Roseanne’s Firing Is Not a Free-Speech Issue

National Review ^ | May 29, 2018 | KATHERINE TIMPF

[reaganaut1]

ABC had every right to dump her, and political correctness was not involved. In case you haven’t heard, Roseanne Barr did something really awful and stupid on Tuesday morning.

In a now-deleted tweet, Barr made a racist comment about former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, saying that she was like the “Muslim brotherhood and Planet of the Apes had a baby.” A matter of hours later, her hit ABC sitcom was canceled.

There’s no denying that what Barr said was racist, or that she was dumb for having said it. She has since apologized, and has probably also reached the conclusion that it wasn’t worth it. In all honesty, I’ve never understood why people aren’t more careful on social media. I’ve always sarcastically said that the best thing about Twitter is that not only do you not get paid for your tweets, but you can also get fired for them. It really is one of the more idiotic ways to ruin a career, and I can never make sense of it whenever it happens.

But what’s done is done, and there’s no turning back. She was fired, and she deserved to be fired. Her comment was racist and unacceptable, and I would not want someone who had made that kind of comment representing my company, either. It really seems that simple to me, but oddly enough, I’ve actually seen some conservatives defending her — saying that her firing is an example of the rampant political correctness that flies in the face of free speech — and honestly, this is something that I just can’t understand.

First of all, this is in no way a free-speech or First Amendment issue. The First Amendment protects us from facing consequences from the government over our speech, not consequences from our peers or our employers.

[CaptainK]

Nobody is defending her. They are pointing out the double standard. For instance, these are just a few of the obscenity loaded tweets regarding Trump posted by the soon to be ABC employee over at ESPN:

Keith Olbermann ‏Verified account @KeithOlbermann Keith Olbermann Retweeted CBS News Can't we fucking get a fucking restraining order on this fucking asshole @realDonaldTrump already?

Keith Olbermann ‏Verified account @KeithOlbermann Keith Olbermann Retweeted TO HELL WITH YOU, YOU MOTHERFUCKING TRAITOR. https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump

[Joe Brower]

Articles like this, along with their rabid #NEVERTRUMP screeds, is what made me dump my NR sub years ago.

[Secret Agent Man]

It is about political correctness.

The left wing hosts and shows they allow to spew hateed and jokes about those they hate, they remain employed and untouched.

[gunnyg]

“ABC had every right to dump her, and political correctness was not involved. In case you haven”
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WTF ever became of that no mo pc thing???
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[ETL]

In 2013, on his program “Real Time with Bill Maher,’ Maher made a joke about Trump’s mom having sex with an orangutan. It got pretty raunchy.

“To determine whether he is in fact the love child of a human woman and an orangatan from the Brooklyn zoo,” Maher said. “Look, I’m not saying your mother was repeatedly ****ing an orangutan back in the 1940’s, I don’t know if that’s true I hope it’s not true.

But given your face, your physique and your intelligence level and of course your hair, the American people deserve some real proof that your mother did not spend most nights in 1945 covering her body in banana oil sneaking into the monkey cage and compulsively humping an orange orangutan.”

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/that-time-trump-sued-bill-maher-after-he-made-joke-about-his-mom-having-sex-with-orangutan/

[ETL]

Just discovered that the leftist anti-GW Bush website, The Smirking Chimp, is actually still up and running.

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/topics/politics/republicans/bush_administration

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[CaptainK]

Bill Maher called Sarah Palin a stupid cunt but he’s still employed.

[DoodleDawg]

Yes it is.

No it isn't. Your employer is not obligated to respect your rights to free speech.

It wasn’t racist.

Depends on your point of view.

[DoodleDawg]

She’ll be back.

Not on ABC.

[KavMan]

These IDIOTS went & sought out Keith Olbermann with his Twitter History & hired him at ESPN!!!

[bk1000]

“I never understand why Conservatives writers always appear so eager to hold hands with Liberals to look down their noses and lecture us.”

When in power, we are expected to “reach across the aisle in a spirit of bipartisanship”, while, the dims, according to Barry, want us to get to the back of the bus and stop talking when they have the gavel. Personally, I am ready to fight them. No more Mr. Nice Guy.

[DoodleDawg]

It is about political correctness.

It's about money. Disney wants it and ABC's keeping Barr's show could jeopardize that.

[mrsmel]

Their firing John Derbyshire did it for me.

[ClearCase_guy]

I really don’t think the Entertainment Business is a business. I don’t think it’s about the money.

It’s all about the Narrative.

[ETL]

Valerie Jarrett isn't from the Planet of the Apes. She's from the Planet of the Communists.

The Communist Family Tree of Valerie Jarrett

Front Page ^ | June 26, 2015 | John Perazzo

A disturbing reminder of who our President chose to serve as his co-president — and why.

Barack Obama’s closest and most influential adviser, Valerie Jarrett, has never been an enigma. She was, after all, the person most responsible for bringing the revolutionary communist Van Jones into the Administration six years ago, so her bona fides as a radical extremist have long been obvious to anyone who wasn’t afraid to notice.

But a newly released report from Judicial Watch, which examines key FBI documents related to Jarrett’s many family ties to hardcore Communists, brings bold color to what previously were gray areas. The effect is nothing short of breathtaking, when we consider that the twice-elected President of our nation chose this woman—and no one else—to serve, essentially, as his co-president.

Valerie Jarrett’s late father—a physician named James Bowman—had a lengthy FBI file showing that he was a Communist who often collaborated with other Communists based principally in Chicago.

In 1950, for instance, Bowman communicated with a paid Soviet agent named Alfred Stern, who later fled the U.S. to Prague when he was indicted on espionage charges that were ultimately confirmed beyond doubt—specifically, he had conspired to transmit military and political information to the Soviet Union.

Bowman was also a member of the Association of Internes and Medical Students, a group that, according to his FBI file, engaged in un-American activities and “has long been a faithful follower of the Communist Party line.”

So much for dear-old-Dad.

Valerie Jarrett’s mother is the early-childhood-education author Barbara Taylor Bowman (born 1928), who in 1966 co-founded a Chicago-based graduate school in child development known as the Erikson Institute, named after the psychoanalyst Erik Erikson.

In 1950 Erikson became a hero to the Left by choosing to resign from his professorship at the University of California rather than sign an anti-Communist loyalty oath as the school required.

The Erikson Institute’s radical orientation is reflected in the fact that its board of trustees has included such figures as Bernardine Dohrn, wife of the former Weather Underground terrorist and lifelong Marxist Bill Ayers, and Tom Ayers, father of the same lifelong Marxist.

Okay, so much for Mommy.

Jarrett’s maternal grandfather was a Chicagoan named Robert Taylor, the first African-American head of the Chicago Housing Authority.

In the 1940s he was involved with such Communist fronts as the American Peace Mobilization and the Chicago Civil Liberties Committee. A fellow member of these groups was Frank Marshall Davis, the Communist journalist who in the 1970s would mentor a young Barack Obama.

An FBI document shows that Taylor, like Valerie Jarrett’s father, was believed to have been “in contact” with the aforementioned Soviet agent Alfred Stern “on a number of occasions.”

Oh dear. So much for Grandpa.

Well, how about Grandma? Remember going to your own grandmother’s house on Sunday afternoons, years ago, for fresh-baked pies, sweet jam, and lots of hugs?

Valerie Jarrett’s maternal grandmother, Dorothy Taylor, was an activist with Planned Parenthood in its early years. Planned Parenthood was founded in 1942 by Margaret Sanger, a member of the New York Socialist Party and a eugenicist who favored the use of use birth control to limit the reproduction of society’s “least intelligent and fit” members.

Toward that end, Sanger in 1939 created the so-called “Negro Project” specifically to prevent black people from breeding.

Her Birth Control Review magazine once published an article emphasizing the “urgent need” for “eugenic sterilization.”

That piece was penned by none other than Ernst Rüdin, who, as Jonah Goldberg points out, was Adolf Hitler’s director of sterilization and a founder of the Nazi Society for Racial Hygiene.

Okay Grandma. Thanks for the pie and revolutionary politics. See ya next Sunday!

Eventually, the time came for Valerie to explore love and marriage.

In 1983 she wed Dr. William Robert Jarrett, son of the Chicago Sun-Times reporter Vernon Jarrett. And Valerie got along just splendidly with her new father-in-law, who surely must’ve reminded her very much of Daddy and Gramps.

You see, in the 1940s Vernon Jarrett had been the first nationally syndicated black columnist for the Communist-influenced Chicago Defender, where he wrote pieces extolling the Communist poet Langston Hughes and lifelong Stalinists like W.E.B. DuBois and Paul Robeson.

Also in the ’40s, Vernon Jarrett was a leader of the Chicago chapter of American Youth for Democracy—the youth wing of the Communist Party USA.

Moreover, he served on a publicity committee for the Packinghouse Workers Union, a Chicago-based entity dominated by the Communist Party. In each of these endeavors, Vernon Jarrett had close contact with the Communist Frank Marshall Davis—who, as noted above, later became Barack Obama’s mentor.

According to his FBI files, Vernon Jarrett was a leading Chicago-based Communist.

“For a period of time,” reports Judicial Watch, his name “appeared on the FBI’s Security Index and [he] was considered a potential Communist saboteur who was to be arrested in the event of a conflict with the [USSR].

His FBI file reveals that he was assigned to write propaganda for a Communist Party front group in Chicago that would ‘disseminate the Communist Party line among … the middle class.’”

There were lots of tears when Vernon Jarrett died in 2004, but also many laudatory remembrances. Not the least of those was a glowing salute in the pages of People’s Weekly Worker, the house organ of the Communist Party.

These, then, are the people who raised and most heavily influenced a young Valerie Jarrett; the people who made her who she is today.

Is it any wonder, then, that she gravitated so quickly and eagerly to Barack and Michelle Obama when she first met them in the late 1980s?

Is it any wonder that when Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008, he appointed Jarrett to a prominent position in the new Administration: Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President for Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs?

Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank tells us that Valerie Jarrett’s connection to Obama is “deep and personal,” calling her “the real center of Obama’s inner circle.”

Milbank describes Jarrett as someone in a “position of unparalleled influence over the president.” Obama himself has acknowledged that he solicits Jarrett’s input on every decision he makes.

Jarrett, for her part, puts it this way: “We have kind of a mind meld. And chances are, what he wants to do is what I’d want to do.”

“I kind of know what makes them [the Obamas] who they are,” she adds. Truer words have never been spoken.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/259172/communist-family-tree-valerie-jarrett-john-perazzo

[petitfour]

1968?!?!?!!!!! I wasn’t even born yet! LOL

I did look it up right after I made my comment. There were some really awful films made in those days. The synopsis I found reminded me why I never watched it. A network must have shown it at some point during my childhood, and one of my brothers liked sci-fi, so that is probably why I have seen a minute or two of it.

[Secret Agent Man]

Because shes politically incorrect.

They dont fire any of the hags on the view that laugh and make jokes abouta guy getting his penis cut off. No late nite liberal hosts get fired.

If they agreed with what she said, theyd find a way to keep her.

[silverleaf]

She compared ValJars appearance to that of Helen Bonham Carter fictional character in a movie titled “ Planet of the Apes”

Not to an ape

And frankly there is a resemblance to the Bonham character

She should never have apologized

[the OlLine Rebel]

This is the first time I ever knew VJ might be black, even partially.

Thank you Roseanne for bringing that out. It’s a revelation to me.

[Phil DiBasquette]

Sorry there are people of all races that have flared nostrils and look a bit like apes. After all the liberals told us about that science in the
Scopes trial we are all evolved from them

Calling someone an ape is an equal opportunity insult