Posted on 05/29/2018 11:48:22 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
"Roseanne's Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show," ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey said Tuesday.
ABC, in a stunning move, has decided to cancel its Roseanne revival following star Roseanne Barr's racist tweet Tuesday. "Roseanne's Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show," ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey said Tuesday.
Early Tuesday, star, head writer and exec producer Barr attacked Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to former President Barack Obama, in a since-deleted tweet in which she said "Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj." Barr subsequently apologized: "I apologize to Valerie Jarrett and to all Americans. I am truly sorry for making a bad joke about her politics and her looks. I should have known better. Forgive me — my joke was in bad taste."
Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger also weighed in on the decision to cancel Roseanne: "There was only one thing to do here, and that was the right thing," he tweeted.
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Barr's tweet prompted a massive outcry across social media, with thousands condeming the actress-comedian's comments and calling on ABC to cancel her series. The Disney-owned network's decision to cancel the comedy marked the first time the network has taken action in response to one of Barr's controversial tweets.
Axing the Roseanne revival was no small decision for ABC.
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I wish comedian Rosanne had said, “The Russians hacked my Twitter account.”
WOW.
Best post of the day and it never occurred to me.
You know what.
SOME OTHER STATION WILL PICK IT UP!!
$$$ still speaks louder than politics.
She apologized, the new network will say, and they will throw in racial sensitivity training.
Plus all of a sudden Roseanne is a “conservative”
She shares few views with us here and is ultra pro abortion and a 9/11 conspiracy theorist.
At least she is right on some things and likes Trump. Can’t be all bad.
But she ain’t one of us.
Yes, they do. And had they done so, they would undoubtedly have faced less criticism.
When they give a reason that insults our intelligence, that's rude. They deserve all the flack they get.
Waiting for the gif to come about. Like the Chelsea-Webb gif....
lololol too funny
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/221855/valerie-jarretts-influence-obama-jamie-glazov
Valerie’s maternal grandparents were Robert Rochon Taylor and Dorothy Taylor. Robert was the first African-American head of the Chicago Housing Authority. Dorothy, a native of Berkeley, was active in early Planned Parenthood. That’s ironic, given Margaret Sanger’s “Negro Project,” her 1926 speech to a KKK rally in Silverlake, New Jersey, and her championing of racial-eugenics. Then again, Sanger’s penchant for “race improvement” has never halted liberals’ veneration of her.
Frank Marshal Davis, in Chicago, worked for one of the most egregious communist fronts in the history of this country: the American Peace Mobilization. Congress called the American Peace Mobilization “one of the most notorious and blatantly communist fronts ever organized in this country” and “one of the most seditious organizations which ever operated in the United States.” The group’s objective was to stop the United States from entering the war against Hitler—again, because Hitler and Stalin were allies. American communists were allows loyal Soviet patriots. They literally swore allegiance to the USSR and its line.
Jarrett’s grandfather, Robert Taylor, was involved with the American Peace Mobilization, as was Frank Marshall Davis.
Taylor also served with Davis on another communist front, the Chicago Civil Liberties Committee, whose members masqueraded as civil-rights crusading “progressives.” The two served on the board together.
Both Taylor (Jarrett’s grandfather) and Frank Marshall Davis—who would one day meet and become a mentor to a young Barack Obama in Hawaii in the 1970s—would have often encountered another politically active Chicagoan, Vernon Jarrett. In fact, Vernon Jarrett and Frank Marshall Davis worked together on the very small publicity team (a handful of people) of the communist-controlled Packinghouse Workers Union.
So, to sum up, Obama’s mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, worked with the literal relatives of Valerie Jarrett—her grandfather and future father-in-law—in Chicago’s Communist Party circles in the 1940s.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2418
one need only compare the utter vile profanity from “The View” compared to Rosanne’s tweet on her personal account to know that consequences are not equally applied.
>> The liberals who run ABC
who run Disney...
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It’s Disney!!! ;)
Will they finish airing this season? I have my DVR set to record each episode and I wouldn’t want to have to sue ABC for taking away my perceived safe space.
she was born in Iran to American parents...
No they pulled tonight’s episode and then the insanity followed in that Hulu and every place carrying reruns of that show pulled all the reruns and of the old show also.
Mass Hysteria and insanity has occurred. I feel sorry for those cast members that might depend on the residuals from that show to live. Did the Damn Liberals and PC crowd even think of that? No their just collateral damage so they can keep up appearances.
No, she’s not..just born in Iran to American parents..
“There is a fairly sad history of racists referring to black people as monkeys, apes, etc...”
Within the last 50 years?
FWIW, my Mom always called us kids “monkeys” - and we’re white. Although I am darker in skin color than VJ...
But still, what about Maher?
In 2013: “To determine whether he is in fact the love child of a human woman and an orangatan from the Brooklyn zoo,” Maher said. “Look, I’m not saying your mother was repeatedly ****ing an orangutan back in the 1940’s, I don’t know if that’s true I hope it’s not true. But given your face, your physique and your intelligence level and of course your hair, the American people deserve some real proof that your mother did not spend most nights in 1945 covering her body in banana oil sneaking into the monkey cage and compulsively humping an orange orangutan.”
Why is THAT acceptable, but saying someone looks like a cross between Muslim Brotherhood and the Planet of the Apes is not? Why is one “humor” and the other cause to have all trace of you removed from the planet?
And if she had said the same about Clarence Thomas, would anyone of the Left care?
Just saw this on Facebook:
Call ABC. I did. 800-230-0229. 1, 1, 2, 2, 767 for the Roseanne show. Says you have 30 seconds to leave a message but only about 10 seconds really... so talk fast! Call and tell them you want “The View” gone if Roseanne has to go.
Thanks. I hope their voicemail box gets overloaded!!
This is how it starts.
If something isn’t done we will be as Orwellian as the UK before we know it.
They usually have some interesting stuff on the Smithsonian Channel such as Aerial America to watch. There’s a few other shows on there that are pretty good too.
https://www.smithsonianchannel.com/shows
Bookmark
nope...per her bio on wikipedia..
Jarrett was born in Shiraz, Iran,[1] during the Pahlavi dynasty, to American parents James E. Bowman and Barbara T. Bowman.
Now we see the violence inherent in the system!
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