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Of years, people have become very comfortable about what is said on "duck dynasty" and what's said by certain politics. oh, it's politics, this, that, or the other. but america is changing. and this is not what the american consumer wants to seattle. i think that the quick response of firing roseanne so quickly is not just financial, but it's also realization on the behalf of this network that, hey, this is a blue wave coming. america doesn't want this. they don't want this kind of behavior. they're not all conspiracy nuts, and we shouldn't be promoting that on tv or coddling people who have t...

You are free to go. tide and downy together. ♪ with expedia you could book a flight, hotel, car and activity all in one place. ♪ valerie jarrett knew before the rest of us did that roseanne was going to be fired for what roseanne tweeted today about valerie jarrett. >> bob iger, who is the ceo of disney, called me before the announcement. he apologized. he said that he had zero tolerance for that sort of racist, bigoted climate, and he wanted me to know before he made it public that he was cancelling his show. so i appreciate that. >> abc is of course a division of disney. joining our di...

When you have so much television programing to find something that stands out. and, you know, abc did. >> and eric, you have been to so many television critics association gatherings in los angeles where, as you know, you get to speak to the casts of and the writers and the producers of all of the shows on all of the networks. and that's the part of this that i think people don't quite understand, is that roseanne personally was visiting a burden just not on her castmate, laurie metcalf, how would she respond to this, john goodman, how would he respond to this, but every single member of every...

Roseanne has a history of saying inflammatory and bigoted things on social media. so people were already going to her and saying, you know, you're the first african american whose had this job, and, you know, can you condone this? can you stand behind this? can the network of "blackish" and "fresh off the boat" and "scandal" and "how to get away with murder" shows that have been so ground breaking in how they depict persons of color, can she stand behind them? she was already facing those questions. and she made the decision to hire roseanne in the first place, which people also asked about. s...

Watch abc get through a day or two or maybe even a week or two with. this but it turned very quickly on roseanne. >> yes. we've been exposed to the informal's corporate cowardice recently. a lot of us expected that abc would either stay silent or simply discipline her or maybe suspend her, what have you. but it is a relief to see that there are in fact social consequences for these kinds of statements. they hired her knowing that she was a conspiracy theorist on twitter. they hired her knowing about her anti-semitic and racist statements and islamophobic statements. and they, you know, rode it...