Roseanne Barr Apologizes for Obama Aide 'Joke,' Says She's 'Leaving' Twitter
Source: variety
May 29, 2018 7:54AM PT
WASHINGTON Roseanne Barr has apologized for targeting one of President Barack Obamas senior advisers as the offspring of the Muslim Brotherhood & Planet of the Apes, as she responded to a social media conspiracy theory about President Donald Trumps predecessor.
I apologize to Valerie Jarrett and to all Americans. I am truly sorry for making a bad joke about her politics and her looks. I should have known better. Forgive me-my joke was in bad taste, Barr wrote on Twitter, later adding, I am now leaving Twitter.
Barr previously referred to Obama aide Valerie Jarrett as muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj. She was responding to a Tweet that alleged that Jarrett helped hide a lot. That was a reference to a Wikileaks claim that the CIA during Obamas term spied on candidates for the French election.
Read more: http://variety.com/2018/politics/news/roseanne-valerie-jarrett-1202823816/
She is just part of the #TRUMPSWamp--not to be believed.
Link to tweet
Barr previously referred to Obama aide Valerie Jarrett as muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj. She was responding to a Tweet that alleged that Jarrett helped hide a lot. That was a reference to a Wikileaks claim that the CIA during Obamas term spied on candidates for the French election.
Link to tweet
CatMor
(6,212 posts)along with her idol trump.
magicarpet
(14,181 posts)CatMor
(6,212 posts)C Moon
(12,221 posts)She's only sorry because they are afraid it will hurt her tv show's ratings.
Go to hell!
samnsara
(17,650 posts)..shes always been this way....loud... abusive.... proudly ignorant. i tried watching her old show once and her new show for a few minutes. hasnt changed.
Kittycow
(2,396 posts)Fullduplexxx
(7,872 posts)G
OMGWTF
(3,978 posts)Fullduplexxx
(7,872 posts)RockRaven
(15,018 posts)Secondly, the problem isn't that the joke is in bad taste, or that the joke is not funny. The problem is that the joke displays Roseanne's bigoted animus, and by the way rests on a falsehood re Jarrett that Roseanne revisits in her notpology.
Disgusting trash, she is.
MissMillie
(38,583 posts)She didn't say she was sorry if people were offended. She said that she was sorry for what she said (Tweeted)
I don't defend what she did or said, but she DID apologize.
Gothmog
(145,631 posts)rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)Cha
(297,765 posts)True Dough
(17,337 posts)louis c
(8,652 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,342 posts)even those with a tin ear for racism would know enough not to post it
debsy
(530 posts)She is narcissistic, bigoted, greedy and doesn't give a shit about this country. Good riddance, Roseanne. May you spend the rest of your hideous days under a rock where you and all Trump supporters belong.
BumRushDaShow
(129,608 posts)because she is an addict and will do it again and again and again.
Kathy Griffin was destroyed for a photo that was a "joke". Al Franken was destroyed for a photo that was a "joke". But when it comes to people like her or Ted Nugent, they get passes and more $$$.
OMGWTF
(3,978 posts)Cha
(297,765 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,608 posts)Valerie was just on Joe Madison's show last week (I think last Friday) and so yesterday, just before he was about to end his show for the day, his staff handed him a copy of that vile tweet and he literally exploded in a rage in the studio. I will be glued to the radio this morning when he comes on in about 10 minutes.
Edit to add - I just heard on my local news radio station that Barr was just dumped by ICM Partners who represents her in the industry. And she now apparently tweeted blaming her use of "ambien" for this.
Cha
(297,765 posts)telling me that.. what timing, eh?!
Let me know, please!
BumRushDaShow
(129,608 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,608 posts)and trying to defend her claiming that "ABC was looking for a reason to ax" the show, claiming they didn't think the show would be so popular and supported by Drumpf ,so they had to get rid of it. Madison is going off on Herman Cain.
ETA - they are playing her National Anthem rendition.
Cha
(297,765 posts)I went off on Herman Cain earlier. How much of a dense pizza magnate tool can you be?!
https://upload.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=10672676
Mahalo, BRDS! Thank Goodness ABC fired her.
BumRushDaShow
(129,608 posts)The stupid DOES burn with that one!
arithia
(455 posts)Talk about a crap apology from a crappy human being.
deurbano
(2,896 posts)to work with her. Have her killed off. John Goodman and Laurie Metcalf are a lot more talented.
MarianJack
(10,237 posts)...PISS OFF!
PEACE!
Initech
(100,107 posts)OMGWTF
(3,978 posts)www.abc.go.com/feedback
duforsure
(11,885 posts)Dropped this show because of this?
louis-t
(23,297 posts)ABC pulled the show before the outrage could build enough that people would begin boycotting the sponsors, sponsors then releasing statements for 2 or 3 days saying they were standing behind Roseanne, then when their sales begin to fall they do a 180 and pull their support and their ads. ABC just avoided a lot of drama and bad publicity.
dlk
(11,578 posts)Paladin
(28,276 posts)ailsagirl
(22,899 posts)rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)She has something Roseanne will never have...class.
Fullduplexxx
(7,872 posts)Aristus
(66,468 posts)louis-t
(23,297 posts)Weeell, if I'd known that.....
More_Cowbell
(2,191 posts)She must have decided that since ABC canceled her show, she doesn't have to keep that promise.
Behind the Aegis
(53,998 posts)But, she, like so many, don't really get too upset at anti-Semitism, just when it is politically expedient. Yet, had she quit when she said she was going to, she might still have a show.
Too bad, so sad.
Bigotry has a price and it is nice to see some of the purveyors paying the price instead of the victims!
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Guess she missed that page in the manual.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)TNNurse
(6,929 posts)Twitter, her job, her agent. Such an awful human being. I feel bad for the crew of her show. I have never understood why John Goodman, Sara Gilbert and Laurie Metcalf thought working with her again was going to go well. The other younger actors are her victims as well.
Did not watch this new show, not once.
ailsagirl
(22,899 posts)But it is sad that all the people affiliated with the show (including the other actors) are out of work. Because of her.
FakeNoose
(32,791 posts)Maybe her coworkers (who were all great BTW) will sue Roseanne to recover THEIR loss of income.
I'd cheer for that.
hamsterjill
(15,224 posts)I think shes realizing that. This apology is pathetic damage control.
Alethia Merritt
(147 posts)Wait for it.