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The senate. and his scandal was having a really downward pressure on the republican senate in the senate race as well. that s why a lot of the fellow republicans of him were urging him to move on and get past this and resign from office. this is still a surprise, though. it s a totally different posture from where he s been. i think rebecca put it great when she said there was no light at the end of the tunnel any way he turned whether it was the court ore impeachment. he was in a heap of trouble. the missouri governor resigned effective this friday. we ll stay on top of this story. we want to get back to the story, roseanne barr fired from abc. bill carter, a lot of people are asking why did abc hire her to begin with given her history of racist and conspiracy tweets and statements? well, partly, of course, she s been popular. her show was popular. there s been a movement in television to reboot familiar shows. also you have to say that her ....
That s a major step forward in my view. good point. bianna, i want you to weigh in as well. go ahead. disney is a company that a few years ago banned any spomoig in their programs? you think about the moral consciousness of that decision and to not react to racism, vile racism of this nature would be uncon whenable. i don t think disney had another choice. if you think about it from a broader perspective. disney and abc strategically had it right by reaching out to middle america. they made an error in reaching out to roseanne as far as her being the face of their audience, because this shouldn t be a partisan issue. it s not just people who voted or didn t vote for donald trump who should be offended. the country should be offended. this is not tolerable to tweet these things. it s not tolerable to employ these kind of people. if a student said this at school, they should be ....
Connection to donald trump was a factor here. i mean, she was a supporter of trump. and there was an audience for that. abc thought there was an audience for that. abc has had a history of blue collar shows. that audience has been there for abc. i think they felt like this was someone that could reach that audience. they knew about a lot of the things she said in the past and tried to write it off as that s just roseanne being roseanne. they couldn t control her the first time she was on the air. she had a lot of skpeszive behavior back then. i think they felt like this was a great gamble. the audience would be there. and the audience was, but they got the real roseanne, what they should have anticipated. this is who she is. she s a person you can t reline on and has got unhinged views and clearly this racist view that is completely intolerable to everybody. finally got to the point where abc said we can t put this on anymore. we can t take the heat. the disney corporation is the most ....
Basically spouting conspiracy theories and extreme racist views. i think they felt like they had to act. comparing barack obama s former senior adviser to being an ape, and a few years ago in 2013, she compared susan rice, president obama s national security adviser, i won t even read the disgusting tweet she put out then to an ape as well. joey jackson, when you heard abc s decision j what did you think? it s the right call and act of corporate responsibility. wolf, we ve seen two things today that i think move the issue toward tolerance. if you don t get it and you re not getting it from the white house and government leaders, corporate leaders have a responsibility to do what they have to do. if you re not part of the solution, you re part of the problem. they ve shown abc zero d of the problem.ey look to get the same day we saw starbucks close stores and exercise training. ....
We then fought for the appointment of a special counsel, bob mueller was a appointed. he s a well-respected individual, a war hero. distinguished former fbi director. my view of the situation is let bob mueller lead the investigation. come up with his conclusions, present that to the american people and congress and then we ll decide what s the best way to proceed for our democracy. let me get you re reaction to abc s decision to cancel their highly successful sitcom, roseanne after the star tweeted anti semitic comments this morning. what did you think? it was the right decision, and it came swiftly. there was a lot of public condemnation as it relates to how in the world we even found ourselves in this situation given roseanne s prior history of issuing racist and conspiracy statements on twitter. and peddling those to the american people. as you pointed out earlier, ....