{"id":43133,"date":"2018-05-30T00:55:46","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T22:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/05\/30\/how-the-right-is-defending-roseanne-barrs-racist-tweets\/"},"modified":"2018-05-30T00:55:46","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T22:55:46","slug":"how-the-right-is-defending-roseanne-barrs-racist-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=43133","title":{"rendered":"How the right is defending Roseanne Barr&#039;s racist tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after ABC canceled the show, right-wing commentators were engaged in false equivalences and \u2018mental gymnastics\u2019At least you can say the Roseanne reboot lasted longer than most members of the Trump administration. Only a couple of months after the premiere aired to one of the biggest TV audiences in years, the revived sitcom has been cancelled, following racist tweets by its eponymous star. Related: Roseanne cancelled: ABC scraps sitcom after star&#8217;s &#8216;abhorrent&#8217; tweets Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2018\/may\/29\/how-the-right-is-defending-roseanne-barrs-racist-tweets\" target=\"_blank\">How the right is defending Roseanne Barr&#039;s racist tweets<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after ABC canceled the show, right-wing commentators were engaged in false equivalences and \u2018mental gymnastics\u2019At least you can say the Roseanne reboot lasted longer than most members of the Trump administration. Only a couple of months after the premiere aired to one of the biggest TV audiences in years, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}