show and he's still covering it.

It's Shemp...the girl can't help it.
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Re: Roseanne Barr Quits Twitter Over Racist Tweet
« Reply #53 on: May 29, 2018, 07:33:37 pm »
Yes, but if they collude to do so, that's violating antitrust law.

I don't think companies agreeing to abide by generally agreed on societal standards of decency, falls under the heading of "collusion".  Roseanne Barr almost certainly violated her morals clause. 
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Re: Roseanne Barr Quits Twitter Over Racist Tweet
« Reply #54 on: May 29, 2018, 07:35:57 pm »
Anyone with any brains in this country should know it's not okay to equate black people with apes or monkeys.  There were years and years of tropes using this to justify slavery, dehumanize people, and on and on.  This is a specific racist theme.
...that hasn't been used as a racist theme in several decades, although stuff like this might encourage "alt-right" types to try and bring it back.
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Re: Roseanne Barr Quits Twitter Over Racist Tweet
« Reply #55 on: May 29, 2018, 07:36:23 pm »
I'd certainly prefer not having to depend on Roseanne to be the face of it. So, maybe it is good it happened now?

I didn't watch the show.  Had no desire to hear Rosanne's nasally bitchy voice...but you're right better it happened now and I'd rather depend on someone like Tim Allen for a show with a Conservative bent than the Connor family.
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Re: Roseanne Barr Quits Twitter Over Racist Tweet
« Reply #56 on: May 29, 2018, 07:39:33 pm »
I didn't watch the show.  Had no desire to hear Rosanne's nasally bitchy voice...but you're right better it happened now and I'd rather depend on someone like Tim Allen for a show with a Conservative bent than the Connor family.

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IMO the whole purpose of her doing the show was to make fun of Conservatives and Trump.   A lot can be accomplished through humor to normalize behaviors and ideas which cannot be done through debate. 

Take Mash as another example.  That show had many very leftist agenda items that they introduced and and started towards normalization through the use of humor.
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Re: Roseanne Barr Quits Twitter Over Racist Tweet
« Reply #57 on: May 29, 2018, 07:40:39 pm »
...that hasn't been used as a racist theme in several decades, although stuff like this might encourage "alt-right" types to try and bring it back.

Really?

Take a trip over to FR or look at memes Stormers constantly make. That trope has never taken a break.


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Re: Roseanne Barr Quits Twitter Over Racist Tweet
« Reply #58 on: May 29, 2018, 07:41:26 pm »
...that hasn't been used as a racist theme in several decades in public by anyone who isn't an idiot, although stuff like this might encourage "alt-right" types to try and bring it back.

Meant to add, they haven't called Jewish people "Heebs" or commented on their hooked noses for a while now either.  That doesn't mean it's okay to start again.

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Re: Roseanne Barr Quits Twitter Over Racist Tweet
« Reply #59 on: May 29, 2018, 07:42:10 pm »
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IMO the whole purpose of her doing the show was to make fun of Conservatives and Trump.   A lot can be accomplished through humor to normalize behaviors and ideas which cannot be done through debate. 

Take Mash as another example.  That show had many very leftist agenda items that they introduced and and started towards normalization through the use of humor.

@driftdiver agree on all the above.  I think that's exactly what Barr was doing with the reboot of her show.  Especially since she was the lone Trump supporter in her house...that was done to try and give the impression that Conservatives and/or Trump supporters are vastly outnumbered even within their own families.

And the cast of MASH freely admitted they disguised a protest of the Vietnam War inside a show about a Korean War hospital.
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Re: Roseanne Barr Quits Twitter Over Racist Tweet
« Reply #60 on: May 29, 2018, 07:46:10 pm »
@driftdiver agree on all the above.  I think that's exactly what Barr was doing with the reboot of her show.  Especially since she was the lone Trump supporter in her house...that was done to try and give the impression that Conservatives and/or Trump supporters are vastly outnumbered even within their own families.

And the cast of MASH freely admitted they disguised a protest of the Vietnam War inside a show about a Korean War hospital.

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Not just the Vietnam war.  Homosexuality was a frequent topic, transgender, promiscuity, adultery, demeaning religion, the military, people not from the north east, communism and socialism.   The list hits pretty much every leftist agenda item.
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Re: Roseanne Barr Quits Twitter Over Racist Tweet
« Reply #61 on: May 29, 2018, 07:54:50 pm »
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So @KeithOlbermann can call @realDonaldTrump a Nazi, psychopathic white supremacist, which are indisputably dumb things to Tweet, & get hired by @espn and @therealroseanne gets fired for her indisputably dumb Tweets. Almost like there’s a double standard at play here.
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Re: Roseanne Barr Quits Twitter Over Racist Tweet
« Reply #62 on: May 29, 2018, 08:14:11 pm »
"Jarrett is from Iran and is African American..."

If she was born in Iran, how can she be an "African American?"


Her communist related parents were working in Iran when she was born.

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Re: Roseanne Barr Quits Twitter Over Racist Tweet
« Reply #63 on: May 29, 2018, 08:18:02 pm »
At least she is consistent in her insults.... In 2013, she called Obama National Security Adviser Susan Rice “a man with big swinging ape balls.”
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Re: Roseanne Barr Quits Twitter Over Racist Tweet
« Reply #64 on: May 29, 2018, 08:50:45 pm »
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Re: Roseanne Barr Quits Twitter Over Racist Tweet
« Reply #65 on: May 29, 2018, 08:54:50 pm »
I hold no brief for Barr, but many liberals routinely call conservatives nazis or fascists.  George Bush II was called The Smirking Chimp as in a lib website by that name.
We'll see what hypocrites libs are when some their own call Trump nasty names.

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Re: Roseanne Barr Quits Twitter Over Racist Tweet
« Reply #66 on: May 29, 2018, 09:16:57 pm »
I hold no brief for Barr, but many liberals routinely call conservatives nazis or fascists.  George Bush II was called The Smirking Chimp as in a lib website by that name.
We'll see what hypocrites libs are when some their own call Trump nasty names.

We already know what hypocrites they are by Alec Baldwin's parody of Trump and the continuing attack on Sarah Sanders.

If Rosanne had attacked one of them or test Cruz or Rand Paul and not Jarrett she'd still have a show and a talent agent and she be praised and congratulated on Social Media.
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Re: BREAKING: ABC cancels 'Roseanne' following tweet on Valerie Jarrett
« Reply #67 on: May 29, 2018, 09:21:08 pm »
@AbaraXas

Thank you.  I've been saying all along the show's reboot and her supposed rebirth as a pro-Trump conservative was one big farce.  It goes along with Trump's reality tv presidency.  Fake. 

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Re: Roseanne Barr Quits Twitter Over Racist Tweet
« Reply #68 on: May 29, 2018, 09:42:23 pm »
Everyone knows I call 'em like I see 'em with Trump.  I give him accolades when deserved and insults when he acts like an idiot.

With that .......   I want to go strongly go on record of saying  this Rosanne Barr event is the ultimate of hypocricy..  What she tweeted is far less (using ABC's language) "Repugnant" than what is trotted out there nightly between 10:30 - midnight against Trump on what loosely may be called the spawn of Johnny Carson's legacy.

The big 3's (ABC,NBC,CBS) effort to drive the country left has gone  far past Norman Lear's subliminal approach.  They have taken the war to a much higher level.  An alternate network is needed now.
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Re: BREAKING: ABC cancels 'Roseanne' following tweet on Valerie Jarrett
« Reply #69 on: May 29, 2018, 10:09:39 pm »
Rosanne never was a Conservative. Her character was a Hollywood parody of what they think Conservatives are (unwashed, dirt poor, racists). She herself, has always been a nasty racist.

She tried to run for president in 2012, as a socialist.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/10/roseanne-barr-dishes-on-why-shes-running-for-president/

She just hopped on the MAGA train as a publicity stunt. (unless she actually think that fits her socialist leanings).
Her actual politics aside for a moment... and yes, anyone who has been following her for the past few years know the only way to accurately describe her belief system inasmuch as such a system even exists is that she is a kook...

Roseanne was one of the highest-rated sitcoms to air in many years. Much of that came from conservatives in middle America, and ABC, home of such shows as Modern Family, is known for nixing shows that are popular with that demographic (see Last Man Standing). Not since the ill-fated Bridget Loves Bernie has such a strong performer in the Nielsens been canned, and that was only because there were threats made against the network. You don't can a show doing that well unless something is seriously damaging (and her stupid comments in the past didn't stop the show from getting picked up) or the network wanted to get rid of the show all along but needed a reason to do so.

This will be spun as a shot against middle America, and it might well have been one. Or it might be a publicity stunt to see how many people call for it to be brought back.
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Re: BREAKING: ABC cancels 'Roseanne' following tweet on Valerie Jarrett
« Reply #70 on: May 29, 2018, 10:13:36 pm »
Who cares. Modern TV comedy is garbage & Roseanne was gonna flip sooner or later anyway.

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Re: BREAKING: ABC cancels 'Roseanne' following tweet on Valerie Jarrett
« Reply #71 on: May 29, 2018, 11:29:25 pm »







Roseanne or Mahar?  Who's the honest comedienne here?   :whistle:
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Re: Roseanne Barr Quits Twitter Over Racist Tweet
« Reply #72 on: May 30, 2018, 12:38:18 am »
Ugh. Now anyone who points out the double standard of leftists - Olbermann, Kimmel, Joy Reid, you name it - getting away unpunished for comments at least as distasteful as Roseann's is being accused of defending her (viz., Twitter). I never watched her old show and had no interest in the new one. I never liked her, period. But I'll be accused of supporting what she said if I dare say the reaction is hypocritical.  **nononono*
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Re: Roseanne Barr Quits Twitter Over Racist Tweet
« Reply #73 on: May 30, 2018, 12:53:18 am »
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Because she used the ape comparison.   Even white liberals cannot use that comparison.
Yep. Can't be badmouyhing Cheetah. I think she owes all those apes an apology.
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Re: Roseanne Barr Quits Twitter Over Racist Tweet
« Reply #74 on: May 30, 2018, 01:06:32 am »

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While what she posted was wrong, I wonder if Roseanne Barr would still be employed if she had said her account was hacked.
That same tactic worked out well for Joy Reid after posting anti-Muslim and homophobic tweets. 🤔
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