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ABC cancels 'Roseanne' after star's racist Twitter rant
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Posted on 05/29/2018 11:23:05 AM PDT by blu

ABC canceled its hit sitcom "Roseanne" on Tuesday after the show's biggest star, Roseanne Barr, went on a racist Twitter rant.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2; abc; lastmanstanding; roseanne; roseannebarr; roseannecanceled; roseannecancelled; roseannetweet; twitter; valjar
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To: blu

There are a lot of thin skins out there, unless the barbs are leveled at people on the right.

And boy do they level them against the right.


21 posted on 05/29/2018 11:28:29 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: blu

Pretext.

She said what everybody thinks.

VJ is a freaky looking space alien.


22 posted on 05/29/2018 11:28:30 AM PDT by Para-Ord.45 (Americans, happy in tutelage by the reflection that they have chosen their own dictators.)
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To: BBell

Amen to that.


23 posted on 05/29/2018 11:29:04 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: blu
Remember Folks......
VJ IS MOOSLIME!

Meaning Muzzie get to use victim card!


24 posted on 05/29/2018 11:29:27 AM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: blu

She’s being treated as worse than Hitler.
VJ is a terrible person and is no doubt actively helping in running the coup against Trump.
I would bet the Obamas have a hand in the speed of this whole thing.


25 posted on 05/29/2018 11:29:35 AM PDT by GnuThere
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To: blu

Free speech is ONLY allowed if you are a Commie that is the bottom line, Bill Maher, Kathy Griffin, Michelle Wolf, Jimmy Kimmel, etc etc they are allowed to say the most DISGUSTING things about Conservatives and they get away with it. Keith Olbermann called ALL Trump supporters NAZI’S and ABC just hired him..so there ya go


26 posted on 05/29/2018 11:29:40 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: blu

Just more left-wing censorship they are known for.

Censorship and book-burning are the hallmarks of liberalism.


27 posted on 05/29/2018 11:29:44 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: blu

I can’t for the life of me understnd how the woman could make such an insulting rekark about the planet ofthe apes


28 posted on 05/29/2018 11:30:01 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Greetings Jacques. The revolution is coming))
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To: gr8eman

I don’t think she’s that dumb, either. Either she was impaired, or something else is at work.


29 posted on 05/29/2018 11:30:22 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: blu

If Roseanne Barr had said the exact same thing about Ben Carson that she said about Valerie Jarrett, not only would her show still be on the air, it would have been renewed for another two seasons already — and every “woke” “progressive” would be fervently defending her. No question about it.


30 posted on 05/29/2018 11:31:54 AM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: Old Yeller

[They were just looking for an excuse.]

I believe you are 100% correct.

Wasn’t ‘Last Man Standing’ ABC? (correct me if I’m wrong)

They cancelled because “comedy wasn’t for Friday nights” or some such lie.

Understand it’s been picked up by Fox for a 7th season.


31 posted on 05/29/2018 11:32:54 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: TBP

Not only that, she would have been given a Netflix show in order to allow her to repeat what she said about Carson again and again.


32 posted on 05/29/2018 11:32:57 AM PDT by jyo19
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To: blu

These “Twitter monitors” are like vultures perched on a limb over an open-air abattoir. They must spend all of their waking hours scanning the tweets of people in the news, just to try and find *something* to bitch about, or to report on the news.

I signed up for Twitter, used it for about a week, and I haven’t been back in weeks. All of the Trump tweets are featured in other stories everyday, anyway, and he’s about the only one I would care to follow on there.

Once you become a celebrity, or, if you ARE a celebrity, STAY THE HELL OFF TWITTER. It will take over your life, and probably ruin you. If you work somewhere, it might get you fired, if you’re applying for a job and have tweeted the wrong thing, you probably won’t get hired.

I guess it would be wise to just stay off social media altogether.


33 posted on 05/29/2018 11:33:07 AM PDT by FrankR (If it wasn't for stupid ideas, the left would have no ideas at all.)
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To: blu

The only program I’ve watched on ABC is “Agents of Shield.” I record all programs, but won’t be recording it next season. I’ll view it another way.


34 posted on 05/29/2018 11:33:13 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: jyo19

Or Justice Thomas, whom they hate about as much.


35 posted on 05/29/2018 11:34:15 AM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: blu

Hard to believe she didn’t know what the reaction would be to joking that a black woman is a descendant of apes.


36 posted on 05/29/2018 11:34:20 AM PDT by The people have spoken (Proud member of Hillary's basket of deplorables)
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To: mewzilla
Freedom of speech deals with the government, not your employers/business partners.

I disagree when the vehicle for "speech" is the government licensed airwave system.

ABC owes most of it's wealth and power to the government license monopoly it had for it's channels.

Till anyone can get on the air using the same channels, it is in the interest of our system of governance to require them to adhere to the same protections for freedom of speech we require of the government.

37 posted on 05/29/2018 11:35:01 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: blu

I didn’t realize “The Planet of the Apes” were a “race”. Interesting.

That being said...ABC doesn’t need to have an excuse to stop the show. She provided them a great reason to do it, though, and it has nothing to do with free speech. As Rush has been stating today regarding the NFL...you don’t have free speech with your employer.


38 posted on 05/29/2018 11:35:02 AM PDT by woweeitsme
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To: blu

Channing Dungey is the gentile face of Goldston, who also canceled “Last Man Standing.

I’m seeing a pattern here.


39 posted on 05/29/2018 11:35:13 AM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES-GOD WITH US)
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To: blu

She should have stuck to issues. But she made it personal...which I admit is sometimes difficult to avoid, but is more for the DU crowd, really.


40 posted on 05/29/2018 11:37:39 AM PDT by onedoug
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