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Watch: Right-wing pundit slams Roseanne Barr's comments as 'crazy' and chides ABC for Roseanne reboot

As the fallout from Roseanne Barr's racist comments led to the cancellation of her show, pundits debated whether ABC did the right thing — or if they should have killed the show far sooner, or if they should never have given Barr a show in the first place, given her history of promoting conspiracy theories and racism.

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MSNBC panel explains exactly why Trump's endorsement of Roseanne was driven by racism -- and is 100% accurate

Everyone is talking about racist Roseanne today, and that includes MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace who opened her Tuesday show with a panel discussion of the show's cancellation.

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Embattled Missouri Republican governor Eric Greitens to resign: report

Missouri's Republican Governor Eric Greitens will resign today, Fox News is reporting.

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Watch: Valerie Jarrett issues first response to Roseanne Barr's racist tweets about her

Former Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, the subject of the racist tweet that got Roseanne Barr's show canceled by ABC today, appeared on an NBC forum today.

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Michael Flynn Jr. posts Alex Jones 'Prison Planet' video about involuntary celibates who kill

Michael Flynn Jr., son of former Trump advisor Michael Flynn, has been a source of cryptic news of late, like mysterious warnings to Democratic lawmakers and former FBI director .

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Watch: Trump biographer explains why crazy 'Rudy Giuliani is a distraction machine' with a key role in Trump's re-election

In the past few weeks, media analysts have wondered why Rudy Giuliani keeps going on media blitzes on cable news and spouting crazy and contradictory statements.

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CNN's April Ryan exposes the irony of the Roseanne reboot

As news spread that ABC cancelled Roseanne following a racist Twitter tirade by its star, Roseanne Barr, media analysts debated whether ABC should have green-lit the reboot in the first place.

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Media giants slammed for hedging on racist Roseanne comments

As a string of racist tweets by Roseanne Barr roiled the internet and cable news Tuesday morning, mainstream media outlets reporting on the controversy caught flak for failing to describe her diatribe as racist.

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Trump's conspiracy hokum is 'a vital part of his strategy to avoid accountability': New York Times report

Why does Donald Trump lie at a historic rate, including so many whoppers from inflating the crowd size at his inauguration to pretending he was spied on by the Obama administration?

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Freedom Caucus member quits in first term citing alcoholism -- while facing allegations he made staff pick up his dog's poop

A Republican member of the House of Representatives from Virginia will not seek re-election, announcing that he is an alcoholic and wants to pursue treatment, the Washington Post reports.

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Trump tweets that Democrats 'want to be gentle and kind' to MS-13 gang in Memorial Day tirade

After a brief interlude in which he praised fallen war heroes who he said would have loved his presidency, Donald Trump spent his Memorial Day attacking Democrats.

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