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Meghan McCain<\/a> and Roseanne Barr<\/a> know better than most what it\u2019s like to feel forced out of a job on the ABC<\/a> airwaves. That didn\u2019t earn ousted late-night host Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> any sympathy from the former network stars.<\/p>\n The outspoken conservatives celebrated Kimmel\u2019s indefinite suspension<\/a> from the airwaves on social media, with both celebs calling it a long-overdue taste of progressive Hollywood\u2019s bitter medicine.<\/p>\n In a post to X, Barr sarcastically lamented Kimmel\u2019s situation.<\/p>\n \u201cYeah, imagine an administration putting pressure on a television channel to fire a comedian they didn\u2019t like,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n Barr\u2019s eponymous ABC sitcom was cancelled after she compared Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to former President Barack Obama<\/a>, to an ape. In a series of posts to X following Kimmel\u2019s ouster, Barr misrepresented the posts that led to her show\u2019s cancellation, saying she was fired for criticizing a deal<\/a> between the United States and Iran<\/a>. She also implied she was fired because Obama pressured the network.<\/p>\n Reporting on the end of \u201cRoseanne,\u201d which was the most-watched scripted show on broadcast television in its final season, found that Barr\u2019s comments disgusted the writer\u2019s room<\/a>. At the time, Barr repeatedly apologized for her post<\/a> and blamed it on taking the sleep aid Ambien.<\/p>\n McCain painted ABC\u2019s decision as just desserts for what she saw as the network\u2019s animus toward the GOP.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve said it before and I\u2019ll say it again \u2013 I\u2019ve been warning everyone for years how much ABC hates Republicans,\u201d she wrote on X<\/a>. \u201cOne way or another, it was always going to inevitably have ramifications.\u201d<\/p>\n McCain left her job as co-host of \u201cThe View<\/a>\u201d of her own volition after a contentious stint on the daytime talk show. Though McCain was far from the first conservative to sit down at the show\u2019s \u201chot topics\u201d table \u2014 Elizabeth Hasselbeck co-hosted the show for a decade, and current co-host Alyssa Griffin served in the Trump administration \u2014 McCain felt she was targeted for her political beliefs.<\/p>\n \u201cI was working on the show as the only conservative during the Trump years. I felt like a lot of people took out their anger on the administration on me because I was the only person in the building who was a Republican,\u201d she told Variety<\/a> in 2021. \u201cI felt like I was too many degrees of separation close to Trump, despite the fact that everyone who worked on the show saw firsthand how much President Trump and his family put me through emotionally.\u201d<\/p>\n Neither McCain nor Barr spoke much about the key difference between Kimmel\u2019s exit from ABC and theirs. They were not targeted by a sitting presidential administration or threatened by a government official who could revoke ABC\u2019s broadcast license<\/a>.<\/p>\n The post \u201cImagine\u201d: McCain, Roseanne gloat over Kimmel firing<\/a> appeared first on Salon.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Meghan McCain and Roseanne Barr know better than most what it\u2019s like to feel forced out of a job on the ABC airwaves. That didn\u2019t earn ousted late-night host Jimmy Kimmel any sympathy from the former network stars. 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