Roseanne just tweeted another apology and said she will be on Joe Rogan's podcast Friday

[oberliner]

Link to tweet

Also, she is retweeting people attacking Keith Olbermann (for calling Trump names) and Joy Behar (same reason) and Bill Maher (ditto) and people claiming that it's OK to compare people to monkeys (and that Roseanne thought Valerie Jarrett was white) among other things.

It's quite a scene.

Edit to add: She just tweeted this as well:

Link to tweet

hey guys, don't defend me, it's sweet of you 2 try, but...losing my show is 0 compared 2 being labelled a racist over one tweet-that I regret even more.

[leftstreet]

1. "stupid tweet?"

No, it was a vile racist tweet

"stupid" is what a guilty person says who isn't sorry - just feeling "stupid" they exposed themselves

[Rorey]

2. She regrets just the one tweet?

She deserves the label, and quite a few more labels.

[oberliner]

3. She now says she was "ambien tweeting"

Link to tweet

[Rorey]

5. Oh, well then we should give her a pass

Is that the excuse she's going to give for ALL of the horrible things she has said through the years?

She's only sorry because this time she has to finally pay a price. I hope everyone who lost their jobs sues her into poverty.

[EffieBlack]

4. Because why would anyone label you a racist just because you compared a black woman to an ape?

SO unfair of e'erbody!

[logosoco]

13. I replied to another post about the ape thing.

WE ARE ALL APES! Calling someone an ape shows much ignorance of human origins. I would like to see us take this in that direction. Where we need to learn the science about how we all came from the same place. The more we know this, the more we understand we are all the same and that insulting someone for their looks shows ignorance.

Maybe I am naive for thinking that could change people. But that is the road I would like to be on. Roseanne and trump and all the folks who want to insult others for looking different are uneducated and ignorant. Maybe the more we educate people about origins and evolution they will see how stupid dividing people into races is.

[EffieBlack]

16. Being compared to an ape is a longstanding racist slur applied to black people

This has nothing to do with the inherent value of apes. The point has always been to otherwise black people. By comparing us to a not-quite-evolved-into-human creature, they are making a distinct point.

There’s a reason that racists like Roseanne compare black people to primates, not gazelles or birds.

[JayhawkSD]

6. Sometimes there just is no apology.

I don't mean no good apology, or one that does any good, or... I mean there are some steps that just go off a cliff.

[yardwork]

12. Sometimes sorry isn't good enough.

[Raine]

7. STFU Roseanne

and go back under that slimy rock you slimed you're way out from under, you're disgusting!

[First Speaker]

8. "Podcast"--appropriate for one of the Pod People...

[Volaris]

9. If If she wants us to believe that she's dumb enough to have thought that Valerie Jarrett was white,

That raises 2 other very important questions for me:
1. Why should she be taken seriously when she speaks at all, EVER, if she will admit she doesn't know what the hell she's talking about...
2. How the fuck is a person stupid enough NOT to know these kinds of things (and what can we do about our level of Civic Education in this country).

I'll call bullshit. She's trying to justify the unjustifiable BECAUSE THIS TIME THERE WERE CONSEQUENCES. Bout time and fuck her.

[stopbush]

10. Racists can't help themselves. What they say in private sometimes gets blurted out

in public.

When I was living in Vegas a local TV weatherman noted on air that it was “Martin Luther Coon Day.” He was promptly fired.

The difference between him and Roseanne is that she wrote out her racist comment. She had plenty of time to think about it before she posted it for the world to see.

[OneGrassRoot]

11. It's mind-boggling to me that being called a racist...

is THE worst thing to racists.

That wasn't always the case; they used to wear that label with pride, pre-Obama.

[Roland99]

14. Thought she said she was leaving twitter?

[oberliner]

15. She says that all the time

Never sticks.