the stories are easy, you add in pop culture to politics. everybody loves that. the roseanne story was an important story. i mean, for someone with that kind of hate background to have a national platform is wrong but, i mean, those articles, those topics you mentioned, let s throw in the pardons, right? roseanne pardons. and trump is trying to create this legal fire wall for his criminal enterprise and just real quick, like the next day the new york times described it as idiosin klatt particular, this pardon. this is not trump being ee seven tri eccentric but they don t know how to describe it. a lot of this is on the media to not be distracted by things which are not worthy of distraction and to call out things that are. usually when trump goes down this cultural rabbit hole it happens the day after something major happens in the russia investigation or some major piece of how corrupt his presidency is. we re learning a little bit more
on television broadcast. look at the next one with mentions to roseanne. look at that. those two things are related though. so think about the fact that the roseanne story is about racism running back to the 1800s and essentially the justification for white supremacy saying black people are inferior. that s the comment roseanne was saying. the reason we re not covering puerto rico is because those people are brown. that s racism. we have to be really honest as americans and confront our racist history because the roseanne story is about racism but not adequately resourcing puerto rico and not properly covering the story is also about racism. the other thing i was struck by last week is peter baker had a piece in the new york time about ben rhodes book that came out. he quoted some private remarks that then president obama made about maybe he was wrong about america. and what i was struck by is that how infrequently we actually heard internal white house
former obama aide valerie jarrett in a racist tweet and comedian samantha bee using a crass expletive to describe ivanka trump. now when the roseanne story first broke, it appeared to be a rare instance of mainstream and conservative outlets agreeing on a hot button issue that the sitcom star had gone too far. roseanne barr made some really incendiary and pretty appalling comments on twit f- it was a stone cold racist comment. it wasn t a joke. it was mean-spirited. it was vile. roseanne barr tweeting something so abhorrent i wish i didn t have to repeat it. all right. but there were some notable cracks in that view. i don t understand it to be anything other than free speech. like she s saying and it s extrooee extremely offensive and it s just that. all that happening the same night this network, msnbc, broadcast a town hall everyday racism in america.
them and criticize in return, and you saw that today from donald trump, he expects an apology from abc for all these things he finds offensive. and he says things that are ten times more offensive on a daily basis. he does not, max, i don t believe he expects an apology. he knows what he s doing. he s playing the victim card. he s deadly effective at it. his numbers have been go ing up the more he does this this will help you make your point. you say that this roseanne story, this tweet shows both sides of this war that you talk about. they asked some trump supporters what they thought about the cancellation of roseanne, watch this. i was really disappointed because you had so many people out here speaking their opinions of the president it s okay, so, the view, cnn say whatever they want and get away with it. but roseanne barr makes a tweet, talking about someone whose trashy, and thought about two
i want to bring ryan in. ryan, jack mentioned what the president said to lester hot. let s bring that back, play that and then we ll discuss. here it is. regardless of recommendation i was going to fire comey, knowing there was a real good time to do it. in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story, it s an excuse by the democrats having lost an election that they should have won. ike, ryan, your turn. russia, this is another example of him saying, russia was on my mind here. yeah, jack laid it out. this report by the new york time gives one more data point where trump told someone he was taking this action because of russia. we don t know a lot more of russia, the times report