NONSTOP BARRAGE !
And on the second day, Roseanne took on the world.
Comedian Roseanne Barr lashed out at seemingly everyone Wednesday — including her TV family, online critics and even Ambien — as she doubled down on the racist comments that led to the cancellation the previous day of her top-rated ABC show.
“I’m not a racist, I never was & I never will be,” Barr tweeted amid a flurry of posts Wednesday afternoon.
“One stupid joke in a lifetime of fighting 4 civil rights 4 all minorities, against networks, studios, at the expense of my nervous system/family/wealth will NEVER b taken from me,” she went on.
The 65-year-old former star of “Roseanne,” a supporter of President Trump, also defiantly defended her most inflammatory tweet, in which she likened former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett, who is black, to an ape, writing on Tuesday: “muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj.” in response to a tweet on Jarrett.
On Wednesady, she tweeted, in a since-deleted post, “Comparing a person’s facial structure to a fictitious movie character is NOT racism. stop it.”
Earlier in the day, Barr took aim at her co-stars for denouncing her Jarrett comments.
Michael Fishman, who played her son, D.J. Conner, in both the original 1988-97 sitcom and the reboot, wrote on Twitter, “I condemn these statements vehmently [sic]. They are reprehensible and intolerable.”
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