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They talk about class rather than race or gender: shudder. To the new left, anyone who cares primarily about ‘jobs’ is suspect because it means they prefer to focus on economic issues over the identitarian, emotionalist and esteem-driven blather that makes up so much of left thinking today. And her rebooted show plonked in millions of Americans’ living rooms a working-class family in which the matriarch – Roseanne – voted for Trump and, worse, likes him because he ‘talked about jobs’, as she said in the opening episode that got 18million viewers. She has said positive things about Trump, the greatest no-no in LA. They loathe that she is an extraordinarily popular comedienne who bristles at and mocks the liberal elite. They’re delighted primarily because they hate Barr. Or more accurately, it isn’t only about that. If ABC wants to dump a show, it can.ģ) The unrestrained glee with which the liberal media and Twitterati have greeted the cancellation of Roseanne is not about Barr’s comments on Jarrett. That might have been the calmer, less rash, more liberal route. Such an approach would have signalled both that ABC doesn’t appreciate its stars saying reputation-damaging things and that it errs on the side of preserving its own cultural products, especially one that employs hundreds of people. It might have been better if ABC had given Barr a chance to explain herself or perhaps struck a deal with her about using Twitter less while she is in the employ of ABC.
The president of ABC Entertainment described Barr’s Twitter comments as ‘abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values’ and said ‘we have decided to cancel her show’. This is what has happened to Barr: her recently resurrected sitcom Roseanne has been pulled.
2) ABC is within its rights to cancel shows.