They're ALL Racist: NYT Writer, CNN Commentator Use Roseanne Fallout To Smear Trump Voters

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.

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):

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):

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.

>>Culture writer Michaela Angela Davis was a guest commentator on CNN

ODD name...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Davis

As a result of purchasing firearms used in the 1970 armed take-over of a Marin County, California courtroom, in which four persons were killed, she was prosecuted for conspiracy. She was later acquitted of this charge.

...Her research interests are feminism, African-American studies, critical theory, Marxism, popular music, social consciousness, and the philosophy and history of punishment and prisons. She co-founded Critical Resistance, an organization working to abolish the prison–industrial complex.

Davis’s membership in the CPUSA led California Governor Ronald Reagan in 1969 to attempt to have her barred from teaching at any university in the State of California. She supported the governments of the Soviet Bloc for several decades. During the 1980s, she was twice a candidate for Vice President on the CPUSA ticket. She left the party in 1991.

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Davis was a supporter of the Soledad Brothers, three inmates accused of killing a prison guard at Soledad Prison.[25]

On August 7, 1970, Jonathan Jackson, a heavily armed, 17-year-old African-American high-school student, gained control over a courtroom in Marin County, California. Once in the courtroom, Jackson armed the black defendants and took Judge Harold Haley, the prosecutor, and three female jurors as hostages.[26][27] As Jackson transported the hostages and two black convicts away from the courtroom, the police began shooting at the vehicle. The judge and the three black men were killed in the melee; one of the jurors and the prosecutor were injured. Although the judge was shot in the head with a blast from the shotgun, he also suffered a chest wound from a bullet that may have been fired from outside the van. Evidence during the trial showed, however, that either could have been fatal.[28] The firearms which Jackson used in the attack, including the shotgun used to kill Judge Haley, had been purchased by Davis two days prior, and the barrel of the shotgun had been sawn off.[27] Davis was found to have been corresponding with one of the inmates involved.[29]

As California considers “all persons concerned in the commission of a crime, whether they directly commit the act constituting the offense... principals in any crime so committed”, Marin County Superior Judge Peter Allen Smith charged Davis with “aggravated kidnapping and first degree murder in the death of Judge Harold Haley” and issued a warrant for her arrest. Hours after the judge issued the warrant on August 14, 1970, a massive attempt to locate and arrest Angela Davis began. On August 18, 1970, four days after the initial warrant was issued, the FBI director J. Edgar Hoover listed Davis on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitive List; she was the third woman and the 309th person to be listed.[26][30]

Soon after, Davis became a fugitive and fled California. According to her autobiography, during this time she hid in friends’ homes and moved at night. On October 13, 1970, FBI agents found her at a Howard Johnson Motor Lodge in New York City.[31] President Richard M. Nixon congratulated the FBI on its “capture of the dangerous terrorist, Angela Davis.”

On January 5, 1971, Davis appeared at the Marin County Superior Court and declared her innocence before the court and nation: “I now declare publicly before the court, before the people of this country that I am innocent of all charges which have been leveled against me by the state of California.” John Abt, general counsel of the Communist Party USA, was one of the first attorneys to represent Davis for her alleged involvement in the shootings.

...The fact that she owned the guns used in the crime was judged insufficient to establish her responsibility in the plot...

JUST because she bought them 2 days prior to the shooting. Nope, not her fault. Don’t know how they got to them. No, sir!

It’s not so much about the comment regarding “The Planet of the Apes.” That comment was only low humor as fodder. Roseanne is no dummy.

Look at her timing. Think about where the new season’s script was probably going politically and socially. Think about what ABC and others just lost.

Do you get it, yet?

“The Planet of the Apes.”

Oh, sorry. This computer seems to have a mind of its own sometimes, but we can get accustomed to it. Right?

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