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Since canceling ratings-powerhouse Roseanne on Tuesday, ABC and Disney have been under tremendous fire for even hiring Roseanne Barr to begin with given her long history of racism and unhinged antics. And in a series of tweets Wednesday, President Trump called out the company’s double standard of keeping on other such people but who target him. Instead of keeping their head down and taking their lumps, ABC actually complained about the White House pointing out their double standard.
“Tonight, President Trump, who celebrated Roseanne before … has so far not condemned her racist words,” decried ABC News reporter Matt Guttman as he played a clip of Trump touting her ratings. “Instead, the President tweeting about Disney CEO Bob Iger, the head of ABC's parent company, after Iger called Jarrett personally to apologize for Roseanne's racist tweet.”
In classic ABC News fashion of only telling half the story, Gutman’s clip cut out the part were Trump was praising the show because it represented blue-collar workers like he did.
ABC and Disney still have no good explanation of why they decided to hire Roseanne in the first place given that this wasn’t the first time she’s compared a black Obama official to an ape and not to mention her ‘burnt Jew cookies’ photo shoot. The White House also called out the network for their hypocrisy in keeping on other vile people such as Joy Behar, ESPN’s recent re-rehire of the loon, Keith Olbermann, and the sports network’s unwavering support for Jemele Hill.
In the White House press briefing on Wednesday, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders called out the liberal company for their blatant double standard:
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