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'Roseanne' fans call for Bill Maher to be fired after he joked Trump is part orangutan
FoxNews.com ^ | Mar 30, 2018 | Kathleen Joyce

Posted on 05/30/2018 7:57:18 PM PDT by ETL

“Roseanne” fans have called on HBO to fire “Real Time” host Bill Maher in response to the comedian’s jokes that President Trump was part orangutan.

ABC quickly canceled the successful “Roseanne” reboot Tuesday hours after its star, Roseanne Barr, posted a racist tweet about former President Obama’s aide Valerie Jarrett. The tweet said Jarrett, who is African-American and born in Iran, is like the “Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby.” Barr apologized for the tweet before her show was canceled. The next day, she appeared to blame the prescription pill Ambien for the tweet.

Following ABC's announcement, Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, a right-wing nonprofit group, tweeted, “Wait, Bill Maher makes comparisons to Trump being a gorilla all the time? They get classified as ‘jokes’ by the media and he is of course allowed to keep his show and not have his life ruined. The difference? Bill Maher is a liberal, Roseanne is a free-thinking Trump supporter.”

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To: ETL

61 posted on 05/31/2018 5:45:25 AM PDT by dead
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To: MayflowerMadam

I’m not sure I see that as a useful comparison. Roseanne strikes me as the sort of rudderless character who will change stripes yet again before too long.

(But I should disclose: I saw her original show once or twice, and have never seen the new one.)


62 posted on 05/31/2018 5:47:26 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

One of the best things I’ve seen on domestic abuse was a 2-episode show on “Roseanne” back in the late ‘90s. It was excellent. Also a great one on adults who were abused in childhood.

It wasn’t all silly; they touched on some pithy issues and basically handled situations correctly. The Roseanne character was bossy and brash and seemed to rule the roost, but when things need to be handled, and the family protected, the strong husband/father stepped in to TCB.


63 posted on 05/31/2018 6:18:21 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Have an A-1 day.)
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To: ETL

We don’t know what’s in people’s hearts and heads at any given moment. Anyhow, I’m glad I’m a Christian and comprehend the concept of redemption. Just sayin’...


64 posted on 05/31/2018 6:35:42 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Have an A-1 day.)
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To: jdsteel
The term, African-American, is used to describe anyone descended from African slaves who came to America before the Civil War. Freedmen and house slaves, who were largely the predecessors of the future black upper classes, were more likely to have some white, usually British, ancestry, mainly due to illicit relationships. From the beginning of black society, the African-American elite tended to have some degree of white ancestry. Frederick Douglass had American Indian and European ancestry. Booker T. Washington's father was a white man, ancestry evident in his green eyes. W.E.B DuBois was a mulatto, with English, Dutch, and French ancestry on both sides of his family. For several generations, the upper class among African Americans generally had some degree of white ancestry. The elite clubs and college fraternities that catered to well off blacks exercised the "paper bag test" where admission was granted only to those whose skin tone was lighter than the bag. Actors and actresses in movies that catered to African American audiences (and were among the first crossover actors in mainstream movies) often had markedly European features: Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte.

Valerie Jarrett comes, on both sides of her family, from the black elite. She has a Ashkenazi Jewish great-grandfather, but the rest of her lineage is African American. Her mostly European features likely do not come from the 12.5% of her lineage that is Caucasian, but from mixed race relationships that occurred several generations back.

Her background, unfortunately, allowed her parents, and probably her grandparents, to connect with the white liberal establishment. Like Barack Obama (not a traditional African American, at least if the Barack Obama, Sr., parentage is true), she was a "red diaper baby" exposed to leftism from the start, not much different from Bill Ayers or Bernadine Dohrn.

65 posted on 05/31/2018 6:49:58 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: Wallace T.
...exposed to leftism from the start....

Most everyone is, as it's the dominant culture. One must think to conservatism where, in the increasing gibsmedat mentality, thinkers seem fewer and farther between than ever before.

66 posted on 05/31/2018 7:02:57 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: onedoug
What you state about the dominance of leftism was less prevalent in Valerie Jarrett's late Baby Boomer era childhood and adolescence than today. She was born in the same year (1956) as Michelle Bachmann, raised as a conservative Lutheran in rural Minnesota, Mel Gibson, raised as a traditionalist Catholic in upstate New York and Australia, and Gina Haspel, the new director of the CIA strongly opposed by the Left.

The dominant influence in Valerie Jarrett's life was her leftist (and possibly Communist) parents, who were the African American adjuncts of the leftist networks in academia and the foreign service. In these respects, she was atypical of her generation.

67 posted on 05/31/2018 7:25:53 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: ETL

Getting rid of Maher is only fair.

However, Liberals care nothing for fairness.


68 posted on 05/31/2018 7:28:06 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: TBP

69 posted on 05/31/2018 9:26:59 AM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: TBP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZHF67BIP40


70 posted on 05/31/2018 9:28:55 AM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: ETL

Bill Maher was fired by ABC for supporting the 9/11 terrorists by saying they were brave.

He was then hired by HBO!


71 posted on 05/31/2018 1:42:19 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: ETL

BillMaher has the brains of orangutan crap...


72 posted on 05/31/2018 2:23:24 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: minnesota_bound
Bill Maher was fired by ABC for supporting the 9/11 terrorists by saying they were brave.

| Maher went beyond that. He said our military were cowards because we dropped bombs from 50,000 feet.

-PJ

73 posted on 05/31/2018 2:26:05 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: ETL; Flaming Conservative; Elsie
Wow, and it still makes me sick to realize Cindy Sheehan was absolutely correct about George Bush...

Let's remember, that our problem is not a commie problem, it is a RINO GOPe problem... because whether or not Roseanne supported every nut job leftwing cause in the past two decades, OUR OWN PARTY has surreptitiously supported each and every satanic thing going on in our culture.

RINOs are WORSE than even the reddest commie leftist because they support them while pretending to be conservatives/Christians!

And it is a "conspiracy"... these people actually conspire together to fool the electorate, every election.... which is why it is call the Uniparty!

Like the Bushes! Their grandfather FUNDED the original Planned Parenthood and Bush and Rove funded Planned Parenthood including the harvesting of baby parts SINCE 2000 at least!

Roseanne may be being used by these Uniparty Elites to get out some truth (her tweets about high level pedophilia for example) but this all could be a chessboard move for the Elites...

The Elites needed to find out how popular Roseanne's neo-right wing libertarianism was... and they found out with her TV show! But they needed to bury it after they found out the numbers are still with Roseanne/Trump's brand of anti Establishment views!

Because who would be so stupid as to make a racist comment like this? These Elites do war-games and set out media trial balloons all the time to see what we sucker conservatives actually will believe, while they snicker behind the scenes at the idiocy of it all.

I specifically recall Ted Cruz's snickering, mocking smile when he was caught cheating in Iowa, right after his people screamed down Sarah Palin for her Trump endorsement, a while after he was photographed on a roller coaster with a campaign aide, flashing that weird elite gang sign or satanic hand signal for "help" in the photo. (Like his former boss, W, Cruz is no Christian, and similarly he probably believes "Muslims and Christians believe in the same God!).

This is all some Elite MSM Hegelian kabuki dance.

The litmus test is Christ, and I recall Roseanne saying “Hail Satan” at some point, and she was not joking.

(Again, someone correct me if I’m wrong)

74 posted on 05/31/2018 2:41:39 PM PDT by Sontagged (TY Lord Jesus for being the Way, the Truth & the Life. Have mercy on those trapped in the Snake Pit!)
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To: Sontagged
Wow, and it still makes me sick to realize Cindy Sheehan was absolutely correct about George Bush...

No huge fan of GW, but I didnt bother to read what you wrote after that first line. Couldn't imagine it being rational either. Commie Sheehan said she admired leftist dictator Hugo Chavez for standing up to the US. And that GW was a terrorist. And you say she was absolutely correct?

75 posted on 05/31/2018 3:21:30 PM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: Sontagged

Which reminds me...Oklahoma’s primary is in a few weeks. Dan Fisher is running for governor. He’s for nationwide constitutional carry, outlaw abortion, medical marijuana, and a whole bunch of other good things. Endorsed by Scott Pruitt. Used to be a Baptist preacher before politics. The other candidates are a mixed bag. And for U.S. House, incumbent Mark Wayne Mullin, while conservative, is a liar. When he entered congress, he vowed to run 2 terms and OUT. Now, he’s running for a third, because “the Lord told me to”. UH UH! God told you to LIE? I don’t think so. I like Jarren Jackson. Super conservative, NO SHARIA EVER, and a bunch of other good stuff. Or should I just say, “please research before voting”.?


76 posted on 05/31/2018 3:31:45 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: ETL

Ummm... I’ll answer and read the rest of your post if you read the rest of mine.


77 posted on 06/01/2018 12:08:47 AM PDT by Sontagged (TY Lord Jesus for being the Way, the Truth & the Life. Have mercy on those trapped in the Snake Pit!)
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To: Sontagged

It was the communist organizions she was/is affiliated with who created the slogan “Bush Lied, Who Died”. Of course their comrades in the left-wing snooze media then ran with it. Meanwhile, every single senator had access to the same Intel and agreed Saddam needed to be removed, many regardless of whether he actually had nukes. Evidence of WMDs was indeed later discovered.


78 posted on 06/01/2018 3:29:01 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: Jack Hammer
Getting rid of Maher is only fair.

Just wait.

It took a bit of time until the SEXUAL HARASSMENT!!! witch hunt tsunamied over Matt Laure

79 posted on 06/01/2018 4:17:20 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: ETL

What alternate universe are you from? Even Colin Powell admitted there were no WMDs...

LOL. Bush lied for the same reason Hillary voted for Iraq. Read Chirac’s memoirs for why Bush told him they needed to invade Iraq.


80 posted on 06/01/2018 8:49:17 AM PDT by Sontagged (TY Lord Jesus for being the Way, the Truth & the Life. Have mercy on those trapped in the Snake Pit!)
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