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Initech

(100,060 posts)
Tue May 29, 2018, 05:46 PM May 2018

How the Ultra Far Right Defended Roseanne:

Roseanne Barr, the actress who has become a favorite of the right-wing pro-Trump movement for her role in promoting laughably untrue conspiracy theories as well as her undying support for President Trump, was fired from ABC today in response to public outrage over a blatantly racist tweet she posted.

Barr threw a racist insult at former Obama White House advisor Valerie Jarrett on Twitter this morning, claiming Jarrett is what would happen if “muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby.”

The internet rightfully exploded in outrage over the unabashed racism, so much so that Barr issued a public apology and said that she was going to stop using Twitter. But hours later, ABC announced that it was canceling Barr’s recently revived show. ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey told CBS News, “”Roseanne’s Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show.”

Aside from today’s casual racism, Barr has also been a vocal supporter of the “#QAnon” conspiracy theory, which alleges that a high-ranking intelligence sources have been ordered by Trump to publish a series of riddles on anonymous image boards that supposedly reveal that Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible foreign interference in the 2016 election is actually a secret mission to dismantle a global satanic pedophile ring.

Despite all of this, right-wing media figures charged into the arena to defend Barr and attack liberals who they believe unfairly criticized her racist tweet.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-media-rally-behind-rosanne-barr-and-her-racist-tweet/


Check out some of the tweets - just as nasty if not worse than she is. One even advocated that RW celebrities start their own network. Who are the real snowflakes again?
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How the Ultra Far Right Defended Roseanne: (Original Post) Initech May 2018 OP
They tried their own channel to rebutt The Daily Show and Colbert.... Ferrets are Cool May 2018 #1
That #QAnon bullshit is mind-numbingly bananas MrScorpio May 2018 #2
I tried to figure it out but it would involve stooping to their level. Initech May 2018 #4
If you read some of the billh58 May 2018 #5
Hope they remembered to TEVO those couple of episodes ProudLib72 May 2018 #3
Styxhexenhammer666? OilemFirchen May 2018 #6
how does that work when she deleted it and admitted she ws wrong? Takket May 2018 #7

Initech

(100,060 posts)
4. I tried to figure it out but it would involve stooping to their level.
Tue May 29, 2018, 06:54 PM
May 2018

You have to be a special breed of stupid to believe that bullshit!

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