somebody who has been through the trump wood chipper before. griffin has come under serious criticism from this administration and others. there have been ten stories dominating the headlines today for one point or another. for sure,r. one thing that stuck out to me with this sam bee flap, the white house responded much more strongly to this than they really ever did to roseanne s completely racist tweet. they did call it inappropriate of course but then they sort of changed the subject. right. and remember how the president himself responded. we haven t heard from president trump on this, on the sam bee comment. but we did hear from the president on the roseanne tweet. not about the fact that it was racist, not about what it said and the content of the tweet itself, the comment itself, but instead going after bob iger of
as an ape. something that i guess abc thought we cannot stomach this. even after roseanne said she apologized and she was going to quit twitter, she finds herself now with no show. this is remarkable the speed to which abc moved. after i saw this tweet this morning, i ll be honest. it shocked me it was out there. then the apology came soon thereafter. roseanne going after valerie jarrett. and then, you know, it didn t take just a few hours for abc to move. this is a big decision. there are some things the get to a point where a network i think says this is over the line and we can t stomach it. we can t defend it. this has to be put to an end. remember, this is a profitable show. very profitable. i think they had signed up for another season. so it s a big deal that this happens but there are some things even in our society of fighting political correctness
kim jong un. and using the south koreans to set up that meeting. being at the table, i don t know. there may be some iterations of this that we don t, we don t yet know how it will develop over the next week. dana: we will keep everyone updated. a lot of meetings happening and planning for the in-case summit. i m at 702% 70% likelihood. something i didn t anticipate. two minutes before the show started roseanne barr found out her show that is wildly popular in the rebirth this season has been canceled. this is all based on a tweet that she sent earlier today. abc news saying that sorry, abc. not abc news. abc saying the twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values and we have decided to cancel her show. this is coming a couple of hours after roseanne barr tweeted about valerie jarrett using very, some call racist allegations or alluding to her
that got trump elected, this is over the line. and abc decided to act. dana: it was almost universal condemnation against the tweet. almost. there are some people that thought oh, wow, the snowflakes are being so upset. but there are just limits to what people are willing to stomach. this was not just anti-p.c. rhetoric. this was pretty aggressive. i think you are right about abc taking action pretty quickly. they didn t have to have a board meeting, right? they didn t have to have a meeting with her agent or anything. they just said we will not stomach this. i imagine that the employees of abc if not the board was pretty happy with the decision. dana: the swiftness of it suggests there wasn t even a debate. i think that there will be a lot of fallout to this and there will be analysis of how it was done. for the most part, abc news moved abc moved in an abhorrent tweet and moved quickly. dana: this is
that people wanted to talk about, including opioids and other sensitive issues for a large segment of the population. but abc moved fast. i think you said it right. these tweets were just, i can t describe how awful they were. dana: kevin, hold on a second. do we have the original tweet she put up? not yet. as soon as we get that i will give it to you i, i want to quote it accurately. she had tweeted about chelsea clinton and george soros, today valerie jarrett. as a political matter, when you are looking at something like this, you make a big decision. but politics and corporate america are converging. lots of examples, even today. nfl, starbucks and now here with roseanne canceled after this tweet. what do you think about that in terms of the speed with which abc reacted? i think they were right to react and react quickly.