So as discussed in this space a few days back, CBS was “investigating” Sharon Osbourne, the co-host of the CBS show Talk.
Now the investigation of what millions saw in real-time live television is complete – and CBS, bowing to the woke cancel culture, has fired Sharon Osbourne.
Shocking. Not.
Osbourne’s sin was defending the free speech rights of her friend Piers Morgan who had the audacity – the audacity! – to criticize Meghan Markle, the Dutchess of Sussex – for her comments going after husband Prince Harry’s royal family in a much-ballyhooed Oprah interview.
Because Markle is biracial, Morgan’s criticism of her is a no-can-do in the World of the Woke. The CBS statement said this:
“The events of the March 10 broadcast were upsetting to everyone involved, including the audience watching at home,” the network said in a statement. “As part of our review, we concluded that Sharon’s behavior toward her co-hosts during the March 10 episode did not align with our values for a respectful workplace. We also did not find any evidence that CBS executives orchestrated the discussion or blindsided any of the hosts.”
Talk about Orwellian.
This is what Osbourne said on that March 10th show when she defended her friend’s free speech:
“I feel even like I’m about to be put in the electric chair because I have a friend who many people think is a racist, so that makes me a racist.”
Wow. Call in the investigators. Alert the cancel culture.
For his part, Piers Morgan instantly defended his friend Osbourne. Here’s the headline from Fox News:
Piers Morgan calls Sharon Osbourne’s exit from ‘The Talk’ an ‘absolute disgrace’
Former ‘Good Morning Britain’ anchor says Osbourne was ‘bullied out of her job’
Said Morgan:
“What’s happened to @MrsSOsbourne is an absolute disgrace that shames CBS. Bullied out of her job for defending me against an invented slur of racism because I don’t believe a liar. In tomorrow’s Mail on Sunday, I’ll tell MY truth about this woke cancel culture bulls*t.”
And so he did, as seen right here. The headline from the Daily Mail:
PIERS MORGAN: I’m not a racist and neither is Sharon Osbourne but that didn’t stop the woke mob lynching her just for defending me in a shocking episode that shames the Cowardly Broadcasting System and should horrify anyone who values free speech
Morgan opened by quoting a routine by comedian George Lopez, a Latino, that was openly trashing a black woman in his audience. As it happens, Lopez is a friend of The Talk host Sheryl Underwood, an African-American. Underwood defended Lopez from charges of blatant, quite open racism. Nothing happened to Underwood for doing so.
Morgan’s remarks and Osbourne’s defense of Morgan, not to mention Osbourne’s own remarks, don’t even come close to the Lopez remarks that Underwood defended. But hey, never mind, the Woke mob wanted Sharon Osbourne’s head and they got it. Said Morgan in his Daily Mail piece:
“It’s an absolute disgrace and given how Underwood defended HER friend George Lopez when he DID say racist things that were caught on camera, it’s disgustingly hypocritical of her.
As is the behaviour of CBS, the Cowardly Broadcasting System, who’ve so pathetically bowed to the woke mob illiberally baying for blood like a bunch of crazed language-policing fascists.
In their statement announcing Sharon’s departure, CBS made it clear she was leaving specifically for what happened on that episode and not because of any of the other historic allegations of alleged inappropriate behaviour made against her by aggrieved former panel members, all of which Sharon vehemently denies.
CBS said: ‘The events of the March 10 broadcast were upsetting to everyone involved, including the audience watching at home. As part of our review, we concluded that Sharon’s behavior toward her co-hosts during the March 10 episode did not align with our values for a respectful workplace.’
What a load of sanctimonious, two-faced twaddle.
So, it’s OK for Sheryl Underwood to passionately defend someone who spews racist abuse at a black woman, but it’s not OK for Sharon Osbourne to passionately defend someone who didn’t?
This is such an outrageous double standard.”
Indeed it is.
Even more to the point, this is yet another seriously fascist-style attack on free speech. From CBS, no less.
Buckle in. There will be more of this woke cancel culture coming.
Count on it.
