Roseanne weighs in on Kimmel shutdown – and she should know

Comedian Roseanne Barr is no stranger to being “canceled,” and she had a sarcastic response to selective outrage over Jimmy Kimmel’s demise.

The Atlantic’s David Frum spouted off a disingenuous X post over the indefinite suspension of the late-night host. Kimmel landed in hot water and is out of a job after he LIED in a monologue following Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

The media’s legacy of incessant gaslighting and dangerous rhetoric is being blamed in part for Kirk’s murder, and Kimmel’s deceitful accusations went over the line following the public assassination of Kirk.

Frum, however, decided to spin the story, implying Kimmel was suspended because he wasn’t “sufficiently sad” over the murder.

“Trying to imagine the reaction if the Biden administration had demanded that Fox fire Greg Gutfeld because he wasn’t sufficiently sad about the assault on Paul Pelosi,” Frum quipped.

Trying to imagine the reaction if the Biden administration had demanded that Fox fire Greg Gutfeld because he wasn’t sufficiently sad about the assault on Paul Pelosi

— David Frum (@davidfrum) September 17, 2025

Frum was slammed for both his selective outrage and his selective memory, and Roseanne helped lead the charge:

Yeah imagine an administration putting pressure on a television channel to fire a comedian they didn’t like. https://t.co/gR3hTSVJ9f

— Roseanne Barr (@therealroseanne) September 18, 2025

Roseanne was booted off the air for commenting on Obama’s wingwoman, Valerie Jarrett’s appearance, which many perceived to be racist. Roseanne has always insisted it wasn’t, but it was a personal jab, not something falsely stated as fact on air amid an ongoing investigation of murder.

The comedian received a lot of support for her response, while Frum was summarily destroyed:

I was just thinking about you. What happened to you was completely disgusting.

— Montgomery Granger (@mjgranger1) September 18, 2025

@brianstelter , this you? pic.twitter.com/KAwopmg32K

— Kelly Leak (@BadKellyLeak) September 18, 2025

ABC used Rosanne’s tweet as an excuse to fire her because the reboot in 2018 depicted Roseanne Conner as a Trump supporter and Roseanne also publicly expressed support for Trump. The left could not have millions of people watch and like a comedy show that openly supported Trump.

— E Hartman (@EileenH07102465) September 18, 2025

“Deplatforming works!”

-AOC, referencing them getting Tucker Carlson fired from FOX.

— Sixstringman (@sixstringman1) September 18, 2025

Where was this outrage when Roseanne and Tucker lost their jobs?

But there’s been more, as an X user reminded Frum:

Tucker Carson has entered the chat.
Roseanne Barr has entered the chat.
Gina Carano has entered the chat.
Kevin Sorbo has entered the chat.
Tim Allen has entered the chat.
Vince Vaughn has entered the chat.
J.K. Rowling has entered the chat.

Thanks for sharing Dum Dum. pic.twitter.com/E3gR6LTDtE

— Dana Sharpe (@DanaSharpe18) September 18, 2025

Gosh I remember when Trump was removed from Twitter followed by the censorship of tens of thousands of conservatives, wait for it, at the request of the Biden administration. Biden even tried to create a fact checker bureaucracy so the feds could control speech. That’s what…

— Dwight Voeks (@DwightVoeks) September 18, 2025

So many mangled facts in there.
a) Kimmel wasn’t fired.
b) Kimmel lied politically, not “was not sad enough”.
c) Trump didn’t demand ABC fire Kimmel for this.
d) Biden has demanded firings (ex: first responders and officers who wouldn’t comply with COVID-19 vax mandates)
e) More

— After Dinner (@AfterDinnerCo) September 18, 2025

Kimmel blatantly, purposefully, unapologetically LIED about the most significant political assassination since the late 60s.

He did so in order to manipulate and deflect. Like you are.

We’re not talking about a bad joke, FFS.

We’re not talking about him “not being sad enough”.

— C. Gray (@angelwakingup2) September 18, 2025

Exactly.

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