It was certainly an inappropriate remark made by Roseanne Barr (shown) via Twitter: “Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby = vj.” Barr was responding to a tweet about Valerie Jarrett, a former key aide to President Barack Obama.

Since Jarrett is an African-American woman, the tweet was immediately characterized as “racist,” and ABC quickly canceled its situation comedy Roseanne on Tuesday. The swift reaction by ABC was somewhat surprising, considering that Barr issued an apology to Jarrett and “all Americans,” and that the show was the surprise “hit” of the season.

In the show, Barr’s character is a huge supporter of President Donald Trump, whom she voted for in real life.

Jarrett responded to Barr’s tweets Wednesday on (naturally) MSNBC, without commenting on Barr’s apology: “I’m fine. I’m worried about all the people out there who don’t have a circle of friends and followers who come right to their defense.”

Jarrett added, “We have to turn it into a teaching moment.”

Exactly what Jarrett believes is “a teaching moment” about Barr’s tweet is not clear, but one lesson that can certainly be drawn from the episode is that the liberal-dominated culture views certain hateful “jokes” differently, depending on whether a liberal or a conservative is the one being ridiculed. Barr’s “joke” was taken as “racist,” and one can certainly take offense to it.

But the left-wing culture that dominates television and the media are very selective in their outrage concerning so-called jokes. Stephen Colbert has turned his late-night television program into a nightly vicious verbal assault upon the president of the United States, and no joke about Trump is seen as too far or too disrespectful on his show or on other such programs.

Examples of the liberal double-standard are ubiquitous. It was about a year ago when the “comedian” Kathy Griffin thought it would be a real laugher to post a photograph of herself holding up what was supposed to be a bloody representation of Donald Trump’s severed head.

At the time, Griffin faced so much backlash, even from some liberals, that she offered a public apology, saying, “I am sorry. I went too far. I was wrong.” What should be noted here is that an apology saved her career, but Barr’s apology did not salvage her popular TV sit-com. Apparently, certain actions constitute the unforgivable sin to the American Left, and others — such as making a “joke” out of the representation of a severed head of the president of the United States — do not.

Griffin has even retracted her apology, telling The View, “I take the apology back.… This president is different.” When asked if she still felt she went too far in displaying a bloody severed head of Trump, Griffin said, “No, not now, not when I see his policies.”

Griffin was asked by View co-host Joy Behar (who apologized recently for her own comments that Christians who believe Jesus talks to them are suffering from a mental illness) why she would risk another backlash. Griffin responded, “It’s important. The First Amendment is the first amendment for a reason.”

Besides the fact that the First Amendment is a only a restriction upon the government’s censorship of speech, and has nothing to do with private consequences (such as Barr losing her TV show), there is nothing particularly courageous about Griffin’s retraction. The media will not make a big deal out of her retraction. She will not lose a job over it.

Then there was the episode when former late-night TV host David Letterman made a “joke” that Sarah Palin’s daughter got “knocked up by [New York Yankees baseball player] Alex Rodriguez.” Letterman seemed to have a practice of finding something funny about rape — he once made a “joke” that Scooter Libby, an aide to then-Vice President Dick Cheney, would soon be getting raped in prison.

More here: https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/item/29163-roseanne-barrs-firing-demonstrates-liberal-double-standard