story about the death toll in puerto rico? we are addicted to celebrities in a sickway. celebrity culture. we re a celebrity culture that s one thing, what she said so went to the guts of the culture war in this country, and it was so ugly, even by the standards of social media rhetoric today, it was so shocking, what she wrote, and then you and here s the other part of it. it s also relatively easy to cover. everybody has an interest in it. i agree, brian, but there s also this deeper thing, that people saw her show and saw the character of roseanne connor who s likable in some ways. that show spoke to them in the same way that trump did. and i m not denigrating this, i think it was important, i m from wisconsin. for people to say in wisconsin and michigan and pennsylvania, we hear you, we know how bad things are. she did that.