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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRoseanne Lashes Out At Former Cast Members: 'You Throw Me Under The Bus, Nice!'
by Joseph A. Wulfsohn | 5:49 am, May 30th, 2018
Roseanne Barr spent the early hours of Wednesday morning reacting to statements made by cast members of her now-cancelled hit show Roseanne.
Michael Fishman, who returned to the show as D.J. Conner, issued a lengthy statement in reaction to Roseannes racist tweet attacking former Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett. Heres a portion of Fishmans statement:
Well, Roseanne had a sharp rebuke for Fishman, claiming he threw her under the bus.
Link to tweet
Roseanne also reacted to Sara Gilberts statement, who played her TV daughter Darlene Conner and was serving as an executive producer of the reboot.
Link to tweet
more
https://www.mediaite.com/online/roseanne-lashes-out-at-former-cast-members-you-throw-me-under-the-bus-nice/
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)no one tweeted her shit except her
she may not want to own it but we are not letting her slink away
Afromania
(2,767 posts)magicarpet
(13,941 posts)...... Rethug Nazi - "Let's take some personal responsibility for our actions" crowd ? Or does that apply to everyone else except for them ?
Claim victim-hood if caught red handed.
Afromania
(2,767 posts)[link:|
magicarpet
(13,941 posts)Siwsan
(26,177 posts)Loyalty only goes so far when your livelihood has been completely derailed.
I do wish they'd revamp the show, sans Roseanne, and see if they can pick up a whole new audience. I didn't watch this version of the show but I understood that Dan was also a conservative. The show could easily still 'represent' both sides of the political spectrum but with a lower discomfort level. I didn't watch because I can't stand Roseanne Barr. I love the rest of the cast, but not enough to overlook, or move past, her acting and voice tone. Nails on a chalkboard would be a preferred alternative.
Girard442
(6,059 posts)flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)Yeah, I'd watch that
calimary
(80,700 posts)starts to see that her precious donald is actually NOT delivering on his promises, and times remain tough for her family, and she and Dan are probably facing losing their house ANYWAY.
Guess in that regard, at least Roseanne's TV family will be spared the harsh realities of the trump effect - unlike a whole lot of his real-life fans. I suspect some of them are gonna start waking up when they begin to notice that gas is more expensive, their health care costs are racing skyward with no let-up, and that fabulous raise that was anticipated never actually came.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,110 posts)EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)I used to watch back in the day, DESPITE her since I found her extremely annoying but enjoyed the rest of the cast.
The fact that most of the other actors didnt make careers of playing one character but went on to have success as ACTORS, not personalities, says a lot about the talent of the leads on that show relative to its star.
Siwsan
(26,177 posts)She has always been a one trick pony.
sdfernando
(4,897 posts)the name REEKS and will ever be associated with Barr...we cannot lower the barr, she did that all herself!
Siwsan
(26,177 posts)Which is fitting.
sdfernando
(4,897 posts)although I've never been a fan of the show so probably still won't watch.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Poor Roseanne; everyone's so mean to HER.
A note to the pooh-bahs of the entertainment industry: This is going to keep happening as long as you wink at past indiscretions and push people of dubious reputation forward. Get serious about racism, misogyny, rape culture, and other dehumanizing bigotry, because the American people are serious about it. The wiggle room is gone, and people are talking openly about what was whispered previously.
Girard442
(6,059 posts)I'd guess that the other people in the show didn't think so either, else they wouldn't have put their careers at risk like they did.
sunRISEnow
(217 posts)Outraged that people stand up to her racist comments. She should expect nothing less, but instead she wants them to stay quiet.
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)Oneironaut
(5,462 posts)First she posts that shes leaving Twitter. Then, she says she was on Ambien. Now, shes playing the victim that all the mean bullies are picking on.
Being a narcissistic racist could be a mental illness, but in reality, she just sounds like a jerk!
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,061 posts)She suffered a brain injury in a car wreck, and people around her at the time said it changed her personality so much she was committed to the state hospital. I can't help but wonder this is more of the same. I'm sure being married to Tom Arnold for that stretch of time didn't help matters, either.
femmedem
(8,188 posts)I never knew she'd suffered a traumatic brain injury. That explains so much.
I can't help but wonder about the woman she could have been.
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)and I believe she still does.
Major Nikon
(36,814 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,085 posts)...I dont see the show coming back for a third time around.
Maeve
(42,224 posts)And all the others who depended on the show as well--YOU, no one else. Take some f-ing responsibility for your own actions!
What a whiny little snowflake.
calimary
(80,700 posts)prompt, direct, do the makeup, mind the costumes, handle the lighting, the cameras, gaffer and other crew duties. It takes a LOT of professionals to put a show on the air, and members of several unions, and lots of other unsung heroes. They're all out of work because of your own stupidity and jerkitude. Hope they can fold in on other productions so they don't fall too far behind. Just because YOU felt like mouthing off in real "style": crude, vulgar, insulting, insensitive, horridly racist - and then excusing it as merely "a bad joke." "
Initech
(99,915 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)Trumpy as hell.
WhiteTara
(29,676 posts)and true regret. Simply forges ahead with victimhood and hate spews. She will have some alone time now and will be forced to spend time with herself. I doubt she will like it, she's such an unpleasant person, no one else wants to spend time with her either.
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
Stuart G
(38,365 posts)The apology was a stand alone statement. And a reasonable one. If needed, Roseanne could have used the exact same words again. Same words just an apology. Perhaps if done enough times, it could have actually helped her. And maybe ...just maybe..she could have rebounded into another show...
...But NO, ...she attacks someone else. That wasn't smart. Roseanne should not have attacked anyone else. What she should have done, is apologize again, and again for her stupid comment. Each time in a way that is honest and truthful. If done enough, at some point, people would forgive her..
But she had to start the attacks again......clearly she isn't the brightest bulb around...But after she gets done with her last few attacks, her bulb will be turned off for good.
.... People really don't have time fur such a stupid bulb...
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)I thought I read she was going to do that yesterday.
Cha
(295,929 posts)BullShit.. or suspending it at the least?
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)The natural fear and hostility within her, and millions of other conservatives, but also liberals to a much lesser degree, has been deliberately fostered and targeted to weaponize it.
Sure, Roseanne would have been the same person 30 years ago, but a better version of herself, not close to the worst.
We have to vote to break the right's power, to make sure we never see their worst version.
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)leave Twitter.
She richly deserves the backlash. Her co-stars (though I could never figure out, other than financial motivations WHY they would want to fall down this particular rabbit hole again) are now victims of her maniac ego and ugly soulless racism, too.
The only thing Wow! unreal is her own perception of victimization.
C_U_L8R
(44,897 posts)Clearly, Twittter is trying to profit in its role of hate-amplifier.
brush
(53,475 posts)for her self-inflicted, career-ending bout of racism.
Guess since she had done it before (conflated Susan Rice to an ape in 2013 with no consequence), she thought she could do it again to Valerie Jarret now that fellow racist trump is in office and she had a rebooted hit show.
Wrong.
Baitball Blogger
(46,576 posts)They believe that they have a social connection with liberal minded friends and that nothing that comes out of their mouth is going to endanger that relationship. I don't know why they would think so, but, there it is.
The only way to give them a wake up call is to either step up just like Gilbert and Fishman did, or grow distance in that relationship.
gibraltar72
(7,486 posts)RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)Always has been and always will be.
Runningdawg
(4,496 posts)Zambero
(8,954 posts)And what is a horrified bystander to do under those circumstances? I would have to say: Get out of the way of said bus, as it is well beyond your ability to intervene.
jes06c
(114 posts)Do business with Roseann Barr at your own risk.
If she hasn't already, she'll lash out at John Goodman and Laurie Metcalf, the two actors who easily had the most successful careers independent of her and her sitcom. I'm sure she's going to try to take credit for all of their success.
ExciteBike66
(2,281 posts)but I am now thinking I might abstain....
rurallib
(62,346 posts)EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)But slams her cast members for agreeing with her?
Not only is Roseanne a filthy racist Trump lovin deplorable, shes a f**kin liar to boot!
She has spewed out vile right wing hate and racism for years and years. ABC should have never let her back on the air in the first place.
She is the perfect example of a white privileged MAGA Trump deplorable though. Dems will never reach these insane haters EVER!
All Roseanne had to do was keep her damn hate to herself for the next ten damn years probably and watch millions and millions of dollars roll into her bank account but NOOOOOOOO!
Just like the working class deplorables that MUST vote for the racist-in-chief Trump even as he and his party destroy them, their HATE of PoC, libs, dems, Mexicans, gay people, etc is what those pigs LIVE FOR!
Cha
(295,929 posts)ABC canceled Roseanne's show over a racist tweet. Her feed's been full of racism and conspiracy theories for a decade."
Hillary "unhinged" RB.. Thanks Hillary!
https://www.vox.com/2018/5/29/17406014/roseanne-racism-abc-trump-twitter
jew hater hillary clinton's handler huma weiner is a filthy nazi whore: https://t.co/Rf6rZp75BZ
Roseanne Barr (@therealroseanne) August 26, 2016
https://www.jpost.com/US-Elections/Hillary-Clinton/Roseanne-Barr-lashes-out-at-anti-Semitic-Hillary-via-social-media-466178
5 Freaking Years Ago..
Revealed: Roseanne Barr compared another black Obama official, Susan Rice, to a 'big man with swinging ape balls' in 2013
snip//
"In March, she wrongly accused David Hogg, the Parkland school shooting survivor, of performing a Nazi salute at a gun control march."
snip//
Jarrett also said Disney CEO Bob Iger called her personally to apologize and gave her advanced notice that Barr's eponymous show was being cancelled before it was announced publicly.
'First of all, I think we have to turn it into a teaching moment. I'm fine. I'm worried about all the people out there who don't have a circle of friends and followers coming to their defense,' Jarrett said during the town hall.
'The person walking down the street minding their own business and they see someone clinging to their purse or walk across the street... or every black parent I know who has a boy who has to sit down and have a conversation, the talk as we call it,' she continued.
'Those ordinary examples of racism that happen every single day.
More..
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5787611/Roseanne-Barr-compared-black-Obama-official-Susan-Rice-big-man-swinging-ape-balls-2013.html
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)bottled up for any length of time.
She viciously attacked David Hogg, Chelsea Clinton and George Soros like an unhinged infowars manic and ABC let it pass until they were finally forced to pull the plug.
How can a person with millions in the bank and not a care in the world be filled with so much hate for their fellow man?
This is what Fox "news", hate radio and the GOP have done to a generation of old baby boomers. Turned them into vile hate machines/zombies.
Roseanne Barr has lost her damn mind with right wing hate. She is just a famous example of what the hate peddlers of the right have done to millions of Americans.
Prof.Higgins
(194 posts)Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)rurallib
(62,346 posts)someone who user their free speech and paid a price.
I can't think of many employers who wouldn't have fired her. I am sure my employer would have fired my sorry butt in a second had I said anything like that.
And I can't imagine any of my fellow employees (take that back, I can think of one) who would have stood behind me.
She lives in a fantasy world that Fox and their compadres have created where they can bully and intimidate whoever and whenever they want and if anyone bucks them, they become a victim.
Just letting off some steam.
Initech
(99,915 posts)blake2012
(1,294 posts)It is insulting and dehumanizing hate speech
rurallib
(62,346 posts)on pretty much anything.
ck4829
(34,977 posts)"Consequences are for poor and/or brown people, not for meeeeeeee!"
dameatball
(7,380 posts)blake2012
(1,294 posts)😂
blake2012
(1,294 posts)Trump is next
ProfessorGAC
(64,425 posts)Sound vaguely familiar?
tavernier
(12,322 posts)Everyones fault but theirs. Much like their pervert congressmen who abuse both people and the law, and then blame everyone else for hurting our family.
AllaN01Bear
(17,383 posts)own up to it
muntrv
(14,505 posts)ecstatic
(32,567 posts)Soxfan58
(3,479 posts)Your mouth cost them a lot of money.
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HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)I hope we never hear from this sick witch again.
enid602
(8,524 posts)If you don't het help here, please, get help somewhere.
RockRaven
(14,784 posts)and I hereby declare that makes me the victim.
trueblue2007
(17,138 posts)She is so immature. I can't believe she is serious.
Alethia Merritt
(147 posts)they keep. She tarnishes all their reputations. Obviously, she did not care about what her tweets would do to their image as co-cast members with her.
mokawanis
(4,434 posts)shrill, consumed with anger, whiny.
Cha
(295,929 posts)about Memememeememememememememeememememe
What's unreal is Barr's alternate reality.