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'Roseanne' shows what the media got wrong about Trump voters
Yahoo! News ^ | May 31, 2018 | Matt Bai

Posted on 06/03/2018 11:33:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

It took only a few hours for ABC and just about everyone else who was in business with Roseanne Barr to cut all ties to the comedian, saying they were shocked and outraged by her hateful tweeting. This had to be more laughable than any of the gags on her resurgent sitcom.

After all, Barr has never been anything other than what she is now: a talented and addled provocateur who will say or do almost any outrageous thing — butcher the national anthem, mock the Holocaust, run for president or prime minister of Israel — just to get people talking about her.

Sound like anyone else you might have seen on TV at any hour of the day or night?

And that, of course, was the point of bringing Roseanne’s irreverent sense of humor back to network TV. She was supposed to draw in all the same people who love President Trump, who resent all the elite consensus and political correctness and multiculturalism, and who just want someone — pardon the terminology here — to piss off all us snowflakes who watch “Silicon Valley” instead.

But then Roseanne flamed out all at once, publicly comparing a black confidante of President Obama’s to an ape (and a radical Muslim one at that).

Why? As the late New York City Mayor Ed Koch once shouted at me from a hospital bed, when I asked him to explain Rudy Giuliani’s apparent meanness: Why does the scorpion sting? It’s in his nature!(continued)

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TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: donaldtrump; hollywood; roseanne; roseannebarr; roseannecanceled; television; trump; whites
Which explains why Matt Bai doesn't have a regular job anymore.
1 posted on 06/03/2018 11:33:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trump\Barr 2020

>jk


2 posted on 06/04/2018 2:25:42 AM PDT by Bullish (government=overfunded stupidity.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“comparing a black confidante of President Obama’s to an ape (and a radical Muslim one at that)”

Wait, she’s black?

3 posted on 06/04/2018 2:31:21 AM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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To: ReaganGeneration2

“Wait, she’s black? “


Roseanne said she didn’t know Jarrett is black, she just found Jarrett looks like the gal in the Planet of The Apes. So all the fuss is just manufactured outrage by the left’s grievance industry. No surprise here.


4 posted on 06/04/2018 2:56:37 AM PDT by miniTAX (au)
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To: miniTAX

Rosanne has proven what Leftists now believe:

* Leftist yesterday: whites unconsciously discriminate based on the skin color they see
* Leftist next day: it doesn’t matter what skin color that whites see; if someone has black DNA, they discriminate


5 posted on 06/04/2018 3:08:14 AM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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To: miniTAX

“Roseanne said she didn’t know Jarrett is black,”

Not many people did; I didn’t. Someone said VJ said on her own website that she’s “Persian”. (She is too embarrassed to say she’s Iranian, I guess,)

By now, I expect her site has been edited to say she’s black. It helps their narrative in the Roseanne situation.


6 posted on 06/04/2018 3:27:47 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Have an A-1 day.)
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To: miniTAX

Anyone truly engaged with the media/entertainment
left in America today knew they would try to smear
Roseanne ASAP. That she would have been ruined
so quickly for being her kooky self was a bit of a surprise.
However, her show was so popular, they had to take it down quickly
And, so, they did and everyone, including Foxnews,
joined in her pseudo assassination because of the
nature of her joke. This was stunning, considering the crude statements
coming from just Jimmy Kimmel, The View, and
Samantha Bee on a regular basis. And, they call
Conservatives Nazi’s?


7 posted on 06/04/2018 3:28:28 AM PDT by jazzlite (i)
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To: MayflowerMadam

“By now, I expect her site has been edited to say she’s black. “


lol, on her Obama White House ***archive*** page, https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/senior-leadership/valerie-jarrett
there are 10 words “white” and not a single word “black”. You couldn’t make that stuff up. Oh yes, leftists do.


8 posted on 06/04/2018 4:22:49 AM PDT by miniTAX (au)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So let’s just do a quick review….

- Jarrett was born in Iran.
- Her maiden name was Bowman…. sounds like Mennonite background?
- There is no one who would ever guess that she was ‘black’ even at more than a casual glance. In fact, the tone of her skin in many pictures appears to be whiter than what most people considered ‘white’….
- Most people who have known about her were introduced at the same time as they started hearing about Obama. At no time was there ever mention about her being AA.
- Neither ‘Planet of the Apes’ or ‘Muslim Brotherhood’ are considered to be ‘races’….
- Jarrett does indeed have a resemblance of facial features to the chick ape on Planet of the Apes.

Therefore, Roseanne is a racist? Hmmmm…..


9 posted on 06/04/2018 5:28:48 AM PDT by hecticskeptic
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
These voters don’t think much about an economic future; they want a time machine that will take them back to an orderly America ruled by white dudes, where you could say whatever you wanted without being labeled a bigot or a sexist, where you didn’t have to worry about gay rights and women’s rights, and where black guys getting dragged out of a coffee shop for no reason was called Wednesday.

Once again this shows that Matt Bai is both bigoted and clueless.

Bai is working from a leftist playbook and narrative that is as ugly as it is wrong.

To Bai, the left is the home of 'enlightenment' and 'tolerance' while the right is the home of 'racism', 'misogyny', 'homophobia', 'intolerance', 'hatred', and 'insert your slur here'.

He has it exactly backwards.

10 posted on 06/04/2018 6:35:52 AM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: ReaganGeneration2

They can call anyone black now in order to make Republicans or conservatives (or whatever Roseanne is) appear racist. They invent the rules as they go.


11 posted on 06/04/2018 1:42:25 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It doesn’t take much to get exiled to the Smoky Backroom, does it?


12 posted on 06/05/2018 8:40:13 PM PDT by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: sparklite2

IIRC I put it there.


13 posted on 06/05/2018 8:41:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why? Smoky Backroom gets little traffic.


14 posted on 06/05/2018 9:14:33 PM PDT by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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