Roseanne canceled by ABC

[Dill]

(05-30-2018, 12:48 AM)Shake n Blake Wrote: I don't have any issue with the firing, either. Like I said, I get it. That was a pretty colossal goof. 

It would be nice if the outrage was equal for hateful words/actions on both sides though. 

Remember when the Dixie Chicks committed career suicide by saying they were "ashamed of Bush"?

15 years later, those comments would look completely tame compared to the multiple threats Trump has received. 

This seems to me an altogether different case. It was a comment on a president's performance, as he prepared to lead the US into a foreign policy disaster.

Also it seems exactly the kind of free speech the First Amendment was designed to protect--criticism of government officials' performance; the kind of thing you don't get to do in a dictatorship or monarchy. 

Roseanne was the employee of a private business, who made a racist comment.  The government did not order her fired. Rather the business did exactly what Trump urged NFL owners to do to those who kneeled during the national anthem, making an actual political statement.

I can't resist pointing out one more factor influencing how I weigh comments about Trump.  Bush was a traditional president. He did not comment negatively on his predecessor while in office, nor call for jailing political opponents. He did not call female private citizens names in public tweets. Once out of office, he pretty much shut up.  In the past we have often heard nasty comments and threats from low lifes addressing presidents who did not deign to respond, thereby upholding the dignity of the office.  I respect that in Bush. People who made fun of Bush's looks or otherwise simply called him names only lowered themselves without touching Bush.

In contrast, reading Trump tweets is rather like reading anonymous readers' comments on Breitbart articles.  The person occupying the highest office in the land is down there in the mud, yet many of the people he attacks refuse to stoop to that level. They do not respond in kind. So the traditional relation between president and critics is reversed in his case.