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Podcast: Today, Explained
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Roseanne gets canned
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:19:35
Publish Date: 2018-05-30 13:30:20
Description:

ABC canceled the popular reboot of Roseanne after its star likened President Obama’s former advisor, an African-American woman, to an ape on Twitter. Today, Roseanne Barr blamed her tweets on Ambien. The manufacturer responded that “racism is not a known side effect.” Vox’s Todd VanDerWerff explores why the Trump-era reboot was so well received, and whether TV can bring opposite poles of the American political spectrum together.

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