ABC HAS CANCELED ROSEANNE BARR'S SHOW, ROSEANNE, FOLLOWING
A SERIES OF UNHINGED TWEETS SHE SHARED WITH THE WORLD TODAY.
SHE HAS A HISTORY OF UNHINGED TWEETS WHERE SHE ATTACKS
PEOPLE IN A QUESTIONABLE WAY AND ALSO SHARES CONSPIRACY THEORIES.
LET'S TALK ABOUT WHAT GOT HER FIRED TODAY.
SHE WAS RESPONDING TO A THREAD HAVING TO DO WITH THE OBAMA
ADMINISTRATION, THE CIA UNDER THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION AND IN
THAT THREAT SOMEONE HAD MENTIONED VALERIE JARRETT WHO
WAS ONE OF OBAMA'S LONGEST SERVING ADVISORS.
HERE IS WHAT SHE HAD TO SAY ABOUT VALERIE JARRETT.
WHEN I FIRST SAW THAT TWEET I THOUGHT SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT
VAN JONES.
A, WHERE DID THAT COME FROM, AND B, WHAT IS VJ?
JUST TO GIVE YOU
MORE CONTEXT IN REGARD TO WHAT
SPARKED THAT RANDOM TWEET ñ I DIDN'T KNOW THIS BUT APPARENTLY
DURING THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION THERE WERE ALL SORTS OF CRAZY
CONSPIRACY THEORIES ABOUT
VALERIE JARRETT.
THEN ALL OF THESE RIGHT-WING BLOGS WOULD CITE THAT TABLOID
PAPER AS THE SOURCE BUT NO ONE EVER QUESTIONED WHETHER IT WAS
LEGITIMATE IN THE FIRST PLACE.
OF COURSE BREITBART DID, INFO WARS DID.
THAT IS WHY WHEN THE RIGHT-WING MEDIA IS TAKEN SERIOUSLY I
FIND IT HILARIOUS.
VALERIE JARRETT
IS NOT MUSLIM.
THEY WON'T APOLOGIZE BECAUSE THEY DON'T PLAY THE SAME WAY
WE PLAY.
THEY ARE NOT LOOKING TO PLAY FAIR, THEY ARE LOOKING TO SMEAR,
DEFAME, AND SPREAD THEIR PROPAGANDA.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE ARE SUPPOSED TO DO BECAUSE I DON'T
WANT TO STOOP TO THEIR DISGUSTING LEVEL BUT AT THE SAME
TIME HOW DO YOU CONTINUOUSLY
HAVE THIS LOGICAL DISCUSSION ABOUT POLITICS AND POLICY WHEN
THE OTHER SIDE IS SPREADING CRAZY RUMORS LIKE THIS?
THAT IS WHEN I GET FRUSTRATED THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA BECAUSE
THEY JUST CALL EVERYTHING 50-50.
ROSEANNE GIVES PIZZA GATE CONSPIRACY THEORIES.
SHE THINKS THE PARKLAND SURVIVORS ARE ALL CRISIS ACTORS.
THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA DOES CALL THAT OUT BUT THEN THEY WILL
GO BACK TO CONSIDERING BREITBART LEGITIMATE.
THEY WILL CONSIDER A LOT OF THESE CONSERVATIVE PUBLICATIONS
THAT HAVE PROVENNOT TO STATE THE TRUTH, TO PURPOSELY PUT
PROPAGANDA OUT.
THEY WILL QUOTE INSANE ALT RIGHT GUYS AND USE THEM AS SOURCES.
YOU CAN IF IT IS BASED ON LOGIC.
IF SOMEONE HAS SHOWN OVER AGAIN THAT THEY ARE NOT ATTACHED TO
REALITY OR THE TRUTH, THEN YOU
SHOULD BE A LITTLE BIT SKEPTICAL WHEN THEY COME TO YOU WITH A
SCOOP OR A STORY.
THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA SHOULD NOT ENABLE THEM.
RIGHT DON'T TREAT THEM AS ACTUAL ACTORS.
THERE WAS A LOT OF FALLOUT PRIOR TO THE ROSEANNE SHOW GETTING
CANCELED.
FIRST OFF ROSEANNE BARR GOT A LOT OF CRITICISM AND BACKLASH
ON TWITTER WHICH LED TO HER APOLOGY.
I'M GOING TO
GIVE HER A SLIGHT ñ
I DON'T BELIEVE THAT APOLOGY FOR ONE SECOND.
THAT WAS HEY, YOU ARE ABOUT TO LOSE YOUR SHOW AND MILLIONS OF
DOLLARS.
YOU ARE RIGHT ABOUT THAT BECAUSE
JUST A FEW HOURS PRIOR TO HER
ATTACKING VALERIE JARRETT SHE WAS ATTACKING CHELSEA CLINTON.
AGAIN ANOTHER CRAZY, RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY THEORY INVOLVING
GEORGE SOROS BECAUSE IN THEIR MIND HE IS AN EVIL DOER.
THEY THINK HE FUNDS OUR SHOW, WHICH WOULD BE LOVELY.
BUT HE HASN'T YET.
SHE ALSO SAID THE FOLLOWING ñ AGAIN ANOTHER
RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY THEORY.
ROSEANNE BARR HAS LITERALLY LOST HER MIND.
ABOUT THAT TWEET, SHE SAYS CHELSEA CLINTON, SORRY I MADE A
MISTAKE YOU ARE NOT MARRIED TO A
SOROS BUT WE ALL MAKE THE MISTAKE LIKE SOROS SUPPORTED
NAZIS.
SOROS DIDN'T DO ANY OF THAT AND IT IS A TERRIBLE ANTI-SEMITIC
ATTACK ON SOROS WHO WAS JEWISH AND SUFFERED THROUGH THE
HOLOCAUST.
I CAN'T IMAGINE ANYTHING WORSE.
ROSEANNE BARR HAS CALLED EVERYBODY NAZIS.
SHE ATTACKS PEOPLE GOING TO ISRAEL CALLING IT AN APARTHEID
STATE.
SHE CALLED JEWISH PEOPLE NAZIS.
ROSEANNE BARR GREW UP JEWISH THEN SHE TURNED AROUND AND NOW
CALLS PALESTINIANS AND ANYONE
SUPPORTING THEM NAZIS.
WHAT?
MAKE UP YOUR MIND.
IN 2012 SHE RAN FOR PRESIDENT AS A THIRD-PARTY CANDIDATE.
SHE IDENTIFIED AS THE CANDIDATE FOR THE GREEN PARTY.
SHE WENT ON OUR SHOW WHICH AT THAT TIME WAS ON CURRENT TV
AND I REMEMBER HER COMING IN.
SHE PRESENTED HERSELF AS SOMEONE WHO WAS SO RADICALLY LEFTIST,
THE DEMOCRATS ARE NOT LIBERAL ENOUGH, -WE NEED SOMEONE WHO IS
EVEN MORE PROGRESSIVE ñ I AM THE GREEN PARTY CANDIDATE, VOTE FOR
ME.
IT IS THE YO-YOING WITH HER POLITICAL IDENTITY IS
TERRIFYING AND FASCINATING AT THE SAME TIME.
I DO KNOW WHY THIS WAS THE STRAW THAT BROKE THE CAMELS BACK.
SHE ACTUALLY ATTACKED SOMEONE POWERFUL.
TO BE FAIR SHE HAS DONE THAT IN THE PAST AND MAYBE PEOPLE HAD
JUST HAD ENOUGH.
VALERIE JARRETT, I'VE GOT NO LOVE FOR HER AND I DO NOT AGREE
WITH A LOT OF WHAT SHE HAS DONE.
I RECEIVED THIS NOTE FROM HER
ONCE WHICH WAS AMUSING, NOT A BIG DEAL BUT WHY DIDN'T
ROSEANNE'S SHOW GET CANCELED FOR CALLING PALESTINIANS NAZIS?
SHE POSED WITH COOKIES OF PEOPLE GOING INTO OVENS AND BURNING.
IF THAT DOESN'T GET YOUR SHOW CANCELED, WHY DOES THIS?
IT IS NOT THE FIRST TIME THAT SHE HAS MADE RACIST
COMMENTS ABOUT PEOPLE IN THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION.
SUSAN
RICE, SHE SAID SUSAN RICE IS A MAN WITH BIG SWINGING APE BALLS.
SHE SAID BALLS.
SUSAN RICE IS A PERFECTLY PLEASANT PERSON WHO WORKED IN
THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION.
YOU CAN AGREE OR NOT BUT WHAT ARE
YOU
TALKING ABOUT?
YOU CAN AGREE OR DISAGREE THEIR POLICIES
BUT WHY SAY THIS CRAZY STUFF WHICH LEADS ME TO THIS
POINT, SHE IS MENTALLY UNBALANCED, ALMOST CLEARLY SO
AND IN FACT I DID A LITTLE BIT OF RESEARCH ON IMPORTANT FACT
CHECKING SITES LIKE WIKIPEDIA.
THEY ACTUALLY DO A LOT OF FACT CHECKING TO BE FAIR TO THEM.
FIRST I READ ARTICLES ABOUT HOW SOME PEOPLE THINK SHE TOOK
TOO MUCH DRUGS, SOME PEOPLE SAY SHE HAD TO GO TO MENTAL FACILITY
BUT ACCORDING TO WIKIPEDIA, SHE WAS IN A CAR ACCIDENT AT THE AGE
OF 16 AND HER PERSONALITY CHANGED DRAMATICALLY AFTER THAT
AND SHE
DID HAVE TO DO EIGHT MONTHS IN A MENTAL INSTITUTION.
THAT
MADE ME KINDA FEEL BAD FOR HER BUT THAT IS WHEN SHE WAS 16
AND SHE HAS BEEN LIKE THIS EVER SENSE AND SHE GOT HER SUCCESS,
EVEN THOUGH SHE WAS IN THIS MENTAL STATE, ETC., AND SO WHEN
YOU LOOK AT IT THROUGH THAT LENS, SHE IS CLEARLY UNBALANCED.
LEFT, RIGHT, TRUMP IS AWESOME, ISRAEL'S TERRIBLE AND ISRAEL'S
AWESOME AND EVERYBODY IS A NAZI.
NONE OF THAT MAKES ANY SENSE
SO THAT IS ROSEANNE AND SHE HAS ATTACKED ME WITH GREAT VITRIOL
ONLINE, EVEN THOUGH I DID AN INTERVIEW WITH HER.
NONE OF IT
MAKES ANY SENSE AND THAT IS TOTALLY FINE.
SHE IS
UNBALANCED, THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE UNBALANCED IN THE WORLD BUT
WHAT IS AMAZING IS THE PEOPLE WHO FOLLOWED HER AND WERE LIKE
YES.
THAT IS A TRUMP SUPPORTER, A REAL AMERICAN.
IN
FACT, THAT INSANE SOROS TWEET THAT WE JUST READ YOU, DONALD
TRUMP JR.
RETWEETED IT.
ON THE OTHER HAND, IS HIS DAD REALLY THAT MENTALLY BALANCED?
I THINK WE ARE GOING TO FIND OUT THAT A LOT OF THE RIGHT WING HAS
LITERALLY BEEN FOLLOWING CRAZY PEOPLE, WHETHER IT'S ROSEANNE
BARR OR ALEX JONES OR GLENN BECK, I THINK THEY ALL
LITERALLY HAVE SIGNIFICANT MENTAL ISSUES, LET ALONE DONALD
TRUMP.
I FEEL LIKE REAL LIFE AND AMERICAN POLITICS SPECIFICALLY
IS ONE GIANT NEVER-ENDING EPISODE OF THE OFFICE, BUT IT IS
JUST NOT FUNNY, WHERE YOU HAVE A COUPLE OF PEOPLE IN THE OFFICE
THAT ARE FUNCTIONING PROPERLY AND THEN THEY ARE SURROUNDED BY
A BUNCH OF PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT FUNCTIONING PROPERLY AND THOSE
ARE THE PEOPLE IN POWER AND IT IS JUST NOT FUNNY AND LOOK, I
HAD
MET ROSEANNE BARR PERSONALLY SEVERAL YEARS PRIOR TO ALL OF
THE STUFF HAPPENING.
SHE WASN'T IN THE LIMELIGHT, THIS WAS AFTER
THE 2012 ELECTION.
SHE WAS STILL A PUBLIC FIGURE BUT NO ONE
WAS PAYING ANY ATTENTION TO HER AND SHE HAD A STUDIO IN LOS
ANGELES.
SHE WANTED TO HAVE NEWS SHOWS THAT DO THEIR
PROGRAMMING THROUGH THE STUDIO AND SOME AT THE TIME, I MET HER
THERE AND HAD A CONVERSATION WITH HER AND I FELT LIKE SHE WAS
NOT ALL THERE AND I HAVE NEVER TALKED ABOUT IT PUBLICLY BECAUSE
I AM NOT A MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL AND I JUST DON'T
FEEL COMFORTABLE TALKING ABOUT THOSE TYPES OF THINGS IN
THAT WAY AND AT THAT TIME SINCE SHE WASN'T IN THE LIMELIGHT, WHY
AM
I GOING TO RUN AROUND TALKING ABOUT HOW SHE HAS SOMETHING
GOING ON?
BUT THEY'RE ALL OF THE STUFF I HAVE KEPT QUIET ABOUT THAT, AND
YOU ARE RIGHT.
BASED ON WHAT YOU HAVE READ AND BASED ON WHAT
I HAVE EXPERIENCED PERSONALLY AND HAVING CONVERSATIONS WITH
HER, SOMETHING IS NOT RIGHT BUT THAT DOES NOT CHANGE THE FACT
THAT ABC MADE THE RIGHT MOVE HERE.
THIS KIND OF STUFF CANNOT
FLY DOTS WE CANNOT KEEP NORMALIZING THIS TYPE OF
RHETORIC, I DON'T CARE IF IT'S COMING FROM SOMEONE WHO NEEDS
MENTAL HEALTH CARE, FROM SOMEONE WHO IS FUNCTIONING AT A NORMAL
RATE.
WE CANNOT NORMALIZE THIS TYPE OF RHETORIC.
I FEEL ABOUT EVERYBODY ELSE ON THE SHOW NOW THEY ARE OUT OF
JOBS, THEY HAD A, IT WAS A TOP RATED SHOW.
THEY WERE GOING TO
MAKE MONEY, MAYBE YOU DO NOT SHED TOO MUCH OF A TEAR OVER IT
BUT THERE WERE A LOT OF GREAT PEOPLE WORKING ON THAT SHOW,
REAL PROGRESSIVES.
WANDA SYKES QUIT AS SOON AS
SHE SAW THAT COMMENT, SARAH GILBERT, AN EP ON THE SHOW, WAS
APOLOGETIC ABOUT ROSEANNE'S COMMENTS AND NOW THEY ARE ALL
OUT OF JOBS.
SHE RUINED IT FOR EVERYONE BUT TO ME THE MOST
AMAZING PART IS THAT WE ARE IN A BLACK MIRROR EPISODE AND PEOPLE
ARE LEGITIMATELY FOLLOWING PEOPLE THAT HAVE LOST THEIR
MINDS, AND THEY THINK, THEY NAILED IT.
THEY REALLY GOT THIS
THING FIGURED OUT.
YOU ARE FOLLOWING LITERAL CRAZY PEOPLE.