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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRoseanne Barr attacks former Obama adviser in racially-charged tweet
Source: The Hill
In a tweet, the ABC star attacked Jarett, who was born in Iran, as child of the Islamist organization and the movie "Planet of the Apes."
"muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj," she wrote, using Jarrett's initials and responding to a tweet accusing the former Obama adviser of helping "hide" misdeeds for the Obama administration.
muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj
Roseanne Barr (@therealroseanne) May 29, 2018
Other tweets from Barr's account early Tuesday attacked billionaire liberal donor George Soros and Chelsea Clinton, whom the comedian linked to a right-wing conspiracy accusing Soros of trying to "overthrow of us constitutional republic."
More: http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/389670-roseanne-barr-attacks-former-obama-adviser-in-racially-charged
spanone
(135,632 posts)demmiblue
(36,743 posts)Disgusting pos is too kind.
Alethia Merritt
(147 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)thought she could get away with this. haven't check her personal slough but did read that her new show's top writer is leaving. Ouch!
snowybirdie
(5,190 posts)think her time has come and gone? Going to give ABC a jingle today to protest this racist, idiotic fool having a tv show. Anyone want to do so as well?
cyclonefence
(4,483 posts)I'm ready.
I will not watch her show, so I've been looking online for a list of advertisers. This is the best I can come up with:
Subway, Outback Steakhouse, Pepsi, Ashley Furniture Industries, Lyrica, Pfizer, Haribo, Samsung, and Microsoft. Additional advertisers reportedly include Mitsubishi, Intuit/Quickbooks, Verizon, Coke, Hotels.com, and JCPenney.
https://us.blastingnews.com/showbiz-tv/2018/04/roseanne-ratings-stay-strong-as-calls-for-an-advertiser-boycott-escalate-002483883.html
If anyone has a reliable list, I wish you'd post it. There is apparently a Twitter campaign to boycott, but I don't use Twitter.
There are a couple of companies listed that I can't boycott, but I will write letters of complaint to their CEOs.
Roy Rolling
(6,853 posts)She can kiss the sponsors of the show goodbye. I'm sure they are having meetings right now on how to move their money to other shows.
Or face the marketing position as "the brand that supports that racist POS Rosanne Barr".
demmiblue
(36,743 posts)cyclonefence
(4,483 posts)There's overlap with the list I found, so I'm betting this is pretty accurate.
Kingofalldems
(38,360 posts)Oppaloopa
(862 posts)FloridaBlues
(3,992 posts)RKP5637
(67,030 posts)Cha
(295,899 posts)Fucking brainwashed Idiot.
Initech
(99,909 posts)This gives me even more of a reason not to watch.
BSdetect
(8,989 posts)LenaBaby61
(6,965 posts)Wouldn't be me.
Called Jarrett an ape.
Catherine Vincent
(34,485 posts)I thought early on she said certain comments just to get people talking and to tune into her show but now...what is wrong with her? In one of the more recent episodes, her eyes were opened and she defended a Muslim woman.
skypilot
(8,847 posts)Yeah, something is going here. I can't reconcile a tweet like this with the episode that you mention. I saw that episode as well. I don't know if there is some kind of elaborate trolling thing going on or if she is just mentally ill.
Oppaloopa
(862 posts)Saboburns
(2,807 posts)Exactly the same. They post the same unhinged bullshit on Twitter and Facebook.
This is today's Republican Party.
Unhinged, ignorant, racist, and afraid.
ooky
(8,885 posts)with her own.
demmiblue
(36,743 posts)RockaFowler
(7,429 posts)I wish she would have kept her promise
MustLoveBeagles
(11,563 posts)Efilroft Sul
(3,573 posts)Freethinker65
(9,929 posts)If she continues to make money for the network, they will happily claim what she does on her own time is artistic free speech whether they agree with it or not. If/when ratings fall and she becomes a liability, the same will say she crossed the line and they could no longer tolerate her so decided to part ways
RockaFowler
(7,429 posts)ProfessorGAC
(64,413 posts)And, the Germans were kicked out of Hungary about 7 months before the war ended, so he would have been closer to 13.
A 13 year old collaborator?
This is too ridiculous for words.
Butterflylady
(3,523 posts)She should do some research before tweeting. Her tweets only make her look stupid.
syringis
(5,101 posts)What kind of toxic garbage is Barr ???
Justice
(7,182 posts)He was born in the US. He went to Iran for 6 yrs to work as a medical doctor. Her father, a geneticist and pathologist, took a physicians position in Shiraz to study glucose deficiency.
He returned to US when Valerie was 5 and became professor at the University of Chicago. His work significantly improved lives of those with sickle cell anemia - life expectancy more than doubled.
http://www.uchospitals.edu/news/publications/midway/bowman.html
https://news.uchicago.edu/article/2011/09/29/james-bowman-expert-pathology-and-blood-diseases-1923-2011
Jarrett has never identified herself as a Muslim.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Has been doing so for a long long while. Crazier and awfuller stuff than this even.
Roy Rolling
(6,853 posts)But she was not on TV collecting millions from sponsors. Now she is. Being an asshole and spewing racist bullshit will make sponsors flee for the safety of "NCIS: New Orleans", or any show without a true asshole as the lead character. Something they should have told her when she rebooted her 1990s sitcom.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)It will be interesting to see what the fallout is from this, if anything.
treestar
(82,383 posts)Unless her mother was?
onenote
(42,374 posts)She gets away with a lot, but this time I think she's gonna try to duck and cover.
demmiblue
(36,743 posts)Too late, asshole... you showed your ass to the world!
Arkansas Granny
(31,483 posts)I apologize to Valerie Jarrett and to all Americans, Barr wrote on Twitter. 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.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/trump-loving-roseanne-apologizes-americans-racist-joke-results-brutal-backlash/
I still won't be watching her show and the fact that she made such a horrible "joke" in the first place tells me that she is still a scum sucking racist and a disgusting human being.
Roy Rolling
(6,853 posts)She can apologize for being a racist POS, but she remains a racist POS.
Just a sorry POS who now realizes corporate sponsors don't give money to racists.
Next up: "Rosanne"---now showing on the Infowars channel.
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)Get run over by a bus, Blowsanne!
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)Trump. That and Trump's other ethnocentric policies.
bucolic_frolic
(42,663 posts)to make ratings and money. Popularity targeted to lowest common denominator. Wave money at the networks and they will wink at anything.
demmiblue
(36,743 posts)Cha
(295,899 posts)Tweets are forever.
Thanks for the update, demmiblue
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Afromania
(2,767 posts)well I didn't KNOW it would offend you. I hate that disingenuous shit with ever fiber of my being.
bigtree
(85,915 posts)...she attacked Valerie Jarrett's race.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,483 posts)Trumpsters just can't shut up. I'm very tired of snark and smart-ass - it ruins the heart of America.
Twitter should block her account, and someone hopefully will sue for defamation. Tie her ass up in court for a year or two.
Pressure both her co-stars and the advertisers, and maybe she will be dropped and at least stop polluting the airways.
........
Jimvanhise
(294 posts)What's truly bizarre is that a few years ago Roseanne tried to run for President and her platform was even more liberal than the one Bernie Sanders ran on.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Many years now.
OMGWTF
(3,894 posts)BumRushDaShow
(127,282 posts)demmiblue
(36,743 posts)The Wizard
(12,482 posts)Rosanne Rosannadanna was far more talented, and sane too.
BumRushDaShow
(127,282 posts)Alethia Merritt
(147 posts)dead to me. I just don't see how they can continue to be identified with this female deplorable.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)The people involved in this racist POS show need to decide NOW.
If they keep their shut their mouths and stay with it, that means they are approving the vile politics and racism of Barr.
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)Wednesdays
(17,248 posts)and quite lopsided.
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)I truly am disgusted by all the hate trump has enabled with his campaign and the current presidency. All this white pent up hate of non-whites that has been unleashed. is the problem? AmeriKKKa has never dealt with the racial animosity between whites and non-whites and now the progeny of slaves and slave master are letting the world know, our CIVIL WAR to end slavery ain't over yet.
While slavery is over in ameriKKKa, white supremacy and hate has taken center stage. It virulent and dangerous to the republic. Maybe trump knows that he has tapped into an ocean of white hate, he has exacerbated that hate in ignorant or otherwise challenged wypipo that will cause serious racial problems in this republic. He can then go about the steps to hold onto power by martial law being imposed because of RAHOWA being waged and many people defending their lives against the white racist. This all feels so ugly and dangerous for our democratic experiment here.
This actress must have many people supporting her, she doesn't seem worried about her television ratings.
What's with this monkey shit? Michelle Obama, President Obama, Sasha, Malia, all have been called apes or monkeys by whites.
LudwigPastorius
(8,943 posts)The fact that the people and things she chooses to attack are all over the map, and seemingly unrelated to any ideology, makes me tend to believe Tom Arnold when he said that she has multiple personality disorder.
writes3000
(4,734 posts)still_one
(91,942 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,360 posts)Patrick Little - anti-semitism, doesn't like Jews
Also found this bit about a republican white nationalist
(the folks our conservatives were so proud that had a permit to march in Charlottesville)
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/patrick-little-neo-nazi-california/
I propose a government that makes counter-semitism central to all aims of the state. A government:
1) Of a People, for that people, free from jews
2) That cannot revoke the right to bear arms, such that this people can remain free from jews
3) that forbids all immigration except of biological kin, where no person of jewish origin may live, vacation, or traverse
AdamGG
(1,275 posts)Wednesdays
(17,248 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,360 posts)Rally co-organizer says he's disgusted to see Ivanka with Jew Jared
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4795848/Rally-organizer-President-let-Jew-steal-daughter.html
'The president let a Jew steal his daughter': White nationalist Charlottesville rally co-organizer says he's disgusted to see Jared Kushner with Ivanka
Eliot Rosewater
(31,096 posts)lose their jobs.
I mean, if they dont, and ABC keeps this horrid nightmare on TV, we have a big problem.
C Moon
(12,188 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)ooky
(8,885 posts)A. Excrement
B. Vomit
C. A rose
D. Roseann Barr
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)There needs to be a nationwide boycott of Barr's TV show and every company that runs ads on it!
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)Glad to fix that for ya.
mountain grammy
(26,568 posts)Gothmog
(143,998 posts)TNLib
(1,819 posts)or someone suffering from dementia.
maxsolomon
(32,975 posts)The Muslim Brotherhood is Egyptian, who are Arabs. Iranians aren't Arabs, they're Persian.
You'd think after 17 years of war with Arab Sunni Islam, those who are gung-ho about it would learn to differentiate.
However, that would take considered thought, and we're in the Knee-Jerk Era of Conservative "Common Sense".