Posted on 04/03/2018 1:39:57 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Sean Hannity has weighed in on Roseanne Barr’s battle with Jared Yates Sexton over her ‘Roseanne’ reboot on ABC. Yates authored an Elle Magazine article saying the Roseanne revival on ABC “ignores the very real racism of many white working class families.”
Watching the debut, Sexton wrote, “what shocked me was how much they reflected an idealized version of Trump’s base instead of the reality of white, working-class America, where racism and bigotry is hardly contained.”
Unlike the first iteration of the series, “the fights onscreen no longer resemble reality,” Sexton said. “The debates are all about ‘jobs’ and ‘healthcare’ and never once veer into the subjects of race or intolerance. For someone to accept Donald Trump’s worldview, let alone actively support it the way Roseanne Conner does, they must at the very least be comfortable with bigoted rhetoric and policies.”
In a series of tweets over the weekend, Sexton called the new comedy series “a dream machine for someone like Steve Bannon, who worked so hard to convince potential voters that supporting Donald Trump didn’t mean they were prejudiced.”
Additionally, Sexton cautioned, some of the Trump base conspiracy theories, including one recently tweeted about by the actress, are “exactly what’s happened in Russia to secure Putin’s power. The goal is to create a environment where there is so much deception and confusion that people simply give up and accept whatever they’re given.”
Since his article published, Sexton says he’s been contacted by “multiple people at ABC who’ve told me there’s a real discomfort among many of the employees with the propagandist nature of the reboot and a feeling that the project is meant to monetize Trump’s base.”
Roseanne fired back: “Oh really. which episode r they uncomfortable about? the one where we get a dog, or my mom gets a boyfriend or I drive for uber or darlene gets a new job or david comes back? which ones monetize trump’s base?”
Jared Yates Sexton ✔ @JYSexton 31 Mar In the wake of my Roseanne article I've been contacted by multiple people at ABC who've told me there's a real discomfort among many of the employees with the propagandist nature of the reboot and a feeling that the project is meant to monetize Trump's base.
Roseanne Barr ✔ @therealroseanne oh, really? which episode r they uncomfortable about? the one where we get a dog or my mom gets a boyfriend or I drive for uber or darlene gets a new job or david comes back? which ones monetize trump's base? 1:58 AM - Apr 1, 2018
Sexton spelled it out again, for her:
Jared Yates Sexton ✔ @JYSexton The one where your character’s support of Donald Trump was framed simply as an economic choice. They have real concern this is sanitizing a really problematic worldview and dismissing the inherent bigotry. https://twitter.com/therealroseanne/status/980323428518518790 … 9:40 AM - Apr 1, 2018
At this point Fox News Channel star Sean Hannity weighed in. That included an online article claiming Roseanne had “shredded” Sexton in the exchange. Hannity himself also tweeted “Ouch!” with a link to the Hannity.com online post:
Sean Hannity ✔ @seanhannity Ouch! https://www.hannity.com/media-room/roseanne-unleashed-the-comedian-shreds-reporter-over-racist-white-families-remark/ …
Jared Yates Sexton ✔ @JYSexton Yes. Roseanne asking which episodes offended her colleagues at her network SHREDDED me. I might never be the same again.
Hannity's staff must have exhausted its supply of old Hillary Clinton rumors.
Sexton is a real cretin, hiding out at GA Southern. If the locals were the kind of people he thinks they are, they’d have run him out of Statesboro a long, long time ago.
Don’t get pulled into this war against traditional values.
Selling babies and transsexual children is the devil’s work.
Even if Rosanne is still a flaming liberal, this was a brilliant move on her part to get buzz and interest in the rebooted show.
-PJ
Racism is defined now as “anything the left doesn’t agree with”.
Roseanne leans libertarian.
She really is a Trump supporter off camera.
Sexton *meant*, “what shocked me was how much they reflected an real version of Trump’s base instead of the libel we’ve been throwing since the 1970s and “All in the Family” of white, working-class America, a libel where racism and bigotry is hardly contained.”
everyone and everything is racist/comes down to race!! (in the world view of a moonbat liberal)
Yup. Anything that challenges their propaganda isn’t tolerated by the left.
Do the liberals feel as strongly, about how TV shows don’t show the downsides of homosexual life?? Every homosexual character is presented in a positive way.
It's a simple fact that many illegal aliens are hardened criminals, and that much of the Third World is a sh*thole. The President never said a word about race. This "bigotry" smear is cr@p.
So ... Let me get this straight .... One episode of a half hour TV Show airs and people are upset because every issue to ever happen in the history of humanity was not addressed on it?
She really is a Trump supporter off camera.
She did vote for him.
Roseanne wanted to shake things up.
She liked that Trump was an outsider and not part of the Establishment.
It's surprising, though, that nobody remembers that she ran for president in 2012.
First for the Green nomination, then for the far left Peace and Freedom Party.
She came in 6th (or 7th if you count "write-ins" as a candidate).
BS.
"hardly contained" my foot.
The delusion is strong in that one.
Piss and moan. Piss and moan. That’s all the Left does anymore.
These constant cries of “racism! racism!” grow so very tiresome. Guys like this Sexton cannot enjoy a meaningless piece of diversionary fluff unless it reflects the misery and unhappiness he wallows in daily.
Very true. The saddest element is that the entire disastrous scenario has been created and stage-managed by power-hungry white liberals. They needed "victims" for their votes and to spearhead their real objective of replacing Constitutional values with socialism.
It's impossible to have an intelligent conversation with Schiffheads like this.
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