The Handwriting Was on the Wall for a Long Time With Roseanne Barr

[240B]

Townhall
S. E. Cupp
Posted: May 30, 2018 1:30 PM

As the acclaimed poet Maya Angelou once said, "When someone shows you who they are, believe them -- the first time."

That wise adage hasn't made its way to television executives, apparently, who can't help hiring -- and rehiring -- some of the industry's worst known repeat offenders.

ABC, which rebooted the one-time hit comedy "Roseanne" this year as a paean to Trump's America, just canceled the ratings juggernaut after a wave of racist tweets by controversial comic Roseanne Barr went viral.

In the tweets, Barr suggested Chelsea Clinton was related to the liberal billionaire activist George Soros -- she isn't -- and then called Soros a "nazi." Worse, she said of former Obama administration adviser Valerie Jarrett: "Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj."

That Barr has gone ahead on Twitter and revealed herself to be an unhinged, mouth-breathing, racist conspiracy monger isn't the strange part -- it's that she's revealed herself again.

ABC falsely believed they hired Roseanne the Character -- a blue collar, everywoman who was sharp-tongued but fun-loving and, yes, a Trump supporter.

But what they got was Roseanne the Person, who is, to put it politely, a nutjob.

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[jmyrlefuller]

With a world teeming with fresh new talent, it seems wholly unnecessary to keep going back to the same, polluted wells that reliably end up stinking up the joint.

You would think that, but reality is that people keep coming back to Roseanne and Olbermann because they are brands that people recognize. It takes many years of paying dues to build personality brands as more and more people recognize a name.

[corbe]

   Thanks for posting this @240B Cupp always makes me laugh.

[240B]

   Thanks for posting this @240B Cupp always makes me laugh.

@corbe
Agree. It made me laugh too. Mostly because it is so accurate. Everybody should have known what could happen by hitching up with her. It is not like it was a secret.

[EasyAce]

You would think that, but reality is that people keep coming back to Roseanne and Olbermann because they are brands that people recognize. It takes many years of paying dues to build personality brands as more and more people recognize a name.

@jmyrlefuller
If there's one positive thing about Keith Olbermann, it's that the man has an absolute genius for getting himself fired within a very short time of getting himself hired, re-hired, re-re-hired, and so forth. He may yet set a record for being fired, re-hired, and re-hired at least as often as Zsa Zsa Gabor got married, divorced, and re-married, and re-divorced, and so forth.

[EasyAce]

@corbe
Agree. It made me laugh too. Mostly because it is so accurate. Everybody should have known what could happen by hitching up with her. It is not like it was a secret.

ABC had to know it was riding a sabertooth when bringing her back. Give them credit: they dismounted before she could swallow them whole.