I suspect that there were a few meetings involved, a couple of phone calls. Channing Dungey is the point person being given the credit for Barr's scalp, but I would be surprised if she hadn't run this past others before making the decision. That is, after all, typical corporate behavior.
So, what likely happened?
Roseanne, after its astoundingly popular start, was picked up for a second year. All seemed on-track for a long series run.
Until the Real Roseanne Tweeted.
I won't link to the Tweet - I see no need to add fuel to the fire. It was a snide, nasty Tweet. But, considering other celebrities had used similar allusions about OTHER politicians, not that much worse.
And, Trump is a President, not merely an advisor to one. You might think respect for the office would temper such displays and comments.
You would be wrong.
The bigger issue is:
Why use that reference? Why now?Valerie Jarrett is no longer advising the POTUS. She presumably is a private citizen (Snort! Sorry, I couldn't help laughing).
I do suspect that Roseanne was not happy with the pressure to make her look stupid for having the viewpoint she does, and change the tenor of the show further away from what had captured the attention of the viewing audience.
In the past, she'd battled with producers and the networks. She is not a person to be schmoozed or pushed around.
She is 66 years old. I suspect that at least a little of her Tweet came from her disinclination to be molded into something she is not. By issuing the Tweet, she drew the line in the sand.
If you couldn't deal with that, she was outa there.
Which, 9 hours later, she was.
The quick deletion, and apologies, came from her waffling about the project - which she really did want to do. At least, her vision of it.
The trouble is, ABC was never going to let Roseanne be Roseanne.
So, rather than quit, she forced them to fire her.
What now? I would anticipate seeing her in independent video online, maybe in a channel on Gab or other independent media. The pressure to keep her out will be hard enough to make a diamond. But, that's the nature of media today - where pressure is put on one outlet, another pops up.
The Left can try Whack-a-Mole as much as they would like. The Moles will keep popping up, in new places.
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