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BREAKING: ABC cancels 'Roseanne' following tweet on Valerie Jarrett
« on: May 29, 2018, 05:41:55 pm »
LOL.   Hypocrisy at it's finest.  Sykes is a huge rassist. CYA

Wanda Sykes says she’s parting ways with the “Roseanne” revival after star Roseanne Barr made a racially-charged joke about Valerie Jarrett on Twitter Tuesday.

“I will not be returning to @RoseanneOnABC,” the consulting producer on the ABC comedy tweeted, not long after Barr wrote on the social media platform that if the Muslim Brotherhood and the “Planet of the Apes” “had a baby,” it would be Jarrett.

Jarrett, who is African American with no ties to the Sunni Muslim organization, was a longtime senior advisor to the Obama White House, and was constantly the subject of criticism by the right-wing.

https://www.thewrap.com/wanda-sykes-says-will-not-returning-roseanne-planet-apes-valerie-jarrett-tweet/ 
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Re: BREAKING: ABC cancels 'Roseanne' following tweet on Valerie Jarrett
« Reply #1 on: May 29, 2018, 05:53:25 pm »
ABC cancels show

ABC says it’s cancelling “Roseanne” following an “abhorrent” tweet from the show’s star.

ABC Entertainment President Channing Dungey announced Tuesday: “Roseanne's Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show.”

The decision came hours after star Roseanne Barr drew sharp condemnation for a tweet on former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, whom she compared to a child of "The Planet of the Apes" and the Muslim Brotherhood.

http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/389725-abc-cancels-roseanne
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Re: BREAKING: ABC cancels 'Roseanne' following tweet on Valerie Jarrett
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Re: BREAKING: ABC cancels 'Roseanne' following tweet on Valerie Jarrett
« Reply #3 on: May 29, 2018, 05:55:23 pm »
ABC says it’s cancelling “Roseanne” following an “abhorrent” tweet from the show’s star.

ABC Entertainment President Channing Dungey announced Tuesday: “Roseanne's Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show.”

The decision came hours after star Roseanne Barr drew sharp condemnation for a tweet on former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, whom she compared to a child of "The Planet of the Apes" and the Muslim Brotherhood.

http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/389725-abc-cancels-roseanne
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Roseanne Barr Quits Twitter Over Racist Tweet
« Reply #4 on: May 29, 2018, 05:55:44 pm »
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Roseanne Barr is like that racist aunt that you keep “forgetting” to invite to Thanksgiving dinner, but who shows up anyway and manages to top herself every time. No matter how often the sitcom star is checked by people on Twitter, she continues to tweet racist conspiracy theories and write them off as “free speech” and “jokes.”
This weekend, Roseanne took it too far, though (although let’s be real, she has consistently been taking it too far.) She tweeted that former Obama White House advisor Valerie Jarrett was what you would get if the Muslim Brotherhood and the Planet of the Apes film had a baby. Jarrett is from Iran and is African American–the intent of the disgusting tweet is clear. ....

http://www.vh1.com/news/359971/roseanne-barr-leaves-twitter-racist-tweets/

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Re: Roseanne Barr Quits Twitter Over Racist Tweet
« Reply #5 on: May 29, 2018, 05:56:41 pm »
‘Roseanne’ Canceled by ABC After Roseanne Barr’s ‘Repugnant’ Comments, Network President Says


https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/roseanne-canceled-abc-roseanne-barr-repugnant-comments-network-174759145.html
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Re: BREAKING: ABC cancels 'Roseanne' following tweet on Valerie Jarrett
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ABC announced on Tuesday that it would cancel the sitcom "Roseanne" following the star's "abhorrent" comments about former Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett.
"Roseanne's Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show," Channing Dungey, president of ABC Entertainment, said in a statement Tuesday....

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/29/abc-cancels-roseanne-barrs-sitcom-after-her-tweet-about-black-obama-aide-valerie-jarrett.html


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Re: Roseanne Barr Quits Twitter Over Racist Tweet
« Reply #7 on: May 29, 2018, 05:59:03 pm »
Oh well.  Anotherone bites the dust.
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Re: BREAKING: ABC cancels 'Roseanne' following tweet on Valerie Jarrett
« Reply #9 on: May 29, 2018, 06:00:28 pm »
The true Obama legacy. 
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Re: Roseanne Barr Quits Twitter Over Racist Tweet
« Reply #11 on: May 29, 2018, 06:01:01 pm »
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‘Roseanne’ Canceled by ABC After Roseanne Barr’s ‘Repugnant’ Comments, Network President Says


https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/roseanne-canceled-abc-roseanne-barr-repugnant-comments-network-174759145.html

People people people! Only if you are Joy Reid can you expect to make comments like that and keep your show! Some pigs are more equal!
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Re: Roseanne Barr Quits Twitter Over Racist Tweet
« Reply #12 on: May 29, 2018, 06:02:34 pm »
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People people people! Only if you are Joy Reid can you expect to make comments like that and keep your show! Some pigs are more equal!

Or that black rassist women from ESPN.  But they eventually fired her...
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Re: BREAKING: ABC cancels 'Roseanne' following tweet on Valerie Jarrett
« Reply #13 on: May 29, 2018, 06:03:37 pm »
Well, too bad the WB or UPN network isn’t still around.
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Re: Roseanne Barr Quits Twitter Over Racist Tweet
« Reply #14 on: May 29, 2018, 06:05:55 pm »
What a shame!  She 'tweets' some truth and immediately her show is dumped!  Yet it's ok if Hollywood speaks out against Trump at one of their award shows or SNL or another talk show mocks or speaks out against the Trumps!  Liberal double standard at its best.
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Re: Roseanne Barr Quits Twitter Over Racist Tweet
« Reply #15 on: May 29, 2018, 06:09:49 pm »
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What a shame!  She 'tweets' some truth and immediately her show is dumped!  Yet it's ok if Hollywood speaks out against Trump at one of their award shows or SNL or another talk show mocks or speaks out against the Trumps!  Liberal double standard at its best.

She 'tweets some truth'?  As in calling an African American an ape? 

Sheesh.. we are getting infested with freeper thought.

I warned everyone not to tie your cart to this horse. She has always been a nasty racist, truther, disgustoid. Just because she claims to like someone you like doesn't change her spots.
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Re: Roseanne Barr Quits Twitter Over Racist Tweet
« Reply #16 on: May 29, 2018, 06:13:19 pm »
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She 'tweets some truth'?  As in calling an African American an ape? 

Sheesh.. we are getting infested with freeper thought.

I warned everyone not to tie your cart to this horse. She has always been a nasty racist, truther, disgustoid. Just because she claims to like someone you like doesn't change her spots.

Take your warning, and shove it.
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Re: Roseanne Barr Quits Twitter Over Racist Tweet
« Reply #17 on: May 29, 2018, 06:14:09 pm »
At least we don't have to worry about her running for President now.
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Re: Roseanne Barr Quits Twitter Over Racist Tweet
« Reply #18 on: May 29, 2018, 06:17:36 pm »
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At least we don't have to worry about her running for President now.

Where'd you get that crazy idea?!

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Re: Roseanne Barr Quits Twitter Over Racist Tweet
« Reply #19 on: May 29, 2018, 06:17:42 pm »
"Jarrett is from Iran and is African American..."

If she was born in Iran, how can she be an "African American?" 
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« Reply #20 on: May 29, 2018, 06:20:31 pm »
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"Jarrett is from Iran and is African American..."

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

Because she's a Person of Color. All Persons of Color are African American when it's politically expedient, and when you can use it to get free drinks during happy hour in Portland bars.
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Where'd you get that crazy idea?!

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Because she used the ape comparison.   Even white liberals cannot use that comparison.
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« Reply #22 on: May 29, 2018, 06:28:05 pm »
Quote from: Free Vulcan on May 29, 2018, 06:20:31 pm
Because she's a Person of Color. All Persons of Color are African American when it's politically expedient, and when you can use it to get free drinks during happy hour in Portland bars.


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« Reply #23 on: May 29, 2018, 06:29:36 pm »
It is racist to compare anyone to an ape.



(Unless that person happens to be a Republican)
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Re: BREAKING: ABC cancels 'Roseanne' following tweet on Valerie Jarrett
« Reply #24 on: May 29, 2018, 06:33:09 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on May 29, 2018, 05:55:02 pm
It was just a matter of time.

I bet Netflix will pick it up! /s

Fox might pick it up.  I hate sitcoms but this Roseanne revival was actually pretty good.  ABC has very few good shows.
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