what s interesting about the roseanne situation because we kind have have always known who roseanne is, and we ve seen her tweets before she had the abc show, so we should not be that surprised, is that there are consequences for other people but we still don t have consequences for the person who occupies the most important job we can say in the world. and that should disturb us all, that we have greater consequences for a made up television show host than we do for the president of the united states. mckay coppins, linda chavez and michele jowanda, thank you all. there s a brand new episode of our new podcast why is this happening out today where we ask a question that obsesses me, who broke the internet and why something with such promise turned into something so ugly. tim wu, the man who coined the
where he basically compares syrian refugees and illegal immigrants to poisonous deceitful snakes who will bite us because we let them into our country. it s clearly demagoguery, but what s funny is that when i talk to miller, he thrills at this. he spent several minutes describing the performance art of it, how theatrical it was, how the crowds love it. he compared it to the opening chords of free bird. and i think your other guests got at it, which is that to miller, a lot of this is performance art, it is theater and he has a way of turning the people affected by this into a kind of abstract side issue rather than the actual point of all of these policies in governing. michele, what s so striking to me though is that while roseanne found consequences today for sort of engaging in this kind of overt bigotry, they re still doing thing in the white house.
today for sort of engaging in this kind of overt bigotry, they re still doing thing in the white house. what s interesting about the roseanne situation because we kind have have always known who roseanne is, and we ve seen her tweets before she had the abc show, so we should not be that surprised, is that there are consequences for other people but we still don t have consequences for the person who occupies the most important job we can say in the world. and that should disturb us all, that we have greater consequences for a made up television show host than we do for the president of the united states. mckay coppins, linda chavez and michele jowanda, thank you all. there s a brand new episode of our new podcast why is this happening out today where we ask a question that obsesses me, who broke the internet and why
where he leads the lyrics to the snake this old soul song where he basically compares syrian refugees and illegal immigrants to poisonous deceitful snakes who will bite us because we let them into our country. it s clearly demagoguery, but what s funny is that when i talk to miller, he thrills at this. he spent several minutes describing the performance art of it, how theatrical it was, how the crowds love it. he compared it to the opening chords of free bird. and i think your other guests got at it, which is that to miller, a lot of this is performance smar performance art, it is theater and he has a way of turning the people affected by this into a kind of abstract side issue rather than the actual point of all of these policies in governing. michele, what s so striking to me though is that while roseanne found consequences