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They're ALL Racist: NYT Writer, CNN Commentator Use Roseanne Fallout To Smear Trump Voters
Townhall.com ^ | May 30, 2018 | Matt Vespa

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.   


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: 2016election; abc; abcsucks; cnn; desperate; donaldtrump; establishment; fakenews; gettrump; leftwingmedia; libmediabias; roseanne; roseannebarr; smearcampaign; theconners; trumpwhitehouse
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To: Kaslin

Name calling is all they have.


21 posted on 05/30/2018 9:40:09 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: Kaslin

Racist and Irredeemable


22 posted on 05/30/2018 9:49:21 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: Cubs Fan

I’m afraid you’re right. It’s like there’s millions of little scares Stalin’s running around.


23 posted on 05/30/2018 9:52:36 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: Kaslin
It’s what politics is, and has been for decades, a fight club.

Nothing has occurred like is what happening in the Trump era. Not even close.

Who writes this stuff?

24 posted on 05/30/2018 9:58:36 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Kaslin

Michaela, sunshine, go snog a rabid hippo, love, just do it.


25 posted on 05/30/2018 10:01:22 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Kaslin

a couple more descriptions of what CCN really means:

Communist Nuts news
Communist Nutty News
Crazy Nuts News
Clowns and Nuts News
Crappy Nutty News


26 posted on 05/30/2018 10:09:14 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Kaslin

“For 8 years I was called a racist for disagreeing with the President, now, I’m called a racist for agreeing with the President” —Unknown,2018


27 posted on 05/30/2018 10:11:52 PM PDT by txroadkill (This space for rent)
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To: Mears

Leftist psychological projection is so very tiring . . .


28 posted on 05/30/2018 10:20:04 PM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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To: Cubs Fan

That’s a million little SCARED Stalins running around.


29 posted on 05/30/2018 10:43:42 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: virgil

Didn’t even know she was black, but now I guess that’s the only reason why I despise her. I’m such a racist./s


30 posted on 05/31/2018 12:55:36 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Kaslin

At some point who gives a crap?


31 posted on 05/31/2018 1:26:24 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Kaslin

>>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.


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!


32 posted on 05/31/2018 2:07:29 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
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To: Kaslin

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.”

“The Planet of the Apes.”

“The Planet of the Apes.”

“The Planet of the Apes.”

“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?


33 posted on 05/31/2018 2:21:04 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Kaslin

It is like we are on the kindergarten playground...indefinitely.

Well, if that is the case. I guess I have no choice but to respond, as we all did in kindergarten, to attacks like this one:

Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me.

Leftists are horrible people. Never befriend one...never trust one.

JoMa


34 posted on 05/31/2018 2:34:34 AM PDT by joma89
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To: Kaslin
If we are all "raycis" then all liberals are murdering psychopaths:

The Broad Brush goes both ways.

35 posted on 05/31/2018 2:59:13 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: joma89
It is like we are on the kindergarten playground...indefinitely.

It sure seems like that. Watching CNNMSNBCABCCBS, it seems like the hired the worst of the worst people that all knew as children.

Leftists are horrible people. Never befriend one...never trust one.

And be very cautious of any woman with a hyphenated last name. Seriously.

36 posted on 05/31/2018 3:01:37 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: LegendHasIt

And very well paid.they are usually two steps ahead of us politically speaking. The useful idiots we see on the news are just that. It is a mistake to think they are stupid.. they might be cognitively disassociated, but we still have no wall. And we are trillions more in debt.
We watched a caravan of lawbreakers enter our country, without any hope of winning.
The false economy the fed and obama propped up is starting to fail in Real America.. like they planned it.


37 posted on 05/31/2018 3:11:06 AM PDT by momincombatboots (No Wall, No Way 2018)
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To: Kaslin
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.

What about the people who vote for Democrats, in spite of the numbers of blacks that are murdered in Democrat run cities? Are they racists, too?

Or the people who vote for the Democrats who are pushing the abortion policies that are resulting in six out of ten black babies being aborted? Are they racists?

38 posted on 05/31/2018 3:24:28 AM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Prayers for our country and President Trump)
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To: goldstategop

Admit it——wasnt it a crock to see Valerie Jarret’s “Victim Act”?

Lordy, the Muslim Simian Lady even managed to squeeze out a few (gasp) tears.

I’m just shocked Jarrett emerged from the Obama bunker. She has a lot of work to do.

Heck, 24/7 she frantically tries to recall all the offshore accounts containing federal billions she opened for the Obamas.


39 posted on 05/31/2018 3:37:33 AM PDT by Liz ((Our side has 8 trillion bullets;the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.))
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To: Kaslin

Everybody is a racist to someone.


40 posted on 05/31/2018 3:47:51 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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