ABC cancels Roseanne

[PunkinPi]

Link to tweet

ABC has canceled #Roseanne.

[LanternWaste]

1. Damn. That was fast! nt

Damn. That was fast!

[workinclasszero]

60. They never should have put a racist hater like Barr on the air in the first place

[a kennedy]

2. Bout damn time.......

[lapfog_1]

9. that was actually lightning fast for corporate america - n/t

[ooky]

17. Got that right. They never should have put that

spew on air to begin with. Pure garbage.

[Honeycombe8]

134. Yep. That means my impression of the show was correct.

Representing the liberal side as wacky, shouting, out of control, while Trumper Roseanne sits there calmly responding logically. Totally opposite of the real world, but intentional propaganda.

[Fred Sanders]

153. ABC will come back with a more subtle form of racism disguised as comedy, always a ratings winner!

[pnwmom]

3. Good for them!

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

4. Bye bye.

Just the beginning. Shes an oaf.

[RockRaven]

5. Cue cries of "censorship!!!"

And drink in the sweet, sweet bigot tears.

[rpannier]

166. I doubt we'll hear as much of that as we might have normally

O' Reilly already came out and said they had to fire her, as did James Murdoch
There will be some, but it will likely gather less steam then it otherwise would have because some in the Conservo-Nut-O-Sphere are backing ABC on this

Though with Shill O' Liellly, I still think he's trying to get back on TV

[The Blue Flower]

6. We CAN make a difference

Never give up, never surrender!

[saidsimplesimon]

22. Yes, we can, Blue Flower.

[Zoonart]

7. The absolute right (any only) thing for ABC to do.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

8. Wow.

Good.

[riversedge]

10. whow. Have to admit. I did not see that coming!

[yonder]

97. Same here. I figured clicking would reveal a joke, captioned photo, maybe the Onion.

but no, there it was plain as day.

[NCTraveler]

11. They knew who she was going in.

They don't get a pat on the back now.

[Blue_Adept]

20. Exactly

This goes back years and years. They had better properties to try and make some kind of revival with than this.

[LiberalArkie]

64. Sometimes things are done to allow someone or something or some idea

to hang themselves.

[NCTraveler]

66. That makes no sense in this situation.

You give your enemies enough to hand themselves. The concept does not logically pertain to this situation.

ABC did not take this action in order to eventually do harm to a racist bigot.

[cab67]

88. Yes, but only if there's no real risk to reputation or value.

This is going to cost ABC a lot of money. Most of the cast members were little-known when the first iteration of the show came out, but many of them are big-name now and would have commanded serious compensation. There won't be any return from syndication, and a lot of advertising dollars have disappeared.

[uponit7771]

125. +1

[saidsimplesimon]

12. My, my how

sweet is that?

[Vinca]

13. Wow - good for them for acting so quickly.

I actually double checked for another source and it appears this is so. Buh-bye and good riddance Roseanne.

[joshcryer]

14. Wow, I am actually stunned by this.

The show had better ratings than Big Bang Theory.

[Me.]

15. WOW

[oberliner]

16. That was quick

[Totally Tunsie]

18. How long before trump reacts to this?

Roseanne made her statement and ABC made theirs.

[Kingofalldems]

19. Deplorable Trump trolls not likng this one.

Yikes.

[imanamerican63]

21. Good for ABC!

They are standing up to the vitriol hatred that we see in America!

[samnsara]

23. wow fast!!!!

[Initech]

24. See ya! Wouldn't want to be ya!

[ooky]

25. Hopefully this is the last we will hear from this stinking witch.

[garybeck]

26. good riddance, you lame excuse for a human being.

n/t

[procon]

27. Give a big shout out to ABC/Disney! This is a huge, very gutsy decision that will

hit them financially as well as bring down the wrath of the craziest rightwing fans, and probably provoke Trump into another twitter rage against ABC/Disney.

[tazkcmo]

114. Nope.

They started this mess it's only fitting that they clean it up.

[Hoyt]

28. Now, we get to watch ignorant white wing racists, including trump, trash ABC.

[Xolodno]

29. Dahyum! Bob Iger doesn't mess around.

Note to self, don't piss him off.

[Progressive2020]

30. Amazing

I thought this was a joke at first. I am amazed at ABC and their backbone. I am pretty sure that the Roseanne show was making money for them. For ABC to put principles before profits is admirable.

[llmart]

81. Don't be so magnanimous yet...

I'm sure, because of past boycotts, etc., ABC knew that this was going to be a big zero and millions of people would boycott their sponsors. It wasn't done out of any noble reasons.

Having said that, I still give them kudos for doing it so quickly.

[boston bean]

31. Good.

[Johnny2X2X]

32. Bravo

She is a racist and a white supremacist.

We’re going to spend a generation dealing with racists who supported Trump.

[PearliePoo2]

33. WHOA!! The line was crossed. The tide needs to turn NOW.

BLOTUS and his racist deplorables lost BIG today!

[janterry]

34. I feel so sorry for the *other* actors on that show

It had to happen,
but they didn't deserve this.

ETA: and the crew. They are all out of work, now, too.

[Blue_Adept]

43. Most of the actors had other gigs

So they'll largely land fine - unless the stink of all of this rubs off on them in a big way.

It's the crew side where it really hits the most.

[joshcryer]

45. Likely had a morality clause.

ABC probably cancelled because if each actor started dropping out one by one because of the morality clause, they would have to pay big bucks (remember, they had renewed it already for a Season 2).

ABC lost a shitload of money on this venture.

[Freddie]

48. What they should do

(IMO) is bring back the show with all the actors and characters except Roseanne has died. Eventually Dan will remarry to a flaming liberal.

[joshcryer]

67. Call the show "Dan."

Piss on her grave.

[janterry]

70. I wonder if she owns creative rights

or something since she developed the show/characters in the first place?

(but other than that, I agree

[Liberalagogo]

73. Better yet, keep the show as is

and replace Roseanne with Rosie O'Donnell playing Roseanne Conner, ala the two Becky's or the two Darrin's on Bewitched.

Having someone else play her role would really screw her head over.

[Hekate]

116. Sounds like a plan to me. They can all weep over her grave, complain about the cost of funerals...

...have a wake and remember the good times and the bad, and get on with their TV lives.

Dan can remain a widower, and the family can continue to squabble and pull together. They don't need a flaming liberal in the lead role, really. I think John Goodman could carry this show.

[AdamGG]

160. Roseanne probably owns the rights to the show and wouldn't allow that

[calimary]

170. Hey, I like that!

[kcr]

35. Good.

Last edited Tue May 29, 2018, 02:39 PM - Edit history (1)

I was afraid they wouldn't. Glad to hear the good news. Edit: Justs saw Catwoman's thread. I'd forgotten ABC had a new president, Channing Dungey.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

36. Well! Now she can go back to hawking timeshares in Vegas!

[bearsfootball516]

37. WOOHOO!!!

[John Fante]

38. ABC didn't even wait for the inevitable boycott. That was swift!

I love it. Trumpism will NOT BE NORMALIZED!

[gollygee]

39. One sentence. LOL. I wonder if she learned about it on Twitter. nt

[Whiskeytide]

40. If this is true...

... (and I have no reason to believe it’s not other than it is a little out of character and very swift), it explains her apology. I’m sure she got word that ABC was considering this and she rushed out an apology to try and save her ass. Otherwise I doubt she would have backed up at all.

[TDale313]

41. Good.

She’s been awful for ages, but this latest tweet was so disgusting there was no way ABC could or should keep her.

[heaven05]

42. okay, one down

65,999,999 to go

[lpbk2713]

44. BWAHAHA

Too bad for all the other cast and crew that depended on the show for a paycheck.
But they should have expected this from just being associated with a hateful nutjob.

[cungar2000]

46. Now all we have to is cancel Trump

Before the second season is over.

[Moostache]

78. Only if "season" is a year and not a full 4-yr. term!!!

We need to be rid of this stain before it sets permanently.

[Croney]

47. But it's OK, another network will pick her up!

Faux News will spin off a sit-com branch, and Drumpf will have cameo appearances every week.

[mainstreetonce]

54. No

The other actors are respected people who can get good roles.they will not work with her.

[Liberalagogo]

49. Thanks for ruining a bunch of people's careers, Rosie.

n/t

[Bucky]

94. If only there was a way to legally fire her and replace her with Melissa McCarthy...

or, I dunno, Ted McGinley. He's pretty good at that sort of thing.

[Liberalagogo]

95. How about

Rosie O'Donnell?

[Bucky]

98. Why you hating on Ted McGinley

This is what he does, dammit!

https://www.metv.com/stories/in-defense-of-ted-mcginley-televisions-supposed-show-killer

[Liberalagogo]

101. I just think

replacing Roseanne with another actress playing the same role would not only be good for the show, but would make Roseanne's head assplode.

[demmiblue]

50. K&R

[sunonmars]

51. We all knew this would happen, saw it coming a mile off when they commissioned it. She's mental

[workinclasszero]

52. Instant justice! Yay!

[underpants]

57. Yes, yes it did.

[Hugin]

53. Bye. n/t

[radical noodle]

55. omg... the crisis this will cause for the right

heads are exploding on facebook. LOL! All the racists loved Roseanne.

[amb123]

56. Dear Roseanne, I feel so sorry for the life you've chosen.

you Trump-ette!

george wallace & donald trump adopted a baby from jews for jesus=rb

See how YOU like it, Roseanne. It's so easy to hate.

[Exotica]

58. wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot

[malaise]

59. ABC and Disney couldn't handle a boycott

Good

[workinclasszero]

69. And it was coming

l bet ABC had a secret agreement with Barr that required her to keep her racist piehole shut but like every true deplorable Trumpsucker, she just couldn't keep the vile hate inside for long.

[SidDithers]

61. Good...

Sid

[sunonmars]

62. No one fucks with Disneys reputation.....She had to go.

[global1]

63. Soon Trump Will Learn The Same Lesson - Words Have Consequences.....

Trump -- soon to be cancelled.

[NewJeffCT]

65. So, in America, sitcom stars

are held to higher standards than presidents.

[Raster]

76. Unfortunately, that seems to be the case with this POTUS.

[bigbrother05]

83. No, but Disney/ABC has more backbone than a GOP Congress

~70% of the American public don't support the behavior of the current Resident. The problem is that enough GOP members of Congress are beholden to donors that don't care as long as they got theirs.

One thing that many people miss is that IQ is rated on a relative scale with 100 being the average. A fairly high portion of the 30% that claim to support Trump have a Lake Woebegone notion that they are all above average.

[KPN]

122. +1,000,000

[uponit7771]

127. +1

[world wide wally]

68. Best news all day!

[sunonmars]

71. and the racist witch did it all by herself, how to ruin a 2nd chance in spectacular style.

[kimbutgar]

72. I bet this was the last staw

The ratings were probably not that great after her premiere. I used to watch her old series. Out of curiosity I watched the first one and never went back.

I’m glad she got pushed back on her racist butt! Now she will become even more radioactive.

[sunonmars]

74. she's finished, she'll never work again.

[bullwinkle428]

87. People probably said the same about Paula Deen - she's back on

the air with a syndicated show, although I believe it airs at 4:30 A.M. on Sundays in the market where I live!

[Bucky]

96. Paula Deen has had a significantly different track record

She apologized, she was honest about her ugly language in the past, and she had an established track record for inclusive hiring.

The point isn't to eternally punish everyone who's ever done or said something wrong in the past. The need is to heal the causes and effects of our history of racism and do better in the future. As Jimmy Carter said:

"She was maybe excessively honest in saying that she had in the past, 30 years ago, used this terrible word," Carter told CNN's Suzanne Malveaux in an interview Friday. "I think she has been punished, perhaps overly severely, for her honesty in admitting it and for the use of the word in the distant past. She's apologized profusely."

We have to live in world where redemption is possible, or hope for healing and repairing past damages is going to be impossible.

[yonder]

115. Wise and kind words, thanks

I am glad however, to see that sitcom cancelled.

[Ligyron]

137. Maybe Fox News will hire her to rant as a "comment hater"

[LostOne4Ever]

75. Ding dong the witch is dead!

https://m.

[hexola]

77. Was the show getting ratings? Perhaps she knew she was canceled...

I know it got attention the first few episodes - but was it really a hit?

She might have known it was over and went out in a blaze of glory and put ABC on the spot...

[rpannier]

165. Their final episode of the season drew 10 million viewers

I doubt it was in danger of being cancelled
Until she jumped on her twit account

[Puzzler]

79. About bloody time!!!

Thank you Wanda Sykes and everyone who took a strong stand!!!



-Puzzler

[B2G]

80. What a dumbass. nt

[FloridaBlues]

89. The viewer rating went from 18 million to 10 million for the finale show

Good size drop off.
Can't believe abc acted this fast. ABC caught a lot of grief after canceling of. " The Chew" last week for no reason.

[Blue_Adept]

105. The Chew's ratings dropped 17% after the Batali crap

It never recovered from it.

[FloridaBlues]

148. Thanks..Didn't realize dropped that much. Still going to miss that show

Never watched Roseann show just couldn't do it.

[Blue_Adept]

150. I never watched either

I watched it back in the old days when I was younger but I knew better with the revival. Better things to do with my time.

The Chew I caught pieces of here and there mostly because my mother watched it in the afternoon as the quick pace and all kept her pretty engaged.

[Raine]

157. The Chew is still on, anyway it is in the Los Angeles area

it's on at noon on ABC.

[Gothmog]

82. Yeah

Link to tweet

[smirkymonkey]

146. I just heard this at work!

I've been busy so haven't been paying attention to things. I'm glad they got rid of her, I just feel bad that her co-workers have to suffer for her racism.

BTW, does she really believe those things above? If so, there is no hope for her.

[murielm99]

151. What are lizard people?

[j3161usa]

84. She's Not a Racist!!

This is what washed-up movie stars and entertainers do to stay in the media. They say and do outrageous crap to get attention. This reboot was going off the air anyway due to low ratings. Rosanne is looking for a spot on foxnews. Remember Dennis Miller who went from comedian, then after his career tanked he went to sports, then when that failed, he jumped on the conservative BS and found a home on foxnews and conservative talk radio. Some go into porn, others go to foxnews.

[Bucky]

92. Not sure what reality you're from...

But in this timeline, the one in which white racists have been using the word "ape" as a racist slur against people of African dissent for the last 3 centuries, the use of the word "ape" as a slur against an African American woman is categorically racist.

NB: if you've arrived in our current timeline via a time-travel machine, may I borrow it? I have couple of things I'd like to fix and I promise I'll have it back to you by yesterday.

[jberryhill]

104. Take me with you

There is an alternate me who dropped me off in this reality, and is probably running around my original reality causing havoc of all kinds. We need to kidnap him and bring him back here, so that I can return to my timeline.

[PunkinPi]

99. When even the dictionary calls Roseanne out as a racist, I'm pretty sure she's a racist...

Link to tweet

[3catwoman3]

117. Dictionary.com has a decidedly liberal leaning, based...

...on many of their Word of the Day selections.

[PunkinPi]

123. Yea, some of their trolls are hilarious. nt

[VMA131Marine]

140. Hello newbie!

Your stay here is looking like it might be a brief one!

[marble falls]

161. So you're saying she's not racist, she just plays one in real life. I don't think thats going to fly

[Duppers]

162. "Not a racist" my ass.

Bye.

[calimary]

172. Welcome to DU, j316usa.

Maybe some outfit with a twisted worldview like that of Pox Noise will offer her a haven at some point. I can't think of anywhere else where her brand would be welcome at this point. Her career is in the deep freeze, at least for awhile. If she had left it at the initial apology tweet and not followed it up with lame comments and trying to blame Ambien, it might have helped a little. But I saw quite a difference between the apology tweet and her later comments. The first almost seemed like someone else had written it for her, compared to subsequent samples.

Somebody on the air pointed out yesterday that Mel Gibson came back. And people can have short memories.

But if it talks like a duck, and tweets like a duck, issues targeted put-downs like a duck, and otherwise behaves like a duck - it's probably a duck.

[bullwinkle428]

85. Countdown to Captain Limpdick's tweet about "PC run amok", or some

such nonsense.

I'll return to kick the thread when he does it!

[C Moon]

86. YES!!! That was the ONLY reason she apologized. Slimy rat!

Now hopefully the other station airing her reruns will follow this lead.

[KPN]

90. Not to worry. FOX will pick it up --

if the other cast members don't quit. Hopefully, they would do that.

[HenryWallace]

109. They need a lead-in for "Last Man Standing"

[FakeNoose]

91. Wanda Sykes quit the show on thespot

I don't know if Wanda Sykes had a hand in getting Roseanne cancelled or not, but she quit the show as soon as she saw Roseanne Barr's ridiculous hateful tweet. She quit on the spot, announced she wasn't returning to the show.

So one day later the show is cancelled. Good on you Wanda, and awesome of ABC!

[tenderfoot]

93. Oh no... DU's Deplorables will have a fit!

[TheRealNorth]

111. The horror

[oberliner]

112. What do you mean?

Everyone at DU seems pleased about this.

[lunatica]

121. What are you talking about?

I would self delete if I were you.

[Pepsidog]

100. Thank goodness!!

[geardaddy]

102. Awesome!

[Bucky]

103. Handled right. But still, they needed to use the Oxford comma here.

We can't compromise our standards

[Moral Compass]

106. ABC has no choice

ABC is owned by Disney.

They really had no choice and they couldn’t afford to hesitate.

Action this quick removes any potential that customers/viewers perceive any linkage between Barr and the network.

The show itself was not, from what I understand, was not that incendiary. The garbage that had been spewing from her mouth was.

I think that, in some ways, it is better that Trump has lured all of the enthusiastic racists out into the light.

Remember all that nonsense the MSM was pushing during the 1st Obama inauguration that the election of Obama meant that the US was moving into a post-racial era?

Seems like a million years ago now doesn’t it?

The racists are letting their hate flags fly these days. Their problem is that, while Trump may be encouraging and nurturing their vileness, the rest of the world including their employers don’t want racism associated with their brand.

[TheRealNorth]

108. Someone forgot to take their meds

My only explanation for her to launch this tirade out of nowhere and not thinking the things she said would not come back to bite her in the ass.

[oberliner]

113. The tweet actually wasn't out of character for her at all

That's the scary thing.

[matt819]

110. Holy cow

Wouldn't it be great if police departments responded the same way when their officers brutalize people? To wit,

The officers' behavior is abhorrent, repugnant, and inconsistent with the values and training of this department, and we have decided to terminate their employment and explore with the prosecutor the possibility of bringing charges against these officers.

[MrScorpio]

118. Of course, I'm glad to see her shit show off the air

But I can’t help but feel for all the rank and file cast and crew who are finding out right now that they’re out of a paycheck because Ms Racist Conspiracy Theory was drunk tweeting her brains out.

Making a living is hard enough in Hollywood without having your job taken away from you without a new one lined up.

Of course, those with money are going to be alright. But the lighting and makeup people, the gaffers and construction crew, all the people behind the scenes, Rosanne, the producers who pitched this gawd awful mess in the first place and the ABC execs who greenlit it, have all fucked these people, who weren’t even strangers, in the ass.

And John Goodman should tell Roseanne to her overly Botoxed face why that’s a problem.

[Hekate]

119. Swift justice, baby

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

120. I'm astonished.

I only ever watched the original series once or twice and didn't care for it. What little I know about Roseanne Barr I do not like. I had no intention of watching the reboot and was disgusted by what little I'd learned about it.

And yes, lots of other entities ought to be equally fast to shit-can racist, misogynist, etc. assholes.

[leftyladyfrommo]

124. That is too bad for the rest of the cast.

I can't stand her but I really like John Goodman.

What the hell was she thinking?

[klook]

126. Outstanding news!

[PufPuf23]

128. That was fast and correct by ABC.

Oops, totally missed the reincarnation. Goodbye and good riddance Roseanne.

[meadowlark5]

129. I just went over to twitter to see the responses

Gaa! Her Twitter page is like a racist, conspiracy filled, paranoid hateful cess pool.

[muntrv]

130. Any word on whether Fox will pick her up like "Last Man Standing?"

[dameatball]

131. Maybe she can get a gig with Alex Jones. Wouldn't surprise me if he rants about this.

[wryter2000]

132. Yay

Never should have been on to begin with.

[Honeycombe8]

133. Good. But not surprised a Trumper tweets something racist, insulting, & trashy. nt

[beachbum bob]

135. The karma can't be ignored...

[LudwigPastorius]

136. Sometimes the Wheels of Justice grind slowly...

Sometimes they whirr like a fan and flatten your racist, sloppy ass in a New York minute.

Ahhh, exceedingly fine.

[helpisontheway]

138. Good..now she can take her @ss back to her NUT farm in Hawaii..nt

[msdogi]

139. Great news

Now can Congress please cancel the orange shitshow in our White House?

[Loge23]

141. Words matter

While we're celebrating the end of one racist ignoramus, may I caution some on this thread on the use of "flaming liberal"?
What does that mean anyway?
Flaming? As in gay? Isn't that a derogatory phrase?
Liberal? As in what?
Do we call conservatives flaming?
Aren't we contributing to demonizing the word liberal by using the phrase as a verbal caricature?
I'm not trying to be PC here, but I can't see the phrase "flaming liberal" in any positive light, especially on these pages.

Proud Liberal, currently not aflame.

[LudwigPastorius]

143. Umm...

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flaming

FLAMING

3 :intense, passionate •flaming youth

LIBERAL


2 a : marked by generosity : openhanded a liberal giver

5 : broad-minded; especially : not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or traditional forms

6 a : of, favoring, or based upon the principles of liberalism
b capitalized : of or constituting a political party advocating or associated with the principles of political liberalism; especially : of or constituting a political party...associated with ideals of individual especially economic freedom, greater individual participation in government, and constitutional, political, and administrative reforms designed to secure these objectives

[Scurrilous]

142. K&R

[njhoneybadger]

144. Most of us had enough sense not to support that bullshit.

The others I don't know?

[area51]

145. Who'd a thunk

such a "classy lady" would make a tweet like that?

[AlexSFCA]

147. I didnt realize Rosanne was an altright queen

her tweets are very extreme, this should end her career unless she turns into ann coulter. Either way, karma won’t be nice to her.

[Stand and Fight]

149. Good riddance. n/t

[Azathoth]

152. Bye

Maybe this will serve as a wakeup call to businesses that the potential profits that can be milked from MAGA-ites aren't worth the unhinged insanity they will have to get in bed with.

[DonCoquixote]

154. this means that Disney

relaized that in order to sell it's marvel and Star Wars movies, they needed to keep Rosie out of the picture.

[defacto7]

155. Well, that's that. Good riddance.

Now for page 2.......

[Warren_Pointe]

156. And she'll be hired by foxnews in no time.

She'll make an excellent addition to their sheet squad. She'll even bring her own burning cross.

[blue-wave]

158. Yes! K&R

Someone else commented she is an oaf. Times that by 1,000. She also seriously needs to seek mental help.

[AdamGG]

159. She's lucky that there wasn't social media/internet in the 90s during her first show

Or her career might have tanked right at the start.

[flibbitygiblets]

163. How much you want to bet she has undiagnosed mental and/or substance issues?

I am *NOT* defending her racist ass; I never watched her shitty show before or now either; her loud-mouth schtick always hit my ears like fingernails on a chalkboard.

But, I heard Bill Mahr say she used to be a decent human being, so wondering what changed? Maybe if she got some help, she could redeem herself and even help others? Or did the fame and money just cause her inner asshole to shine through?

[LudwigPastorius]

168. Tom Arnold said she has multiple personality disorder.

I tend to believe it because of just how all-over-the-map her attacks have been. (She once called Israel a "Nazi state", but later referred to Palestinians as nazis. After the Trayvon Martin murder, she tweeted the address of George Zimmerman's parents saying the if he wasn't arrested she might go over and arrest him herself. Now she tweets disgusting racists comments.)

Maybe this will be a wake up call for her to get the psychiatric help she obviously needs.

[Cha]

164. Wow! Mahalo PunkinPi! BREAKING: Source close to Valerie Jarrett

Link to tweet

[Ilsa]

167. Remember when she did this:

(The pic is embedded in a tweet.)

Link to tweet

?s=19

[malthaussen]

171. And put quite a few people out of work in the process.

The production staff for a TV show is a pretty big group. Yeah, the star was an abomination unto God, but it is a shame she has to take so many people down with her.

-- Mal

[forgotmylogin]

173. Woof...I heard TVLand has pulled the reruns of the original off the air.

Roseanne has just singlehandedly wiped out a lot of jobs and a lot of residual money for a lot of people. Hopefully, this will be the finale of her Primetime career in Hollywood.