The funniest thing about the Rosanne Bar Show is that the bigoted old hag's reboot, just got the boot! Does this mean civility is making a come back in Murika, er, um...America?
Admittedly, I don't like Rosanne Bar. I don't think she's funny. I don't think she's ever been funny. When I was a kid and the first Rosanne hit the air, my mom liked the show because it featured an overweight, lower-middle class woman struggling to make it in the world. She identified with her and liked that someone at the networks had enough guts to put a woman like that, warts and all, on TV. It seemed “real” to her, as it did to plenty of other genuine, well-meaning Americans.
But after a few years, even my mom tired of this woman's antics. When this reboot came about, I asked her if she would watch it again. She looked at me as if I were crazy and simply said “Pfffffffftt!”
Finally, my mom agrees with me that the funniest thing about Rosanne Bar is that her new/old show got canceled. Not because of ratings, but because of her own, stoooopid, racist, shrill and nasally voiced antics.
Here's what happened: Last night, apparently in some Twitter War with a black woman named Valarie Jarrett, a former Obama aide, rage-Twittted the following Twitt:
“muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj”
Hopefully, I don't have to explain why this is flagrantly racist, inappropriate and, well, simply disgusting.
Let me be clear. I don't give a rat's ass about Roseanne, her show (I do like John Goodman...wish he wasn't a part of this) or any of the apologists who will decry a violation of Barr's First Amendment rights or that her firing is just another example of PC pussies gone amok. If that's your opinion, then in my opinion, you are no better than her.
What I do care about is the sewer hole of bigotry this country has been spinning in since we first claimed "We hold these Truths to be self evident...". I thought that we were starting to finally climb out of that hole, until this last presidential election cycle. Since then, the nastiness has picked up exponential speed. A certain segment, ideology, demographic and POV of our society (let's just call them WASP's) seems to feel that their preferential treatment and special influence days were near an end. Just between you and me... I think they are right. To fight this, they have been letting their bigotry, racism and hatred for those not WASPy enough to burst forth in a frothing exuberance we haven't seen since the 60's in the Deep South. It's oozing out all over this country like pus from a long ignored and untreated infection.
The reason for this sudden pus bubbling is simple. Trump has legitimized their behavior because HE behaves that way. So, they think, “If the Prez can act that way...so can I!” Having Rosanne back on TV is part of that pus ooze too. I think the studio mucky mucks who gave a green light to reboot this show either subscribed to WASPism, or at least figured they could make some money off of WASPS the same way they did off of Honey Poo Poo and Fuck Die Nasty. (I think that's what those shows were called, I never watched them either, so...).
In any case, I'm glad to see that the mucky mucks recognized a muckidy fuckup when they saw one. It took them less than 12 hours to cancel the show once Rosanne's bigotry went viral.
Maybe there is hope for this world, after all.
(Story and image source: RawStory. https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/abc-announces-cancelling-roseanne-stars-racist-tirade/)