Comments on: Roseanne Barr is Racist (plus Tweets)

By: nicky

nicky — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 05:15:03 +0000

By: Heather Hastie

Heather Hastie — Sat, 02 Jun 2018 21:16:53 +0000

In reply to nicky. I got 12. There are a couple of heads that are periodically hidden that are easy to miss, especially one at top right. We're probably both wrong and there's 15 or something!

By: Heather Hastie

Heather Hastie — Sat, 02 Jun 2018 21:13:25 +0000

In reply to nicky. I forgot to include that clip when I first posted this, so for those who haven't seen it, it's worth checking out.

By: nicky

nicky — Sat, 02 Jun 2018 05:39:10 +0000

Icounted eleven kittens in the heap.

By: nicky

nicky — Sat, 02 Jun 2018 05:31:45 +0000

And of course Trevor Noah’s take is great.
Shit your pants racist, indeed.
Thanks for the clip.

By: nicky

nicky — Sat, 02 Jun 2018 05:21:21 +0000

In reply to Mike. Never heard of Roseanne Barr before, but I liked The Big Bang Theory.

By: Randall Schenck

Randall Schenck — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 23:46:32 +0000

So if you are correct…sue Trump for free speech violation. Looks more like good old Trump extortion and he does that nearly everyday. The place that makes the rules is the NFL (owners) and that is not government. However, the issue with who owns the field, the city, the county, etc. that is interesting. So if the fans or players at a high school game decided to not stand, that would be free speech as well. Public school ground.

By: Heather Hastie

Heather Hastie — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 18:52:51 +0000

In reply to Mike.

BBT and Sheldon are both on the most watched free-to-air channel here.

I like repeats when it’s of shows I like, so I don’t feel able to complain about the stuff I don’t even though some of it really annoys me. On some of the pay channels I like being able to enjoy shows from my youth all over again. There are a lot of great British shows from those days it’s good to see again.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 12:52:53 +0000

In reply to Heather Hastie. We have the same problem, endless repeats, some of them worth repeating, the rest just dross. It's bargain basement programming and a con, especially if your paying for it.

By: ratabago

ratabago — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 01:20:11 +0000

In reply to Randall Schenck.

When Trump tweeted this, amongst others, back in October 2017 he made NFL player protests a First Amendment issue:

“Why is the NFL getting massive tax breaks while at the same time disrespecting our Anthem, Flag and Country? Change tax law! ”

The explicit threat in this makes it an attempt by a representative of government to restrict speech. Not just my opinion, but also that of real lawyers, for example:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/marcedelman/2018/05/30/why-nfls-ban-on-player-protests-invokes-first-amendment-concerns-but-canceling-roseanne-does-not/#1d1e8cc35c5c

I think it’s worth pointing out that the NFL teams don’t get a tax break, it is the NFL League Office that has tax exempt status, but have not filed for tax exemption since 2015 according to PolitiFact. But these facts don’t matter to Trump when he is trying to construct a personally advantageous “consensus truth”, for want of a better term.

When you get to the heart of it the comparison between Barr and NFL player protests is just another shallow false equivalency.