In today’s Dirty Laundry Report, the tweet, the firing, the quitting and she’s back, but still no show! -LBF
Roseanne canceled! It’s over.
Within hours of Roseanne Barr's racist tweet likening former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett to an ape, ABC canceled her hit sitcom revival. https://t.co/pJZTOshpod pic.twitter.com/UhKtToKBMC
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) May 29, 2018
ABC-
ABC Entertainment cancels Roseanne Barr's show, calling her comment on Twitter "abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values." https://t.co/2HJA1onFiw [Corrects link] pic.twitter.com/XEdNA8RLft
— ABC News (@ABC) May 29, 2018
Disney (owns ABC and run by Robert Iger)-
From Channing Dungey, President of ABC Entertainment: "Roseanne's Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show."
— Robert Iger (@RobertIger) May 29, 2018
There was only one thing to do here, and that was the right thing.
Roseanne quit Twitter…
https://twitter.com/therealroseanne/status/1001470384556752898
…wait she’s back. Now we move on to damage control and “Ambien tweeting.”
Sleeping drugs can cause a host of known side effects, but the maker of Ambien says racism is not one of them, as Roseanne Barr claims. https://t.co/AmmYtQdx87 pic.twitter.com/uIwjjqLvwO
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) May 30, 2018
What? Ambien’s response was spot on. So was ABC’s. Roseanne is dangerous and her views are racist, abhorrent and frightening. The end. She should not have a show.