Roseanne is back displaying her stupidity.

[DURHAM D]

she retweeted this old false claim -

Link to tweet

In 1977 Valerie's last name was not Jarrett.

[kimbutgar]

1. She didn't look like that 40 years ago

The propagandists sure are sloppy.

[lapfog_1]

2. from snopes

Contrary to common rumor, however, neither Jarrett nor her parents are Iranian, nor (as far as we can tell) are any of them Muslim. Jarrett’s parents, James E. Bowman and Barbara Taylor Bowman, were both American-born U.S. citizens from Washington, D.C. and Chicago, respectively; the couple merely lived in Iran for about six years in the late 1950s and early 1960s while James served as chair of pathology at Nemazee Hospital in Shiraz as part of a program that sent American physicians to work in developing countries.

Valerie was born in Shiraz during the Bowmans’ sojourn in Iran; she returned to the U.S. with her parents in 1962 (when she was five years old), whereupon she attended prep school in Massachusetts, graduated with a B.A. in psychology from Stanford University in 1978, and earned a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1981 before returning to Chicago to begin her working career. We’ve found no evidence Valerie Jarrett is (or ever was) Muslim, her only apparent connection to that religion being the incidental one that she temporarily lived in a predominantly Muslim country with her American parents for the first few years of her life.

[oberliner]

3. Roseanne has been re-tweeting this kind of stuff for years

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Valerie Jarrett was born in Iran, but to to American parents. She is not Iranian.

In 1977 her surname was Bowman; she married William Jarrett in 1983. She has Jewish ancestors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Jarrett
Snopes completely dismantles this canard: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/make-america-more-islamic-quote/

[Rainbow Droid]

5. There's a dangling full stop on your first link there VO

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Fixed, thanks.

[DURHAM D]

7. I know all of this already and indicated in the OP that it is false. nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. I know, just citing some authority.

[nolabear]

8. Now she claims she ambien tweeted that slur.

I kid you not.

[Rainbow Droid]

9. Personally I think blaming racist remarks on pills is just (attempted) race/class privilege.

What poor OR EVEN MIDDLE CLASS person gets away with that?

[nolabear]

12. To be fair the whole tweetfest is privilege.

Drunk/stoned/pills or no, being on Twitter is its own form of privilege. But that excuse is cringeworthy.

[C_U_L8R]

10. Yet another rightwing forgery

That they keep believing all this bullshit is testament to their racist idiocy. What fucking dopes.

[Leith]

13. Not Only That

but I'm sure a junior at Stanford can write English better than the first sentence:

I am a Iranian by birth and of my Islamic faith.

Obvious attempt at spreading idiotic propaganda is obvious.

[Hamlette]

14. Her name was not Jarrett in 1977. She married in 1983

[Raine]

15. So how come in 1977 yearbook 21yr old Valerie looks

like she's in her 50's(???) because it's total made up bull shit!