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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRoseanne says 'sorry' and she's going to quit twitter
"I apologize to Valerie Jarrett and to all Americans. 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"
Link to tweet
malaise
(268,665 posts)Fuck you you racist piece of shit.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)FO Barr, fake apology not accepted!
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)That's really all that needs to be said.
There's this:
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/roseanne-barr-disturbing-history-calling-black-women-apes/
...and the fact that she was worried about her TV show. That's it. Fuck her.
dhill926
(16,309 posts)you vile piece of shit....you're just sorry at the reaction it got....
oberliner
(58,724 posts)And then changed her mind.
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)But she's still there ...
Eliot Rosewater
(31,106 posts)Wanda already quit, earlier today I think.
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)But racists gonna racist.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,106 posts)given the situation and almost NOBODY does.
Something wrong with her.
ProfessorGAC
(64,827 posts)Sort of. Maybe. At least she thinks so.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)And expects to hear from the suits at Disney.
janterry
(4,429 posts)but she doesn't seem to care about them. Opening her big mouth puts their jobs in jeopardy.
Why would she *also* want to hurt them??
syringis
(5,101 posts)She should quit the public stage. There's already more garbage than it needs, it doesn't have to get bigger.
I didn't mind so much that she was doing a reboot (or she was pro-trump). Well, I minded - but I didn't mind if the show debated it with sharp wit and humor.
It's all about her, though. I think if she gets kicked off tv she will take it with the gracelessness of an egoist -
and she will pretend that she is not to blame, at all.
Grammy23
(5,810 posts)Realizing too late her goof up (but revealing comment), she tries to backtrack by offering a mea culpa hoping people will forgive and move on. Its 2018, Roseanne. You should have known better than to post such racist garbage and expect people to laugh and think how clever you are. The only people who did that are tRumps base and tRump. The rest of us think it told us a whole lot about YOU. And we didnt like what it verified for us. Buh-bye and now just leave.
The Blue Flower
(5,432 posts)She should not have a network show or national platform of any kind.
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)Last edited Tue May 29, 2018, 02:02 PM - Edit history (1)
She knew exactly what she was saying. She just didn't expect to get called on it by anyone with any power over her.
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)Michelle Obama is was just as awful and unforgivable. Screw off anyone with the blacks=apes nonsense. It's kindergarten stuff and I'm tired tired tired of it.
Hayduke Bomgarte
(1,965 posts)The entire planet.
hlthe2b
(102,106 posts)Arnold would be the more sane and stable one...
That said, I do think there is at least an outside possibility that she's in need of mental health evaluation...
janterry
(4,429 posts)I'm not sure I can make sense of it (I mean I get what he's saying....just not its' import). But here it is:
Anyone who worked on "Roseanne" 88'-94' knows there's a 50% chance Rosey calls me today & tells me to go fire Donald Trump.
They also know there's 100% chance I'd show up at the White House, give him 5 mins to say goodbye & get his crap before I through him & it out the window.
edited to c/p the tweet
hlthe2b
(102,106 posts)???
I'm not on twitter, but when I google Tom Arnold Twitter, I can see most of his content and a single retweet of someone's post that excoriates Roseanne for her racist post ..
janterry
(4,429 posts)and put it in the original post
hlthe2b
(102,106 posts)firing people she didn't think were carrying their weight. How that relates to Trump, unless he is suggesting she will eventually turn on him....?
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)janterry
(4,429 posts)I had to think that - because in most situations I don't like to censor. But in this case, she needs help exiting the national stage.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Comparing black people to apes is about 50 years out of date, and it didn't rise to the level of a bad joke then. Nowadays? Just out-and-out racist.
janterry
(4,429 posts)dajoki
(10,678 posts)Wwcd
(6,288 posts)Twitter should ban Roseanne
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Seriously?
Damn I guess the truth is not wanted on twitter which explains why it gives a worldwide platform for racist POS like Barr and Dear Leader!
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)Saying suddenly they are temp suspended & the reason was for a neg post about Trump. Most said they called him a liar.
They said they can log in & post to other accts but their own twitter page is suspebded in limbo.
Not sure how that works as I never log on to my 3 yr old acct.
I read of this late last night, there were about 7/8 who made the same comment & added a big wtf is twitter up to.
Trump is destroying every ammendment that represents the Constitution, fredom of press, people , voice.
It is truly a Goebbels playbook.
They were pissed & many said twitter never responded to their complaints.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Twitter may not like that reality but facts are facts!
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)to change #SpyGate to # LieGate.
Trump nor twitter are going to make that one disappear.
bigtree
(85,971 posts)...she attacked her race with a well-known stereotype.
spanone
(135,781 posts)lpbk2713
(42,736 posts)Roseanne took over their time slot. I haven't watched one minute of that lame
turkey and don't care to. I never missed an episode of Fresh Off the Boat and
continue to watch it on Hulu. I hear it has been renewed but haven't heard
anything about scheduling.
lame54
(35,259 posts)I like the grandmother
lpbk2713
(42,736 posts)I like that.
lame54
(35,259 posts)Blue_Adept
(6,393 posts)ABC FALL 2018-19 SCHEDULE
(New programs in UPPER CASE)
MONDAY
8 PM Dancing with the Stars
10 PM The Good Doctor
TUESDAY
8 PM Roseanne
8:30 PM THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT
9 PM black-ish
9:30 PM Splitting Up Together
10 PM THE ROOKIE
WEDNESDAY
8 PM The Goldbergs
8:30 PM American Housewife
9 PM Modern Family
9:30 PM SINGLE PARENTS
10 PM A MILLION LITTLE THINGS
THURSDAY
8 PM Greys Anatomy
9 PM Station 19
10 PM How to Get Away with Murder
FRIDAY
8 PM Fresh Off the Boat
8:30 PM Speechless
9 PM Child Support
10 PM 20/20
SATURDAY
8 PM Saturday Night Football
SUNDAY
7 PM Americas Funniest Home Videos
8 PM DANCING WITH THE STARS: JUNIORS
9 PM Shark Tank
10 PM THE ALEC BALDWIN SHOW
lpbk2713
(42,736 posts)I'll be watching for it.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)would seg in to blackish or the other way around ? They already moved blackish once
Before Roseanne abc had a nice tues lineup that made sense to me
I wonder what the fall will look like
You can catch most episodes online a week later which I do but on the nights Iwas home and remembered, I tuned in to fotb to blackish on tues
KPN
(15,635 posts)career may now be at risk.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,106 posts)underthematrix
(5,811 posts)Now keep in mind, there's beautiful little African American princess on that show. So when she called light skin Valerie Jarrett an ape she was also calling little princess an ape.
Link to tweet
rusty fender
(3,428 posts)Her lame apology and her threat to quit Twitter wont change the fact that shes a racist Trumpass
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)expression before "a racist Trumpass" I love it.
rusty fender
(3,428 posts)now that I know your Twitter handle
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)She is doing it on purpose, perhaps. And the apology was included in the original plan. Just to get a chance to get attention.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)I accept your apology. You at least have more class than the vulgar WH occupants.
BannonsLiver
(16,288 posts)They should be embarrassed.
On edit: theres at least one poster who has not gotten the message.
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)Racism is racism. If there are "Roseanne apologists" here, or anywhere else, that's their opinion, and I'm not interested in hearing it.
She is a vile woman. My belief is that she decided early on that her true nature was her "character," and that "character" played to the cheap seats, and with Trump in the White House, that "character" can say whatever the hell she wants.
Not on a network TV show that has advertisers.
That's why we got the "apology."
BannonsLiver
(16,288 posts)Obviously nobody here will defend her remarks on twitter today, but there were DUers defending the show.
I agree though she is vile.
Gothmog
(144,890 posts)muntrv
(14,505 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,419 posts)Cancelled.
ecstatic
(32,641 posts)had it not been for her disgusting attitude and alliance with trump. I was 100% done after the trump-roseanne Twitter love fest. Sucks for the other (non-racist) cast members.
Get that SOB off the air, and out the country!