My Take On The Roseanne Situation

Comedian Roseann Barr recently had her extremely successful show canceled and was fired by ABC for publishing a racist tweet. Frankly, I'm OK with that. What she said was stupid and pretty sad given her celebrity status. She said it was a joke but if it was it was an extremely poor one. No matter how one feels about Valerie Jarrrett (a woman I personally don't care for), what Roseanne said was bad.

That said, why is it that the left in general, and the left-wing media, don't fire people who are not Trump supporters for disgusting comments? With the exception of Kathy Griffin (who wasn't fired by anyone – she just lost all popularity following her little photoshoot holding a severed head that looked like President Trump), no other liberal celebrity has lost a job because of disgusting things they have said about President Trump, his family, his administration, or anyone else.

Several celebrities compared President Trump to an orangutan and there was no backlash. Was that because it's only insulting if one is black?

Jimmy Kimmel once donned black face for a TV skit. Stephen Colbert says disgusting things about the President all the time.

Keith Olberman calls the President vile, vulgar names all the time. He has been fired several times for his disgusting comments. Yet he keeps getting hired by the left-wing media.

Joy Behar made comments that indicated she believes Barron Trump is autistic, even after insisting that President Obama's girls were off limits when it came to criticism. MSNBC pundit Joy Reid made bigoted remarks about gays. Fellow MSNBC star, Don Lemon, who is openly gay, didn't ask for her resignation. Apparently he's OK with Reid's public gay bashing.

Why are these celebrities still employed? Simply because the people they bashed aren't black or liberal?

There are other examples but you get the point.

The fact is if you are a conservative, a Republican, or simply a Trump supporter (like Roseanne) you must be dealt with in a harsh manner. If you're a liberal, a Democrat, or just hate Trump you get a pass. That's just a fact of society in 2018 America.

As I said above – I'm not upset about Roseanne being fired. The network has the right to do that if one of their stars says something publicly that is embarrassing to the network or makes the network look bad. And honestly, I commend ABC for hurting themselves by cancelling the show. If it wasn't number one yet it was on its way. And the network will lose money because of their decision. So good for them.

But the hypocrisy that is being shown on a regular basis is pathetic. If you're going to hold one side to a certain standard the other side should be held to the same standard. But we all know that's not going to happen – because that's not how the left works.

I watched Roseanne's show one time and it portrayed very well the political division that is reality in this country today. We were recording it so we could watch it at our leisure. It's sad that the show has been canceled because it also showed that even with huge political differences, family members can still love each other and stay close.

I feel badly for the rest of the cast, crew, writers, etc., how are now unemployed and missing out on the benefits of being connected to a hit show. Roseanne has apologized for her Twitter post and has even told her fans not to defend her remarks because, in her own words, “what I said was egregious.” So I'm not going to defend Roseanne. She is correct. Her words were egregious. But it's truly sad that she is held to a higher standard than left-wing celebrities, who can pretty much say whatever they wish and then, if they apologize, they're forgiven.