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demmiblue

(36,743 posts)
Tue May 29, 2018, 09:28 AM May 2018

Roseanne Barr attacks former Obama adviser in racially-charged tweet

Source: The Hill

"Roseanne" star Roseanne Barr attacked former Obama White House adviser Valerie Jarett in a tweet Tuesday morning alleging connections to the Muslim Brotherhood that many Twitter users called racist.

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


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Roseanne Barr attacks former Obama adviser in racially-charged tweet (Original Post) demmiblue May 2018 OP
ms. barr is a disgusting POS. spanone May 2018 #1
I made the mistake of reading some of her tweets/retweets. demmiblue May 2018 #11
I believe her ratings are falling. Needs the attention that outrage brings. Alethia Merritt May 2018 #49
Wow! She's clearly among the deranged that she Hortensis May 2018 #68
Anyone else snowybirdie May 2018 #2
Boycott sponsors? cyclonefence May 2018 #3
Yep Roy Rolling May 2018 #31
I found this on Twitter (not sure how reliable): demmiblue May 2018 #64
Thanks cyclonefence May 2018 #71
She should be fired for this! Kingofalldems May 2018 #4
Yes maybe she will Oppaloopa May 2018 #41
No surprise she would tweet this. FloridaBlues May 2018 #5
She's F'en creepy! n/t RKP5637 May 2018 #6
WTAF? What kind of sick person is Barr? Cha May 2018 #7
Fuck Roseanne and her show. Initech May 2018 #8
When nutjobs are excited by idiots this is the result. BSdetect May 2018 #9
Isn't Wanda Sykes a writer on that racist cow's show? LenaBaby61 May 2018 #10
I don't get her Catherine Vincent May 2018 #12
she defended a Muslim woman skypilot May 2018 #38
The latter she has a history of it. Oppaloopa May 2018 #42
RB sounds just like all the other Repulicans Saboburns May 2018 #13
Yes, and she embodies their ugliness ooky May 2018 #21
If anyone does Twitter: demmiblue May 2018 #14
Last week she said she was quitting Twitter RockaFowler May 2018 #15
I bet she does too MustLoveBeagles May 2018 #79
Roseanne Barr: Because Victoria Jackson can't say all the crazy conservative shit by herself. Efilroft Sul May 2018 #16
She is a comedian playing to her fan base and generating buzz and media attention, not unlike Trump Freethinker65 May 2018 #17
Her reply back to Chelsea is even worse RockaFowler May 2018 #18
He Would Have Been 14 Years Old When WWII Ended In Europe ProfessorGAC May 2018 #23
Evidently rosetwit knows nothing of history! Butterflylady May 2018 #59
Good grief !!! syringis May 2018 #50
Valerie Jarrett's father was a medical doctor who served in the Army Justice May 2018 #19
Roseanne says crazy awful things on twitter all the time oberliner May 2018 #20
True Roy Rolling May 2018 #37
Good points oberliner May 2018 #39
So she is not even Iranian treestar May 2018 #53
Counting down to Barr's claim her phone was hacked. onenote May 2018 #22
She deleted the tweet. demmiblue May 2018 #25
Surprisingly enough, she has issued an apology. Arkansas Granny May 2018 #28
Too late Roy Rolling May 2018 #35
Bad joke? RhodeIslandOne May 2018 #66
Wow, so that explains a lot. She didn't like that the black guy was President. That's why she likes stevenleser May 2018 #24
MSM enabled Trump and RB is throwing red meat at base bucolic_frolic May 2018 #26
UPDATE: she deleted the tweet and apologized: demmiblue May 2018 #27
Bye. Who does that? Cha May 2018 #29
She said she was quitting twitter last week too oberliner May 2018 #32
uh huh, sounds like she's going to play the C.V.C (conservative victim card) here and offer lots of Afromania May 2018 #36
she didn't attack her 'looks' bigtree May 2018 #48
She's just leaving twitter for the day. KY_EnviroGuy May 2018 #61
WHAT HAPPENED TO ROSEANNE? Jimvanhise May 2018 #30
She's been tweeting like this for quite some time oberliner May 2018 #34
No more "Roseanne" TV for me! OMGWTF May 2018 #33
Enough. Cancel the series. The end. BumRushDaShow May 2018 #40
Cosigned. n/t demmiblue May 2018 #43
Rosanne The Wizard May 2018 #44
Many of us miss Gilda Radner about now. BumRushDaShow May 2018 #51
Anyone who continues to work as co stars on Rosanne's show don't quit after their contracts end is Alethia Merritt May 2018 #45
No kidding workinclasszero May 2018 #69
Battle lines are being drawn. nt Kirk Lover May 2018 #46
It was a very short battle Wednesdays May 2018 #75
I mean within the country. nt Kirk Lover May 2018 #78
wow, such hate heaven05 May 2018 #47
She is obviously very seriously mentally ill, and has been for a long time. LudwigPastorius May 2018 #52
And The President of ABC Entertainment is a black woman. What will she do? writes3000 May 2018 #54
No one should be surprised by this still_one May 2018 #55
Here's a tale that Roseanne could get into. It kind of involves herself. keithbvadu2 May 2018 #56
Is there any perceptable difference between Roseanne and Sarah Palin at this point? AdamGG May 2018 #57
Lipstick. nt Wednesdays May 2018 #76
Perhaps (Jewish) Roseanne could get together with fellow Trumpster... keithbvadu2 May 2018 #58
The sad thing is all the fantastic people on her show, the non racist filth, who will now have to Eliot Rosewater May 2018 #60
What a useless piece of white-trash human flesh Barr is. C Moon May 2018 #62
What an ugly person. zentrum May 2018 #63
IQ test question. Pick the one that doesn't belong. ooky May 2018 #65
What a pathetic, racist Trumpsucking POS! workinclasszero May 2018 #67
Dear The Hill: It's not a "racially-charged" tweet. It's a RACIST tweet. EffieBlack May 2018 #70
her true colors shining through.. no surprise. mountain grammy May 2018 #72
There is a pattern here Gothmog May 2018 #73
I'm starting to believe every Trump suppporter is either mentally ill TNLib May 2018 #74
Iran is Shiite. The Muslim Brotherhood is Sunni. They hate each other. maxsolomon May 2018 #77

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
68. Wow! She's clearly among the deranged that she
Tue May 29, 2018, 12:32 PM
May 2018

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)
2. Anyone else
Tue May 29, 2018, 09:32 AM
May 2018

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)
3. Boycott sponsors?
Tue May 29, 2018, 09:34 AM
May 2018

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)
31. Yep
Tue May 29, 2018, 11:01 AM
May 2018

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".

Catherine Vincent

(34,485 posts)
12. I don't get her
Tue May 29, 2018, 09:58 AM
May 2018

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)
38. she defended a Muslim woman
Tue May 29, 2018, 11:13 AM
May 2018

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.

Saboburns

(2,807 posts)
13. RB sounds just like all the other Repulicans
Tue May 29, 2018, 09:58 AM
May 2018

Exactly the same. They post the same unhinged bullshit on Twitter and Facebook.

This is today's Republican Party.

Unhinged, ignorant, racist, and afraid.

Freethinker65

(9,929 posts)
17. She is a comedian playing to her fan base and generating buzz and media attention, not unlike Trump
Tue May 29, 2018, 10:05 AM
May 2018

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

ProfessorGAC

(64,413 posts)
23. He Would Have Been 14 Years Old When WWII Ended In Europe
Tue May 29, 2018, 10:42 AM
May 2018

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)
59. Evidently rosetwit knows nothing of history!
Tue May 29, 2018, 11:47 AM
May 2018

She should do some research before tweeting. Her tweets only make her look stupid.

Justice

(7,182 posts)
19. Valerie Jarrett's father was a medical doctor who served in the Army
Tue May 29, 2018, 10:20 AM
May 2018

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 physician’s 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)
20. Roseanne says crazy awful things on twitter all the time
Tue May 29, 2018, 10:21 AM
May 2018

Has been doing so for a long long while. Crazier and awfuller stuff than this even.

Roy Rolling

(6,853 posts)
37. True
Tue May 29, 2018, 11:09 AM
May 2018

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.

onenote

(42,374 posts)
22. Counting down to Barr's claim her phone was hacked.
Tue May 29, 2018, 10:30 AM
May 2018

She gets away with a lot, but this time I think she's gonna try to duck and cover.

Arkansas Granny

(31,483 posts)
28. Surprisingly enough, she has issued an apology.
Tue May 29, 2018, 10:58 AM
May 2018
Roseanne Barr has issued a formal apology after she made a racist joke about former Obama White House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett.

“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)
35. Too late
Tue May 29, 2018, 11:06 AM
May 2018

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.

 

stevenleser

(32,886 posts)
24. Wow, so that explains a lot. She didn't like that the black guy was President. That's why she likes
Tue May 29, 2018, 10:47 AM
May 2018

Trump. That and Trump's other ethnocentric policies.

bucolic_frolic

(42,663 posts)
26. MSM enabled Trump and RB is throwing red meat at base
Tue May 29, 2018, 10:56 AM
May 2018

to make ratings and money. Popularity targeted to lowest common denominator. Wave money at the networks and they will wink at anything.

Afromania

(2,767 posts)
36. uh huh, sounds like she's going to play the C.V.C (conservative victim card) here and offer lots of
Tue May 29, 2018, 11:07 AM
May 2018

well I didn't KNOW it would offend you. I hate that disingenuous shit with ever fiber of my being.

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,483 posts)
61. She's just leaving twitter for the day.
Tue May 29, 2018, 11:58 AM
May 2018

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)
30. WHAT HAPPENED TO ROSEANNE?
Tue May 29, 2018, 11:00 AM
May 2018

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.

Alethia Merritt

(147 posts)
45. Anyone who continues to work as co stars on Rosanne's show don't quit after their contracts end is
Tue May 29, 2018, 11:23 AM
May 2018

dead to me. I just don't see how they can continue to be identified with this female deplorable.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
69. No kidding
Tue May 29, 2018, 12:34 PM
May 2018

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.

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
47. wow, such hate
Tue May 29, 2018, 11:25 AM
May 2018

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)
52. She is obviously very seriously mentally ill, and has been for a long time.
Tue May 29, 2018, 11:33 AM
May 2018

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.

keithbvadu2

(36,360 posts)
56. Here's a tale that Roseanne could get into. It kind of involves herself.
Tue May 29, 2018, 11:36 AM
May 2018
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142053484

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

keithbvadu2

(36,360 posts)
58. Perhaps (Jewish) Roseanne could get together with fellow Trumpster...
Tue May 29, 2018, 11:46 AM
May 2018

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)
60. The sad thing is all the fantastic people on her show, the non racist filth, who will now have to
Tue May 29, 2018, 11:50 AM
May 2018

lose their jobs.

I mean, if they dont, and ABC keeps this horrid nightmare on TV, we have a big problem.

ooky

(8,885 posts)
65. IQ test question. Pick the one that doesn't belong.
Tue May 29, 2018, 12:18 PM
May 2018

A. Excrement
B. Vomit
C. A rose
D. Roseann Barr

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
67. What a pathetic, racist Trumpsucking POS!
Tue May 29, 2018, 12:25 PM
May 2018

There needs to be a nationwide boycott of Barr's TV show and every company that runs ads on it!

TNLib

(1,819 posts)
74. I'm starting to believe every Trump suppporter is either mentally ill
Tue May 29, 2018, 01:12 PM
May 2018

or someone suffering from dementia.

maxsolomon

(32,975 posts)
77. Iran is Shiite. The Muslim Brotherhood is Sunni. They hate each other.
Tue May 29, 2018, 07:23 PM
May 2018

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".

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