while it was unacceptable, it was more about the president not getting an apology. it doesn t matter if you re left or right, he shouldn t be making those kind of comments about anybody. we can and should hold the president accountable. the president is demanding an apology from brian ross. abc did an apology on behalf of brian ross. the president is right if he wants to put pressure on disney saying, what about keith olberman? we have to have standing if we re going to make these arguments, and in this case we don t. like it or not for people in our business, sometimes it s fair, sometimes it s grossly unfair. there is this perception of a double standard. eric erickson tweeting this, and i couldn t agree with me more, all the oppressives in the timeline telling me the roseanne situation and samantha bee situation are not comparable will, i m sure, be fine when trump supporters start calling clinton, warren, pelosi, et cetera the same as what samantha
bee called ivanka trump. the trump administration called this vile and vicious. people were saying he created this space in which that s okay. this is a stupid thing for samantha bee to have done because she s not really anti-woman, right? she s just choosing a really vile term to use there and she may be racist. we re talking about terms and apologies and equating things that are, in one case, a really stupid thing to do and in one case, maybe a much deeper problem. there is, generally speaking, a lack of basic dialogue happening in the television space right now which is its own problem as well, but people are kind of losing their message for making these messages. samantha bee is not really anti-woman regardless of that term. i m not making excuses, i m saying you undercut your own message. what we re seeing on both sides with the roseanne situation and the samantha bee
we read the tweet from rosage. but where s the line? i don t know the answer. there is hateful speech on the left, hateful speech on the right. if i were still on twitter i would be getting a lot of it from the other side. everyone need to take a step back and understand it is free speech but it can have consequences. this kind of speech is why our politic so terrible today. we can all agree we don t like it. what she said is disgusting. companies can do whatever they want do. their be onizatio be obligationr shareholders. nigh questiomy question is thert for this? there was a quick tweet, all the progressiving are telling me the roseanne situation and samantha b. situation are not
type of police we could be dealing with. police are killing young black men. you re scared in this situation. i was scared. i let them do their job. i was thankful they let us speak our mind and talk about the situation. how do you process any of this? how does any of this make sense to you or does not make sense? it s still kind of hard to process. i think about it every day. all these days later? still thinking about it every day i wake up. this is a must see two up hall coming up in just 15 minutes at 9:00. president trump s rhetoric on issues of race have had concrete detrimental effects on his policy. that s next.
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