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Roseanne Barr Tweets Ugly Racist Attack on Valerie Jarrett; Her ABC Show Is Canceled; Right Wingers Mobilize to Defend Her

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ObserverArt5/29/2018 1:46:39 pm PDT

re: #159 TedStriker

DING DING DING

I won’t go nearly as far as Frank did on Gilbert, but one thing she isn’t is stupid; you have to remember, Gilbert grew up on the set of Roseanne, she knew Roseanne very well, and tried to do right by her and the rest of the cast by helping to bring the show back, even with Roseanne’s cringe-worthy behavior and comments in the intervening twenty years.

I don’t think Gilbert’s intents were “mercenary” or driven by greed or ego, but she did read the tea leaves and no doubt thought a Roseanne revival would work, but there was only one problem, one she no doubt tried to solve or mitigate but ultimately couldn’t: Roseanne herself.

Well, it is very obvious by the blowback you initially got from LGF members that Roseanne was nuclear to many a liberal/progressive sensibility.

So I have a question. If you know more than half of your potential audience in not even going to give it a chance, then to who were you trying to sell the show?

Could she have thought due the rabid Trump base and how passionate they are she could make a go of it on those people?

If that is the case, then the premise you say she had was all wrong, wasn’t it?

But if she thought she could take that slant and make money off the wingnuts, then she was wrong from the get-go and most likely the sympathetic people she was trying to portray to any liberal were going to be seen as jokes to wingnuts.

I admit, I is confused by what the creators were hoping to do.