SOROS’ SON: HER SMEAR IS JUST VILE
Many out of work; bigot blames Ambien
ROSEANNE BARR went on a racist Twitter tirade Tuesday, and in doing so, the self-proclaimed heroine of blue-collar values guaranteed pink slips for everyone on her show.
Barr’s most toxic tweet was directed at Valerie Jarrett, an African-American woman born in Iran who was one of President Obama’s most senior advisers.
“Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj,” Barr tweeted in response to another post discussing Jarrett.
Within hours, ABC pulled the plug on the recent revival of Barr’s eponymous sitcom, which finished its highly anticipated reboot season last week and was due to return with 13 more episodes.
“Roseanne’s Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show,” ABC Entertainment President Channing Dungey said in a statement.
Disney CEO Bob Iger (right) quickly praised the move, tweeting, “There was only one thing to do here, and that was the right thing.” Several of Barr’s co-stars said they were heartbroken, but they refused to offer any public support for their onscreen matriarch. “This is incredibly sad and difficult for all of us, as we’ve created a show that we believe in, are proud of, and that audiences love — one that is separate and apart from the opinions and words of one cast member,” Sara Gilbert, who played daughter Darlene Conner and was executive producer of the revival, said on Twitter. She called Barr’s comment “abhorrent.” “I feel devastated, not for the end of the Roseanne show, but for all those who poured their hearts and souls into our jobs,” actor Michael Fishman, who played son D.J. Conner, said. Fishman spoke out after the 65-year-old conservative actress not only attacked Jarrett but also got in a Twitter war with Chelsea Clinton, referring to the former First Daughter as “Chelsea Soros Clinton,” a reference to billionaire George Soros, a major donor to liberal causes. Barr, who is Jewish, said Soros “is a nazi who turned in his fellow Jews 2 be murdered in German concentration camps & stole their wealth.” Soros’ spokesman slammed the statement as “insulting to the victims of the
Holocaust.”
He said Soros, who also is Jewish, only survived the Nazi occupation of his native Hungary by pretending to be Christian. Soros was 13 at the time, the spokesman said.
Donald Trump Jr., meanwhile, retweeted two of Barr’s posts regarding Soros.
Later Tuesday, she expressed remorse for her tweets, but also tried to explain it away by saying she was “ambien tweeting.”
“I want to apologize to Valerie Jarrett, as well as to ABC and the cast and crew of the Roseanne show,” she posted.
“I am sorry for making a thoughtless joke that does not reflect my values — I love all people and am very sorry.”
All this did little to help her problem after she also retweeted posts by altright figures who came to her defense.
While her show’s cancellation shocked some, Barr is no stranger to polarizing and offensive comments. In one incendiary tweet last month, Barr accused Parkland high school shooting survivor David Hogg of giving a Nazi salute at an event. She previously peddled links to videos pushing the thoroughly debunked “Pizzagate” conspiracy that claimed Hillary Clinton and her campaign chairman John Podesta were using a Washington, D.C., pizza restaurant for a child trafficking ring. Barr also referred to Clinton aide Human Abedin as a “filthy nazi whore,” and in 2013, she said in a tweet that former national security adviser Susan Rice “is a man with big swinging ape balls.”
Rice retweeted a screenshot of the now-deleted post Tuesday.
In 2009, Barr posed in photoshoot for Heeb magazine dressed as Hitler and pulling a tray of burnt, human-shaped “Jew cookies” out of the oven. The satirical magazine said the costume was Barr’s idea.
She is outspoken about her support of President Trump.
When “Roseanne” re-debuted to crushing ratings this year, Trump (left) personally congratulated her.
On Tuesday, Trump’s spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders dodged questions about Barr's shocking comments and her show’s demise.
“That’s not what he’s spending his time on,” Sanders said. “We have a lot bigger things going on in the country right now.”
After ABC axed any new episodes of “Roseanne,” the show’s original nineseason run got pulled from both Hulu and Viacom’s stable of cable channels, including TV Land and CMT, sources told Variety.
Barr was also dropped by her management team.