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Roseanne Barr, stand-up comic & former presidential contender (she
lost the Green Party's nomination to Dr. Jill Stein), had a popular TV
show in the 1980s on ABC called "Roseanne", about a working-class family
in fictional Lanford, Illinois.</p><p class=""> The show went off the air and
recently had a revival -- all of the original cast came back to their
roles and their first season aired to great commercial success[1]. The
revival show featured Barr playing a character (Roseanne Conner) who
supported Donald Trump for president, thus causing some friction within
the Conner family.</p><p class=""> Recently Barr falsely alleged that former
Obama White House adviser Valerie Jarrett, who was born in Iran to
American parents, has connections to the Muslim Brotherhood, and
compared her to an ape. Barr wrote: "Muslim brotherhood & planet of
the apes had a baby=vj" referencing Jarrett's initials[2].</p><p class=""> ABC
president Channing Dungey announced "Roseanne’s Twitter statement is
abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have
decided to cancel her show.". "Roseanne" stars and people associated
with the show quickly joined the chorus distancing themselves from
Barr's comment. Barr's agency (ICM Partners) dropped her saying her
tweet was "antithetical to our core values". Streaming networks (such as
Hulu) and rerun TV networks canceled re-runs of the "Roseanne" show as
well.</p><p class=""> There was more back and forth between Barr and others[2], Barr apologized, then announced she was quitting Twitter.</p><p class="">
I can't help but notice the convenience of the distancing here for the
Russiagate-pushing corporate media: The revival program was noted for
being a commercial success which didn't get into Trump Derangement
Syndrome -- making fun of Pres. Trump for things that were unlikely to
challenge power in any substantive way including looks and weight-based
jokes while not addressing the continuity of policy across American
administrations such as the growing number of wars the US conducts or
the extrajudicial means of assassinating people around the world such as
the drone war.</p><p class=""> Roseanne's revival show didn't echo the
Russiagate narrative; whatever passed for political debate on the
revival show (which was low-quality and not really worth much viewing
frankly) did a better job of showing Trump supporters as human beings
capable of holding different opinions. Trump supporters weren't the
"basket of deplorables" they were said and shown as elsewhere on
mainstream corporate TV.</p><p class=""> There's no end to the number of
Trump-hating shows out there; that is clearly what modern-day American
TV networks are fine with putting on. If you're a stand-up comic with a
passable hour-long set and you're willing to add some anti-Trump jokes,
Netflix has a lot of money to spend on recording your set for a show.
The revival "Roseanne" thus held the highest chance of critiquing the
Clinton campaign and Clinton's record on prime-time American mainstream
TV.</p><p class=""> Could these be reasons why the show was so swiftly (perhaps
opportunistically) canceled and so many took the chance to distance
themselves from Barr?</p><p class=""> Could it be that making money on a show
that didn't cater to pushing Trump Derangement Syndrome means less than
pushing the TDS agenda? After all, the revival show isn't being replaced
with some show that runs stuff akin to what RT or teleSUR show. I'm
reminded of why Phil Donahue and Jesse Ventura lost their respective
MSNBC shows during the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq[3] -- they
put on people who challenged that invasion.</p><p class=""> Or could this be
something far less interesting to people such as Roseanne Barr's attempt
at renegotiating contract terms with another network? Or is Barr giving
simply inchoate comments rooted in far too little fact and this amounts
to nothing but coincidentally beneficial to Russiagate-supporting
networks?<br class=""> _____________________________________<br class=""> [1] Articles describing the success:</p><p class=""> <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/tv-ratings-roseanne-finale-dips-but-dominates-abc-1114311" target="_blank" data-ft="{"tn":"-U"}" rel="nofollow" data-lynx-mode="asynclazy" data-lynx-uri="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hollywoodreporter.com%2Flive-feed%2Ftv-ratings-roseanne-finale-dips-but-dominates-abc-1114311&h=ATMUOJBBySb7yEy65YDAB-R1NLgt5zTxZ9GIGDuEuAmemnhWDLtX4s_zQQoXpyyV1Hznt_veIriBVQQM7WFvymlTfrqCxjIxDvSW4jDXId1N9mei_PGLfnCUmHEfCsQXkIvBD2lm3Rk" class="">https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/…/tv-ratings-roseanne-fin…</a><br class=""> <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonifitzgerald/2018/05/09/roseanne-ratings-hold-steady-as-the-season-finale-nears/" target="_blank" data-ft="{"tn":"-U"}" rel="nofollow" data-lynx-mode="asynclazy" data-lynx-uri="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Ftonifitzgerald%2F2018%2F05%2F09%2Froseanne-ratings-hold-steady-as-the-season-finale-nears%2F&h=ATNBUotaV8ewYXfOLarlVI28Pz0OJZdG6-qOo1R0dv41i0MWK7rqvTZUOhig6EU9C_BdiF0D9X-Yqt6yOa0yLj3RgeJs8DKlkiASSv68ZScvJzJbH5kHvY1ZbkbeO-fLbqTLcctBwgo" class="">https://www.forbes.com/…/roseanne-ratings-hold-steady-as-t…/</a><br class=""> <a href="https://deadline.com/2018/04/nielsen-roseanne-total-content-ratings-1202376722/" target="_blank" data-ft="{"tn":"-U"}" rel="nofollow" data-lynx-mode="asynclazy" data-lynx-uri="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fdeadline.com%2F2018%2F04%2Fnielsen-roseanne-total-content-ratings-1202376722%2F&h=ATO2y0UNCZ4NR0bjDZj1zHaAOBHbopMP3n-o5C_YiVgArZo6EIcEmVKTN3n3HRnNlY_4V-42HUIEStauiTFoLF0lQplrwJir86_4cXrRA9U3YVaYKH1zK6m2N9f2WcbI5v-h-al3xPE" class="">https://deadline.com/…/nielsen-roseanne-total-content-rati…/</a></p><p class=""> <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fscreenrant.com%2Froseanne-revival-ratings-low%2F&h=ATNNviueMhqEErNrpV4hcW0RsIczj-e_PVVHcn9Su2hGzCmMVqo8GHOXmqJ1eBq-QwUyAFJ5jPf1jC453_EztQOdKa_scdTLgw9RECWuzSN0ATv21XjPFpI0WXra3AMTMAzy70FYJAo" target="_blank" data-ft="{"tn":"-U"}" rel="nofollow" data-lynx-mode="asynclazy" class="">https://screenrant.com/roseanne-revival-ratings-low/</a> -- points out<br class="">
that the show's ratings dropped to 10.42 million viewers by the end of
the 1st season but the article calls 10.42 million viewers "a
respectable number".</p><p class=""> [2] <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fculture%2F2018%2Fmay%2F29%2Froseanne-barr-tweet-valerie-jarrett-ape&h=ATNvwPofeAToZswxNCM0oKoTXvRxBzsIG7jZzF_EhI4WH4KBKv-gi1y86Uc6huvXGYH1zhz8_NN_cWIwKx_Wf8mcixV-i_y9T_59WP7XqPFyF8oWzakVomR6g9qNnL-HuZQ7prgFxYo" target="_blank" data-ft="{"tn":"-U"}" rel="nofollow" data-lynx-mode="asynclazy" class="">https://www.theguardian.com/…/roseanne-barr-tweet-valerie-j…</a></p><p class=""> [3] <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2003%2F02%2F26%2Fbusiness%2Fmsnbc-cancels-the-phil-donahue-talk-show.html&h=ATNyzauL9RtEyY5_avVwM_hT3t5TLdyOIa-5qF3u0-G4N8kc2TWX8w7brW3Ygt6bBtqm4UPNhCq68T-J9VQQrtkRTmbttkmPlLHAXpFNU_j9TZ2LcZ_xF7CTdvasUaX60QF9hnbsEoo" target="_blank" data-ft="{"tn":"-U"}" rel="nofollow" data-lynx-mode="asynclazy" class="">https://www.nytimes.com/…/msnbc-cancels-the-phil-donahue-ta…</a>
tries to downplay Donahue's MSNBC ratings and then says "Donahue's show
had been growing slightly over the past few months, and he was actually
attracting more viewers than any other show on MSNBC, even the
channel's signature prime-time program ''Hardball With Chris Matthews.''
Mr. Matthews's show has averaged 413,000 viewers over the last month"
and <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/21/phil-donahue-chris-matthews-msnbc-firing_n_2926643.html" target="_blank" data-ft="{"tn":"-U"}" rel="nofollow" data-lynx-mode="asynclazy" data-lynx-uri="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2F2013%2F03%2F21%2Fphil-donahue-chris-matthews-msnbc-firing_n_2926643.html&h=ATPlVOpZia3aXqcpP1N0QomfkuHc5tuzt3EJb4rsHGlJZJscQEwBhYPI40SgUN2JzHApHMDJgJ6KXXm42ktWujFm2t74tT0Uwg_mrkvEnJDZFD9OHQNm09rSbfkJWs9rWHLh5XHSbPw" class="">https://www.huffingtonpost.com/…/phil-donahue-chris-matthew…</a> quotes NBC execs saying Donahue was a "difficult public face for NBC in a time of war". Ventura's MSNBC show is discussed in <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsbusters.org%2Fblogs%2Fnb%2Fnoel-sheppard%2F2009%2F11%2F29%2Fjesse-ventura-msnbc-canceled-my-show-opposing-iraq-war&h=ATPbg8iGiFr-FTb9TVBaVlRKQPBE9eEM6NDK1WwyA5ZmVEwJgqg9-SUu5NwS2EQ8Ns1sUypN1GyK6fkXIxWohAElucHZ4MeFqLrN4WZMr-DblbY5NWNyj2yFg3qTFM2OqjtHZPI5O1Q" target="_blank" data-ft="{"tn":"-U"}" rel="nofollow" data-lynx-mode="asynclazy" class="">https://www.newsbusters.org/…/jesse-ventura-msnbc-canceled-…</a>
and said to be not so well-viewed. But this gives me the impression
that ratings don't really matter when faced with a conflict between what
a shows says and what the network wants to say -- high or low ratings,
shows that don't get in line are canceled.</p><p class=""> --J. B. Nicholson</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>