Samantha Bee used a terribly profane pejorative to describe the president’s daughter.
Whoopie Goldberg treated an established legal professional and Fox News host in a reprehensible manner.
Neither television personality suffered any real fallout for their inappropriate and offensive behavior. In stark contrast, as a result of a single tweet posted during personal non-working hours, Roseanne Barr had her television series taken away from her.
As a testament to her resilience, Roseanne has decided not to abandon her audience or surrender the opportunity to speak her mind.
The comedic actress is coming back, and she has a brand new way to reach out to her fans.
She is working on a new talk show with son Jake Pentland, who told Radar Online, "We are doing our own stuff for now." Pentland has his own production studio where he has been filming interviews with mom-host Roseanne.
For the time being, Rosanne’s guests consist of family and friends, but she plans to bring in a variety of interesting people to discuss certain eclectic topics about which she herself is passionate.
In early July, Barr revealed that she had been given offers for new television projects. With the record ratings that her show had achieved and the prominent name recognition she enjoys, it makes sense that entertainment companies would be interested in featuring her in some sort of TV project. "Inside every bad thing is a good thing waiting to happen," Roseanne said in an interview on a podcast hosted by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach.
Barr added, "I feel very excited because I’ve already been offered so many things and I almost already accepted one really good offer to go back on TV, and I might do it."
ABC recently greenlighted a spinoff titled "The Conners," which is essentially the "Roseanne" reboot but without the show’s headliner.
Roseanne told Boteach that she gave up her contractual rights to the show to ABC and, in an unusual move for a Hollywood personality, did not ask for any money as compensation. "I thought signing off of my own life’s work and asking for nothing in return, I thought that was a penance," Roseanne said.
Wanting to keep the cast and crew working, she essentially sacrificed her own interests to do so. She had previously canceled what was to be a television interview during which she intended to discuss the loss of her show. "After a lot of thought, I decided that I won’t be doing any TV interviews, too stressful and untrustworthy 4 me and my fans," Roseanne tweeted. "I’m going to film it myself and post it on my youtube channel in the next week-the entire explanation of what happened and why! I love you all-sign up and get ready," she added.
Roseanne wrote that she was planning to post video footage, which would explain "what happened and why," and how a single tweet caused Disney/ABC to cancel her highly successful reboot.
She also hinted that her show would be free of the usual entertainment company bureaucracy filtering out controversial content. "I’d like to speak directly to you, the people, and cut out any middlemen who use for clickbait/ad revenue while seeking to divide rather than unite," Roseanne wrote, asking her fans to email questions to be answered by her on her YouTube channel.
She is now posting videos on her revived channel, filmed in a facility that she refers to as "my own studio, where I’m able to speak for myself to my fellow and sister Americans without the filter of the biased media."
In one of her recent video posts, she speaks about the tweet that led to her losing her show, ranting during the footage, "I’m trying to talk about Iran! I’m trying to talk about Valerie Jarrett about the Iran deal. That’s what my tweet was about."
Indicating that she thought Jarrett "was white," Roseanne used a common hip hop term for a woman in reference to the former White House aide under President Obama. After repeating the statement, Roseanne ends the segment by defiantly smoking a cigarette.
Roseanne follows this up with another video in which she explains what she believes is the real reason that she was fired by Disney/ABC. She indicated that she made an offer to the ABC brass that she would appear on daytime TV shows such as "The View" to explain her tweet.
According to Roseanne, within about 40 minutes her "show was canceled before even one advertiser pulled out" and she “was labeled a racist."
Consequently, she was denied the chance to publicly apologize.
Roseanne proceeded to reveal what tens of millions of people already knew, but still needed to hear.
"Why, you ask? Well, the answer is simple. It’s because I voted for Donald Trump and that is not allowed in Hollywood," Roseanne said.
James Hirsen, J.D., M.A., in media psychology, is a New York Times best-selling author, media analyst, and law professor. Visit Newsmax TV Hollywood. Read more reports from James Hirsen — Click Here Now.
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