Chris Cillizza, CNN; ABC just took a moral stand on Roseanne. Spoiler alert: Donald Trump won't.
"ABC's decision to cancel Roseanne Barr's eponymous show
following a racist comment she made about former Obama administration
official Valerie Jarrett on Twitter was shocking for two reasons.
First,
because it amounted to a TV network drawing a moral line in the sand --
insisting that no amount of money or ratings gave Roseanne the right to
express views that ABC described in a statement as "abhorrent,
repugnant and inconsistent with our values."
Second,
because that decision to take a moral stand represents a stark contrast
from the moral relativism preached by the president of the United
States.
Donald Trump is different
from anyone who has held the office before him in all sorts of ways.
But, to my mind, the biggest -- and most critical -- difference between
Trump and his predecessors is his total abdication of the concept of the
president as a moral leader for the country and the world."
