Dead Puerto Ricans less important than Roseanne Barr?


This video from the USA says about itself:

Roseanne Got 20x More Coverage Than Bombshell Report On Hurricane Deaths

1 June 2018

On Tuesday, Harvard researchers published a study estimating that approximately 5,000 deaths can be linked to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. The same day, ABC canceled Roseanne Barr’s eponymous show Roseanne after Barr sent a racist tweet about Valerie Jarrett, an adviser to former President Barack Obama. Cable news covered Barr’s tweet and her show’s cancellation 16 times as much as the deaths of U.S. citizens in Puerto Rico.

Read more here.

A social crime and cover-up exposed. Five thousand deaths in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria: here.

US media turns blind eye to the death of 5,000 Puerto Ricans: here.

Canadian-American comedian Samantha Bee has come under fire from Trump administration figures and right-wing pundits after making a vulgar reference Wednesday to Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter, on her late-night TBS program, “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee.” Donald Trump and various Fox News commentators immediately demanded that Bee be fired. The attack on Bee comes in the immediate wake of the cancellation of Roseanne Barr’s “Roseanne” television series after the actress-comedian posted a racist tweet. Trump and company claimed a “liberal double standard” was allowing Bee to keep her show: here.

14 thoughts on “Dead Puerto Ricans less important than Roseanne Barr?

  1. Yo le dijo esto cuando pasó. Es verdad que gente piensan más a Rosanne que ellos piensen de todos los innecesarios muertes en la isla. I already said that. It’s true that people were thinking more about Rosanne than all of the needless deaths on the island.

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