You mean because the Right keeps making shit up, whereas the Left merely has to point to the facts? Yeah, I can see how that would be upsetting.
Rosanne canceled
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Liberal 'show business' people have called Trump all sorts of terrible things. But the left controlled media and it's zombie supporters think it is 'freedom of speech' when it comes to their way of spuing hate...
'Roseanne' fans call for Bill Maher to be fired after he joked Trump is part orangutan
By Kathleen Joyce | Fox News
“Roseanne” fans have called on Bill Maher to be fired after he joked President Trump was part orangutan. (Reuters)
“Roseanne” fans have called on HBO to fire “Real Time” host Bill Maher in response to the comedian’s jokes that President Trump was part orangutan.
ABC quickly canceled the successful “Roseanne” reboot Tuesday hours after its star, Roseanne Barr, posted a racist tweet about former President Obama’s aide Valerie Jarrett. The tweet said Jarrett, who is African-American and born in Iran, is like the “Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby.” Barr apologized for the tweet before her show was canceled. The next day, she appeared to blame the prescription pill Ambien for the tweet.
VALERIE JARRETT SAYS ROSEANNE’S TWEET SHOULD BE ‘TEACHING MOMENT’
Following ABC's announcement, Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, a right-wing nonprofit group, tweeted, “Wait, Bill Maher makes comparisons to Trump being a gorilla all the time? They get classified as ‘jokes’ by the media and he is of course allowed to keep his show and not have his life ruined. The difference? Bill Maher is a liberal, Roseanne is a free-thinking Trump supporter.”
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Wait, Bill Maher makes comparisons to Trump being a gorilla all the time?
They get classified as "jokes" by the media and he is of course allowed to keep his show and not have his life ruined
The difference?
Bill Maher is a liberal, Roseanne is a free-thinking Trump supporter
5:11 PM - May 29, 2018
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However, some social media users pointed out that Trump sued Maher after he made a joke on Jay Leno’s late-night talk show that he would “offer $5 million to Donald Trump that he can donate to a charity of his choice” if he could prove his father was not an orangutan. Maher joked Trump appeared to be an orangutan because they both had similar hair color, Reuters reported. Trump withdrew the lawsuit against Maher eight weeks after filing it.
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Jack Posobiec
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I'm so old I remember when Bill Maher claimed President Trump's "mother had sex with an orangutan" and kept his job
3:33 PM - May 29, 2018
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ABC CANCELS ‘ROSEANNE’ AFTER BARR’S RACIST TWEET
Social media users also pointed out that Maher’s show “Politically Incorrect” was dropped by ABC in 2002 following comments he made about the Sept. 11. 2001 terror attacks. The comedian argued that “the labeling of terrorists as cowards was hypocritical, and that we have been the cowards, lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away,” Bustle reported.
Robert A George
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Actually, Maher's own free-thinking got him cancelled on ABC -- back in 2001 after 9/11. And the history of black people being compared to apes/gorillas/chimpanzees is long and ugly. (Read a comments section about Serena Williams and see how quickly the ape comparisons start). https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1001571801825136642 …
7:59 PM - May 29, 2018
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Bustle noted Maher’s name was trending on Twitter and was mentioned more than 54,000 times. Maher has not immediately commented on the backlash.
He came under fire in June 2017 after tweeting, "This [North] Korean thing is getting tense! I mean, I think it is, I'm on vaca. The ladies at my nail salon are freaking out, that's what I know!"
Maher was also criticized a month earlier when he called himself a "house n----r" on his HBO show in June 2017.
Maher apologized for the expletive and HBO later removed his comment from future airings of the episode calling it "inexcusable."
This is one of those situations where you have to use critical thinking skills.
Some things are out of our control, like race. People can’t help their race and using that against them is wrong. That’s where judging people in the content of their character comes in.
Now, if Donald Trump didn’t bathe in orange spray tan every morning and walked into a barber shop and asked for a regular men’s haircut he wouldn’t look like an orangutan.
See the difference? Race = out of our control; stupid hair cuts and spray tan = in our control.
No. That has nothing to do with it. Besides the Left does the same shit. Ya know, I saw (on C-SPAN) that entire meeting where Trump called MS-13 animals. There was absolutely ZERO doubt what he was talking about. The left leaning MSM took it and blew it way the fuck out of proportion to suit their agenda. That is just one recent example. Anybody who saw that statement in its complete context knew what the f he meant. They deliberately spun that to attack him for nothing.... again... to feed their agenda.
I don't get brainwashed by any of this crap. And I stand by my original post on this thread... there's a huge double standard. When Kelly called Fredrika Wilson an "empty barrel"... his statement was portrayed as being racist. How the f is "an empty barrel" racist?!
Can you not see that this stuff divides us further? It does. Its fucked up. I'm not taking a side here... but I can see things for what they really are. The entire country on both sides is being manipulated and brainwashed by the 24 hour news cycle. Critical thinking appears to be extinct. I like to think I still have it.
EDIT: And let me add... I'll be the first one to admit Trump is a self-serving egotistical bullshitter. He is.
If I could have "liked" this post 100 times, I would have.
Hold on a second, the right likes to label undocumented persons in America as “criminal illegal aliens.” There is not a clear delineation in Trump’s or his supporters rhetoric. The truth is that among the right many, including the president, often lump undocumented people together without distinction.
This is another case where critical thinking would serve everyone, you included.
Tony the troll bringing up distractions and lying to try and change the focus off the fact he is an unregistered foreigner commenting on us politics. Per your team's favorite prosecutors... you and your employers need to register.
Jem getting back into birther mode
Critical thinking experiment, as recommended by Usual: Substitute "Obama" for "Trump" and speculate as to career prospects of tweeter.
LOL, and olbermann isnt being hired as a hollywood entertainer hes getting hired as a journalist, hell the vitriol alone would be enough to get most conservative "Journalists" run out of business, but we all know there is no way in hell that these kinds of deranged attacks on Obama would be rewarded with a new job at ESPN.
Its not even like ESPN had to make the decision to FIRE him, he wasnt even working there, they actually decided to HIRE him with this kind of shit sitting out there.
Let that one sink in for a second.
Its not even like ESPN had to make the decision to FIRE him, he wasnt even working there, they actually decided to HIRE him with this kind of shit sitting out there.
Let that one sink in for a second.
Critical thinking experiment, as recommended by Usual: Substitute "Obama" for "Trump" and speculate as to career prospects of tweeter.