Barack Obama’s recent condemnation of the Trump administration’s supposed weaponization of cancel culture is the height of liberal hypocrisy, a fact that Roseanne Barr was quick to highlight. The former president lashed out in defense of Jimmy Kimmel, who was rightly pulled from the airwaves for spreading a grotesque and dangerous lie about the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Instead of acknowledging this blatant misconduct, Obama chose to attack the current administration for upholding accountability, a stunning reversal from the man who oversaw one of the most aggressive campaigns against conservative voices in modern history.
It was at this moment that Roseanne Barr delivered a devastating rebuttal, exposing the utter hypocrisy of Obama’s statement. Barr, who was infamously canceled overnight in 2018 for a single tweet, directly challenged the former president, forcing him and the nation to remember the true origins of this cultural purge. “Remember when you and your wife called Bob Iger to have me fired?” Barr fired back. This powerful statement serves as a direct indictment of the Obama’s personal role in orchestrating the very cancel culture they now feign to oppose.
Remember when you and your wife called Bob Iger to have me fired? https://t.co/w5BcJ1bsLC
— Roseanne Barr (@therealroseanne) September 18, 2025
Barr’s cancellation was never about a single misguided comment, despite the narrative tirelessly pushed by the liberal media. In a 2019 interview with the Sunday Times Magazine, Barr revealed the shocking truth: Michelle Obama personally pressured ABC executives to axe her from the network. This intervention was executed by former ABC president Channing Dungey, who just so happened to work directly with the Obamas at Netflix shortly after carrying out their wishes. This is not a conspiracy theory; it is a documented pattern of behavior from a political machine that believes its opponents should be silenced, not debated.
This incident is merely one thread in a vast tapestry of left-wing cancel culture aimed at conservatives, Trump supporters, and anyone who dares to step outside politically correct orthodoxy. The list of targets is long and telling: Gina Carano was fired from The Mandalorian for ‘wrongthink.’ Megyn Kelly was fired by NBC for Halloween costume commentary. Dave Chappelle was targeted by Netflix employees for ‘transphobia.’ Joe Rogan was smeared and nearly canceled over COVID discussions. Tucker Carlson was taken off Fox News after advertiser pressure campaigns. Parler was wiped off the internet by Apple, Google, and Amazon. J.K. Rowling was blacklisted for defending women’s rights. Mike Lindell was banned from Twitter and retailers for supporting Trump. The Gateway Pundit was banned on Google AdSense, Amazon Ads, and PayPal for reporting on election fraud and COVID.
The Obama administration itself was a pioneer in government coercion against the free press, a fact that former congressional candidate Jack Lombardi was quick to point out. Under President Obama’s watch, the government waged a direct war on journalists. In October 2009, the White House tried to exclude Fox News from a pooled interview—other networks refused to participate until Fox was included. In May 2013, the DOJ secretly seized two months of AP reporters’ phone records, an intrusion AP called “massive and unprecedented.” That same month, the DOJ labeled Fox’s James Rosen a “co-conspirator” in a leak probe to obtain his emails and phone records. From February to March 2014, the FCC even floated a “Critical Information Needs” newsroom study, which was only scrapped after a massive First Amendment backlash.
This is the real record of the Obama administration: a consistent and documented history of attempting to silence and intimidate its critics. President Donald Trump, in stark contrast, has consistently fought against this oppressive system, championing free speech and calling out the biased corporate media for their lies and propaganda. His administration stands as a bulwark against the woke mob and the powerful institutions that seek to control public discourse and punish dissent.