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    BBC News ABC drops Roseanne show after racist tweet


    ABC television network has cancelled comedian Roseanne Barr's show after she posted a racist tweet comparing a former Obama adviser to an ape.
    ABC said: "Roseanne's Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values and we have decided to cancel her show."
    Barr's tweet said Valerie Jarrett was the child of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Planet of the Apes film.
    She deleted the post and apologised for a "bad joke".
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    Default Re: ABC drops Roseanne show after racist tweet

    Fuck right off... I only found out YESTERDAY that they even ran a new series of this... And now they are pulling it for this bullshit reason?

    ABC are seriously pissing me off. Deception and this in the same few weeks...?

    Bunch of corporate cunts


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    Default Re: ABC drops Roseanne show after racist tweet

    The world has gone mad!
    When I was growing up there was a Gollywog on the jam and the stereo you carried was a wogbox!

    and now if you use any colour related word your classed as a racist.

    Just to be clear on this I AM NOT A RACIST!
    Everyone should have equal rights but it’s gone too far.
    Rosannes comment (I haven’t seen) was probably in bad taste but she’s apologised so what’s next string her up?
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    Default Re: ABC drops Roseanne show after racist tweet

    Quote Originally Posted by Teajunkie View Post
    Rosannes comment (I haven’t seen) was probably in bad taste but she’s apologised so what’s next string her up?
    Barr's tweet said Valerie Jarrett was the child of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Planet of the Apes film.

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    Default Re: ABC drops Roseanne show after racist tweet

    To be honest I thought she didn't do TV any more. Never liked the fat cunt.


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    Default Re: ABC drops Roseanne show after racist tweet

    Isn't there such a thing as freedom of speech?

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    Default Re: ABC drops Roseanne show after racist tweet

    Quote Originally Posted by satzzz View Post
    Isn't there such a thing as freedom of speech?

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    She was free to say it. That's why she's in the shit.

    Lets no confuse freedom of speech with freedom to say whatever you want without consequence.

    I can go right now to my boss and call him a short-arse poison dwarf that takes it up the arse. No one is preventing me, I have freedom of speech.

    Once I'm unemployed I can't say, "But freedom of speech!"
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    Default Re: ABC drops Roseanne show after racist tweet

    Racist cunt gets sacked. Good.

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    Default Re: ABC drops Roseanne show after racist tweet

    Why does any "joke" have to be considered somethingIST or somethingPHOBIC in this day and age?

    Take the piss out of someone small and you're dwarfist, female you're sexist, gay you're homophobic etc etc. Get a fucking grip

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    Default Re: ABC drops Roseanne show after racist tweet

    Was it meant to be racial though? I thought she meant she looked like a monkey, which doesn't necessarily mean it's racist, just that she's ugly.

    Gareth Bale looks like a monkey but that is not a racist thing to say.

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    Default Re: ABC drops Roseanne show after racist tweet

    Fat sweaty heffer tried to blame it on her Ambien medication.... Burned by my pharma bredrin!!


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    Default Re: ABC drops Roseanne show after racist tweet

    Anyone get me any ambien..? Sounds like a great drug.

    The fact shes racist isn’t new. But cancelling tv shows, worse mid-season is facist and that’s where we should draw a line. Think of all the “fallen” tv shows at the hands of abc and th like.

    More like a cover up for declining viewer stats and an easy out lol


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    Default Re: ABC drops Roseanne show after racist tweet

    Quote Originally Posted by Delboy_1976 View Post
    Was it meant to be racial though? I thought she meant she looked like a monkey, which doesn't necessarily mean it's racist, just that she's ugly.

    Gareth Bale looks like a monkey but that is not a racist thing to say.
    You welshist bastard

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