Perhaps had Roseanne had any other name, and supported any other president, she would still be free to exercise her first amendment rights without losing her primary sources of income
A ROSEANNE BY ANY OTHER NAME Would Continue to Smell Sweet
How fitting that the great William Shakespeare was focusing on bigotry when he gave Juliet the immortal line "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." It is true that Kathy Griffin also got fired for inappropriate language, but what she did was far worse -- suggesting a grotesque murder of a duly elected president. There is a double standard in the way public figures are treated, and not because some may have a double chin. What Roseanne Barr did was far less offensive than what others have gotten away with, and if anything she should have gotten more leeway than others since her main claim to fame is as a comedienne, not an ethicist, and people who traditionally make fun of everything are generally deemed to be aiming for light laughs rather than mean-spirited insults.