and there s no place for that in america. i hope folks call on the president to address his son. he s an involved father, so they say. since he was meddling in the meeting between donald trump junior and the russians, will you will. i hope we re going to hear something on that. you do not get to abdicate responsibility in america simply because you have a certain level of status. there are many people i just harken back to ja mill hill. she had the tweets. espn anchor. she called donald trump a white supremacist. she was censored and suspended for weeks. and the white house called for her to be fired. this assertion that for some folks roseanne was just making jokes or donald trump junior just had a retweet. folks need to be held accountable. i hope we will call for the same level of accountability for folks in this white house,
donald trump is going to do. this needs to be a conversation about what other people are going to do. if you are in a position of media power, are you willing to regulate your platform in some manner and give up clicks in the name of civility? i m looking at facebook and twitter to start doing more of the same. we have a lot more to talk about. breaking news on what went down inside abc and why they hired roseanne in the first place. this isn t the first time she s said something racist or tracked in conspiracy theories. that s ex-. stay with us. you wouldn t accept an incomplete job from any one else. why accept it from your allergy pills? flonase relieves your worst symptoms including nasal congestion, which most pills don t. flonase helps block 6 key inflammatory substances. most pills only block one. flonase. parts a and b
decided. a couple hours past before the announcement. right away disney and abc executives agreed they had to pull the plug. there s no way to have abc on tv without roseanne. and there was no way to keep her on the show with the messages. abc chose to hire her in the first place. that s worthy of scrutiny. there s never been a cancellation like this before. a show premiers to record rates. then it s cancelled right away. the abc ceo said you cannot control roseanne bar r, but you can decide whether to give her a show. abc thought the reward would exceed the risk. she thought she would focus on making the show great. she continued to post inappropriate sometimes unhinged messages. she would tweet about fringe conspiracy theories. a source at disney said to me
8:00 a.m. it took until late in the afternoon for the reason i think tom talked about. folks were thinking about how this would play with conservative america with the viewers, and that is wrong. so i m glad that abc finally did make a move. we ve seen companies like abc and starbucks make moves where the federal government has failed to act in terms of having a moral compass. i m glad they did it q, you i don t think roseanne should have had a show in the first place. today it came to a head again. that s a question i m hearing from a lot of critics. bob iger, the ceo of disney which owns abc said there was only one thing to do here, and that was the right thing. as tom pointed out, roseanne had previously compared susan rice to president obama to an ape in a different tweet. it s not as though this was the first time she had ever
this was her third or fourth flairup. even though it was the first controversy to get international attention, it was the third or fourth time abc had problems with her tweeting. the disney source said enough was enough. and, brian, disney i mean, they had to make a decision here. roseanne brought in more than 18 million viewers in the first episode. the second season was in production. was the risk of a financial hit for keeping the show or for letting the show go greater? in other words, there might have been if they kept the show, there might have been boycotts or all that good diverse programming that abc has been working on for years, et cetera, might have been for not. that s right. advertisers were going to be skittish about associating themselves with roseanne. even if they weren t calling abc today demanding the show being taken off the air, it was clear the advertiser community was going to shun this sitcom. and that s an incredible turn of events from two weeks ago w