Posted on 05/30/2018 8:21:44 PM PDT by Kaslin
Folks, let’s be honest about a couple of things. One, how is the cancellation of a television show a presidential-level subject of conversation? Second, but now that it is; does watching Roseanne make me a bigot? The 2018 reboot of the show that garnered critical acclaim for its portrayal of a struggling working class family in the Rust Belt of America got off to solid ratings. It had been renewed for a second season—and liberal America was again perplexed. How could this happen? How could a sitcom about people we consider inferior in everyday do well? Who cares about them? And that’s the point: the Left’s hatred for anyone who isn’t like them goes beyond politics—they genuinely hate Middle America. That pent up rage is now spilling all over the airwaves after star Roseanne Barr tweeted horrible and racist remarks aimed at former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett. The show was cancelled within hours. So, there is definitely a bit of schadenfreude going on here—a “see, you people really are terrible” lecture from the most insufferable, condescending bastions of the country. A tortuous analysis of how country bumpkins, not MS-13, are the cancer of America. That is your everyday liberal.
I’m not defending Roseanne. Comparing Jarrett to Planet of the Apes was terrible—and her show’s cancellation was not an unexpected consequence over fallouts from stuff like this. I’ve never watched Roseanne, but I do appreciate shows that show this slice of America. They’re popular. Last Man Standing and The Middle are a couple more shows showcasing life in rural America. Barr has been…off in terms of her views for a bit. This time she crossed the line. Now, to say Roseanne is the encapsulation of every Trump voter is pure unadulterated crap.
Roseanne’s network wanted to showcase the average Trump voter. And that’s exactly what they got.— Molly Knight (@molly_knight) May 29, 2018
Molly Knight, who has written for The New York Timesmagazine and ESPN, tweeted, “Roseanne’s network wanted to showcase the average Trump voter. And that’s exactly what they got.”
Culture writer Michaela Angela Davis was a guest commentator on CNN, where she flat out said all Trump voters are racist (via Free Beacon):
Tens of millions of people voted for him after he showed his cards for years," Davis added.
"Are you suggesting that they're racist?" Berman asked of those who voted for Trump.
"Absolutely, yes. Yes," Davis said.
"All of the people that voted for Donald Trump are racist?" Berman said in an effort to clarify.
"Yes. They may not all be violently racist; they may not be– [Trump's] targeted; he's very clear and strategic. Anti-blackness is a strategy that has been the foundation of the American project," she said.
Co-host Alisyn Camerota interrupted to warn about painting with too broad a brush. She suggested people can vote for a candidate without justifying everything about him, giving the example that many Democrats did as much with Bill Clinton.
"Racism isn't broad," Davis responded. "What you're not hearing is there's so many different levels of racism and how it works itself out."
This is what I love about this era right now. The far Left deals in these absolutes—and there is no moral ground to be fought for here, folks. It’s what politics is, and has been for decades, a fight club. We’re all in the gutter, the swamp. It’s who can be the most brutal. So, let’s go by Davis’ rules. All Democrats are rape apologists, and they nurture and protect abusers of women. Harvey Weinstein, now ex-NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, Al Franken, John Conyers, and Bill Clinton. All were accused of sexual misconduct, from groping to credible allegations of rape. And yet, the liberal media more or less turned a blind eye, only deciding to crucify them when the Me Too movement intensified. So, if you voted for Bill Clinton, you voted for that culture. And remember, Clinton won twice. And knowing what we know now about Bill Clinton, would he win a presidential election? Yes, I think he would—in a landslide. So, the Left can also quit the virtue signaling on this subject regarding Trump. And just so we’re clear, I know that there are Democrats who don’t support any of the horrible things Bill Clinton, Schneiderman, and Weinstein have done to women and I also know there are Democrats who don’t think all Trump voters are racists. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) lives in Trump country, she warned her party that he could win, and they ignored her. But she’s also angered when she sees the elite media and others smear Trump voters as racist. She also offered warnings to her fellow party members not to be overconfident this election cycle. Dingell goes against the narrative, so she won’t be doing any television interviews.
CNN’s Don Lemon took it a step further. If you watched Roseanne, you’re a bigot (via Washington Times):
20 million people who followed Roseanne. Why do they follow her?
Because, in some way, they bought into her bigotry. And at least part of what she was selling is the bigotry, the racism, the homophobia, the conspiracy theories. That’s all part of Roseanne.
And if you watched that show and you believed it, then you bought into it, and you’re part of that as well.
Liberals think we need a lecture; we don’t. We don’t care about safe spaces, cry closets, neo-colonial tendencies, or the many ways in which rural voters are terrible, or how voting Republican is terrible. We don’t care. Leave us alone. At the same time, please call us deplorable. Please label us racist because it only makes us stronger. It only unifies our base, while pushing the Independent slice of the electorate away from you. You’re not as clever as you think you are, even with your B.A. in how to be a whiny little piss ant studies, and some within your ranks are seeing how these antics will lead to a second term for Trump.
I’m a Korean-America, a person of color, and I proudly support this president. Admittedly, wasn’t a fan before, but he’s surprised me. He’s moved the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem proper, he’s serious about immigration, he’s passed a tax reform that’s reduced the financial burned for millions of working and middle class families, consumer and small business confidence is at record highs, and millions of workers have received bonuses from their employers thanks to a better job-creating and investing climate. He’s given the conservative wing of the party, some of which held doubts about him, close to everything they want—and we haven’t delved into his fight to reduce regulations. Planned Parenthood’s funding is going to be severely cut, and while we didn’t fully repeal Obamacare, the individual mandate is no more. Even Mitt Romney, believe him or not, is saying the Trump agenda pretty much mirrored what he would’ve done if he had won the 2012 election.
Yes, I came around, and the liberal media’s idiocy and the insufferable nature of progressives made that decision all the more easier. Two things: Trump 2020—but first we have to win these midterms. And even there, the Democratic enthusiasm seems to have flatlined.
They validate by first saying what “terrible” things RB called VJ. Roseanne wasn’t too terrible. She was on the mark. VJ is a creepy thing.
I’m tempted to call Don Lemon names but that would lower me to his level so I won’t give him the satisfaction.
That said, he knows nothing about conservatives or Middle America like the rest of his fellow liberals do. They see us as bigoted and insufferably racist.
I’m sick and tired of their arrogance, double standards and hypocrisy. Lemon and company can stick their condescension where the sun don’t shine.
Along with the fake news they jam down our throats every day. We’ve had enough.
God bless Roseanne. May she find Jesus and go to Heaven!
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah.
All Trump voters are racists.
And All Hillary / 0bama voters are stupid.
It is foolish to ‘paint with such a broad brush’.
(I feel relatively certain that there are at least a few Hillary / 0bama voters that are both high IQ, and fairly wise.)
Roseanne Barr told a bad joke.
As though no body in the history of the world ever said something they regretted later.
Bob Iger set himself up as her judge, jury and executioner without even giving her the benefit of a trial.
This is the politics of personal destruction. ABC has the right to do what it wanted.
But liberals should be beware: what comes around, goes around.
I keep hearing cnn this and cnn that. Do they really say all that crap? I haven’t noticed them since those three assweseals filmed us kicking saddams cabones in Bagdad.
Back to the deplorables. Like Ahab, their hate gives them a reason to live.
Dread the day these People reattain power.
the real truth revealed is that most liberals, if they could would either, kill people or stick them in gulags for dissenting.
I voted for Trump but I never was a fan of the Roseanne show so I did not watch it when it first aired or when it re aired this year.
These talking heads think they know how everyone thinks they do not and I wish they would all just shut up.
LAST MAN STANDING is in Denver, flyover country maybe, but not rural America. Denver, unfortunately, is more like Seattle and San Francisco.
Nobody believes Trump-Russia-collusion at this point unless they desparately want to. There’s nothing left in the quiver and they can’t just turn off all this hate they’ve jinned up.
It’s all good, liberals will burrow down into deeper paranoia.
I live in rural Colorado.
We’re outvoted here by liberals in Boulder and brain dead morons in the Denver suburbs.
My favorite part...
Keep poking the bear, Lefties.
Prejudice, thy name is “liberal.”
I’ll have to ask my Hispanic nephews if I’m racist. . . somehow I think not.
Place your bets on how long they had this planned for. Spin off shows and getting rid of her. Just waiting for the right tweet since she’s always tweeting things they don’t like. One of the writers quitting right before being cancelled. She probably already knew.
We did a little unscientific survey here about 3 years ago asking FReepers if they had any minorities in their families————and there were many,including me.
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