Roseanne Barr: ‘Liberals in My Day Protected Art’
Comedy icon shreds progressives for becoming what they once loathed
Remember the ’80s?
No, not the shoulder pads, leg warmers and films by Stallone and Schwarzenegger.
We mean the decade when the Left defended artistic expression while some Moral Majority types stood against it. The reaction to Martin Scorsese’s “The Last Temptation of Christ” is a fine example.
Those days are long gone. Yes, Sylvester and Arnold are still drawing a crowd, but the modern Left now opposes free speech and regularly attempts to “cancel” art in various forms.
“The View” just said the folks responsible for Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town” song should be “held accountable.” It’s the Right standing up for speech and fighting the Biden administration’s censorial ways.
Roseanne Barr remembers that part of the Reagan era well.
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The comedy icon’s “Roseanne” debuted in 1988, becoming one of ABC’s biggest hits. She worked in a comedy community alongside rebels like Sam Kinison, Andrew “Dice” Clay and Bobcat Goldthwait.
Now, Barr is blasting the Left for abandoning its principles in the free speech fight.
Him Talking about small town values is not the same thing that your mind controlled dips*** brain filters it as. All you are doing is showing that you’re bats*** crazy and that does no good for anyone. If you don’t like the song don’t listen to it. certainly don’t project your insanity on to it. My god you people are INSANE. Maybe check yourself into a facility or something. Liberals in my day protected art and made fun of those that said it had satanic messaging when you play it backwards or s*** like that. That’s what you guys are now, the epitome of what you used to hate. Go get help or maybe dicked down and shut the f*** up. thanks.
Barr’s broadside went after anti-gun activist Shannon Watts who bragged she made CMT pull down Aldean’s new music video from the channel’s lineup.
The Aldean video caused a stir from those who claim it incites violence, ignoring the long history of music (particularly hip-hop) which does much worse.
Barr, who returned to stand-up comedy earlier this year via Fox Nation’s “Roseanne Barr: Cancel This!” makes a powerful point. Liberals rallied behind free speech during the turbulent 1960s and kept up the fight for decades.
It was often elements of the Right which wanted to censor or diminish problematic work.
Today, those roles have been dramatically reversed. A few left-leaning comics, like Joe Rogan, Russell Brand, Bill Maher, Rob Schneider, Ricky Gervais and John Cleese have crossed the ideological aisle to stand up for free speech.
They, sadly, are the exceptions. It’s why Barr’s Tweeted landed with such authority.
THEY WERE NEVER LIBERALS ROSEANNE they were the MINORITY back then. Let me explain it to you. LIBERALS ARE LIKE MUSLIMS. When they are in the MINORITY they plead for CIVIL RIGHTS and FREE SPEECH. WHEN THEY ASSUME THE MAJORITY HOWEVER, THERE ARE NO MORE CIVIL RIGHTS AND “FREE SPEECH ” CAN GO “F” ITSELF. Get it now?
Love the site as you know, but after Roseanne said killing 6 million Jews didn’t happen but it was a good idea, i would think holding her up as someone great or entertaining would have been fittting. This is one person who DESERVES cancellation this time around. (i was n’t in favor of her losing her series, at all.)
Carl Kozlowski, I cant tell WTF you are saying… “after Roseanne said killing 6 million Jews didn’t happen but it was a good idea”, i would think holding her up as someone great or entertaining would have been fitting.
Sooo…. You think she is great because you agree that the Holocaust didn’t happen?
Or – that she deserves cancellation because she said that?
You aren’t making any sense!
Just to clear the air for everyone: If you listen to the complete interview with Roseanne, and not just a 5 second clip taken out of context… What she said was in total irony and with total sarcasm! The whole reason she said that is she knew people would take it out of context, thus proving her point that people are idiots.
Side Note:
Her father’s family were Jewish emigrants from the Russian Empire, and her maternal grandparents were Jewish emigrants from Austria-Hungary and Lithuania. Her paternal grandfather changed his surname from “Borisofsky” to “Barr” upon entering the United States.
Grits ain’t groceries, Eggs ain’t poultry, and Mona Lisa was a man.
Look it up and begin to understand how language is used.
You seem to know that it is nuts to say that Hitler did not happen… Have you listened to some elected officials lately?
A majority have seriously voted them into their positions. Rosanne is actually shining light on this and many other issues (call them young Hitler issues) with withering sarcasm. How are you advising people to vote?
I think it’s just human nature for those who gain power and control to try to censor speech. The reason is simple – the more open and free that speech is, the more that those opposed to those in power can influence the masses and persuade them to change the balance of power. For the same reason politicians with big leads in election polls will avoid debates – why run the risk of allowing the opposition to make you look bad and cut into your lead?
Conversely, those out of power will fight for more open speech so they can influence the masses to put them back into power. And the left has the cultural power and control right now.