Roseanne Barr is an accomplished American actress who embodies the American values in an explosive personality. She is a granddaughter of Eastern European immigrants born in a working-class Jewish Utah family and active in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Roseanne won both an Emmy and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her work on the hit television sitcom Roseanne" (1988-1997) and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
In 2018 the first episode of her revived 10th season of Roseanne" (which included positive references to President Donald Trump) premiered on ABC (a left-wing channel) and reached 25 million viewers a national record for a sitcom.
Over time Roseanne has been no stranger of controversies (National anthem Zimmerman tweet Hitler photo shoot and Parkland shooting tweet) that caught both the right-wing and left-wing supporters off guard.
Her own political sympathies have been also controversial. In 2012 she filed as a Green Party presidential candidate (but lost the nomination to Jill Stein). Then she won the presidential nomination of the Peace and Freedom Party and she announced that we need more socialism."
In 2012 she voted for Barack Obama but in 2016 she voiced support for Republicans and voted for Donald Trump.
On May 29 2018 Roseanne posted a series of controversial remarks on her Twitter account including a response to a conspiracy-laden Twitter thread accusing Valerie Jarrett (the senior adviser to former President Obama and a longtime Obama confidante) of helping to cover up CIA spying. The response included the comment Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj" hinting to Jarretts being born in Iran her politics and her looks.
Roseanne later deleted her tweet and posted an apology stating she was truly sorry for making a bad joke."
The bizarre comment was labeled immediately as racist" by the Mainstream Media and put the left-wing on offensive.
Later in that morning the show consulting producer Wanda Sykes had announced she would be leaving the show.
Wanda Sykes is the same African-American comedian" who at the White House Correspondents Dinner in 2009 made jokes" about conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh including: hes not saying anything differently than what Osama Bin Laden is saying" because I think maybe he was the 20th hijacker … that he missed his flight" and I hope his kidneys fail. How about that? He needs some waterboarding thats what he needs." Sykes also said: Too much? But youre laughing on the inside. I know youre laughing!"
Surprisingly with Roseanne Wanda had too much" and she didnt want to laugh on the inside."
But hey when comedians make jokes about the left they are all racist" and when they make jokes about the right they are just outspoken."
Hours after Roseannes tweet the ABCs president Channing Dungey (herself an African-American like Jarrett and Sykes) announced that we have decided to cancel her show." Dungey stated that Roseannes remark was abhorrent repugnant and inconsistent with our values." Dungey was promoted in February 2016 as the first African-American network president after serving as vice president of drama development at ABC Studios.
I guess Dungey had also too much" and didnt want to laugh on the inside" either. Were waiting anxiously to see when Dungey has too much" with Joy Behar of The View" and when she features on ABC parts of the new Netflix series with Michelle Wolf another African-American outspoken comedian" whose harsh jokes" aimed at the Trump administration.
It is remarkable that Roseanne gave the left a taste of its own medicine. And the left of course didnt like it. Let me elaborate.
First a comment no matter how bizarre which is part of the free speech is labeled as racist" when it is inconvenient for liberals. Everybody knows that freedom of speech is good only when it is practiced by the left. When it is practiced by the right it suddenly becomes inconsistent with our values."
Second the ape" reference is part of Darwinism the theory of evolution" and natural selection" so dear to liberals. Why is it then so abhorrent" to make comparisons between humans and simians? Isnt this hypocrisy? The followers of Darwinism have been constantly trying to delegitimize the intelligent design theory and creationism (which are not the same but they overlap). But for whatever reason they are appalled instead when humans are compared to their… predecessors."
To make a long story short Roseannes tweet is just one of the many cases when liberals want to have the cake and eat it too.
I am not concerned that Roseanne will be jobless for long. One reason is the fact that American culture has changed radically since Donald Trump was elected president. Telling it like it is" in spite of being branded as racism" by those who dont like it and being occasionally sanctioned with remarkable speed outside the court of law by those run by emotions is a phenomenon that is taking roots in public speech.
Political correctness phobias" and -isms" are not as scary as they used to be years ago. The scary tactics of the left have remained pretty much the same over time and they dont scare many anymore.
So if ABC who had a golden hen in its hands doesnt want to collect the golden eggs anymore but decided instead to cut the hen the better for the next company who will hire Roseanne. That company will be wise enough not to mix business with hard-line ideologies.
NOTE - A version of the article was published previously in CARIBBEAN NEWS NOW!
TIBERIU DIANU has published several books and a host of articles in law politics and post-communist societies. He currently lives and works in Washington DC and can be followed on MEDIUM.
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Roseanne Barr is an accomplished American actress who embodies the American values in an explosive personality. She is a granddaughter of Eastern European immigrants born in a working-class Jewish Utah family and active in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Roseanne won both an Emmy and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her work on the hit television sitcom Roseanne" (1988-1997) and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
In 2018 the first episode of her revived 10th season of Roseanne" (which included positive references to President Donald Trump) premiered on ABC (a left-wing channel) and reached 25 million viewers a national record for a sitcom.
Over time Roseanne has been no stranger of controversies (National anthem Zimmerman tweet Hitler photo shoot and Parkland shooting tweet) that caught both the right-wing and left-wing supporters off guard.
Her own political sympathies have been also controversial. In 2012 she filed as a Green Party presidential candidate (but lost the nomination to Jill Stein). Then she won the presidential nomination of the Peace and Freedom Party and she announced that we need more socialism."
In 2012 she voted for Barack Obama but in 2016 she voiced support for Republicans and voted for Donald Trump.
On May 29 2018 Roseanne posted a series of controversial remarks on her Twitter account including a response to a conspiracy-laden Twitter thread accusing Valerie Jarrett (the senior adviser to former President Obama and a longtime Obama confidante) of helping to cover up CIA spying. The response included the comment Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj" hinting to Jarretts being born in Iran her politics and her looks.
Roseanne later deleted her tweet and posted an apology stating she was truly sorry for making a bad joke."
The bizarre comment was labeled immediately as racist" by the Mainstream Media and put the left-wing on offensive.
Later in that morning the show consulting producer Wanda Sykes had announced she would be leaving the show.
Wanda Sykes is the same African-American comedian" who at the White House Correspondents Dinner in 2009 made jokes" about conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh including: hes not saying anything differently than what Osama Bin Laden is saying" because I think maybe he was the 20th hijacker … that he missed his flight" and I hope his kidneys fail. How about that? He needs some waterboarding thats what he needs." Sykes also said: Too much? But youre laughing on the inside. I know youre laughing!"
Surprisingly with Roseanne Wanda had too much" and she didnt want to laugh on the inside."
But hey when comedians make jokes about the left they are all racist" and when they make jokes about the right they are just outspoken."
Hours after Roseannes tweet the ABCs president Channing Dungey (herself an African-American like Jarrett and Sykes) announced that we have decided to cancel her show." Dungey stated that Roseannes remark was abhorrent repugnant and inconsistent with our values." Dungey was promoted in February 2016 as the first African-American network president after serving as vice president of drama development at ABC Studios.
I guess Dungey had also too much" and didnt want to laugh on the inside" either. Were waiting anxiously to see when Dungey has too much" with Joy Behar of The View" and when she features on ABC parts of the new Netflix series with Michelle Wolf another African-American outspoken comedian" whose harsh jokes" aimed at the Trump administration.
It is remarkable that Roseanne gave the left a taste of its own medicine. And the left of course didnt like it. Let me elaborate.
First a comment no matter how bizarre which is part of the free speech is labeled as racist" when it is inconvenient for liberals. Everybody knows that freedom of speech is good only when it is practiced by the left. When it is practiced by the right it suddenly becomes inconsistent with our values."
Second the ape" reference is part of Darwinism the theory of evolution" and natural selection" so dear to liberals. Why is it then so abhorrent" to make comparisons between humans and simians? Isnt this hypocrisy? The followers of Darwinism have been constantly trying to delegitimize the intelligent design theory and creationism (which are not the same but they overlap). But for whatever reason they are appalled instead when humans are compared to their… predecessors."
To make a long story short Roseannes tweet is just one of the many cases when liberals want to have the cake and eat it too.
I am not concerned that Roseanne will be jobless for long. One reason is the fact that American culture has changed radically since Donald Trump was elected president. Telling it like it is" in spite of being branded as racism" by those who dont like it and being occasionally sanctioned with remarkable speed outside the court of law by those run by emotions is a phenomenon that is taking roots in public speech.
Political correctness phobias" and -isms" are not as scary as they used to be years ago. The scary tactics of the left have remained pretty much the same over time and they dont scare many anymore.
So if ABC who had a golden hen in its hands doesnt want to collect the golden eggs anymore but decided instead to cut the hen the better for the next company who will hire Roseanne. That company will be wise enough not to mix business with hard-line ideologies.
NOTE - A version of the article was published previously in CARIBBEAN NEWS NOW!
TIBERIU DIANU has published several books and a host of articles in law politics and post-communist societies. He currently lives and works in Washington DC and can be followed on MEDIUM.
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