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(32,595 posts)Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)billh58
(6,635 posts)Liberalagogo
(1,770 posts)DFW
(54,050 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)Soxfan58
(3,479 posts)Oh this gets better and better
Niagara
(7,403 posts)calimary
(80,693 posts)Indeed! She didn't mess around. Impressive!
And I do love the irony.
ProfessorGAC
(64,413 posts)The Wiki page says she worked on some really big movies too.
Good for her for rising to such a level.
Exotica
(1,461 posts)mainer
(12,013 posts)How stupid can Roseanne be????
amuse bouche
(3,657 posts)Her head writer is (was) Wanda Sykes. She tweeted that she would not be returning, before the pantload hit the fan.
So ...Super Stupid
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)amuse bouche
(3,657 posts)I watched it unfold. Barr thought she could say and get away with anything. She said as much a couple weeks ago.
ABC stands behind her because her show is so big....blah..blah. I jumped for joy when she got canned. I know she was shocked
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Red Pest
(288 posts)To paraphrase Donnie Two Scoops: Wouldnt you love to see a network CEO when some racist moron TV star calls anyone an ape and a terrorist, say: Get that racist moron off my network! Youre fired! Youre fired!"
calimary
(80,693 posts)Love it! And yes, I definitely would like to see that! I yell that at my TV whenever he comes on.
HenryWallace
(332 posts)msdogi
(430 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)Although some will think she fired the witch because she took it personally (because some people really are incapable of taking off their "white privilege goggles" .
Yes, it's free country and we're all free to say all the stupid, awful, hateful, racist shit we want. But there WILL be consequences.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)I think this woman's life experiences and those of other Af. Americans, may have made her decision come more quickly and more decisively. I could be wrong. But it's possible. And that's a good thing. To have people with diverse life experiences running the show.
yardwork
(61,408 posts)Perseus
(4,341 posts)She is beautiful!
Well done!
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)BlueJac
(7,838 posts)Alethia Merritt
(147 posts)and very public feelings and beliefs. Especially when we, the public, are directly and indirectly paying her salary via buying sponsors products, we do not have to accept or support her personal bigotry.
Much more is recognizing that as President, DT is expressing his personal bigotry from the bully pulpit and they become policy for police brutality, hate crimes, and verbal abuse. We need to cancel his Presidency ASAP.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)AZ Jim
(70 posts)Bar has always been crude but she is finally paying the price for her ignorant filthy mouth. The knuckle dragging, mouth breathers who adore her are the reason for most of the tension in our country. Thank you Ms. Dungey.
calimary
(80,693 posts)I just really like the accountability here. SOMEBODY finally had to pay for really loutish, mean-spirited, trump-ish behavior. Too bad it wasn't him, though.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)rocktivity
(44,555 posts)When I read that Rudy Ghouliani got booed at Yankee Stadium on his birthday yesterday, I posted on DU that I would consider it a present for the birthday I had last week. Well, I stand corrected -- I got TWO presents for the birthday I had last week!
rocktivity
calimary
(80,693 posts)Those are good presents!
apkhgp
(1,068 posts)As Bill Maher pointed out Roseanne Barr used to be a person that you could count on to be level headed. There were points in her life that seemed to be a running commentary of the current events of the time.
Her comments in the year and a half. Support of 45 election victory, along with the ex-Obama aide slur have sent her to the unemployment line. What manure pile did she get these from? The higher up canned this loser.
SayItLoud
(1,696 posts)There is stuff tRUMP says on these files/tapes that are as evil, racist and disgusting as Roseanne's tweet.
Why are NBC, MGM and Mark Burnett hiding these tapes? If they were destroyed; WHY?
We need a Stormy Daniels lawyer on this case!
IllinoisBirdWatcher
(2,315 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,440 posts)You put smart, ethical women in charge.
cpamomfromtexas
(1,243 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Az_lefty
(3,670 posts)vi5
(13,305 posts)..she was even tweeting about Valerie in the first place?
I mean....no disrespect to her but who exactly is talking about or discussing an adviser to the previous president, a year and a half after he left office? Why would hers even be a name that came up?
That is what is confusing me. Roseanne being a racist I get....Discussing Valerie Jarrett in 2018? What did I miss here?
SHRED
(28,136 posts)Rosanne was like this long ago.
Cha
(295,899 posts)Tipperary
(6,930 posts)Fascinating.
IronLionZion
(45,256 posts)because the people who focused on the ape part and ignored the rest are also exposing something about themselves and their own biases.
The Wizard
(12,482 posts)You know, free speech and the First Amendment. Of course the First Amendment applies to government impinging on free expression, not private business.
And they're still adamant about NFL players protesting police brutality against black people as if the players don't have just cause for expressing themselves regarding police killing and beating black people just because some police are still pissed off that a black family rightfully occupied the White House for eight years.
DFW
(54,050 posts)The heads of ABC and Disney determined that keeping Roseanne on would be detrimental to their business, and so they took a business decision.
Roseanne is free to spew her filth, ABC is free to can her for it. You can't get any freer than that. What's in there for a Republican to dislike?