Roseanne's raising her voice again, this time on radio

The Los Angeles Times ^ | January 28, 2009 | Steve Carney

[2ndDivisionVet]

She was once the irascible voice of Middle America, the sarcastic matriarch of a working-class family just trying to keep their jobs and raise their kids.

So what's Roseanne Barr doing on a radio station known for world music, beat poetry and radical politics?

"I'm a little bit of a crusader. I want people to know what's happening to them," Barr said of her hourlong talk show that began earlier this month on KPFK-FM (90.7), the Los Angeles outlet of the left-leaning Pacifica Network.

But the new role shouldn't seem a stretch to anyone paying attention to the themes Barr tackled on her eponymous sitcom, which ran on ABC from 1988 to 1997 and consistently ranked as one of the nation's most popular television programs. The character of Roseanne Conner often ran into issues of gay rights, worker rights and social justice.

"She staged a union walkout. After she won the lottery, she bought the factory where she was laid off," Barr said. "I was always telling this same story. I was always saying this."

One main difference between network TV and the listener-supported KPFK: "You don't have to worry about pleasing a sponsor, and that's really such great freedom," she said.

[2ndDivisionVet]

I'm sure Hannity and Rush are quaking in their boots...

[laweeks]

“he sarcastic matriarch of a working-class family”

Give me a break . . . what does she know about a working class family?

[Nonstatist]

Fat anti-Semite

[Flycatcher]

"I'm a little bit of a crusader.

Crusader?!!

Let me guess: This repugnant anti-Semite has no idea what that word means.

Almost funny.

[eaglestar]

One round fat loud mouth down, one to go...

[Thrownatbirth]

"I'm a little bit of a crusader."

"(In my best Roseanne voice) HONEY, YOU'RE NOT A 'LITTLE BIT' OF ANYTHING!"

[MinuteGal]

Roseanne Barr is of Jewish descent. Yet she's described as anti-Semetic?

Go figure. These addled leftist sickos are what they are, as Rush often says about them.

Leni

[Flycatcher]

Yep. Such deluded leftist "entertainers" seem to have self-loathing down to a science.

Regards, Flycatcher

[Nonstatist]

Roseanne Barr is of Jewish descent. Yet she's described as anti-Semetic?

Classic self-hating Jew, and not the first of her kind either.

She balbbered on her website that Jews sending their kids to Hebrew School were practicing child abuse for trying to brainwash little children. Thats how twisted this fatso is.