Roseanne Barr Insists 'Planet Of The Apes' Tweet Was About Anti-Semitism

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Roseanne Barr says the tweet that got her sitcom Roseanne canceled – the one likening former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett to a Planet of the Apes character – was not only not racist, but was a condemnation of anti-semitism.

“Rod Serling wrote Planet of The Apes,” Barr tweeted tonight. “It was about anti-semitism. That is what my tweet referred to – the anti semitism of the Iran deal. Low IQ ppl can think whatever they want.” (The Twilight Zone creator wrote the script for the 1968 film, an adaptation of Pierre Boulle’s 1963 novel).

In Barr’s original tweet that prompted the firestorm, she wrote: “Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj.” The tweet was widely interpreted as racist. Barr has not previously mentioned the anti-semitism angle.

Earlier tonight, Barr directed questions to Thomas Muhammad, her 2012 presidential campaign manager and director of a new Malcolm X documentary, but now says she’ll be speaking for herself “soon.”

Link to tweet

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/roseanne-barr-insists-planet-of-the-apes-tweet-was-about-anti-semitism/ar-AAyCooD?li=BBnb7Kz

[unblock]

1. until this moment i never thought rosanne barr was funny.

[hlthe2b]

3. She keeps digging--better than an earth-mover... n/t

[SummerSnow]

2. Sour grapes hu?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

4. Who? nt

[underpants]

5. This late in the game, ambien skeptical

[Downtown Hound]

6. Must have taken Ambien again. n/t

[brush]

7. She desperately wants that show back but this is so weak.

Ridiculous.

[skypilot]

8. If there are, in fact, any dots to connect...

...could someone please connect the dots between Rod Serling, Planet of the Apes, and anti-semitism for me please. I can't even begin to see how this works. I mean, I get Rod Serling + Planet of the Apes but after that I'm lost.

[Aristus]

9. The only thing I could think of was that the plot of the original PotA has parallels to

America's history of prejudice and ignorance. And it was written by Rod Serling, who was Jewish.

Still, a balls-out crazy statement to make.

She wants her show back awful bad. Must have some bad debts to pay back...

[tavernier]

11. She is getting her show back

She just won’t be in it.

[Solly Mack]

10. And she borrows a phrase from Trump to make herself feel better about it.

LMAO

[gratuitous]

12. How long did it take Roseanne to come up with this bit of fatuousness?

And how is the Iran deal anti-semitic? Because it deprived Netanyahu of a casus belli?

[Behind the Aegis]

13. Not even.

However, this will be grist for the mill for those who are anti-Semites or make a hobby of ignoring anti-Semitism; this plays right into their hands.

[lame54]

14. That clears that up - get the crew together - start filming

[oasis]

15. "Low IQ ppl can think whatever they want".

gee thanks Roseanne