Roseanne Barr off the air

[Bob001]

Roseanne Barr calls Valerie Jarrett an ape, loses show.
http://money.cnn.com/2018/05/29/media/roseanne-twitter-chelsea-clinton/index.html

 

[LTC8K6]

Good riddance...

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/may/29/roseanne-barr-tweet-valerie-jarrett-ape

 

[Cain]

I'm sure Trump supporters will cry that the network was "looking for an excuse." As if advertisers and executives wouldn't come under fire. This was a business decision.

 

[LTC8K6]

I'm sure Trump supporters will cry that the network was "looking for an excuse." As if advertisers and executives wouldn't come under fire. This was a business decision.

Have to stretch awful far, imo.

Roseanne shot her own show directly in the forehead with a .44 Magnum round.

 

[pgwenthold]

Roseanne has also vowed to quit Twitter.

A better suggestion would be for her to quit being racist.

But yeah, blame Twitter for it.

 

[Stacko]

I'm sure Trump supporters will cry that the network was "looking for an excuse." As if advertisers and executives wouldn't come under fire. This was a business decision.

Junior was retweeting her conspiracy mongering.

 

[nelsondogg]

I'm sure Trump supporters will cry that the network was "looking for an excuse." As if advertisers and executives wouldn't come under fire. This was a business decision.

From what I've seen around the interwebs they are saying "but Jarrett does look like an ape"

 

[applecorped]

And ABC will keep all of that tainted racist money that advertisers paid. And those companies that advertised on her show will probably all make large donations to assuage their guilt.

 

[lionking]

Good riddance. She was neither funny nor relevant anyway.

 

[applecorped]

 

[Babbylonian]

And ABC will keep all of that tainted racist money that advertisers paid. And those companies that advertised on her show will probably all make large donations to assuage their guilt.

And bigoted right wing nuts will search desperately for ways to attack ABC over this.

 

[theprestige]

Why was Barr having an Internet slapfight with Jarrett in the first place?

Also, am I the only one wondering what an ideological marriage between the Muslim Brotherhood and the Planet of the Apes would look like?

 

[Stacko]

ABC wanted to showcase the average Trump voter. It seems like they got what they wanted.

 

[theprestige]

And bigoted right wing nuts will search desperately for ways to attack ABC over this.

As far as I can tell, ABC did nothing wrong, neither in producing the show, nor in canceling it, nor in selling advertising slots in between.

 

[Strawberry]

No loss. She's always been a wagon, even before her current Trumpista incarnation.

 

[Babbylonian]

Why was Barr having an Internet slapfight with Jarrett in the first place?

I don't know. Why was she having one with Chelsea Clinton? Why was she repeating classic right wing CT lies about George Soros? Why does any right wing nut repeat any of the nonsense they do?

 

[Jono]

From what I've seen around the interwebs they are saying "but Jarrett does look like an ape"

But but… George Soros worked with Hitler!!!

 

[Bob001]

Have to stretch awful far, imo.

Roseanne shot her own show directly in the forehead with a .44 Magnum round.

The thing is that her mindless idiocy has cost hundreds of people -- actors, technicians, administrators -- their jobs overnight in an industry where finding another one won't be so easy. She obviously thought that in the age of Trump -- who has praised her effusively -- blatant racism would carry no consequences.

 

[LTC8K6]

The thing is that her mindless idiocy has cost hundreds of people -- actors, technicians, administrators -- their jobs overnight in an industry where finding another one won't be so easy. She obviously thought that in the age of Trump -- who has praised her effusively -- blatant racism would carry no consequences.

I think she was tipsy and the real Roseanne leaked out...

She killed it so dead that other networks won't even think about picking it up.

 

[ponderingturtle]

The thing is that her mindless idiocy has cost hundreds of people -- actors, technicians, administrators -- their jobs overnight in an industry where finding another one won't be so easy. She obviously thought that in the age of Trump -- who has praised her effusively -- blatant racism would carry no consequences.

It won't when she goes into politics. I see a senate seat in her future.