Todd Vanderwerf, critic at large at Vox.

Rosanne got canceled by ABC just yesterday.

What's the party line on why?

So just yesterday, Rosanne was on Twitter and she tweeted a thing about former Obama aid

Valerie Jarrett, which said that Valerie Jarrett looked like the Muslim Brotherhood and Planet

of the Apes had a baby.

Needless to say, this was seen as extraordinarily racist.

It very quickly became a controversy.

ABC could not ignore.

Consequently, they canceled the show after writer Wanda Sykes said that she was not going

to be working on the show anymore and actor Sarah Gilbert, who's also a producer on the

series, Chastise, Rosanne.

Some of the other cast members were speaking up.

We've heard that.

Emma Kenney, who played one of the children on the show, was calling it to quit the show

when it was canceled.

So this was a firestorm that ABC just had no other recourse to contain.

Which she just kind of going on a Roseanne rant or what?

What else was going on?

She was in the middle of a conversation with some other people.

Roseanne is a big promoter of far right wing conspiracy theories.

One of them you may have heard of is something called QAnon, which is this idea that Donald

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