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Thanks, Roseanne, You Blew It for All of Us
Townhall.com ^ | May 30, 2018 | Mark Davis

Posted on 05/30/2018 6:12:37 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin

Val Jar is Iranian, and not of african descent.
She is indeed associated with the muslim brotherhood. She and O’Bola infested the gov’t with the MB.

Yesterday, we saw the swift erasing-vanishing of someone from “TV” (satellite, cable). I attempted to watch my nightly few episodes of the old Roseanne, and low and behold, LAFF Channel on Dish had erased the old episodes from their schedule.

Just last weekend, TV Land Channel featured old Roseanne episodes.

So, day before yesterday, old Roseanne episodes were “good”, and yesterday and forward, they are banned?

This is a perfect example of Nazi-like, Stalin-like, control of media for pubic consumption. The evil leftists here in our country are no different in their zeal to disappear anyone who dares to have their own views that are not the same as the current Nazi propagandists.

Roseanne was foolish to tweet foolish things. However she has a right to free speech.


121 posted on 05/30/2018 7:41:50 AM PDT by TheConservativeParty ( Trump is The Storm)
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To: Kaslin

Never cared much for that potty mouthed slob anyway.


122 posted on 05/30/2018 7:44:56 AM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: TheConservativeParty
Val Jar is Iranian, and not of african descent. God forbid someone blames me for liking VJ, but the facts are that she is a child of Americans James E. Bowman from Washington and Barbara T. Bowman (née Taylor) from Chicago.
123 posted on 05/30/2018 7:51:42 AM PDT by Krosan
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To: Kaslin

Conservative drama queens are a strange lot.


124 posted on 05/30/2018 7:52:49 AM PDT by Ted Grant
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To: All
An open letter to Stuart Varney

Dear Mr. Varney:
You asked viewers whether anything else could have been done other than canceling the show in response to Roseanne's unfunny and vulgar joke. A first principle of justice is that punishment should be proportional to the offense. Here the punishment is extreme to the point of cruelty even before one considers that innocents are being punished along with the offender. Justice is supposed to be constructive and so to lead to healing. Here the punishment is far more destructive to our social harmony than the original offense. It is obvious that an ulterior motive of the leftist mindset is being served. Leftists don't like the show. Roseanne's joke provided leftist management with a pretext to scrub a show they wanted off the air. The fact is that the joke is harmless. The fact is leftists are hypersensitive, which is the real problem in this sorry situation.

What might have been done? Management might have simply ignored it and let left leaning commentators reproach her. Management might have quietly given her a warning. And finally management might have given her a public rebuke. Any of those alternatives would have been superior to what was done.

I am disappointed that none of the many Fox pundits weighing in on this had remarks like these. Fox is “PC” phobic like the rest of media.

125 posted on 05/30/2018 7:53:11 AM PDT by AlienCrossfirePlayer (Lies are the tools politicians use to separate you from your freedom.)
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To: IrishBrigade

Black females are not running things. They are acting out loud, prone to violence and are being handled with kid gloves by society. But when your demographic has difficulty passing a Burger King without a riot breaking out, you are not running things.


126 posted on 05/30/2018 7:55:26 AM PDT by skimbell
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To: Kaslin

Who didn’t know Roseann was going to go down like this? I’m just surprised that it didn’t happen closer to the election. She is *not* a conservative or even close to one, even if she plays a blue-collar Trump fan on TV.


127 posted on 05/30/2018 7:59:40 AM PDT by Antoninus ("In Washington, swamp drain you.")
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To: Future Snake Eater

what Rosie said was true! VJ does look like a beast. Just because Rosie was rude doesn’t mean it is not true.
aand she is entitled to her opinion, as am I, as are whomever disagrees.


128 posted on 05/30/2018 8:09:20 AM PDT by ronniesgal ( I wonder what his FR handle is??)
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To: Kaslin
Davis is an imbecile. Too many folks reading things into this that aren't there. My opinion is that is boils down to a Freedom of Speech issue.

Roseanne wasn't on the clock, at work, when she made that tweet. Now most entertainment and media companies have a Morals Clause in the contracts of the Talent, and wide leeway in interpretation. So that is what ABC hung their authority on to fire her.

The larger mess of this firing is all the cast and crew that lost their paychecks. Add to this all the other outlets that dropped the old reruns of the Roseanne Show. How many people of the cast were getting residuals from those reruns and may depend on that money to live?

The shortsightedness of the whole episode is disgraceful. Not to mention that ABC needed that hit show for it's TV lineup and to prove a PC point they canceled the show without any real thought. It just made them feel good and superior.

The double standard of punishing anyone with different political views from the Morally Bankrupt Left and their minions is repugnant and should be to everyone.

129 posted on 05/30/2018 8:13:21 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Titus-Maximus

All those outlets pulled all reruns of the show. New one and the old one.


130 posted on 05/30/2018 8:14:49 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: robroys woman

“She didn’t blow it. She exposed the left, bigots all.”

It was only a matter of time before ABC found a reason to cancel her show.....she is a President Trump supporter, and her show was popular with ‘fly over’ country voters and that could not be tolerated by ABC.


131 posted on 05/30/2018 8:14:49 AM PDT by kagnew
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To: robroys woman

“She didn’t blow it. She exposed the left, bigots all.”

It was only a matter of time before ABC found a reason to cancel her show.....she is a President Trump supporter, and her show was popular with ‘fly over’ country voters and that could not be tolerated by ABC.


132 posted on 05/30/2018 8:14:50 AM PDT by kagnew
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To: kagnew
How To Recognize The Bigot In The Argument

I suspect you will find many in good standing at ABC.

133 posted on 05/30/2018 8:22:24 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: Kaslin

I never viewed Rosanne as a savior of anything.


134 posted on 05/30/2018 8:25:01 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: brownsfan

It’s all about optics. I am not sure how this necessarily helps the left because they hated Trump supporters before this. I do know this hurts Trump supporters who get more sh*t slung upon them because it becomes another liberal media talking point.


135 posted on 05/30/2018 8:41:34 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Erik Latranyi
Animalization of groups was done long before white Europeans discovered black people.

If You Can See Her, from Cabaret.

How can I speak of her virtues?
I don't know where to begin!
She's clever, she's smart, she reads music.
She doesn't smoke or drink gin. (Like I do.)

I understand your objection.
I grant you the problem's not small.
But if you could see her through my eyes...

She wouldn't look Jewish at all.

-PJ

136 posted on 05/30/2018 9:08:02 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: Red Badger
Charlie Brown, Lucy, football....

Bingo! ABC was going to find a way to remove this show regardless. Rosanne just made it too easy for them. Can't have a positive show about Trump supporters with huge viewership countering THE narrative.

I predict this will backfire on the network(s). The people aren't stupid and this PC culture has run its course. The people are sick of it. The problem of course is academia has had 30+ years to perfect their indoctrination methods so young people can take a while to wake up from their brain washing. Some never do. Clearly most of Hollyweird never did.

137 posted on 05/30/2018 9:15:49 AM PDT by Boomer (Leftism is the Moral Equivalent of the Plague - It Destroys Anyone it Infects)
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To: Kaslin

Take some ambien , mark.. then answer your tweets.


138 posted on 05/30/2018 9:16:50 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: Kaslin

Still figuring out how the comment was Racist unless Barr knew that Valier’s Father was a Commie loving Mulatto like Obama was.

I had no idea about her lineage, outside of being Iranian, until that fact leaked out and I am pretty Political.

I doubt Roseanne had a clue but she has now made Valerie a sympathetic figure, much like Che.


139 posted on 05/30/2018 9:21:13 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The only good Commie is a dead Commie. Cast your Vote Accordingly.)
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To: eyeamok

She didn’t compare VJ to an ape, she said “Planet of the Apes” which is a fictional movie. The creatures in that movie resemble apes loosely, however, they were intended to represent tyranny and oppression against a minority. It’s a stretch to call it racist when it was intended to be a critique of ideology, which is more than deserving of critisism.


140 posted on 05/30/2018 9:41:09 AM PDT by Durus (You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
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