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The speed with which the network cancelled roseanne? >> i am pleasantly surprised because i think it's important we do not normalize this kind of blatant racism. we're at an age where we're getting far too comfortable with racism and islamophobia, and not only is disney supposed to be a family friendly network that owns abc,oisney gets a lot of stock controllers, that could not in good conscience saying how can you have stock with a company that permits that kind

Of racial di diatribe. i think it's -- roseanne has the right to be a supporter of whatever politics she wants but to take this kind of obvious racial rhetoric to compare a learned, respected public servant like valerie jarrett to an ape reminds us all of the history of blacks being called monkeys and i think that disney and abc did the right thing and i think they opened the door now to see other things that they're doing as we're looking at starbucks tonight and others in the private sector, that we're saying you cannot normalize bias and bigotry. >> reverend al, here's the things, and you a...

I do hope you'll come back and join me. reaction, meanwhile, continues to roll in, to roseanne barr's controversial tweet. barr comparing a former aide to president obama. and now her co-star sara gilbert responded on twitter of course. roseanne's comments do not reflect the beliefs of our cast or crew or anyone associated with our show. we'll keep a close eye out. remind, you can watch tonight's special, msnbc's town hall, everyday racism in america, hosted by joy reid and chris hayes. 9:00 eastern tonight right here on msnbc. due to afib not caused by a heart valve problem. so if there's a...

Cancelled. roseanne's twitter statement was abbore rent, repug nantd and inconsistent with our values and we have decided to cancel her show. i got to call you out here, buddy, you said 45 minutes ago that this would not happen. what do you think changed? >> oh, boy. i mean, obviously, the executives at abc i'm hoping will say more about this decision and how quickly they reached it. i really -- i guess my cynicism about how hollywood works has been overturned a little bit here. i thought they would try to stand by the show more because they seem to have made it a big part of their fall schedu...

This is something that sent a message. you put this kind of, you know, messaging out there, that there will be a price to be paid. and abc seems to have moved very, very quickly to make this happen. >> we should probably remind our viewers and listeners precisely how all of this went down. this was the tweet, if we can get it up here, this was the tweet early this morning, it's since been deleted, this is the tweet at 2:45 a.m., muslim brotherhood and planet of the apes had a baby, vj. and roseanne, clearly aware of the firestorm she started, twittered, i apologize to valerie jarrett to all am...