Rant #2,153: Too Much Talk

Yup, Roseanne Barr has certainly done it again.

We live in a culture that believes that every action and every thought must be put up on the Internet, whether it is on Facebook, Twitter, or wherever masses of people can see it.

Nothing is sacred anymore, nothing is a thought that should be kept in our minds, filed away, and never spoken or acted out.

Well, Roseanne, like her unlikely comedic counterpart Kathy Griffin did months before, is now learning that you can believe what you want to believe in this country, but some thoughts are better left to the nether reaches of your brain, and that is that.

And now, there is going to be a tremendous backlash, just like there was against Griffin when she held up a bloody head of President Trump, something that she thought was hilarious and that we all wanted to see and laugh at with her.

And like Griffin, Barr has apologized, has apologized to her now out of work cast mates, and has painted herself as some sort of victim, claiming that she used sleep aid Ambien and that she was under the influence of that drug when she made her tweet public to the world.

I guess that ABC had no recourse than to pull her show, even though it had become very popular all over again in its second incarnation.

I guess if they didn't do that, they felt that they were backing what the supposed comedienne said, and they couldn't have that.

Of course, they have let the loose cannons of "The View" go on and on and on and on some more about how terrible President Trump is, but you know, that kind of fits Hollywood's liberal agenda, so it kind of fits into corporate's agenda, too.

But whatever the case, Barr has shot herself firmly in the foot with her tweet, her fake apology, and her subsequent tweets, and like Griffin, she will have to lay low for a while before anyone will embrace her again.

Like Griffin at the height of her ignorance, Barr is now toxic, and few are going to have anything to do with her at this point.

The difference between Barr and Griffin is that while what Griffin did was abhorrent, it fit Hollywood's liberal agenda--gone mad, of course--and when the time was right, Griffin was welcomed back with open arms.

Barr, on the other hand, does not fit that agenda at all, so it might be a while before anyone from that community can welcome her back into the fold.

But we have all learned a very valuable lesson from these messes.

Yes, it is nice to put up birthday greetings on the Internet, or put up some other special occasion where everyone can see it.

Sure, once in a while, you can register an opinion to some mild topic that few outside a definitive circle cares about.

But when you get into certain areas, the best thing to do is simply to shut up, and lock certain thoughts away in some padlock in your brain, only for you to know about.

I do believe that some entertainment people on both sides of the ledger really and truly believe that they speak for the country, and what they say absolutely has to be said and heard and read and seen by everyone in the country and the world.

Well, Griffin and Barr have once and for all proven that some things are simply better left unsaid, even if you have a worldwide audience of followers.

To those women I would say, "Shut up about this nonsense and make me laugh."

At this point, I doubt that they could even make me crack a smile.