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Okay Media. If You Called for Roseanne's Firing, then Samantha Bee Has to Go.

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Days ago, Roseanne Barr tweeted what was taken as a racist statement/joke. She said Valerie Jarret was the offspring of the Muslim Brotherhood and Planet of the Apes.

The reaction to Roseanne, from you, our moral betters in media, was swift. Roseanne was fired, her show was canceled, her co-stars threw her under every single bus on the line. Over a tweet. A lot of people on the right, myself included, didn't defend Roseanne, but instead defended ABC's right to can Roseanne's show. ABC said Roseanne's statement wasn't in line with their companies values. Seemed fair to me.

The national media conversation then turned to ethics. Morals. Values. How racism is terrible. How we shouldn't tolerate it even in a joke. Conservatives brought up examples of vulgar douchebags and douchebagettes from the recent past. Leftists said there was no excuse for Roseanne. In an effort to stay clear of the tumultuous whataboutism wave, I watched the chaos from the safe sandy shores. I made a sand castle with my excess craps I didn't give to Roseanne.

Then Samantha Bee, on her television show on TBS, called Ivanka Trump a feckless cunt. In what I have to assume was a scripted, planned, approved rant. An idea which was tossed around the writers room more casually than Roseanne Barr pops Ambien all by her lonesome.

If the media cares so much about stamping out racism, if the media cares so much about morality, ethics, and doing what's right, in what possible world is Roseanne Barr canned for tweeting a racist joke, but Samantha Bee is allowed to carry on calling a woman a feckless cunt? Which, last I checked, was a rather sexist, nasty thing to say. About anyone.


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